http://www.liligans.com So you think you're cultured? Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:19:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While parts of Melbourne were being trashed by the terrible storm yesterday, we attended a stamp auction at the Brighton Philatelic Society. So what were we doing there, I ask myself in the manner of our soliloquising Prime Minister? Well, we had put my husband's ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/07/an-amazing-stamp-auction/ Our emergency departments are not coping with the huge numbers of patients seeking attention. People in desperate need often take eight hours to be seen by medical staff. There are even cases of people having to queue up outside emergency departments after having been brought there by ambulances. These ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/ I sat through the National Press Club's appearance by our Prime Minister. It was vintage Rudd and I use the term "vintage" to mean "same old, same old." He announced his new plan for solving the problems in our public hospitals by keeping patients out of them. ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/03/rudds-health-revolution-is-no-panacea/ After more than forty years of letting our school pupils down, the Australian Government wants to to go back to the good old days when reading, writing and arithmetic mattered. So it has introduced a new curriculum which will actually include correct spelling and grammar because nowadays hardly anyone can ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/28/back-to-basics-curriculum-in-aussie-schools/ Yesterday, I wrote about the Bikeway rapist who had his sentence reduced because he showed remorse. I said then that I was fed up with this silly ploy of boo hoo hooing to get the judge's sympathy. Well, today, Cameron Cook was convicted of trying to murder ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/25/cameron-cook-you-should-have-cried/ I lived in Brisbane at the time when the Bikeway rapist, Luke James Colless, was attacking women while they were exercising along bikeways and in parks. This happened between 2006 and 2008 to eleven women, five of whom were digitally penetrated. I remember how Colless terrorised women, ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/24/it-was-only-digital-rape-so-whats-all-the-fuss-about/ It was only a matter of time before some study concluded that Ritalin is not doing much good for "sufferers" of ADHD. That's the modern term for a child who misbehaves. He drives his parents mad and he doesn't pay attention in class. Little Johnny is a terror at home and ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/17/so-ritalin-is-a-write-off/ A baby was born yesterday at an excellent Melbourne Maternity Hospital. An email was subsequently sent to family and friends of the happy couple with the following observation:- Overheard whispering while waiting to be called in to the surgery: "She's a family lawyer, and I think he's also some sort ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/11/hospitals-lawyers-and-the-godfather/ Can you believe how threatened the Labor Party must feel when it has to attack the Opposition Leader for referring to housewives doing ironing? Apparently he should have said housepersons or "directors of irons" or perhaps ironists or some other stupid name so as not to offend liberated women. ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/09/mr-rudd-whats-wrong-with-being-a-housewife/ The education writer at The Australian newspaper has revealed that Victorian teachers will have to prepare their pupils for the Naplan test. Shock horror!!! The purpose of the National Assessment Program or Naplan is to test the numeracy and literacy of school pupils at various stages in their downward slide ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/05/to-think-that-naplan-could-achieve-this-miracle/