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How much is public service maternity leave costing us right now? 24 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm
We now know that the public service gets very generous maternity leave arrangements. What we haven’t done though is look at the potential cost on a department by department basis. There's a big proble...
Oh, my freezing gonads 21 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
What the hell happened to the warm weather we were having until recently? It had reached the point where I was riding home as if it was summer - no vest, no arm warmers and no leg warmers. And then th...
Tanya's minions 21 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
Tanya Plibersek had her minions out the other day, canvasing drunks outside the Pyrmont Hotel. Labor's slogans are really starting to shit me. Tanya's is "Speaks for us". Our local King of Stroganof,...
There goes the monorail 21 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
The monorail closed down about a month ago. Last Friday, this sign advertising the impending demolition appeared. On Monday, the trucks and cranes duly appeared and bits of monorail started disappear...
Never heard of "floor it" 19 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
By Friday, I'm usually knackered and the ride home is slower than normal. However, that was not the case last week - I felt better by the end of the week than at the start, so I was belting it as I le...
Don't believe everything that gets stuffed into your letterbox 16 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
We got an election pamphlet from John Murphy recently. A big chunk of it tells the story of a local woman who had cancer, was treated with a drug called Herceptin and obviously lived to tell the tale....
Interesting 15 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
The rich driver differently. I disagree. Unless of course tradesmen, couriers and taxi drivers are the new rich. Most of the problems I have on the road come from tradesmen in utes, couriers in vans ...
Idiots without spares 13 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
It wasn't hard to spot the broken down ute on Victoria Road - there was a Police motorbike parked behind it with lights flashing. I couldn't work out why they had decided to stop there, just before th...
The hard slog of fact checking the Greens 11 Aug 2013 | 12:31 pm
The electorate of Grayndler is not far from me - I ride through a chunk of it every day. The Greens are running a bloke called Hall Greenland against Labor's Anthony Albanese. I'm no fan of Albo - I t...
Brown trousers time 11 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
Friday night is a bloody awful time to be riding in the city - which is why I always try to get away by about 1645hrs. That's just early enough to avoid the 1700 madness that erupts at the end of ever...
