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(Fiction) For A Stranger - Stuart L Holmes
The man started at her briefly. Certainly she was a thing of beauty. He began to wish he could have been asked to kill someone else. Burn down some slum on the east side, having to kill some junky who owed a substantial amount of cash.
The Election Campaign Could Be Worse or John Dennis 4 PM!
Yes, election campaigns can get worse! Just refer to the campaign material of Republican candidate in San Francisco John Dennis. Who shows his opponent as a zombie queen who controls hordes of mindless undead (read "voters").
(Greens Election Special) Australia’s New Peoples Party
It is time that The Greens got the media coverage and representation they deserve. It will be a long-term revolution to a strong, Greener Australia, but it will happen because The Greens are going about democracy the hard way: by building community support and using volunteers to man polling booths and forums.
(Fiction) A Time Gone By - Stuart L Holmes
Yes. When the last of them had left, the shimmering sound of leather boot to marble floor was but passing drums, marching out and beyond the pearl temple steps. So often had the general dreamt of reaching such a marvellous construct that meant so much more to him. More than he'd have any other know. The surroundings were gifted with; if there were such a thing as, frozen time. A temporal crack that he could pass in and out of on a whim.
Defending Libertarianism, and Why WikiLeaks and the Greens Weren't Made for Each Other.
Whilst many people believe that WikiLeaks has completed a total back flip by preferencing a number of “right wing” parties above the Greens, it must be understood that the two were always united by convenience, and were never united by ideology.
Preferences, Policy and Preposterous Parties - 2013 Election Guide
When you vote above the line, you are actually giving whomsoever gets your one vote absolute power over where you vote is directed. This often means your vote might swing through a raft of lesser known and morally reprehensible extremist parties faster than you can say "I don't like it." Make sure you know your stuff before fulfilling your constitutional duty.
The Thing About Traveling Part 2
If you want to experience real America, there's nothing stopping you. But will you have as much fun as when you are in a tourist playground? The sad reality is that although we might think we want to expand our horizons, experience foreign culture and revel in the different, we spend the large majority of our travel time and money in tourist havens that are unmistakably the antithesis of what we like to think travel is about.
The Thing About Traveling Part 1 or The Desolation of Tourism
It’s important to be reminded that if tourism continues on as it currently does places like Bali and Manilla-which are unrecognisable from what made them so popular-will only be lands of cheap food, goods, and sex, rather than gateways to another culture.
Interview with Mike Munroe
"The next two years are going to be the biggest for Perth. We’re going to see a lot of specialty coffee shops open up, and more then that I think there’s going to be a big push into the independent roasting industry. Melbourne has happened. I wanted to help push the Perth movement. We’re in a prime position right now and I want to be a part of that."
Public Nudity: Loving your Tits and Other Naked Bits
Perhaps the confused relationship between sex and nudity that we have somehow conjured up stems from an exponential growth in technology, and by extension, the media. In the last hundred years, we have witnessed the birth of the internet, film, television, and mass production of pornography....
Alien Invasion from Man of Steel is "Caught on Tape"
In case you didn't already know about the existence of the upcoming Superman movie from the slew of trailers and teaser clips and 13-minute featurettes on the internet, or suffer from a specific case of amnesia, the marketing team for Man of Steel has got you covered: Here's another teaser, in the form of 'found-footage' of the alien invasion that takes place in the movie.
How To Watch Arrested Development On Your Computer (Using Netflix/Hulu)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or are seriously behind the times with your critically-acclaimed, family based comedy series, you have been made aware of the new season of Arrested Development...
Eddie Comments, 'Not-So-Goodes'
Wow. What a crazy week for sport! What with all of the Adam Goodes drama this week I felt like something should be written up for Isolated nation and while I'm not well versed in sport, I feel passionately about the situation...
Why You Should Go To The Cinema This Winter
Winter in Perth. It’s sometimes rainy, mostly temperamental. It never makes its mind up about whether it wants to rain or not. As a result, this can make it difficult to plan things when you want to have some fun.
5 Reasons to Befriend A Musician
Music is the language that everyone understands- it links us all together no matter who we are or where we come from. Now music would be nothing without those incredible; albeit scruffy folk who actually create it...
From Perth To Paris: Confessions of an Expatriate
I’m sure anyone reading this is aware of Paris’s fame; it’s eminence for being the “city of love”, full of romantic scenery and amazing candle light cuisine. But I have discovered that this is probably not why I find this city so amazing.
Hanging With: Tame Impala (Part 1)
It's not everyday you get to ask Kevin Parker what he got his mum for Mother's Day. This is definitely the coolest thing I'll ever write about, I still can't believe it was real life.
Shit Things in the World: Nickelback
Nickelback is one of those bands who were probably disliked by many prior to the internet becoming life itself; but then the hate grows as people are so easily influenced by their fingerprint riddled screens.
Culture Shock: Perth Cafés
Complaining about the price and quality of coffee seems to be a favourite pastime of Perth. Every week my Facebook newsfeed is full of my friends complaining that they just paid ‘almost $5 for a cup of shit’.