Posts for December, 2008

December 18, 2008

xmas: when principles and parenting collide

As an atheist anarchist greenie with kids, major public holiday events often cause me ethical grief.
Despite the religious bias of many of the milestones that make a kids life exciting, as a lifetime athiest, they haven’t given me much disquiet. Except where I have to defuse some blatantly wrong story perpetrated by the school [...]

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December 6, 2008

Australia’s biggest war games overlooks environment (again)

This week I was finally made aware of the coming and going of the Australian Defence Force’s Public Environment Report for the Talisman-Saber 09 war games.
In July 2009 about 30,000 US and Australian troops will participate in war games that will take place primarily in the Shoalwater Bay region in Queensland and at Delamere and [...]

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