Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Woolies and Welfare
This came out a few days ago, but I was a bit busy, what with trying to navigate my way through the city during APEC and being held-up by motorcades, and neglected to write about it. This morning though, I noticed that Lauredhel had mentioned it in brief at Hoyden About Town, so I suppose [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Rudd and Hu Chat, Downer Whinges (Updated (lots))
I’ve managed to avoid APEC almost entirely thus far, both here on this blog and in real life. But last night, I was held up while walking along Pitt St. in Sydney, as a motorcade pulled out of the Hilton. It’s only fitting then, that I stop avoiding it on the blog. Kevin Rudd, the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Languages,Linguistics,Politics by jangari
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
A Metapost
I haven’t written anything that could be categorised as a metapost before, because I assume most people don’t care. But I’ll write one today, since I have three quite separate pieces of news, and lo and behold, they tie together surprisingly well. 1. I have been asked to write an article for a Sydney-based, left-wing, federal-election-motivated, free, [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
More CDEP Madness
Comments and pings have been disabled due to spam. Yet another indication that the government’s scrapping of CDEP is completely ill-considered and will cause more detriment than it will alleviate. Port Hedland has a CDEP funded alcohol rehabilitation shelter which would have lost a substantial portion of its funding, had the Western Australian government not [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Indigenous,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Neither Here nor There
This is a general appeal to anyone who knows a little bit of Kunwinjku, even just the basics. And it’s no use hiding, I know you exist. My question is: what are the nominal roots for ‘here’ and ‘there’? I ask because the album I wrote about last week, Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk, which jointly won the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linguistics by jangari
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
My Bad!
To anyone who subscribes via an RSS feed reader, I profoundly apologise for the multiple publishing of the last entry, which I think got posted about 7 or 8 times. I thought I’d deleted them all, but they still managed to make it through to my feed reader. For what it’s worth, you can blame [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
A quaint, museum-piece code
A friend of mine forwarded me an opinion piece in the Maltese newspaper The Times, which argues for the further adoption of English as a lingua franca and conversely, the dropping of Maltese: Maltese needs to have its wings clipped today, rather than tomorrow. It is a quaint, museum-piece code which requires so many foreign [...]
