Austin G. Mackell
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Top Posts
- Egypt's Brotherhood Takes The Lead
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- The Case Against Me And My Colleagues
- What's your favourate Gaddafi Caricature?
- Libya Pics
- Blood Trail in Crime-Scene Tahrir
- The Secret Shame of Jon Ungoed-Thomas
- Egyptian Revolution, set to Revolution by the John Butler Trio, plus pics from Tahrir
- Tent Dwellers come to Sydney.
- Photo Diary of my trip to Revolutionary Cairo so far
me on twitter…
- @yinyangman69 @abcnews @bobjcarr who got expelled? 2 hours ago
- @sailvarmint @mkearley2008 well my point was Obama is crap. Not saying Romney is better. 2 hours ago
- @mkearley2008 he could if he wasn't in the pocket of the wealthy... it would be popular... look at polling... 2 hours ago
Blogroll
- Acitv8Change The fantastic and fiery Kate Ausburn’s blog
- Antony Loewenstein One of Australia’s best and most critical intellectuals
- Disgruntled Biped “23 year old curmudgeon. Serial pessimist. Born in Jesusland, raised in Redneck Wonderland… suffice to say that both these experiences damaged me profoundly. Much happier now in the Inner West.”
- Inner West Live A community of blogger/journo/food-reviews/catlovers from around the Inner West (The Cool Part) of Sydney
- Lorenzo Tugnoli An amazing Italian photojournalist.
- Patch Galey A very sharp young British journalist based in Beirut and working at the Daily Star (also once my flat-mate)
- Penultimo A blog about my neighbourhood run by Jesse Stein and Erin Riley… Coz I still got love for the streets.
- Richard Hall Another fine young Daily Star Journo, writing from Beirut about the Middle East and beyond.
- Sam Tarling English Photojournalist bouncing round the Middle East. In Cairo (in the thick of it) last I checked.
- The Review of The New York Review of Books A side project of mine, featuring meta-reviews (reviews of reviews), video digests, and comment pages for the NYRB
- The Tongue Are you ready for a taste of the realness?
- The Tracy and The John “the men danced the dance of the gays”
- Two Bullets an anonymous insider from the Sydney music scene
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Heroin for Dole-Bludgers
- A plan for Australia I heard an very good story on ABC’s PM a while back. Apparently treasury –working on “the principle of least regret” – don’t want unemployment to go any lower for fear of triggering dangerous inflation. … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Australia, capitalism, Heroin, inflation, treasury, unemployment
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Outside Villawood Detention Centre 21 September 2010: Police, Protesters, Press, Bloodthirsty Bogans and Hectic Habibs.
When (on Tuesday Sept 21, 2010) inmates of the prison full of innocent people called the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre took to the roof, threatening suicide (following the suicide of a detainee facing deportation the day before), protesters, the (stupidly … Continue reading
Female Misogynist goes Internet dating
Which Cashed Up Bogan took this prize winning doormat home? Read through “About Me” properly…. Good god, this poor mind-fucked woman.
“Youth Media” = Fail.
I was recently involved in a project called, at various stages, Election Wire (sorry, #ElectionWIRE) , Youthscape, #ElectionWIRE on Youthscape, Election Tracker, Electionvibetrackerscape@hipcoolplacefortrendyteens, and “this stupid project”. It was, as is so often the case with non-profit work, a bit … Continue reading
VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
A pitch letter from me to VBS.TV, who are a bunch of little bitches. Continue reading
