it is time for England to relinquish their grip on the Ashes urn.

BBC: contraception ‘key to poverty trap’
“Better access to family planning and sexual health services for women is the key to fighting poverty across the world, a UN report has said.”
Are you reading, Dubya?

In London, you can go weeks without seeing your shadow. I’m having a ‘what am I doing here?’ moment – I was shocked to realise I’m used to seeing huge piles of garbage on the streets. I shouldn’t be so down on London, tonight I’m going to a big fund-raising ball at the Tate Modern as a corporate guest; and I had a beautifully trashy weekend worthy of a Sun headline.
Sunday I went to see the Z Star Afro Punk Experience at Vibe. Vibe has an undies dispenser in the girls toilets, so of course I had to try them – I got a pair with a 50s pulp fiction styel graphic and ‘she tries to be good’. Heh.

If this was prison, you’d be our bitch

Ugh, I’ve been at work for 15 hours, from 8am to 11pm.
Ironically, BBC publishes Hi-tech workplace no better than factories

Age: “The old barley silos that bear the Nylex clock above the Yarra River and Punt Road are to be demolished.”

Age: Danniii tries to explain her ‘racist’ comments.

The Onion presents a Thanksgiving project for the little ones

ickle.org on jaffas. I never knew New Zealanders had them as well as Australians. I could really do with some right now. Does that make me a tragic expat?

It’s 30 years since Gough Whitlam came into power and the Age reviews the effect he had.