It appears the ‘leanest election ever’ is still allowing for both Libs and Labor to still find ways of paying us for our vote.  We’ve had to say goodbye to an outright bogan lottery this time, because handing out random, one-off payments to various low socio-economic groups will be labelled as financial mis-management, no matter which team does it. So of course they’ve had to find less obvious ways, and tax rebates is again turning out to be the most popular.
This time, it’s the Education Tax Rebate. Also known as …

I’m quite swiftly getting over MasterChef this season. I’m not a fan of reality television, but made an exception for MC, because last year it was fun. Good food, bit of drama, no rubbish elimination-teary-voting-off-your-opponents-while-blowing snot bubbles and telling them how much you love them bullshit that you see on other reality franchises.
The thing is, it’s not the sobbing contestants getting to me (they do, I’m not immune to irritation).
It’s not the conspiracy theories that the show is in fact rigged (which, I kinda think it is, and I might …

Edward chuckled and raised one perfect eyebrow. Bella grimaced. Jacob flushed under his russet skin. Edward chuckled again. His face was unreadable. Alice chagrined.  Bella gazed into Edward’s perfect face, marvelling at how the marble Adonis could love someone as plain as her. She grimaced. Edward raised one perfectly sculpted eyebrow and chuckled.
Repeat the above paragraph for 1500 pages and you have Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking dawn.
OK, so the writing is terrible.  She’s not the first author who has a toxic relationship with adjectives.  Matthew Riley doesn’t seem to use …