Footscray is a suburb in Melbourne’s west that Pauline Hanson probably wouldn’t like. There are significant Vietnamese and African populations, and shops to match – no doubt a good place to find some phở or interesting African cafés.
You can go for an in-city holiday in Footscray. It’s a world away from where I live in Melbourne’s inner east.
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How did ANZ and Citibank end up with effectively the same strap about “your world”/”my world”? Did somebody not check to make sure that this idea was taken? Actually in the general scheme of things, these are not the most similar campaigns ever. At least the execution is visually different.
I find the ANZ ad kinda depressing – ANZ’s world is a world of suits. The characters seem more emphathic in the Citibank ad – humans in real human habitats and real human situations.
I love the Nicholas Building. It is dilapidated in the best possible way. I wish I were a jeweller or artist so I could have a studio there. Complete camera roll here.
A perfect avocado is a wonderful thing.
An article today in The Age quotes Julia Gillard as saying that election promises may be broken, given the current parliamentary arrangements here in Australia.
I can’t be the only person who finds the idea of government-by-promise underwhelming, but oppositions of all persuasions never tire of the rhetorical flourish of “broken promises” and the causally-related issue of trust. (That the nation might well be better off without any of the porky promises on both sides of politics is a different discussion.)
Circumstances change, and I can understand Gillard’s inclination to realpolitik in a parliament where she is going to frequently need her (seemingly considerable) negotiating skills. I won’t think of that as a breach of trust – trust to me relates to good government holistically, not promised programs specifically. Outright lying is another matter, but if a government can steer the ship within the spirit of what it proposed, I think it still deserves my support.
