Category: Opinions-Editorial
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When the Rainbow Opened My Eyes
My niece got engaged yesterday to her partner. Now my brother has two daughters instead of one. I’m joyful for both as they’ve found that love is love is love. But it took me a while to understand… For I must have lived in a sexual vacuum. Growing up I never even knew what homosexuality […]
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Political Insults? Been There Heard That!
As a writer who was in a verbally abusive relationship for many years, the current political climate is rather familiar. Funnily enough my main reaction to both is the same. It’s not being offended at being insulted. After the initial six weeks (in a relationship) or fifty years (in politics), I become bored… Socialist Communist […]
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Horse and Carriage or Unfinished Symphony
I had to laugh (out loud on the train)! For My Dad, Kevin Whalan’s latest blog,opens with the same words as the following speech, written and delivered in 2001, while I was going through… “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage “ Well, you don’t see that any more do you? Do […]
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I am Andrew and I am an OverResearcher : Writing Out Loud #2
“You over-research too much,” she said to me. I looked up from my desk, covered in academic papers. Then down at the floor, strewn with textbooks, references and more academic papers. “Do I? I suppose I do.” My wife shook her head at me. My name is Andrew and I am an over researcher. My […]
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The Space Between Feminism and Neo-Masculinity
An Open Letter To Neo-Masculinists, MRAs, And General Dudebros Everywhere Hardly a call to feminism is it? With a title like “An Open Letter to Neo-Masculinists, MRAs, and General Dudebros Everywhere”, it just has to be click bait. Besides what the heck is a Dude-Bro? I checked the Urban Dictionary and its not me! But […]
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Blue Sky Mine : The Wittenoom Tragedy
Every time I hear Blue Sky Mine by Midnight Oil, about the Wittenoom mining tragedy, I’m taken back in time. To 23 May 1988, to probably the saddest TV interview I have ever seen. The interview featured on the ABC Four Corners episode called Blue Death. Blue Death was about the Wittenoom tragedy in Western Australia which was built around […]
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Exist
Freedom of speech belongs to the loud and aggressive. Freedom of speech is their cacophony of voices shouting all at once. Freedom of speech is their smothering words that silences all other. Freedom of speech is the preserve of the crowd that excludes all but them. Freedom of speech is not our freedom extended to the […]
Andrew James Whalan 