Tag: politicians

  • Choose your words carefully

    The first piece of education I remember receiving was in Year One, at Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School in Greystanes, Western Sydney. I would have been six. Mrs Szukalski – a tall, blonde woman in her early twenties, coincidentally (or not) my first crush that wasn’t fictional – told the class that for…

  • Blind arrogance or sheer ignorance

    I am not prone to anger, but this sentence from the first front page article of The Saturday Paper got my blood boiling: “These deaths weighed heavily on the conscience of politicians as they struggled in 2012 to find a policy that would stop people undertaking the journey.” Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin