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	<description>A blog by an opinionated mother of two, which might lie idle for a while sometimes. The blog, that is.</description>
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		<title>Happy International Womens Day and Labour day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting to see that here in Victoria, Labour Day and IWD have fallen on the same day this year. Because despite the popular belief that feminism is for boring old fuddy-duddies because all the inequality stuff has been done and dusted, the facts on the ground show that that&#8217;s not so.  A new report by the ILO tells us what most of us already know:  Despite signs of progress in gender equality over the past 15 years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/03/08/happy-international-womens-day-and-labour-day-2/</link>
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		<title>R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find out what it means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know when a government come up with something that just really stinks of &#8220;cooked up by a PR company&#8221;? To give him credit, our State Premier John Brumby took on board that the recent attacks on Indian students and workers in Melbourne really did have a racist component and didn&#8217;t try to take the &#8220;Racist? Who? Us? How dare you!&#8221; route. But. Come on. Wasn&#8217;t there anyone in the State PR machine to say &#8220;hang on a minute guys, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/28/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-find-out-what-it-means/</link>
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		<title>Friday earworm: My Definition of an unfair ruling</title>
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This is My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style by the Dream Warriors, from Canada. I love Acid Jazz and I think this is one of my favourite things ever. 
The Head tune is from Quincy Jones&#8217; Soul Bossa Nova (Roland Kirk is the flautist).
Here&#8217;s a thought experiment: What do you think the Dream Warriors&#8217; homage to / quotation of Soul Bossa Nova would have done for this recording&#8217;s sales, given that it&#8217;s obscure back catalogue which previously would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/20/friday-earworm-my-definition-of-an-unfair-ruling/</link>
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		<title>How do you Sleep while your Butts are Burning?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m looking at the Australian Liberal party, who have gleefully piled onto Peter Garrett and called for his resignation over the Insulation scheme debacle (which is predictably being called Insulationgate), but don&#8217;t seem to know that their arses are on fire.
Now, sure, I&#8217;m predisposed to like the guy. But let it be known I&#8217;m not particularly keen to fight Garrett&#8217;s corner as a minister in the Labor government. I&#8217;m the Voter who Cannot Love*, after all. He, like Julia, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/14/how-do-you-sleep-while-your-butts-are-burning/</link>
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		<title>But he meant it to be ironic!</title>
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Well, we can settle in for an entertaining year in which the hairy and hilarious leader of the opposition competes with his shadow cabinet for Tool of the Week. It&#8217;s got to the stage where HAT has an ongoing Obligatory Tony Abbott said What Now? thread.
For those outside the country, his latest effort was: 
&#8220;What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing, is that if they get it done commercially, it’s gonna go up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/10/but-he-meant-it-ironically/</link>
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		<title>Friday Dogblogging: (((Ollie)))</title>
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Last Saturday I nearly killed Ollie.
I&#8217;ll tell this story all arse about, otherwise it might scare you if you&#8217;re one of the people who read here and love the Ollmeister. So, ending first: Ollie is here, alive and undamaged, with his cheery, rather bumptious personality intact. We&#8217;ve just been snuggling on the couch with a DVD, after he&#8217;s circled the park at normal warp speed, played bitey-face with Maggie and scoffed his dinner. 

Last Saturday, it was a warm-to-hot day. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/05/friday-dogblogging-ollie/</link>
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		<title>P.Z. Myers is coming to Melbourne!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, a famous blogger and scientist coming to my town! When I found out last year that Pharyngula blogger P Z Myers would be coming to Melbourne this march for the Global Atheist Convention, I thought it&#8217;d be fun to book a few seats and see who might be interested in coming. I thought I might bring my Dad, a determined atheist, as well, although he wouldn&#8217;t be physically up to it unless the disabled access was well up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/02/04/p-z-myers-is-coming-to-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>Education Revolution: A complete 360</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even in those heady piñata-bashing weeks of November 2007, I don’t think any of us were expecting the Rudd/Gillard government to be some kind of paragon of progressivism. By then, I was already low expectations R Us. Simply not being Howard, Abbott, Nelson and Bishop were the key to gaining my vote. It turns out that even this was asking a bit too much.
At first,  I was a fan of Julia Gillard, a funny, combatative ranga who could reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/01/28/education-revolution-a-complete-360/</link>
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		<title>Hello!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First post for Cast Iron Balcony 2010, and the first since I took a break from it. I missed it.
Towards the end of last year, it was just getting a bit too hard. In some ways, CIB was becoming the victim of its success. I&#8217;d had requests for interviews from journos and invitations to post on prominent group blogs (haven&#8217;t been doing anything there, either.) Most people would be ecstatically happy, but because I&#8217;m a neurotic over-thinker, my response was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2010/01/24/hello/</link>
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		<title>Temporarily lost for words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m officially on hiatus. Of course, having said that, I&#8217;ll probably get the blogging diahorrea next week, but at the moment the VCE and other work and family obsessions have given me writers block.
Back soon.

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		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2009/11/06/temporarily-lost-for-words/</link>
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