Posts Tagged ‘john howard’

travel diary — day 225

In australia, travel on 26 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, blue poles, boxes, breakfast, bus, canberra, circular quay, coffee, darling harbour, exhibition, federal mint, ferry, fish and chips, gallery, harbour bridge, hostel, jackson pollock, john howard, kirabili, koala, luna park, mall, map, matilda, meat pie, national library, nick cave, norman hotel, opera house, parliament house, rain, steak, sydney, the lodge, tickets, train, yha with no comments

day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘break­fast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wild­life centre. it soun­ded good, but required get­ting up early.
i walked down to darling har­bour and was dis­ap­poin­ted to find […]

australians losing confidence in america? well, that should be obvious …

In australia, rants, world events on 3 October 2007 tagged america, australia, bush, criticism, defense, government, iraq, john howard, military, politics, president, war with 2 comments

i’m not anti-american … not by a long shot. even though i’m quite vocal about my opin­ions of the war in iraq. amer­ic­ans, how­ever, slap the anti-american tag on any form of cri­ti­cism … it’s a self defense mech­an­ism. i think bush is a shock­ingly bad pres­id­ent and the only neg­at­ive thing i would say […]