Commuter Diary 2 Exhausted before 7 am, our dogged commuters are dozing before Malmsbury. Almost to a person, the Castlemaine Commuter falls asleep in a style known as the Unilateral Implosion. It affects commuters with a window seat, and thus, all of our Castlemaine Commuters. Here, the drowsy commuter gently subsides against the window, like […]
Castlemaine commuters, we salute you
Commuter Diary Blog 1 On the Bendigo line, the train journey from Castlemaine in central Victoria to Melbourne, the state capital, takes about 90 minutes. A large number of commuters make the trip, every day of the working week. This blog tells some of the stories. “Morning,” utters our acquaintance, the word disappearing into a […]
Ever tried lipreading ‘Happy Feet’?
In captioning politics late in 2007, a deal between the Liberals and the Democrats to investigate television captioning showed some promise If the Federal Government likes to live dangerously, there is a good example in the deal stitched up last month between the Democrats’ Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and Communications Minister Helen Coonan. The deal came […]
When prime ministers meet deaf babies
Why does sign language compel otherwise intelligent men to make comments of such inane stupidity about deaf people? Perhaps the juiciest part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s press conference late in June to announce universal screening of newborns for hearing impairment was the lone question asked by an unknown journalist at the very end. This […]
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