I worry about our Government. I worry about myself and I have a decent but totally ordinary job. What the hell is going to happen to people who don't have at least what I have?

allegedly Kerr is not dating Packer and Bloom is not dating ex-Mrs Packer. They're just holidaying on the multi-million dollar Packer yacht together...

this Beiber/Bloom/Kerr/Gomez/Packer story is making me so happy at the moment. It has everything you could want: romance, intrigue, lies, no planes or schools being bombed, Australian connections and possibly allegedly weird sex stuff with an Australian billionaire (Google Packer and Kerr). And best of all - I don't…

frankly I think Emma Thompson got the happy ending out of all this. She is unstoppable. And whip smart. And NOT married to Kenneth Branagh. Girl can't ask for more than that.

If you can, check out a doco by a writer named Don Watson (made his name as Paul Keating's speech writer) it's great and celebration of the things that we love about the US and the differences, but he also looks at the bad differences and one observation he made particularly sticks with me, it was about how wealthy…

disagree. It sounds nice in principle (and generally issues such as abortion, marriage rights, etc. Are conscience votes) but the parties have their debates and then vote in the party room and come out into the house with a united position. It's worked well for 100 years and I totally support it now. I think it…

No, we're talking about Ron, not Nick.

you'll develop an immunity, eventually...

say whatever you like about our spiders, but GUNS!!!

you're awesome thanks! I'm in Australia so it's not actually as expensive, so thanks. And ginger - YES, asthma.

Right. You all need to move to Australia NOW. You will not lose your job for calling in sick, you don't need to go the ER to get a doctor's note (in fact I think they'd tell you to bugger off and see your GP), and you'll be able to see a GP for FREE (not all GPs are free but all are subsidised and some don't charge…

I'm concerned there may be a lack of consent here...

thanks for all this. Last time it happened I was eating a Vietnamese noodle brothy thing. pho?

so I need to figure out what it is that causes my reaction, got any clues? Far too poor to see an allergy doctor. It's definitely something that's common in Asian food because by avoiding that I've never had another reaction. My last one was scary, like my shoulders and chest were seizing.

well, who doesn't??

I have never heard a Josh Groban song, but he has the requisite sense of humor and capacity to take the piss out of himself. If not Knopfler, then him.

That is THE campest thing I've ever seen and I bet that is not what those guys intended.

I'm struggling with too, help us understand!!!

I think this is one of those rare situations where to really make a go of a new life, and to try and get something back from the ten years, she needs cash. To study, to buy a house, whatever. go for it, I say.

hurts my little brain to think about two things at once....