Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

Hello.  I've been off line for five days traveling with a friend from the South visiting her friends and mine and chilling out. Thank you, thank you to Fiona, Richard and David for keeping comments ticking along. I hope everyone is content at how Webdiary is traveling but if not, let me know in the comments box.

Hello. Just seen the news tonight and am absolutely dumbfounded that Howard and his defence minister have admitted that we're in Iraq because of its oil. He strongly denied it before the war. Most Australians now know that he was lying about his reasons for ordering our troops to invade Iraq. But who'd have thought they'd admit to the lie!

Opinion polls are integral to social regulation and control. Ever more intrusive and demanding, these polls are bigger than ever and have captured both sides of politics. Like surveillance that watches over us, the polls that claim to speak for us are becoming a permanent feature in the city of panic.

June and 2006-7 site statistics and financials.