I was going to do a breakfast review, as I go out for the first meal of the day every Saturday and Sunday unless something bad has happened to prevent me from doing so. It’s a Melbourne institution, and one I have enjoyed for as long as I can remember.
Sitting down this morning however, I was forced to endure a phenomenon that is becoming more and more common, not only in the mornings, but at any dining out experience. (more…)
I think that it would be fair to say that there are very few organisations in the country, and maybe the world, which would allow a known predator into a leadership role.
If a person who had committed rape was nominated for a leadership position within a community group, say for example ATSIC, their criminal history would quickly come to light and affect not only their nomination, but their future career and public life as well.
Ron Maxwell Bibby is a life member of the RSL. He has been nominated as the new Secretary of the Darwin RSL. For those who are not aware the RSL or Returned Serviceman League, supports and represents Returned Servicemen and their families in the community and is run by (mostly) men from that section of the community.
By contrast Geoff Clarke was never convicted of rape in a criminal court, but the case itself and the subsequent civil finding was enough to take him out of contention for any further involvement in the representation of his community long before the case even ended.
Ron Maxwell Bibby is in the running for a leadership role in an organisation run by our fathers, brothers, uncles and grandfathers. Men get a bad enough rap as it is without nominating (and hope it doesn’t happen) electing people like this into positions of influence and public standing. I find it offensive as a man that a group of older men, elders in our community would elect such a person to represent them.
Just remember, he had images on computer drives, compact discs and tapes, and had pornographic paperback books and magazines.
When I last spent any real time in St Kilda and surrounding suburbs, it was all Greasy Joe’s and Big Mouth. I once sat in Greasy Joe’s eating breakfast and watching Tex Perkins consume a six pack of cheap looking beer at the tram stop in the time it took me to drink two flat whites and eat my bacon and eggs. Acland Street has changed, so further inland in Balaclava seemed a better option this last week.
263 Carlisle St, Balaclava
Firstly, at Ugly Sister you don’t have to book for breakfast. The breakfast menu is simple and runs all day (which means till 3 on Sundays as I found out at 3.15 on Sunday).
The clientele are mostly locals, so there is minimal posing. The coffee is excellent, as it should be considering their neighbour: Ugly Sister is across the road from Batch, which is owned and run by 2005 barista of the year Jason Chan.
