Concentration:

I know it seems that all I've posted in the past month are pictures of orangutans wearing jumpers (for prospective employers) and Geelong Cats fans crying.

But this has been a month filled with school work, school work, a job application, pictures of animals posted on social networking sites and school work.

Luckily I begin my internship at Crikey on Monday.

For now, I  reach new lows:

Crikey intern. Catalyst editor. Hack cat?

Look out Crikey! Come October 4 I'll be fetching coffees and diggin' up scoops.

And RMIT student union magazine Catalyst will have three new editors next year, one of whom will in fact be me.

Agenda: New multi-media website, and a new couch for the office.

Also. If you are reading my blog because you work at the ABC and happened to read my application for the Hack Cross Media Reporter position advertised, thank you.

Here is a token of my gratitude:

I think we'd get along is all I'm saying...

Geelong fans are a rowdy lot...

Until we lose...

Cashing in on the Cattery.

Finals season is here. I'll be at the 'G on Friday, ready for a big win...

ABC Radio Australia: Y Space

I am a regular guest on

"Y Space"

It's a delightful segment on ye olde ABC Radio Australia Today and bares no reference to chromosomes. Each week a coupla young cats get together and chew the fat on youth issues in Australia for an international audience. We also do a live cross to a hip-to-it radio station in Malaysia to compare notes with Double D and Roundhead - super-duper DJs from down town K.L. - ZING!

This week: Alcohol. The Salvation Army released a report into alcohol consumption in Australia and the findings were alarming (if somewhat predictable).

1 in 3 Australian youngsters drink just to get drunk on a regular basis

7 per cent of Australians sometimes drink to feel 'normal'

Obviously I am lucky in having realised early that I won't ever be particularly normal, no matter how many bevvies I neck on a Saturday night.

Here's the chat that unfolded around this, and a few other issues. I may or may not have mentioned old mate Voltaire in relation to ratus-bagus Hicksville Pastor Terry Jones of Koran-burning fame. But I guess you'll just have to have a listen for confirmation...

You gots to click through to this one...

Crocodile for tea.

Old mate Steve Sunk is a famous top end bush tucker chef - as well as a good sort. While I was in Darwin I headed down to Bagot Community aged care home, where he was cooking up a feed for about three-hundred of Darwin's senior citizens.

Among their number were Des, the gray-nomad who had his mobile home stolen and had to live long grass for six months, and Susie, a central Australian indigenous woman with a story for every occasion, a leopard print caftan and some of the best horn-rimmed sun-glasses I've seen in a long time.

I ambled down and talked election politics over crocodile, squeaking duck, wallaby, roo and sweet native yams. This went to air on ABC Local Radio Darwin on August 19.

Dinner with the Family Lee

While I was in Darwin I was lucky enough to fall in with the Lee family - a Larakia family spanning four generations.

Mary Lee was evacuated when Darwin was bombed in 1942 and went on to have 9 kids. Among those kids: Ian, who was a a Senate candidate in the seat of Solomon in this year's election, and Bilawara who is politically passionate and works as a marriage celebrant.

Bilawara also had several kids, one of whom is Dean - father of six gorgeous ratbags under 14. He was widowed when his youngest child was nine weeks old.

They let me join in for their regular family feed on Wednesday last week, so I roamed about with a recording device in between helping with the washing up and stuffing my face with tacos. Here's what they had to say about the election, the candidates and the current state of affairs for the nation's Top End indigenous people. It was aired on the ABC last week...

Picture: Larrakia Nation Art Centre fabrics