Haneef has been released after charges against him were dropped: The media circus farce isn’t over yet though, as Kevin Andrews tries hard to back pedal on the visa revocation decision.

Fun. =D Hard work, surprisingly. =/ Petrol fumes. =S No bananas or boost pads =( Went from 17th to 9th! ^_^

Exactly.

It’s not even worth joking about any more

I’m finally settled in and feeling like this is “home” for me, in one sense at least. And then… And then I think, crap, only, what, 5 months to go? And I’m back to Sydney. I’m getting the moving cycles shorter and shorter, which is one thing moving (back) to Sydney was supposed to reverse. I guess it matters less and less these days, in the context of near-instant communications and the whole e-World that makes the distance near meaningless, or at the very least lets you redefine it to your own needs. I’m at least as up to speed with Australia’s news as I am with England’s, but despite being that much closer to Europe I’m still by and large clueless as to what is happening some 300 - 400 km away on the continent (distances on Australia’s scale are near-meaningless here). ...