Podcast:Breaking news | March 21

Confessions of a Twitter addict

By Andrew Garland Hi, my name’s @AndriouxGarland and I’m a twitter addict. I’m fairly new to Twitter.  In fact, it was forced upon me as part of my journalism and communications course at TAFE.  With Twitter, it wasn’t that I didn’t fully understand the concept. I just didn’t really care.  So when @babelfishes insisted we start an […]

Becoming best friends with someone who couldn’t understand a word I said

BY VALERIA MARTINEZ @valeriathx Most of us have best friends, and each story is unique. Mine started when I was six. It was my first day in Australia, a new, strange country where I couldn’t communicate with people yet because I couldn’t speak the language. It was my first experience with jetlag – me and […]

Pass the coffee … studying with kids

  STORY AND PHOTOS  BY VPOPR   Nerves of steel, childcare, military precision organisation and coffee – lots and lots of coffee – are just some of the aids I use to study with three children under the age of four. There have been skirmishes, illnesses, hospital visits and sleepless nights that have threatened to […]