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Name: Anne
Originally this blog was about my student exchange to Montreal and North America (and later, south and cental america). This was the 'chaos land' of the title. However, once overseas I soon realised that Australia (and especially Sydney) was the real chaos land, -I would monitor Australian news with increasing feelings of trepidation, in reaction to all the huge and worrying political changes Australia is going through, eg industrial relations laws. So this blog is dedicated to trying to understand the chaos of this world, to find its beauty, and to direct its energy to something good and life affirming.

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Monday, 27 March 2006

i start with a vignette of something indicative of sydney in this era: I am sitting on the 428 bus from Newtown to the city this evening when a couple in the row ahead of me start debating each other whether the slogan is "Think Locally, Act Globally" or "Think Globally, Act Locally". The man concludes that the latter is true. my eyes light up at this conversation- a little flicker of social respeonsibility here on the bus!! I am intrigued (I think they are talking about progressive social change). Then the woman says "Yes- you focus on Global things, make sure the company direction doesn't mess up everything on the local level- Actually, HSBC is doing an ad campaign on local distinctiveness and how to market specifically to the local" oh- THATS what they were talking about!!

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