Hello, I'm 18 and hail from Brisbane, Australia. I am currently a student at the University of Queensland and lived all of last year in Normandy, France. I have a passion for politics and history, being a member of the Australian Labor Party. I am planning on studying political science and international relations as well as languages. Indonesian is the first one I'm going to give a go to, I already have experience with French and German. I also like my science fiction, though im picky and only like the ones I can sense some originality and grandeur in. My favourite book is Dune by Frank Herbert (favourite film too) and my second is the Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton.

I like occaisionally stumbling on a good story here and I will be trying to get stuff of my own up. I do alot of essays on any topic that takes my fancy. I hope that most of all its thought provoking and entertaining, otherwise it defeats the point! Enjoy!

My major work at the moment is I, Veiser. I plan on that becoming a novel length science fiction story. It is set in far future when the human race was spread across space. In an isolated part of the galaxy called the Otremir several human civilisations have sprung up. The story is set in one called the Genetate, an oligarchic republic, descendants of the people from ancient earth who inhabit seven worlds, governed by the principals of geniocracy (yes the raelian thing!) since i've not seen that done before. Its a story of political intrigue, class struggle, space battles and sex crazed super intelligent nobles who have to carve a new destiny for their people!

I have also posted other essays, mostly old school assignments where I picked controversial topics such as proving the roman empire actually 'fell' in 1922. My 'How to fix..." series is an essay at a time look by an opinionated australian how to politically reform the world, one nation at a time. Its a bit of a community service one to put my ideas out there so I can sleep at night knowing I've done my bit for the world.

Here are some quotes that i like just for the hell of it:

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. — from Seven Pilars of Wisdom by the great Lawrence of Arabia

"Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur."

- Edward Gough Whitlam, undoubtably Australia's greatest Prime Minister. His statement outside parliment house after he was dismissed by the Governor-General 11 November 1975.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual, Dune

"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."- Dune

"I prefer the cynical view. You obviously are trained in all the lying tricks of statecraft, the double meanings and the power words. Language is nothing more than a weapon to you and, thus, you test my armor."
-Paul Atreides

"Ideas are most to be feared when they become actions."
-Paul Atreides