Ashlee Betteridge
Ashlee Betteridge is a freelance Australian journalist currently based in Indonesia. A graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney, she was a reporter for the Village Voice and Courier newspapers and community radio station 2SERFM before moving abroad to work on the web desk of the Jakarta Globe newspaper. A social media and internet junkie, Ashlee also writes a blog titled “betty loves blogging” (http://www.bettylovesblogging.com) which fuses travel and food photography with analysis of important issues such as elevator etiquette and the weird things sold in Jakarta supermarkets.
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Why is the weight debate full of so much hate?
Hi. My name is Ashlee. I’m a 24 year old Australian woman. I have a relatively successful media career for…... Read more
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Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit, an irregular regular column on calumny and codswallop.…
Six prominent Aussies with a case of the dreaded “yips”
The yips. It’s an old golf term which refers to golfers who lose the ability to putt. They stand…
The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more