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On Saturday (12th December 2015) yours truly experienced a delightful evening at the Australia Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty – the finale to the 2015 season - “ A year of Beauty ”. From the very outset, I should make it clear that although I have enjoyed ballet from my childhood ranging from the few lessons I had and the old black and white movies at the British council, to periodically attending performances, I could only profess to be a lover of the art form and in no way an expert on the subject. If a picture painted a thousand words then a performance paints a million! This was a new production by David McAllister. Everything apart from the music and Choreography was started from a blank canvass. As someone who made a modest donation to the production, the Australian Ballet pleasantly provided continuous updates over the 2 or so years of it’s production. The creation of the costumes from some of the initial draft drawings were mesmerising and indicat...

Sorry, just using her own parlance! Maybe it’s acceptable for a woman to call another a bitch in parliament, but people do get their knickers in a knot when a guy uses the term on a woman. So, let’s leave aside the Bitch and focus on the Bimbo! The Bishop and the Bitch! There are a few of aspects relating to Blonde Bimbos that are undisputed. Most of them, aren’t blonde They are blonde, because when viewing through Western societies’ lenses, Blonde is sexy and sexy is good - gets you further in life! As they are usually operating at a level of incompetence, they are susceptible to many a gaffe! OK, I’m no expert on hair colour, but she sure does have dark roots(pardon the pun!!) and that is as far as I will take that part of the discussion. Bishop has undoubtedly had a privileged upbringing and has clearly leveraged her sex appeal (and possible blondeness) to good use – a classic case of “nice from far, but far from nice”! Through-out her life she has been the show-pony,...