Daniel Bowen (born 1970) is an Australian blogger who resides in

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. He is best known for having been the president of the

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(PTUA), and the author of the

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, ''Diary of an Average Australian''. Bowen has published this blog continuously since 1994. His other web articles include Toxic Custard, sent weekly to a mailing list and posted to

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group rec.humor (under the title "Toxic Custard Workshop Files") since August 1990. TCWF started out as a humour journal covering and parodying subjects such as religion, science fiction, history and technology, but over the years it has gradually changed into a diary, and today is mostly a compilation of the passing week's blog posts. Bowen is also a prominent

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for improved

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in Melbourne, in particular as a former president of the PTUA, a position he held from 2003 to 2012, and he continues to be a frequent media commentator and blogger on public transport issues. On 17 September 2012, he announced that he would not seek re-election as PTUA president at the forthcoming

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of the Association. He remains on the PTUA Committee.

References

External links

Diary of an Average AustralianToxic Custard
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