Daniel Bowen (born 1970) is an Australian blogger who resides in
Melbourne. He is best known for having been the president of the
Public Transport Users Association (PTUA), and the author of the
blog, ''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
Usenet 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
advocate
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for improved
public transport 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
annual general meeting of the Association. He remains on the PTUA Committee.
References
External links
Diary of an Average AustralianToxic Custard
Bloggers from Melbourne
Australian male bloggers
Living people
1970 births
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