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Sco vs Mo

Has our larrikin identity succumbed to the scolding nanny?

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

I’m playing a game. It’s the type of game that only pandemic-induced isolation can trigger. Think Jack Nicholson in The Shining, but in a smaller house and with no family to terrorise. Step 1: I pluck a ‘quintessentially Australian’ figure from the pages of history. Step 2: I imagine how they would react to a law or regulation in Australia today.

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