Aussie life
You can take the boy out of advertising, but you can’t take the copywriter out of the middle-aged man. I…
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O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us! said Robbie Burns. And nobody…
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Imagine if, instead of returning to the USA to become its third president, Thomas Jefferson had died in France on…
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Not very long ago, the propensity of some Australians to sit around watching other people do things on screens rather…
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For most of China’s 1.4 billion population, 2024 has been the Year of the Dragon, which makes it, according to…
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Being an AFL umpire does not look like a job for the thin-skinned. Given the passion of the code’s fan…
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Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…
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It is a point of principle for the residents of the smarter parts of Manhattan not to notice – and…
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As the terrible events in Bondi Junction last month reminded us, fortune doesn’t always favour the brave. Indeed, the courage…
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Almost exactly 50 years before James Cook’s first encounter with the Gweagal and Gameygal peoples on the shores of what…
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It’s been a long time since the beer garden of the iconic Oaks Hotel in Sydney’s Neutral Bay lost all…
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Which part of ‘No thanks’, many Australians may be wondering, does our Prime Minister not understand? Six months after the…
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The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…
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Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…
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At time of writing, we do not know whether there is any truth to the allegations which have been made…
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Move over, Errol Flynn. It took long enough, but as of last Tuesday you are no longer Tasmania’s most popular…
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While the donning of keffiyehs by actors at the end of a performance of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of…
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Who can honestly say they’ve never contemplated murder? What red-blooded Australian can put their hand on their heart and swear…
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I’ve never been a fan of Gordon Ramsay. More prudie than foodie, perhaps, I’ve always believed that what comes out…
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Now that the referendum is behind us, we must start doing something about Australia’s burgeoning ICE problem. You wouldn’t know…
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Timing matters just as much in tragedy as it does in comedy. And it is important to remember that the…
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The death of actor David McCallum last week prompted me to google the theme music for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,…
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There was a time when Australians prided themselves on their nose for bulls–t and for their willingness to call it…
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Presumably, you don’t get to become head of football’s governing body in a football-mad country like Spain without putting in…
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Holding dual Australian and UK citizenship is only problematic when both countries reach the final rounds of a major sporting…
