Aussie life
Like mansplaining and body hair, the ability to hold and express conflicting opinions is probably something most people would hesitate…
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Lock up your babies, Brisbane; the Queensland government is considering lifting its ban on keeping dingos as pets. I had…
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‘Celebrate Spring in Nature’, is the call to action on the Parks Victoria website, which urges us to visit the…
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My local post office is one of four on Sydney’s lower north shore scheduled for closure before Christmas, and everybody…
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It’s not often you can say, ‘I know exactly how he feels’ about your Prime Minister. But in following the…
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The tendency of Australian politics to shadow British politics is never more conspicuous than when both countries are led by…
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The precise location of Victoria’s most dangerous fugitive was finally revealed last week after international news networks aired footage of…
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Further evidence that global warming is good for mammals emerged in South Australia last week, when marine biologists confirmed that…
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One Sunday morning in 1952, the pilot of a light aircraft flying low over the Pilbara looked down and saw…
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Much of the advice you received as a child is now redundant. For example, don’t even think about telling an…
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Nobody in the current federal government worked harder than Penny Wong to thaw the freeze in Sino-Australian relations caused by…
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If you want to get a rough idea of where Australians stand on a particular issue, commission a report by…
Whose balls are these?
Two weeks ago, after security protocols surrounding Mr Trump’s schedule were ramped up following his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear…
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Last week my contacts at Latrobe Valley Law Courts sent me a digital scan of one page of the Leongatha…
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US eyes Darwin Port prise. That, in case you missed it, was the hedline on the frunt page of last…
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In the 1980s there was a popular watering hole on Sydney’s Lower North Shore called The Plum. Its popularity with…
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Of all the Gospel parables, I’ve always thought the one that would be hardest to pitch to Hollywood would be…
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I happened to be in London when the UK’s Supreme Court confirmed what many people have long suspected about women…
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Like every country whose peace and prosperity has depended, for as long as most of its population has been alive,…
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A sad legacy of Dark Emu, or rather of the embarrassing embrace of its ludicrous central thesis by our education…
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When Kermit the Frog told us in 1971 that it’s not easy being green it was meant as a plea…
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Older Speccie readers would have smiled at the vinyl revival. And some would have laughed out loud at the reappearance…
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In the UK, where I have just spent a few weeks, Christmas officially starts when you can’t enter a supermarket…
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The public shaming of elite pole vault coach Alex Parnov reminds me of the time I was sent to cover…
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As if Hollywood’s elite didn’t have enough to be worried about, the Governor they elected, and whose homelessness laws and…
