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Three years ago, just before the 2022 Federal Election, I made some reflections on the lack of political engagement on the part of the Australian populace, compared to their counterparts in the 1950s: With the 2025 election now all but over, with just a few seats left to count and confirm the winner, it is …
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It has been quite a while since I read the classic Mr Men series by Roger Hargraves. I assume it was in primary school, which is now 45 years ago. Hence I am not sure, but I do believe such expressions as ‘you silly banana’ or ‘you silly sausage’ originate in those books. The phrase …
I do like ‘High Fantasy’, having read The Lord Of The Rings for the first time at age 11. Back in my teenage years, many fantasy series had comments on their cover referencing Tolkien to encourage people to buy those lesser works. For example, The Sword Of Shannara had ‘For those looking for something to …
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This morning my Facebook feed exploded with lots of commentaries and memes and parodies of the recent Amazon Blue Origin spaceflight starring Katy Perry. It seems that I am not Robinson Crusoe in my reservations about the heroism and nobility of this eleven minute ride to the lower limits of outer space. More than a …
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A former friend of mine liked Star Trek too much, to say nothing of Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows. Whilst he did not mention this to me, he did confide in a mutual friend that one of his dreams was to go into space. I don’t think it would have happened, even if …
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It’s now just over two weeks since the Federal Election was called, and last night, nominations closed. I don’t think that it is just me – it seems that virtually everyone does not care two hoots about this election. The level of apathy appears to be much higher than I have ever noticed (or not …
It has been an interesting few days since the tariff announcements and retractions by the Trumpster. Share market fluctuations have been sufficiently volatile as to resemble the ‘Big Wednesday’ which that stable of share market commentary newsletters has been predicting. I have been sitting tight though. I know that my ability to predict the market …
Apologies in advance if this post reads a bit like a kid in a candy store, but wine is one of my favourite subjects, and it gets exciting to make some new discoveries or rediscoveries. My Treasury Wine Estate dividend was paid on Wednesday – $200. When I read the email notice of the dividend …
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I am vaguely acquainted with someone whose grandfather was, in the era of the Bolte Premiership, a politician and a major protectionist. From what I have been told about this chap, the nicest thing that could be said about him was that he owned a company which made radios and TVs locally in Australia. That …
I’m not quite old enough to remember when the surfer movie Big Wednesday was in the cinemas. I think it might have been in 1978, when I was still in primary school. I did see it in the last week of school in 1982, where study for the year ceased and the teachers offered us …
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