Let me preface this by saying that my interest in cricket is pretty limited. I occasionally used to watch it on the TV (when I had a TV, which is now a long time past), particularly if the tail was wagging on an otherwise lost innings, and every few years I go to a day …
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Australian Rules Football Enters A Golden Age In Queensland
In March 2005, I decided to take a two week holiday and travel around various parts of Northern Australia I had not yet visited: Ayers Rock (my heart skipped a beat when I first saw it from the plane), Alice Springs, Darwin, Townsville and Cairns. I ended the holiday with a few days in Brisbane, …
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Brisbane Versus Sydney: Australian Rules Football Wins!
Over thirty years ago, I spent many months working in Dandenong. I was not really much of a beer drinker yet, but many people around me were, and the attitude was that products brewed by Carlton and United Breweries in Melbourne were the only acceptable beers we should consume. Times move on, and whilst the …
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Secularism, Sectarianism, and Australian Democracy
The decision last week by Western Australian first term Senator Fatima Payman to resign from the Labor Party two years into her six year term and sit (for now) on the cross benches as a result of her stance on the Palestinian state issue has caused a problem for the Labor Party and an ironic …
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Brisbane Olympics 2032 – A Missed Opportunity?
I first visited Brisbane in July 1989, and I happened to go along to see the Britain – Australia Rugby Union Test (I think these days Rugby Union in the UK is so well developed that they have four separate teams instead of one, but I am not one to pay close attention to Rugby …
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All Care, No Responsibility? Bonza Airlines Crashes (Metaphorically)
Having a particular interest in the English language, I like reading books like The Story Of English and Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue, and biographies on lexologists like Dr Samuel Johnson and the murderous lunatic (I kid you not) who helped build the original Oxford Dictionary. One word whose obscure origins do vaguely confound me, but …
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Mervyn Napier Waller – An Artist Who Needs No Gallery
Now that I am retired (well, not officially til July, but I am not planning to ever go back to the office), I do not think that I will ever have cause to visit Canberra again. Much as Blue Poles is now a part of Australian cultural history due to the initial controversy followed by …
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Lost For Words! 