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1.1KArtsComfortably numb
I am in a bar somewhere in inner city Melbourne, comfortably numb. My companions are half my age; fine young men, and...
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890Environment
Sometimes you get lucky …
Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you pinch yourself; wondering if it is all real. The impossible backdrop of the azure sea, the...
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983Arts
The Barbarians are coming …
The last time I was in City Hall, Hobart it was to hear a fiendish roar; a demonic cacophany; a bewitching cackle;...
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913Economy
Writers, artists, journalists … how to foment a (peaceful) revolution
This is a brilliant essay … there may even be parallels with Tasmania … thanks Peter, Lindsay Tuffin: Every revolution is a...
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936History
Richard Tuffin’s Romania Report
here
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982Opinion
Death … and instant sainthood
Death … and instant sainthood. Eulogising the recently deceased has become a strange modern form of (almost) worship. The outpourings at the...
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1.2KEnvironment
Go wild with us this year!
Joy to you this Christmas from Lindsay, James and Bob. There is no better way to communicate these good wishes than this...
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903International
The shake of Rupert’s power finger
Image: HERE Rupert Murdoch is the one man who really fits the media mogul mould, made famous by Evelyn Waugh’s fictional press...
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947Arts
The sound of good shiraz, liberally poured!x
You know the sound that fine shiraz makes, poured liberally into a glass… …that deep throaty, succulent, devour-me-now life-wish, swishing and sloshing...
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958Education
My god, there’s hope!
Dr HV Evatt at the UN There is hope … in fact there is much much hope. I’ve just been inspired. Invited...
