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1.3KMOFO 2017 (1): Beyond the Headliners …
Kelsey Lu was my festival highlight … Nothing could be finer than a cloth vagina … Okkyung Lee was brutal in her...
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Dawn of the Centrelink Robot …
*Pic: The new face of Centrelink … When Sussan Ley’s Gold Coast jaunts at public expense were exposed to public view recently,...
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NATION: Trump’s new world disorder catches Turnbull government napping
“Watching Donald Trump take the oath of office is like seeing Bobo the Clown Photoshopped into the Last Supper,” writes the ABC’s...
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Hydro knows what caused Basslink to fail. Why can’t the Plebs know … ?
*Pic: So … what caused the Basslink failure … ? The damaged section of the cable … The Basslink high voltage DC...
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Let them vape …
E-cigarettes are devices which vaporise a liquid for inhalation, first successfully developed for commercial sale by a Chinese scientist in 2003. Hon...
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2016: A very good year in the life of the HVC — now for the final clean-up
*Pic: Adriana Taylor, centre right back, and smiling Huon Valley residents … Huon Valley Guessing Games A fellow critic of Huon Valley...
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When hospitals make patients sick …
Long ago ‒ 150 years or more ‒ it was noticed that pregnant women whose children were delivered by doctors were much...
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Perish the pension …
*Pic: Pascal Maramis, Flickr At the turn of the year, my $117-a-week age pension disappears. I am not about to whinge that,...
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Conservation fiddles while the Kea goes extinct …
Protesting 1080 through Wellington’s streets Isn’t it just incredible that the people of New Zealand are threatened with deadly poison in their...
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Plastic Pollution and our Noxious Consumerism
All across the globe there is a silent killer. It invades our everyday lives, outlives us, and invariably threatens all marine life...
