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Politics
So little honour
AND so we come to one of those times of the year — New Year’s Day and the Queen’s Birthday — when...
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Media
Now for some new media thinking, please
In between there’s been talk of PBL’s share price as leadership shifts to James, and even some reminder of the dramatic mid-’80s...
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History
A big year
EDDIE McGuire — the late Mr K F B Packer’s Melbourne journalist-cum-impresario-cum-Top Magpie, single-handedly, if indirectly, responsible for making lots of us...
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Sport
HAG-lets: A yachtie’s jibe
From the SMH The Sydney to Hobart is over again, but who cares? When I was a boy the race took five...
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Politics
Heat and noise
I once owned an ancient fridge. It was the Paul Lennon of fridges: heavy, rounded, thick-panelled and extraordinarily temperamental. It was of...
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1.3KPoliticsHanging loose
Earth to journalists: a hung parliament is not the most likely outcome RECENTLY I wrote an item for this website with the...
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Poetry & Short Stories
The Blitzkrieg
THE BLITZKRIEG by Harold John Solomon (1907-1986) (with thanks to the late Senator Reg Wright) Murder, most foul, goes swaggering down the...
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Poetry & Short Stories
Carousing as poetic inspiration
THIS launch of Pete Hay’s wonderful new book of poetry, Silently on the Tide, will be in three parts: • A Memory:...
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Quotes
A bit of a giggle
It is the festive season and time for a quiet laugh — or a loud one if you wish. Following is a...
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Arts
The scalpers’ Fall
THERE has been some concern, if not outrage, over people buying tickets to the hugely popular Falls Festival at Marion Bay over...
