Month: December 2013
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A GOOD ARGUMENT
And let’s just note this: No one’s rights have been infringed. The person concerned remains an Australian citizen. with all the benefits that status confers. ASIO acting to prevent Australians fighting in Syrian war is not racist Gerard Henderson, The Sydney Morning Herald 10 December 2013 So now it has come to this. […]
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, December 11, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Our Changing Face New figures that show the rapid growth of domestic investment in Bali’s tourism sector and the skyrocketing numbers of domestic tourists here are very interesting for future-watchers. They show without a shadow of doubt that the characters of Bali’s leading industries – tourism […]
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Nelson Mandela: ‘N Stem vir al Suid-Afrika*
I didn’t spend very long in South Africa and never lived there. At the time, now more than 40 years ago, I was resident on the other side of the Limpopo River in the then rebel colony of Rhodesia, another ratty faux-jewel in the tatty imperial crown. Neither did I meet Nelson Mandela. When I […]
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Save the last dance for me
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep:
When a performer has reached the age of seventy-nine one can be forgiven for fearing every appearance might be his last, and it was clear at Leonard Cohen’s concert in Brisbane last night that thought has also crossed his mind. Though he is enviably fit (he drops to his…
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