General Interest
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Hector’s Diary Bali Advertiser, Mar. 19, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Stop Being a Pain BIMC Hospital at Nusa Dua is now offering a revolutionary treatment for chronic joint pain and muscle injuries. News of this beneficence has already piqued the interest of certain elderly diarists around town, whose bodies unaccountably will not conform to… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 19, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Let’s Hear No More of Her Schapelle Corby, celebrity jailbird by Australian media acclaim and blessed (though that’s hardly the word) with a scrofulous family, has finally been freed on parole. That’s a good outcome, far too long delayed but welcome nonetheless. The excessive jail… Continue reading
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Clumsy Confections on all Sides
Nick Feik, editor of the online newspaper PoliticsOz, wrote this in his editorial note today (Feb. 17): TERRITORIAL TENSIONS The Indonesian government had only just finished protesting to Australian ambassador Greg Moriarty over the Abbott government’s border protection policies when its foreign minister Marty Natalegawa was again fronting the media to object to Australian conduct.… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb 5, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences New ROLE for Netball Netballers have always been vaguely worrying. Their skill at stopping dead when they get the ball – since unlike basketball you can’t run with it – is a complete mystery to people (such as your diarist) whose own sport is… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 8, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Beat That! The Beat Magazine edition of Dec. 20 carried a little feature quoting what it said were a few notable people around town on what 2013 was like for them and what they were looking forward to in 2014. Hector, in the person of… Continue reading
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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.… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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