Australia Day
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SHOW US YER UNDIES
AUSTRALIA DAY 2024 Do they have little flags on them, like the ones on toothpicks that are condemned to celebrate Australia Day by being stuck into sausages or lamingtons? If not, you’re not a patriotic Aussie and you should get back on the boat, or whatever. Such is the banality and tenor of debate in Continue reading
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Welcome, Australia
Some thoughts on why January 26 shouldn’t be our national day Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 Australia Day generally comes and goes as it pleases in my little corner of the blogosphere. Flag waving, anthem singing, feelgood nationalism and themed barbecues have never been my thing. I’ve been an Australian for 50 years and always counted Continue reading
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Here’s Mud in Your Boots! Cheers!
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 This week we will be marking our first Australia Day in country in fifteen years. Throughout the decade and a half that preceded April 2, 2020, when we were FIFOing as a lifestyle, we always managed to be absent for the rounds of increasingly strident and mawkish flag-waving and gong-giving that Continue reading
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Hot Rocks
HECTOR’S DIARY Tasty and distasteful morsels from his regular diet of worms THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 MT Agung staged a further demonstration of its volcanic power the other day, with a Strombolian eruption that showed the mountain’s capacity to pick and choose how it goes off. It suddenly blew Continue reading
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Law v Lore
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other delicacies Bali, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 THERE’S a great deal of misinformation about on the issue of Sharia law, particularly in western countries. So when Ubud identity Darsih Gede passed along a handy brief from a long-time friend, an American woman married to an Indonesian Muslim, Continue reading
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