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We celebrate May Day with a custom called the “Cash Splash”. I am not clear when this habit started but do the names of Costello or Swan mean anything to you?
Mervyn Bendle is dead right when he writes about Asian students haplessly absorbing mega-jive about Australian history and culture.
Censorship happened this month in Australia when the Rudd government censored what had happened to the appallingly injured Afghan boat-people when their Indonesian fishing boat exploded in the Indian Ocean.
The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences snubbed Eastwood’s movie, Gran Torino. It’s disappointing. Sad, in fact, that our elites can’t see the cracks on those colourful picket fences.
If this were a poker game then our Prime Minister would be doing what’s known in poker as ‘going all in’ to try to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. He’s betting all his chips on winning this. That means he’s prepared to politicise the job of the Governor-General in order that […]
With a budget outlook suggesting over $200 billion in national debt will be accrued in little over three years. This is Mr Rudd’s debt sentence to all Australians.
The only thing I can recommend in this film is the clothes. The costume department excelled itself: Chris O’Dowd’s patchwork velvet wedding jacket is to die for; ditto Rhys Ilfans’ purple velvet sharp-fitting suit. The irritating lesbian wears some lovely crocheted waistcoats.
Kevin Rudd’s Statement to the Press re the Recent Incident on Ashmore Reef. There has been a dramatic increase of Whale Beaching on Australia’s northern shores. Experts believe the whales are escaping from a tyranny of white whales who are the descendants of Moby Dick. These white whales are hoarding all the plankton, forcing indigenous […]
My family and I are lucky enough to be in a position to apply for Australian citizenship in another 7 or 8 weeks. We are presently both Canadian and New Zealand citizens who arrived from New Zealand four and a half years ago. Unlike most Kiwis we got a permanent residence visa – which means they put […]
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