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Artists, cartoonists in particular, are frequently criticised, or their work simply disliked, for an apparent childlike drawing style. Like many, Michael Leunig’s style resembles the rambling intricate but superficially childish “doodlings” of the verteran Bruce
Read moreA battle about renovating Bondi Beach’s pavilion, one of Australia’s most evocative buildings, has ended. It took citizen action, union work bans, and a line-up of well-known Australians to win. Along the way, Waverley’s mayor
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Not since Clampett’s tribe pitched camp by an up-market cement pond has this great nation of exceptionalism so derisively mocked, to mask a swelling pride. As strongmen go, the vulgarian whose Olds 37 so rarely
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In the chat rooms we mused on happenings in a virtual reality (VR) called “Earth” that turned up the other day. Its creatures – self-described “*users” with the handle “human” – consider themselves alone in
Read moreFifty years of scant results steer researchers to greener pastures. Dr. Larc Nagas, Special Director of SETI’s Forward-planning Committee, today proposed a radical agenda to modify the search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. He proposed Earth be
Read moreBefore the laying of a great telephone cable Australians developed a truly odd argot. Long isolation had deprived them of verbal reassurances from the Fatherland. From this uncertainly came a canting cadence that is not
Read moreAncient insistence greets weary travelers with food, conversation and warm company. Like-minded, Australia (‘Straya) generously extends camaraderie to strangers peering curiously this way… perhaps puzzling at our enigmatic blend of lofty alacrity sans moral means.
Read moreI have a question Do presidents, on the first day of office, alight the yellow bus at 1600 Pennsylvania, down socks, defiantly swagger up the driveway, plastic lunchbox replete with jelly sandwich and apple, sidle
Read moreNo salvation No redemption Judgment, rapture, nor ascension Should Messiah walk the Earth, the stupor that owns this moment would pay no heed. And the beast that enslaves these times would lash the Redeemer to
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