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Pearls and Irritations

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The lucky Aborigines

The lucky Aborigines
25.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

gA’I’ – Boom! Bubble? … Bust ???

gA’I’ – Boom! Bubble? … Bust ???
22.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

‘No appeal from the grave’ Phillip Hughes, workplace deaths and getting the balance right

The death of cricketer Phillip Hughes ten years ago to-day (November 27) was one of several hundred workplace fatalities in 2014. The manner of his...

26.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

I’m still dreaming of a Blak Xmas stamp

In 1962, a columnist with the Melbourne Herald noted that a 16th century sculpture of Madonna and Child would be on that year’s Christmas stamp....

02.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

What’s this American democracy crap?

For the worst part of 250 years, the United States of America has been a plutocracy. With 800 billionaires in a population of 345 million, the...

01.11.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

Inventing Father’s Day

Father’s Day is not what it was when first promoted in Australia in 1936 with “Give-dad-a-tie” campaign. Neither are fathers. With one marriage...

31.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen

The Bezosmoth

Behold, now behemoth … Behold, he drinketh up a river … The Book of Job, 40: 15 and 23. ‘Most of us don’t know 95 percent of what Amazon is...

12.07.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Humphrey Mcqueen