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If Joe Biden did what I did last week, he'd be swiftly ridiculed

The feverish debate over whether elderly Joe Biden and cosmetically mummified Donald Trump are too old and decayed to possibly be capable presidents...

12.04.2024 4

Canberra Times

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Just in case I'm wrong and there IS a God, I went to church at Easter

One of the new joys of the age-old custom of going to church (I mused to my agnostic self as I settled into my pew in Canberra's St Paul's church on...

05.04.2024 9

Canberra Times

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Secretly envying the bovine tranquillity of newsless lives

"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit, touch it and the bloom is gone." Lady...

29.03.2024 6

Canberra Times

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Ducking and weaving to avoid Donald Trump

Sensitive readers, does every glimpse and mention in the news of Donald Trump make your flesh creep, turn your stomach, deepen your fear and loathing...

22.03.2024 7

Canberra Times

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Lifting the looks of Canberra's nooks

The Canberra Liberals have made the pulse-quickening promise that if swept to power in October's ACT election they will give each and every Canberra...

15.03.2024 6

Canberra Times

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Forget formal religion, just keep on the sunny side of Life

The longer one lives in tranquil and tranquilizing Canberra, the more startling and thrilling Sydney seems for a Canberran when he or she visits that...

08.03.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Insecure much? Why we should shrug off playful Canberra-bashing

What does it say about Canberra and Canberrans that when a prominent Queenslander gibbers to the media that Canberra is "an awful place" so many...

01.03.2024 5

Canberra Times

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Cheaper rates and rego for exposure to the arts? Bring it on!

Exposure to the finest art of the finest artists works improving, character-building wonders in us. Perhaps, then, exposure to the fine arts should...

23.02.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Just like Biden, even this average Joe has the odd senior moment

I am 78 and one morning this week I was sitting at my computer reading news of the senile decay of US president Joe Biden, 81, when I discovered I'd...

16.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

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The best adventures are found close to home? Get out of town!

"It's important to be amazed about absolutely everything." $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading - Terry Pratchett, beloved ...

09.02.2024 6

Canberra Times

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Why I want to punctuate like a girl

Although we imagine our politicians are the most arrogant and egomaniacal of Australians (that's why we boo our prime ministers in the Rod Laver...

02.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

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I'll get around to reading Proust's masterpiece ... all in good time

The chances of my ever going to prison seem slight, since, even if I am caught yet again vandalising Liberal Party election posters with my...

26.01.2024 9

Canberra Times

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Where are the feminists of yesteryear?

Happy, fortunate, thrice-blessed females of Australia! At last you have a role model of what true Australian womanhood should be (ever decoratively...

19.01.2024 3

Canberra Times

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Summernats' welcome thundering jungle

At courtside on the Friday afternoon of last week's excellent world-class Canberra International tennis tournament at Lyneham one thrilled to the...

12.01.2024 5

Canberra Times

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Canberrans know the truth is out there ... but what about aliens?

"On recent estimates, the observable universe - the portion of the universe that we can detect through our telescopes - extends about 47 billion...

05.01.2024 6

Canberra Times

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Thunderbolts and lightning very very enlightening

Canberra's serial thunderstorms of Christmas Day and Boxing Day (my substantial mansion seemed to tremble on its foundations as if built of blancmange...

29.12.2023 6

Canberra Times

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The one thing every Canberra suburb needs - but doesn't know it

"Luther maintained that without music, man is little more than a stone; but with music he can drive the Devil away." - John Eliot Gardiner in Bach:...

22.12.2023 10

Canberra Times

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Obsessed with the Higgins/Lehrmann case? Your secret is safe with me

Yield not to Temptation For yielding is Sin. - Satan-combatting Christian hymn I can resist everything, except temptation. - Oscar Wilde ...

16.12.2023 8

Canberra Times

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Australia's answer to Venice? It's not a terrible idea, by George

Mystical Lake George is brimmingly full at the moment and driving home to Canberra alongside its enigmatic expanse on Monday I was reminded of how,...

08.12.2023 6

Canberra Times

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Giving trees the vote? Talk about a fresh approach to democracy

Just as youth is famously wasted on the young, is the right to vote wasted on voters? With the result of the Voice referendum reminding us of how...

01.12.2023 6

Canberra Times

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I've always had a big problem with 'I Am Australian', so I'm fixing it

We are one, and even though we're all sorts, Even though we're polyglot and cosmopolitan, We share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you...

24.11.2023 10

Canberra Times

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Get over yourself, Canberra. Other cities have real problems

Just as the result of the Voice referendum has painted us a portrait of who and what Australians are, next year's ACT election result promises us a...

10.11.2023 7

Canberra Times

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Viewing Howard in short shorts needs a trigger warning

In the classic BBC Pete and Dud at the Art Gallery comedy sketch, the two mackintoshed friends feel that the bare bottoms in a Cezanne painting of...

03.11.2023 8

Canberra Times

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ACT 'yes' majority a result of our plush lives, not uni degrees

Readers, if you have the blessing of a degree from a university and if you voted "yes" to the Voice, can you see an obvious connection between having...

27.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

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Ticking off the TikTok ockers who skewed the Voice result

Oh, the banality of democracy! Queueing to vote a heartfelt "yes" on Saturday October 14, my mind strayed, bitterly, to how my sensitive, intelligent,...

20.10.2023 8

Canberra Times

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The value of daring and dreaming: you don't know if you don't have a go

Friends, readers, Australians, lend me your imaginations and imagine this. What if every person who ever contemplated migration to Australia listened...

13.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

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If Australia votes 'no', will we ever forgive ourselves?

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis "Always forgive your enemies;...

06.10.2023 9

Canberra Times

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As the climate blowtorch approaches, the unthinkable awaits

Although this looming Australian summer is now something to dread (more of this forecast dreadfulness later in this column) there are still some joys...

29.09.2023 7

Canberra Times

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The Voice booklet hardly a page-turner

Much-thumbed, dog-eared, coffee-stained, tattered by so much use as a reference work, my copy of the Australian Electoral Commission's official...

22.09.2023 6

Canberra Times

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'Yes' campaign could really use a miracle

As well as rallying and walking for a "yes" in October 14's referendum (this Sunday in Canberra and in other cities there are to be idealistic Walk...

15.09.2023 7

Canberra Times

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