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Turns out, fellow Canberrans, that the quiet life isn't so bad

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Hot under the collar? Try deliberate ignorance - it's a thing

13.12.2024 5

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Even Jesus is being replaced by AI? I'm intrigued, I must confess

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Login or signup to continue reading Any heart not strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of...

06.12.2024 5

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How I wish I could achieve that limbo state between life and death

For those of us investigating ways in which to survive the coming Trump presidency (and more specifically the daily, disgust-stoking news reporting of...

29.11.2024 10

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Shooting for the moon and migration make-believe? Bring it on!

When the birds of the common koel species Eudynamys orientalis are not here with us in Canberra, are they perhaps on the moon? Login or signup to...

22.11.2024 10

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Why I've enforced a no-news bubble for these Trump-troubled times

Australians all, how are we to explain the dismay, the horror that so many Australians are feeling and openly showing at the election of Donald Trump?...

15.11.2024 10

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Only divine intervention will save the Canberra Liberals

Who is Saint Rita of Cascia and what is her special relevance to the Canberra of today, to the despairing Canberra Liberals and their despairing...

08.11.2024 10

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Trump makes me wonder about being senile with style

"In 1977 I shall be 142. I must begin to take on the dignities and gravities proper to that season of honourable senility which is on its way and...

01.11.2024 9

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This isn't Camilla's first time in Canberra - her spirit was here in 1983

The presence of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra this week sent the mature-age mind foxtrotting back to 1983 when Charles visited Canberra...

25.10.2024 10

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As Canberrans, we know we're in a good paddock. Why not milk it?

The moon belongs to everyone Login or signup to continue reading The best things in life are free The stars belong to everyone They gleam...

18.10.2024 9

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Face it, Canberra. What's lacking here is some windows to the soul

All fun-loving, thrilled-by-politics Canberrans love the ways in which Canberra's thoroughfares are presently decorated by the portrait-corflutes of...

11.10.2024 9

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Yes, US election politics are shocking. But at least they're not boring

News-addicted readers, lend me your ears! Give me your advice! Login or signup to continue reading If you're quite unable to ignore the 24/7 coverage...

04.10.2024 10

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I admit it: I prefer pets to people - particularly political animals

Like pet owners everywhere I have been trying to shield my companion animals from the ongoing news coverage following Trump's allegations that bad...

27.09.2024 10

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Are you sitting down as I'm about to rock your world, big time

20.09.2024 10

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Roadside posters of cackling candidates are verging on ridiculous

Just like the flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la), the corflute portrait posters of candidates in next month's ACT election have suddenly begun...

13.09.2024 6

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I know less about Elizabeth Lee than Joan my tennis ball machine

With October 19's ACT election looming, I am marvelling that I know less about the personality of Canberra Liberals' leader Elizabeth Lee than I know...

07.09.2024 10

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There's no place for sore losers in this slice of Canberra life

Hope is the thing with feathers Login or signup to continue reading That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never...

30.08.2024 5

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Why don't we give Ricky the boot, Canberra?

Kamala Harris, in recent days sweeping onward and upward at the Democrats' rapturous jamboree in Chicago, seems well qualified to become the first...

23.08.2024 8

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Turning off and tuning out: the vital life skill you just can't ignore

If everything you see and hear in the news media about the disgusting Donald Trump turns your stomach and makes you despair (this columnist's...

16.08.2024 5

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Let's put our giant heads together to celebrate Canberra's big wins

Some of the inspirational things the French have done to adorn and celebrate their city for these splendiferous Olympic Games should, surely, be...

09.08.2024 6

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Do those golf club NIMBYs really give a fig about the gang-gangs?

10.05.2024 20

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Avoiding clichés an uphill battle ... or is it a fool's paradise?

Cliché: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading -...

03.05.2024 20

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A newfound appreciation for nostalgia or signs of a city past its prime?

26.04.2024 70

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It was guilty pleasure viewing. But the laws of entertainment have been rewritten

Those of us who closely, intensely followed the often sordid and soul-staining Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial were giving in to a vice, were engaging...

19.04.2024 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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

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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

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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 30

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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 9

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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 10

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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 10

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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

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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 8

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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

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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

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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 10

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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

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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 10

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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

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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 30

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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 10

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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

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