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Hetero home runs: boys who like girls at their worst
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, Tammy Wynette once sung. She followed it up with, “saving all your love for just one man” – mind you, she was singing a song called “Stand By Your Man”. If the song...
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Christmas is early this year
I didn’t really want to get out of bed on Wednesday after my Mum called at 6am to say Aunty Colleen had died. The bed was comfortable, my body was exhausted, and I had a beautiful view out of the...
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Stop the bus
“What time is bus?” He’d come seemingly out of nowhere, but I was too blinded by the heat and my own thoughts to pay attention to anything outside my peripheral vision. An older Italian man, probably...
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Invasion of the hat women
For me, “A Day At The Races” used to be a Queen album title by way of a Marx Brothers movie. From now on, it will make me think of the hat women and all they represent. Yesterday in Melbourne saw...
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Divided road
“Two roads diverged in a wood and, frustrated and annoyed that I was in a wood to start with, took the one less traveled by, for I am a contrarian bastard” - with apologies to Robert Frost I am...
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All you need, nothing you don’t
Advertising has always lied to us. We snigger now when looking at campaigns from decades past that made exaggerated and often ludicrous claims about how certain products would change our lives or make...
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How to turn 78 without shrivelling
Coping successfully with older age is something that 78-year-old Rob Calder does remarkably well, although he laughs that he still has days when he wants to lie in bed with the blankets over his head....
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Bottle store philosophy
Perhaps it’s easier to be distracted with lightshows, superlatives, and dulling our senses with drink so we avoid the troubling notion that our lives might be a bell curve. Or perhaps simply getting on...
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Is this Australia’s most frightening lesbian?
Bob Katter's Australia Party believes in the sense of security, fun, freedom and excitement of being Australian. Today I met a woman who embodied those qualities. She is also his nemesis. Continue...
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Keep looking for the right route
My bus stop is an unremarkable stainless steel rectangle with an uncomfortable seat, but sufficient to shelter from this morning’s unexpected downpour. This is a good thing, given that I don’t have an...
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