Australiana

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• Wulgaru: The Wooden Devil

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  Early October 2005 Joseph Garbarla squatted on his heels at the front of the circle of wailing mourners.   Old Weari-Wyingga had been leader of the tribe since the other male Elders had been killed in December 1984.   Now the tribe was without a leader.   In the circle, Suzie Wanjimari, the old man’s cousin, ...
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• On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 560
  A while back I wrote – in rather skeptical vein – about Tim Soutphommasane’s claim that progressives should be reclaiming patriotism. Guy Rundle has now reviewed Soutphommasane’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives , for Crikey (of which more later). I’m largely ...
  1 week ago

• The Evil, Big-eyed One

  
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  Erlick Norfolk wended his way slowly through the forest as he headed up the side of Mount Abergowrie, on the Northern side of Glen Hartwell, in early February 1992.   A big man — nearly 150 kilograms — Erlick found walking even on level ground fatiguing.   So, the steep slope of the mount soon had him gasping, ...
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• On Paul Kelly and political history

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 560
  I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review it. But one hardly knows where to start. Almost everyone – bar the in house ...
  1 week ago

• australiana

  
  STARASHAN — Authority: 124
  Does two items make a collection?! I think I am developing a new collection theme... There is something lovely in the overt kistchness of vintage Australiana. I found my first piece in an opshop in Myrtleford some months back, and recieved the second in the mail a couple of days ago via Yardage Girl . I left a ...
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• A Black Wolf

  
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  It was Roberta Dempsey who first saw the black wolf.   It came out of nowhere and stopped in the middle of the road fifty metres or so in front of the rattly old station wagon.   The wolf seemed transfixed by the glare of the car’s headlights; its eyes shining almost supernaturally as the car rattled toward it. ...
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• The Nightmare of Glen Hartwell

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  The seven men and six women were dressed in ordinary street clothes; however, there was nothing ordinary about what they were doing.   In the centre of the living room, a magic Cone of Power had been laid out on the floor.   Within the white circle, on a wooden table a beautiful young woman lay naked, while the ...
  1 week ago

• The Bunyip

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  Carol and Jim Black sat together on the red-and-yellow blanket upon the pine needle covered forest floor.   A hundred metres away swirled the near-flooding waters of the Yannan River, a few kilometres outside Glen Hartwell in the southeastern Victorian countryside. Jim leant back and gazed up at the heights of the ...
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• The Tiger

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  The dingo pack crawled along on their bellies, inching toward the flock of Merino sheep a hundred metres away from where they lay in the long grass.   Like the Huskies, which facially they resembled, the dingoes were distantly related to the wolf, and had a savage disposition.   However, they were tame compared to ...
  1 week ago

• Damn you and your pricey prices, Lincraft

  
  All Toile And No Reward — Authority: 119
  Yawn ...... stretch ...I am so tired today! Yesterdays market totally rocked and I am exhaustipated as a consequence. And ok, I admit it might also have something to do with the extreeeeeeemely late night on Saturday night, and the extreeeeeeemely early wake-up this morning, which has resulted in me losing almost a ...
  1 week ago

• The Yowies

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  “Watch out for potholes!” cried Kim Monroe thumping the top of the cabin of the Land-Rover with one hand to catch the driver’s attention. “You watch out for them!” shouted back Don Blythe.   “You’re the one working the spotlight.   If you don’t pick up the potholes, how am I supposed to see them ...
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• Nasi Kerabu

  
  Stomachs on legs are proud to present — Authority: 123
  Last weekend I hosted my friend Amritas birthday party. Just eight people, seafood and drinks. Amrita bought the centre piece of the party Nasi Kerabu Despite her partners comments that it looked like a Bangladeshi flood, full of rice, sticks, leaves and fish, it was not at all a disaster. Nevertheless we all ...
  1 week ago

• A blast from my sewing past

  
  All Toile And No Reward — Authority: 119
  Tomorrow marks the first of my markets in November - I have five of them in the next three weeks! I have new doorstops ready to go, Ive whipped up new pencil rolls, new Hoots abound, Ive made new cushions - and just as well, because I have to leave the house RIGHT NOW to go out, and I wont be back until late tonight, ...
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• Colleen Bennett Meets Heinrich Himmler

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  “It’s like feeding time at the zoo,” thought Colleen as she watched the seething mass of men and women pushing and jostling for a place near the front of the counter. “For God’s sake stop pushing me in the back!” shouted an old man at the front of the crowd.   As he turned to yell at the people behind ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rosemary & Brian

  
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  Norma Smith held the first washed plate out to Jack and said, “Well, don’t just stand there, Collie and Rosie should be here any minute now.” “I thought Collie said she wasn’t going?” asked Jack, wiping the plate dry, and then placing it in the cupboard above the sink. “That’s what she said ...
  2 weeks ago

• Electra’s See Food Diet

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
  In seven chairs along the back wall sat Electra, Beth, Joanne, Jamie, Wilma Mayron, Rosemary Bennett, and Pauline Smith.   Kevin sat at the end of the table, near his wife, Jon and his oldest daughter, Lindsay, sat together with their backs toward the serving counter, facing the seven women, Norma sat down at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nasty, Brutish and Short.

  
  Tetherd Cow Ahead — Authority: 116
  If you’ve ever spent any time in Australia over Summer, you will have heard the unmistakeable shrill chirruping of cicadas . These noise from these insects can be so deafening that I’ve known Summer events to be forced to retreat indoors in order to escape from the ear-crushing sound pressure. But they don’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Australia

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 560
  It’s been a couple of weeks since Ken Henry’s speech at QUT kicked off something of a debate about Australia’s future population. Henry – noting carefully that he was speaking only for himself, not Treasury – raised concerns about the effects of projections of a population increase to 35 million people by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Melanie and Dano

  
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  Melanie Sorczak and Daniel “Dano” James worked together in a Victorian Government department for more than a decade.   Although they were co-workers, they could certainly never be described as friends. Dano was the office larrikin.   Having somehow survived the six-month probation period (during which he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Farquhar and His Flowers

  
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  Wilfred Farquhar had always been obsessed with flowers.   Even as a child in England, while other boys were off playing cricket or soccer or rugby, young Wilf would be helping out around the school’s extensive gardens.   (Which were maintained by the Horticulture tutor, Leonard Sherlock, and any boys not ...
  3 weeks ago

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