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Friend of bats. Occasional scribbler. Cranky crip.
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Could be worse. If Turnbull hadn't put it to rest, he would have been knighted.
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I need a sticker for my shoes: "I bought these before Nike dumped Grace".
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Been meaningless for years.
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Yup. It's why some regional areas have surprisingly high average incomes.
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Because she's young and articulate in a way they'll never be.
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In many countries, Bondi's comments would be considered sub judice contempt.
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What a ghastly dress.
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If it was punk it would be "Siouxsie".
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*circumspect *
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When I was in the APS, we were told to be especially when working with Israeli representatives.
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Dump the whole thing. The people who do good deeds would do it without reward and those in it for the awards don't deserve them. But if we do get rid of them, the VC should be the first to go.
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That's a question for the man who replaced them, but Gough's past answering. I'd say it's because it was way it was always done.
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Jim Hacker: Nobody in their right mind can want honours. They encourage sycophancy, snobbery, jealousy, and it's not fair civil servants shouldn't get them all!
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Been a tradition ever since PMs got a knighthood/companion of the Order of Australia and a Canberra suburb named after them. Some, like Keating, refused.
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For this Aussie it happened when they started giving gongs to athletes who get a gold medal.
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Someone has to do it. Those souls won't free themselves.
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Puts Trump in a tricky position ‐- simply deny it, stay silent or sue for defamation and go through the discovery process.
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Proud member of the Order of Menzies's Eyebrows.
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Well, he never spent much time with his kids.
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Mangling the quote but Mel Brooks said there was nothing wrong with being rich as long as you don't drive a Mercedes past a soup kitchen.
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The deep irony is that Whitlam was part of the right faction
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Too many of them grew up with Hawke and Blair as role models.
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Putting a roof over a sports field takes out an essential wild card. And a great game can be played on a quagmire. Think of the NRL's Provan-Summoms Trophy.
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Somedays it just feels like an ambitious piece of performance art.
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The best people.
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Has Trump ever been hinged?
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Looks like a cross between Liberace and Versailles.
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They can also collapse when the leader dies.
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I've seen both.
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A bit like IMHO. Why would you state an opinion that wasn't honest.
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I doubt Ukraine would have shared the information regardless. The weapons were Ukrainian and didn't fly in any non-combatant's airspace.
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You might say it was inkonsolable.
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Kaiju vindaloo.
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Ukraine makes its own long-range drones. euro-sd.com/2025/04/arti....
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No. Ukraine wouldn't have shared this intelligence with anyone.
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I've heard reports that it eliminated 34% of Russia's bombers capable of launching Cruise missiles.
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He forgot El Jaffa.
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Union bosses won't rock the boat; it may cost them a safe ALP seat or a cushy job on the ACTU.
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I recently found one from the Pontion bar in Sydney. It must be at least 20 years since I'd been. Days later I was in Sydney and amazed to find it was still going
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I don't know. But I watched Malcolm X and it was completely different to Malcolm. I should've watched Malcolm II-IX.
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Sshh. The way things are, the government will try to stop people using their NDIS to go to parties.
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But the book wasn't. The author hated the antiwar sentiment of the TV show.
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But he committed the error of admitting it was a dodge. He wasn't crazy but he wanted the army to think he was crazy. A bit of the old Catch-22.
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*be*
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There should no pardons.
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Or falls out of a window.
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What kind of person gets a Masters in real estate?