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Category: Language

Sticky Wickets

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An audio version of this piece was broadcast on ABC Radio Sport some time in the early 2000s. […]

July 30, 2019 Language

ATSI not NAIDOC

It’s NAIDOC Week, and if ever a major cultural event was in dire need of renaming, this is […]

July 10, 2019 Language, Soapbox

Mixed Metaphors

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See that quote above? It contains one of the best mixed metaphors I’ve seen in years.  It was […]

July 2, 2019 Language

Gatesgate

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Have you heard of brussels sprout-gate?  I certainly hadn’t, until I read the other day in a celebrity […]

June 20, 2019 Language

Ode to Tasmania in Winter

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I wrote this not long after leaving Darwin to come and live in Hobart…. The love of palm […]

May 13, 2019 Ditties, Language, Personal memoir, Soapbox

Elocution

Jane Jane made a chain Of daisies for her sister Kate. She stayed out in the hail and […]

May 13, 2019 Language, Personal memoir

Let a Thousand Partners Bloom

A wedding group.
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Since same-sex marriage came in I’ve noticed most of the gay people I know – both men and […]

March 20, 2019 Language, Soapbox

A Barrel of Bollocks

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Okay, what’s the collective word for three or more larks?  If you answered an exaltation, you are to […]

March 18, 2019 Language, Soapbox

I’m Diverse, You’re Not

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I’m sorry, but I have a problem with the new officialese for immigrants.  It’s People from Culturally and […]

February 26, 2019 Language, Soapbox

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