Gone are the days when motels and caravan parks were run by Mum & Dad teams who got up early to make breakfasts, stayed up to welcome latecomers, took time off in the middle of the day and still managed to answer the phone if you rang at a reasonable hour.
Nowadays such places are run by big chains whose employees keep strictly 9 to 5 hours onsite and don’t like you ringing them up, even in those rare cases where they actually provide a number to call.
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“I love those ads produced by Meat and Livestock Australia every year that feature Sam Kekovich urging us to get stuck into some good old Aussie lamb.”
No one I know has ever heard of or used the word ‘rizz’, but it’s the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year.
A friend of mine asked me the other day if I knew what the collective noun for wombats […]
Customer satisfaction surveys have become downright inescapable. I waste a huge amount of time doing them as I can never resist when someone asks for my opinion.
[Humphries was] a brilliant comic writer and social satirist, probably Australia’s best ever….[He] had his faults. He was a bit of an intellectual snob; he could be peevish and sarcastic, especially as he grew older, but grumpy old comedians should be allowed to say what they think on important social issues just like everyone else.
Local councils are increasingly afflicted by nervousness and indecisiveness over what to do, if anything, on Australia Day. Annie considers some possibilities, from a suburban heartland that could have formed the setting for a Sam Kekovich lamb commercial.