Tag: bushfires
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This week: ending March 8
Four stories I was interested in this week. There’s not a lot of light relief – sorry. The picture was taken on the fourth day of this year’s Sydney Test match against South Africa. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Defending Greer
Germaine Greer is a polarising figure – love her or hate her it seems to go. In a post on Saturday, I wrote about how I pretty much agreed with everything that she says (very unusual for me), and reported what she had to say about the recent Victorian Bushfires. A couple of commenters revealed…
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Brendan Sokaluk and the Bushfire – stranger than fiction
When I was a post-graduate student, my supervisor once explained how truth could indeed be stranger than fiction. She said things quite normal or credible in real life would be unbelievable if used in a film or a book. She used an example from her life – in primary school, she had three four girls…
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Germaine Greer lights my fire
Every time I hear or read something of Germaine Greer, I fall a little further in love with her. I know that she has a flair for the sensationalist, and sometimes lacks sensitivity, but to date there’s nothing she’s written or said that I disagree with. While attending a charity event in London, she commented…