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You want to know what’s the best industry to get into in China?

Air-conditioning …

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larry's surf report

larry's surf report

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Guess who

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Andy Cochrane, RIP.

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A link to the past

If you have a closer look at the bench against the club wall here you might think it’s the same one where one of the greatest surfers of the longboard era sat and sunned himself over sixty years ago. He’s long gone now and rarely remembered but for a few who were youngsters when this bloke was in his prime but now are themselves pushing 80. It doesn’t hurt to look back from time to time and call…

A link to the past

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Ben Roberts- Smith

If a soldier shoots an enemy in the back after the enemy has dropped his weapon and run away .. is it murder?

Ben Roberts- Smith

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Today - Wedding Cake Island (pic from SMH)

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Scoring the job.

Sitting in the outer office watching a procession of hopefuls walk and walk out of the Chief Accountant’s office at a bewildering frequency. A man had to ask himself what the problem was. The accounting job looked good, the advertised pay was generous, the business’s product – ocean racing yachts – looked most interesting. My turn came up so after knocking entered the CA’s office. There was no…

Scoring the job.

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Addiction

A man has to write. And being one so I must. But slowly now.  

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looking back at Kurungabba

Happened to find this today, thought some old-timers out there might be interested. https://kurungabaa.wordpress.com/tag/works-by-peter-bowes/

looking back at Kurungabba

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sustainable

Eddie works the servo counter on weekends, an easy enough job he says, much better than being out in the weather and $27.50 an hour isn’t bad for Ballina these days. Eddie watches the old boy pull in, open his car door, get out and grab the petrol hose. He’s smiling at something over by the wall and when he comes in to pay he asks Eddie if he knows what sustainable means. ‘Buggered if I know,…

sustainable

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How many Jewish children are suffering in Israel ?

Image is of a child in Gaza.

How many Jewish children are suffering in Israel ?

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border protection, doin' it tough

Everyone knows policemen can be dills because everyone knew a dill at school who became a policeman. This is the plain truth. The same applies to the Border Protection officials, worldwide, the people who legitimise your exits and stamp your entries. These people aren’t dills, they come from a different category in the school years. These were the Prefects. To be a Prefect meant, by definition,…

border protection, doin' it tough

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No, bugger it. … Benno was right - a man has to do what he was born to do, write

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Bondi - 16 dead

Bondi - 16 dead

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The Stir

Coming up … THE STIR. Angry stuff.

The Stir

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mussels in the corridor and dinner overboard

Things go wrong in the top hotels all the time, that’s why there are so many buttons on the house phone. Housekeeping, in-room dining, concierge, front desk, valet parking  – and never a manager. How is it that staff in the hotel game can disappear from public sight when they get a promotion. All of a sudden they are working on some invisible floor in the building with no lift number – like the…

mussels in the corridor and dinner overboard