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A Whiff of Jolliffe
Eric Jolliffe (1907 – 2001) – Australian cartoonist and Spearfisher. PARLIAMENT would work better if shifted to Bungendore show-ground. This is the conviction of Eric Jolliffe, the nation’s...
Word Of The Day #4
Kirked Stems from the noun ‘kirk’ which originally meant the Church Of Scotland. Presumably the article above refers to old Scottish superstitions and, in this...
Dame Slap
ASSAULT & HOSTAGES IN THE ENCHANTED WOOD Excerpts from ‘The Enchanted Wood’ by Enid Blyton….. Let’s hope Dame Slap doesn’t catch sight of us! Every one looked...
Bunter
The Story Of Billy Bunter Billy Bunter, dubbed by his companions at Greyfriars School ‘the Fat Owl of the Remove,’ but introduced by himself as...
Nerdy Purdy
As a youngster Cecil John Seddon Purdy moved with his family from Egypt to New Zealand, then to Tasmania, Australia, before they settled in Sydney...
Heed Rashid
Despite playing and studying chess intermittently for 40 years, I only recently learned of the dashing, brilliant play of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov. Say that a...
Comical Cleansing
MOVE TO CENSOR COMICS Two resolutions designed to protect the housewife and mother were passed at the biennial conference of the Australian National Council of Women, which...
Archie
With the 2018 Archibald Art Prize winner to be announced in a few days time, here’s excerpts from an article from 1952 about the man...
Set Against Him
LONDON, Thursday. — A London divorce court yesterday came up against a new complaint — television cruelty. Robert Scott complained that his wife Jean was...
Only Bluffing
I recently went for a walk with a friend to Kangaroo Bluff battery on the Eastern shore, Hobart. It was built in 1880 following fears...
Bunny Money
Rabbit trapping In The Stoney Rises Trapping is a remunerative occupation, many men being able to make in the season, from March till November, sufficient...