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Life of Riley: Nothing but air
like Peter Costello — visionary, federal treasurer, master of the airwaves (especially now that John ... without being particularly aware of the goings on, blow it out, usually the way it came in. That's ... who would have thought that there was money to be made selling off a piece of the action? You better ...
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Life of Riley: Through my own fault
and a few million others like me can do a whole lot of damage when we throw caution to the wind. And ... to say many of you can relate to. I'm different, perhaps, because in this matter I'm more ... consequences of my actions dawned on me I, personally, found the guilt overwhelming. In order to seek some ...
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Life of Riley: Parliament: a class act
not. Even when I don't like them (which is most of the time) and mean to say no, I'm not ... — as you would expect from a body that can vote in its own wage rises. A few hundred of our fellow ... citizens — members of upper and lower houses nationwide — are doing very nicely thank you. They've ...
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Life of Riley: Stranger danger
all. But sometimes, I wish I had a friend as pure of heart and as clean of body as I am. By Dave Riley ... Stranger danger You're not to know, are you? I could have shaken hands with one of them or ... of strangers. You don't have to be Havelock Ellis or Krafft-Ebing to know what devilish deeds ...
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Life of Riley: My holiday
a cab, but you know what the Kennetts are like: can't do enough for you. Anyway, it was a thrill to ... see her again. She's still the same old Fliss — only now, of course, she's Victoria's ... first lady. With Jeff now an exhibit at Madame Tussaud's, Fliss reckons if she ever gets sick of ...
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Life of Riley: The chickens have come home to roost
name a few names off the top of my head (and its not being a tittle-tattle to point the finger like ... this): the ALP and the Coalition spring readily to mind as likely culprits. So in the mind of Joe Blow ... The chickens have come home to roost While not normally inclined to defer to the other side of the ...
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Life of Riley: Keeping us safe from marauding queue jumpers
of the water. By Dave Riley <dhell@ozemail.com.au> January 19, 2000 389 ... partner and sprogs. Made all the right moves and spent the preceding period stretched out like a lizard ... drinking. On a beach no less. Happy little vegemites doing our all to catch the rays of the sun through our ...
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Life of Riley: Have gun, will travel
way you would hire a carpenter to fix a fence — to return order and good government to the island of ... a profit. Of course we do. War is not a Sunday picnic. People get hurt. No pain, no gain, I always say. You ... out on the off chance it may come in use some day. That's not good economics. A company like ours ...
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Life of Riley: Unloved
Sometimes I'm sick to my stomach when I think of it. Then late at night I feel so low it becomes too ... a general, lost in self-pity. (Here I go again. Out come the tears. Sniff. Sniff.) It's times like these ... that you really value the companionship of friends and family. I know I'm not the best company in ...
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Life of Riley: And I should know
time when you're feeling more like it?" Be damned! What a load of old codswallop! That's ... recognise is that we're not talking about the unemployed so much but the unemployable — a bunch of ... illiterate bums (pardon my French). And there's a world of difference. Facts are hard things. And facing ...
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Life of Riley: How about terminations for telephones?
sir. And a gentleman like yourself — wise to the ways of the world of commerce — will realise that ... that's all I can do. Such a pity really. A capital piece like that and my hands are tied. But I'll ... word, eh? Think of it, sir: terminations for telephones! And me (snaps fingers) that close! So you see, ...
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Life of Riley
Graffiti of the Left My train route into the city is dressed in graffiti. Each time I travel still ... more paint seems to be spreading weed-like along this gallery. Each week the scene changes as anonymous ... Is this the work of aliens? What are they trying to tell us? If I were to reproduce a kilometre of ...
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Life of Riley
commercially harvested. Nowadays, instead of eating them, we are more likely to be wearing them as it takes ... around a dozen rabbit pelts to make a felt hat like my Akubra. Many of my relatives gave up on rabbit ... Confessions of a rabbit fancier You may dote on cats (for reasons best known to yourself) or ...
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Life of Riley
Life of Riley Batman His legends are many. The real truth about him we may never know except that ... of Batman. (Or was it: "... to serve the good people as Batman"?) "I would like to ... time in Mt Isa. Sorry, but I didn't like either of these stories." B.B., Alphington. So when ...
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The life of Riley: When George lit up
The life of Riley: When George lit up George Orwell once told me: "One sometimes gets the ... work — when I've got work to go to, that is — there's more of the same. Honestly George, like ... feminist". "Hang on George", I said, "that's a bit of an exaggeration". But he was ...
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Life of Riley
Riley in the journal's list of Australia's 200 richest. None of my relatives nor kin by ... just simply wasn't meant to be. Maybe for the likes of me, life wasn't meant to be greedy. ... related to any of the 775,000 people in this country who earn more than $100,000 per year (and if ...
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Rob Riley, a life lived in the cause of liberation
Press, 2006 374 pages, $39.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Rob Riley was a major leader of Aboriginal Australia ... is an important source for understanding the power of those struggles. Riley's life was ... fact that Riley is being honoured so much 10 years after his tragic death is a small measure of his ...
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Life of Riley: DOGS
DOGS I'd like to apologise to all you young people out there for my previous dose of ... the hands of a succession of nuns and brothers, young Dave was taught to believe the most outlandish ... things in the name of a religious education. That my parents thought that the syllabus was kosher is ...
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Life of Riley: Life's a beach in Haiti
By Dave Riley Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you ... doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better ... fine. Just to sit on a deck chair and look out to sea enjoying the fruits of democracy. Haiti was the ...
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Life of Riley
care who you sit with. This place is really special like that. That sounds a bit toffy. No, it's ... not like that, but you have to sit with your kind. It's all very cosmopolitan but you ... mouth off about the other patrons. They call them a bunch of this or a bunch of that; after a time you ...
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Life of Riley: You can bet on it
he will always be ahead. When you look at your chances of a significant win, you are more likely to ... me is that of the mature age gambler, like my own dear grey-haired, 77-year-old Aunt Maude. Why ... a gambling problem? In terms of ockerism, perhaps you could dismiss it with references to two-up or the ...
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Life of Riley: Bioencephalopathy: A manual for sufferers
front part of my head lives something of which I am truly proud — my consciousness. Despite my penchant ... for eccentricity and the occasional burst of tomfoolery, it is my considered opinion — supported by ... them, are under attack from without. I am surrounded by blathering chatterboxes and I cannot get out of ...
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Life of Riley: When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock
clearly. March 1983 was like the old days all over again. Bobby led the band back to the top of the charts. ... When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock By Dave Riley There he was on stage, gigging away after Jimmy ... classic riffs. Mister Seventy-Four Per Cent had them eating out of his hand. Rip it out Bobby! That was ...
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Life of Riley: G'day
a bit of cultural this or that from the local tribes. People have come to expect it. It's like ... Australia prefers a boong any day of the week. And when you've got it, you flaunt it! BY DAVE RILEY ... referred to locally as a professional knocker. That doesn't make me proud — it is merely part of my ...
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Life of Riley: Who's ruling who?
final. Now we're getting to the nitty gritty. It's like the changing of the guard. "Sorry ... Who's ruling who? By Dave Riley Perhaps you have wondered what separates the major political ... someone more hopeful. Perhaps, at the end of polling day, they're both the same. It's not ...