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Life of Riley: The August 19th movement
month of this horrible year of repressed discontent, how can I describe my present state? Like some ... your houses are infected with gratuity, so a plague on both of them. Dave Riley October 23, 1996 251 ... The August 19th movement As I write it is all of two months since the doors of parliament ...
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Life of Riley: Two legged eating
like Ms Hanson to decide which breed the industry should be re-established on. Dave Riley email: ... Two legged eating Two legged eating A number of people have asked me to offer a definitive ... adjudication on the vexed question of cannibalism. That, I am pleased to say, is a topic on which I may have ...
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Life of Riley: Identity
message like a revelation: Is the new me to be one of "us" or one of "them"? Sure, ... Identity Identity Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I mean that. I am determined to ... from under the end of the bedclothes. I thought: this is it 鈥 that jumbo digit's trying to tell me ...
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Life of Riley: Mr Pot is alive and well and living in Thredbo
like Pol Pot in the hole, Mt Kosciuszko will no longer be simply viewed as an inordinate amount of ... beneath tons of rubble and amid the nighttime chill, someone could survive. Rescue workers have been ... labouring all day and all night on the side of Australia's highest mountain, hoping to find life among ...
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Life of Riley: Keep up the good work
it through the tried and true method of enterprise growth, profits need to rise by something like ... of Australia will be rootin' for you! By Dave Riley <dhell@ozemail.com.au> November 24, ... that's the point! If we cannot reward entrepreneurial skill with a cash payout at the end of a hard ...
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Life of Riley: Spit the dummy, why don't ya
Spit the dummy, why don't ya Like many of my comrades among the Greenly Left masses, I am ... prone to a wee bit of cynicism every now and then. There's nothing wrong with that. While ideals ... and the passion they engender may claim a fair share of our dreams and waking moments, within the ...
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Life of Riley: Guns and ammo
trigger-happy members of our society have been sent a message: you can shoot, but don't strafe. Australia ... is keen to stay out of the record books, and in future we want our victims assaulted one round (I ... Of course, that's what they're there for. Behind our freedoms stands a body of armed men. ...
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Life of Riley: Little John
John Winston Howard, MHR (Lib) Bennelong: Get a load of that deficit! Phew! What a big 'un! ... "What we have here is a failure of big government". And then I said to him 鈥 and I'll say it ... to you all 鈥 "We will now begin to construct the new order". Just like that! Talk about ...
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Life of Riley: The best police force money can buy
never turn your back on one of them. Dave Riley January 31, 1996 217 ... many activities of daily living I want nothing to do with them. Their thin blue line, mustered to hold ... stuck on the median strip what is the flower of the nation's cophood doing? They're on the ...
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Life of Riley: Who's a naughty boy?
Limits of The Law that it won't do to have a dummy like that running the country. It's bad ... (You hear that Winston? All week!) It may be all right to poke fun at the democratic institutions of ... the Australian Commonwealth of consenting adult states, in the privacy of their own borders, and to ...
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Life of Riley
born. And golly, there were lots of us. To be born after the war made us a lucky bunch of so and sos. ... of know-it-alls, but we were bold and brazen enough, with our commie ways, to make it happen. Talk ... out the CV of the crowd I used to run with and find a deplorable lack of fidelity. Yesterday's ...
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Life of Riley: Murder most foul
to say that Martin didn't have any. In all of the land downunder, no-one would call Martin their ... undone, by reason of the burden that lies hard upon me. You are a child of our bowels yet we must disown ... you as a creature of darkness." And having said many words to that effect and looking sternly ...
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Life of Riley: Is there a God?
Is there a God? Some thinkers 鈥 all locals, all of them conservative, some unruly 鈥 have confessed ... Eminence". The latter name, meaning also "Big on Bull", was also to attract the snappy tag of ... on one big, critical issue. The pope has never denied the existence of the Almighty; indeed he daily ...
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Life of Riley: The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark)
The Little Aussie Battler (reg'd trademark) There is a funny idea abroad (by which I mean, of ... course, in this dry brown land in which we dwell) that there exists a minor figure of such truthful grit ... that every attribute of ordinariness is congealed within their being. This entity, I am led to believe, ...
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Life of Riley
a little hole in the social fabric of society into which you could squeeze. Currently there are fewer ... around. At this very moment, thousands of our fellow citizens are without rather than within. They're ... kids. When you grow up you are going to be unemployed 芒聙聰 definitely, likely or sometimes." Now ...
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Life of Riley: (If It Could) A foetus speaks
(If It Could) A foetus speaks They all take care of me: the church, the state, the doctors and ... You see, we unborn get it good even if we don't know who we are. Come to think of it 鈥 and ... forte and besides I am yet to learn to read or speak and have no idea what my kind looks like. But ...
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Life of Riley: Diabolical forces
hot and so very unusual for this time of year. It's warmish. Warm! Haven't you looked ... outside lately? The countryside is ablaze! There are bushfires from one end of the horizon to the other. ... coals. Slip, slap, slop as much as you like, but it won't be enough. They do say the earth is ...
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Life of Riley: Bump me into parliament
Bump me into parliament Dave Riley How do you reckon I'd go as prime minister? It's ... a thought, isn't it? Instead of the glint from John Howard's glasses, the light at the end of the ... tunnel could be me. Of course, I'd keep doing these columns and tell you all about life in the ...
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Life of Riley: Lest we forget
Lest we forget By Dave Riley I am sick of the bitter, sectarian divisiveness that exists on the ... left in this country. Unlike some of my colleagues, I would like to express my utmost respect for those ... readers of 91自拍论坛 Weekly who plan to renew their membership of the Australian Labor Party. At a time ...
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The life of Riley: The protest meeting
to suggest the depth of our outrage 鈥 with illegible signatures! Dave Riley March 1, 1995 177 ... The protest meeting Chairperson: Fellow environmentalists! As you may all be aware, the plight of ... the forests is at a critical stage. These facts will reverberate, if anywhere, then in the hearts of ...
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Life of Riley: Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island
Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island By Dave Riley "Friday", said Robinson ... you know there's a big surplus of last year's crop. I don't need you to plant another ... that." "That's all right, provided you don't use any of my trees for the canoe, or build ...
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Life of Riley: Time and motion
Time and motion By Dave Riley I'll tell you what enterprise bargaining is about 鈥 consensus. ... one of us on the line felt the need 鈥 "Excuse me, may I?" 鈥 we had to wait until a set time ... a person to fulfil their bodily needs. Put like that, it almost sounded reasonable. Maybe they've ...
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Boots Riley: 'We need you, hurry up!'
like we have a connection to life. I think a revolution would bring a change in the day in the life of ... Books & music Democracy Economy Socialism Workers & unions Gemma Weedall Boots Riley is ... lead singer of US-based hip-hop group The Coup and a radical activist, heavily involved in Occupy ...
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Boots Riley's rhyme and reason
rough, and that you could dance to. So, for instance, I feel like the guitar for 鈥楲and of 7 Billion ... basically a New Orleans march, but the whole thing sounds like funk and rock and soul and all of that put ... Songs like 鈥淭he Guillotine,鈥 one of the album鈥檚 highlights, gleefully proclaim with hand-clapping ...
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Williamson without bite
Life of Riley: The importance of being earnest The difference between the value created by ... a worker and the cost of maintaining him or her is not as constant as the business community would have us ... formula. Is it? I view it as a basic capitalist fact of life. GEORGE: Perhaps it is. But money, you see, ...