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What's it all about, Alfie?
What’s the quip?: “Never trust a used car salesman or a specialist”. Well, maybe we will have to add meteorologists to the list. Last...
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Mar 106 min read
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100 years on, are we voting in the right way?
It is often said that adaptation is the key to biological survival and evolution. Many sporting codes have clearly taken that advice to...
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Feb 256 min read
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Hey Mr. President, can you spare us a tariff?
Americans had their Presidential and Congressional elections last November. Australia will have its Federal election by the end of May....
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Feb 176 min read
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Will Advent be advantageous?
Christians prepare for the celebration of Christmas during the season of Advent. In an increasingly secular Australia, the faithless...
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Dec 12, 20245 min read
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Is democracy in or out?
Before we know it the summer season of tennis will begin in Australia. Both Djokovic and Kyrgios, along with the World’s No.1 female...
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Dec 5, 20245 min read
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And the nominations and winners keep coming!
Happy Birthday Mr. President! Joe Biden is 82 today. He is busy trying to carve out his lame duck legacy, even strolling away from the...
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Nov 20, 20245 min read
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The winner takes it all!
Get used to hearing much more about Grover Cleveland! Rarely mentioned amongst the pantheon of American Presidents, Cleveland served as...
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Nov 7, 20245 min read
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If the Presidential election were a tennis match...
Imagine a tennis match where two old combatants are preparing to recontest the final, having contested it four years before. Suddenly,...
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Oct 29, 20244 min read
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Is he more sinned against than sinning? Whatever one's view, Sinner is winning!
So, the world keeps producing its jolts. The unrelenting reminders of change and mortality. Ethel Kennedy, Robert Kennedy’s widow, dies...
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Oct 14, 20246 min read
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Au revoir Paris, bonjour Flushing Meadow!
It probably is a shock to all other than the most ardent of tennis fans that the US Open starts next Sunday with its qualifying rounds....
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Aug 12, 20246 min read
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Marchons! Oui, Marchons- one week down, one left at the Olympics
Today, 110 years ago, World War One begun. Arguably the defining moment of modern history, the Germans thought they could reach and...
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Aug 4, 20246 min read
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He can bide his time no more...
Well, well, well. The inevitable has occurred. Joe Biden has succumbed to the relentless logic of politics. His party do not believe he...
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Jul 22, 20244 min read
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Wimbledon is on my mind
Does anyone go to work on a Friday anymore? In this post-Covid world the relative absence of foot and car traffic at the end of a...
lydiajulian1
Jun 30, 20246 min read
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From Adelaide to Rome to Paris- the West is still worthy!
Last weekend I was treated to time in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. An underrated city, often overlooked by being in the...
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May 9, 20245 min read
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First in Tasmania, then for the rest of us?
Tasmania is Australia’s smallest and only island State within the Federation. The nation’s smallest State, it is close in the size to...
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Apr 9, 20245 min read
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Prying eyes, camera lies and unclear images
In 1948 George Orwell wrote an ominous novel predicting the destinies of citizens in the post-War world. In the same year photo-finish...
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Mar 24, 20246 min read
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Three double faults can cost a player a game; three double standards can cost all of us
A spoiler warning: the following comments are not designed to offend. Please read in the cause of commentary not controversy. Sometimes...
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Mar 10, 20247 min read
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'It's still the same old story...the fundamental things apply as time goes by' , or do they?
I suspect many would agree that the current world is one where the practice of old certitudes has never been less guaranteed. Be it the...
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Feb 20, 20246 min read
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Davis Cup form is good form as Djokovic is denied!
Reluctant as I am to use contemporary expressions that may not be understood by all, may I begin by offering the following ‘spoiler...
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Jan 27, 20247 min read
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The seeds have been drawn and now 'quartered'- what happens next at the Australian Open?
The Australian Open has six days to run and the openings for Australian success have closed in the Men’s and Women’s draws. Yesterday’s ...
lydiajulian1
Jan 22, 20246 min read
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