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  • Our ‘smart’ overlords need to get out of the bubble and into the food court

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    Sitting butt naked on a sunny back porch for a haircut is one of life’s simple pleasures. It’s not for everyone, of course. You need a back porch, for starters, and good fences. And the black nylon hairdressing cape provides an element of modesty. My wife cuts my hair. The style has remained unchanged for…

  • The crap gift that keeps on giving

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    A naughty secret hides in the broom closets of even our most God-fearing households. It’s the Shit Gift Box. Pardon the French. The SGB, as we shall call it from this point on, is the box where a family squirrels away Christmas gifts they have received that are either too big, small, ugly or useless,…

  • Predicting the result in a vote with no real winners

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    It will soon be all over bar the shouting. By roughly 8pm on Saturday night, ABC election analyst Antony Green will be well placed to call the result of the nation’s first referendum since the failed republic proposition 24 years ago. Most political hard heads already know the result. It won’t be a cliff-hanger. If…

  • Hitting the old mute button on the noisy circus

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    The list of the top 10 inventions that changed the modern world has one glaring omission. No argument about the invention sitting at the top of Britannica’s list – stone-age tools. And little to quibble about most of the encyclopedia’s other picks, including the first successful photograph, the daguerreotype, invented in the 1830s, celluloid as…

  • Conspiracy crackpots fuelling opinion poll denial

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    One of the biggest porkies politicians like to tell has to do with opinion polls. “The only poll that counts is the one on election day,” they’ll intone, when asked why the opinion polls are showing their party in more doo-doo than a Bolivar duck. Don’t believe a word of it. If the only poll…

  • Ignoring the small stuff can kill the big picture

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    G-r-e-e-n Acres is the place for me Farm livin’ is the life for me Land spreadin’ out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside. If you know the tune to Green Acres and can sing the full lyrics off by heart, you were born in the 1950s. The TV sitcom Green…

  • Come on Premier, you’ve got nothing to lose by talking to people

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    In a land that time forgot, nobody had mobile phones, not even Australian Prime Ministers. The first commercially available mobile phone was launched in Australia in 1987. Because of its size and weight, it was dubbed The Brick, ran on the sparse 1G network and retailed for an eye-watering $4250. In that same year, I…

  • Heading off scandal: Why ICAC is taking a close look at lobbying in SA

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    The Commission has long held an interest in the integrity risks involved in lobbying activities directed towards public officers. In many ways, the activities of government, Parliament and the wider public sector are underpinned by citizens informing public officials of their interests and issues. Lobbying of this sort is a necessary part of our democratic…

  • Mali’s Mad Mouse escapade around the city

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    A little bit of Adelaide died when they removed the Mad Mouse from sideshow alley at the Show. Originally developed as the Wild Mouse, or Wilden Maus, in Germany in 1957, the little red rollercoaster was rebadged the Mad Mouse, to save on signage costs, when the operators of Sydney’s Luna Park brought three of…

  • SA media and leaders are demonising a health condition

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    First, do no harm… In health, there is an adage that practitioners should do no harm. I believe that when it comes to health this should also apply to journalists, politicians and those who identify as community leaders. For many years we have seen people with substance use disorders or issues harmed by dehumanising language…