If your fate is to be one of those anonymous grey workers wending a tired way to work five days out of every seven in one of the sprawling metropolises, then it really does pay to be a public servant according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics – around an average $127 more each week in fact or $130 in seasonally adjusted figures. Bet there are nicer bickies in the tearoom too!
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The National Library of Australia goes from strength to strength with the acquisition of the Ffoulkes Family Collection.
This historically unique pencil sketch by Thomas John Domville Taylor depicts 11 squatters firing on a group of 25 Indigenous people (including women with very small children) of whom three appear to have been shot.
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Most people don't choose to be gay; although sadly, it has become somewhat trendy for straight women to indulge in lesbian sex, which I'm sure annoys genuine lesbians who fight hard for acceptance.
The Daily Examiner is once more in danger of becoming a newspaper to avoid if one is likely to break out in a rash when reading this sort of nonsense.
UPDATE:
At 3.56pm on 22 November 2010 I received an email from the risible Mr. Orams objecting to my use of a particular word in the "Orams Returns! (groan)" post seen above and threatening legal action if I did not remove this legitimate descriptive term found in English language dictionaries.
After I finished laughing uproariously I decided in this particular instance to oblige Mr. Orams, as he stated in the same email that he found being called 'opinionated', 'a jerk', acceptable.
Consequently I have replaced the original word with Mr. Orams' approved terms.
His additional emailed comments on his "dislike of radical feminism", the fact that he is "always extremely well-liked by women wherever I work" and his belief that he "may be many things but a misogynist is not one of them" I leave unaddressed.
