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WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT MARTIN
Some writers don’t just inspire you to write - they inspire you to write about them. And in Martin Amis’s case there must’ve been more published words…
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Journalists should tell you news when it comes to hand, not at a time that suits the subject
AFL journalist Tom Morris broke the story of Richmond Coach Damien Hardwick’s resignation yesterday which created the situation in which a few of the…
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WILL SELF DESTRUCTS
British author Will Self made Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles the subject of one of the most eloquent, yet totally unhinged take-downs in British…
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I FOUGHT AMERICANISMS AND AMERICANISMS WON
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RIP THE MOONEE PONDS MUSE
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IN A FEW HOURS, IT'LL BE A YEAR SINCE DAD DIED
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ADAM ZWAR: ALL KINDS OF GRIEF
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MY BATTLE WITH THE BEACH
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HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE UNDERDONE DIALOGUE
I remember the day I got the confidence to start writing dialogue. I had a friend staying with me at my flat in Brisbane. He was a playwright, who’d…
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A LONG GOODBYE TO THE BIRD
I once had this cool friend. Let’s call him “Twitter”. He introduced me to all the best movies, music, TV and comedy. And he was so funny.
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MAKING POLITICS EVEN FUNNIER
In the first part of this series, I catalogued what I believed to be the funniest quotes said by politicians. But the problem with politicians being…
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NO POINT IN AUSTRALIAN WRITERS EVER GOING ON STRIKE
US writers have been treated like crap ever since legendary studio boss Jack Warner called them “schmucks with typewriters.” “If you’re just a film…
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WIT, ABUSE, MISSPEAKERY, AND DUMBFUCKERY
History's funniest political quotes
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FIVE MOMENTS FROM THAT TIME I SPOKE TO JIMEOIN
Happiness Is Taking Out the Garbage “I can be happy with the simplest of things. Like, if I have to put the bins out and I've got extra rubbish that I…
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IN A FEW HOURS, IT'LL BE A YEAR SINCE DAD DIED
I got the call on Tuesday April 26, 2022, that Dad was going downhill. I wrote down these notes as I was talking to the doctor. Lung infection. Anaemic…
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