Category Archives: Voice

What Grub Is That?

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

It’s over 10 cm long and 1 cm diameter. The pointy end is the head. Three pairs of legs at the front; maybe more further down but I don’t know. I think it came from a hole in the ground. … Continue reading →

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Qanda and The Melbourne Writers Festival – “Grubbiness is Part of the Human Condition”

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

The panel for this special Melbourne Writers Festival edition of Q&A consisted of some of the attending writers. I’ve listed their works that were mentioned. I hadn’t read any but didn’t find that a barrier to following the discussion. All … Continue reading →

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Qanda Rides Again – Obama was a Muslim

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

Doug Cameron. Labor Senator and ex trade union official. Daniel Pipes. Conservative American political commentator. Hanifa Deen. Pakistani-Australian author. Nick Minchin. Former Liberal Minister. Suelette Dreyfus. Whistle-blowing researcher and Wikileaks co-authour. By popular demand I present my final Q&A commentary. … Continue reading →

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More Qanda Musings

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

If you are lovely click here. Uncouth People (You Know Who You Are) Section Panellists: Several Loathe as I am to inject myself into a review, I feel compelled to commence this section with an apology. Comments on my first … Continue reading →

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Qanda Musings

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

Panellists: Tom Switzer. Conservative (right) editor. Mark Dreyfus. Labor politician. Noni Hazlehurst. Labor supporter and ex Playschool presenter. Kelly O’Dwyer. Liberal politican. Graeme Richardson. Anti-Liberal (Labor?) political commentator and ex political operator in the Labor Party. Wow! Are good looking … Continue reading →

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On Your Feet

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Here’s some new old music for you, Warrigal. A couple of upbeat traditional jazz tracks taken from an old 78 of the University Jazz Four, with my father on clarinet. I believe it was recorded at the 1952 Melbourne Jazz … Continue reading →

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Disaster Victims in Japan Try To Survive

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

Extract from Le Figaro. Its reporting is an order of magnitude better than anything I’ve read in the local press, and Google translate just isn’t up to it. Sharing it might be my little personal debriefing strategy. Disaster Victims Try … Continue reading →

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A Rescued Garden

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

I will never, ever, neglect my garden again. I mean it. Just as I meant that I would never, ever neglect my fitness, health, house, family, social life, financial organisation, or professional development. It’s just, how do you do it … Continue reading →

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My View of Vivid Sydney* – Fire Water by Voice

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

It had been billed as “a stunning re-creation of the fire that devastated the 19th-century convict ship the Three Bees sending its cannon balls blazing across the harbour”. Loudspeakers project music as we arrive, soprano vocals and a didgeridoo accompanying … Continue reading →

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ABC of Cricket – the Voice from the Hill

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

by Voice As a young woman, the realization that in order to prosper in the workforce I needed to be able to talk about cricket came as a huge relief. If you knew the extent of my lack of interest … Continue reading →

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