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The life of Riley: The protest meeting
to suggest the depth of our outrage — with illegible signatures! Dave Riley March 1, 1995 177 ... The protest meeting Chairperson: Fellow environmentalists! As you may all be aware, the plight of ... the forests is at a critical stage. These facts will reverberate, if anywhere, then in the hearts of ...
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Life of Riley: Gareth is coming
to endorse contemporary doers of good deeds. If the blessed Mary MacKillop were alive today, ... especially on the shoulders of Senator Gareth Evans. And what a compassionate soul this man is! As a man of ... peace he spreads the Aussie gospel of love. To the Khmer his message was clear: put down the gun and ...
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Life of Riley: Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly Users' Guide
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly Users' Guide Dave Riley I want to explain all about Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly so ... regular. Anyone can bring out a newspaper — and anyone has, come to think of it — perhaps not for very long ... and perhaps not for all the right reasons, but the news has a canny way of running into print. If ...
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Life of Riley: The swagman cometh
The swagman cometh By Dave Riley Maybe you are fed up with the city and its teeming peoples. Their ... scent of eucalyptus and dung fill the air and the rhythm of an old work enters your soul. Camped by ... a billabong under the shade of a spreading coolabah tree, you sing as you wait for your billy to boil, ...
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Life of Riley: When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock
When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock By Dave Riley There he was on stage, gigging away after Jimmy ... classic riffs. Mister Seventy-Four Per Cent had them eating out of his hand. Rip it out Bobby! That was ... budget strike of '69 or the gig on the Parliament House steps six years later. He had it. Even when ...
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Life of Riley: Politics for beginners
Politics for beginners By Dave Riley The way Graham Richardson calls it, politics is a mug's ... game. With sharks like Richo at large maybe it is best to stay out of the water altogether. "Be ... to my underpants. Worn on the head they can be especially vehement. I also possess a range of ...
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The Life of Riley: STR*KE!
don't tell my mum. The word is — I have to use it and be done with it. I'm sick of bottling it up ... it. But that's the word: strike. Maybe some of you are thinking: what's he on about ... even get to keep your job. The ACTU originally planned to mark this new age of politeness by changing ...
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Life of Riley: Party preferred
Party preferred By Dave Riley @column = They've gone and done something they're not ... supposed to do. They were warned. They knew the consequences. But the people of Queensland got carried away ... work? @column = But try telling that to a bunch of banana benders. Once the locals are given a pencil ...
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Life of Riley: Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island
Depression hits Robinson Crusoe's island By Dave Riley "Friday", said Robinson ... you know there's a big surplus of last year's crop. I don't need you to plant another ... that." "That's all right, provided you don't use any of my trees for the canoe, or build ...
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Life of Riley
thought of sitting in the same room as the rest of them. "I realise now, looking back, that I was ... sorry for you. For years you have carried the can and shouldered the task of remaking this country. And ... there's been hardly a day's rest for that party team of yours. And now, after all that work and ...
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Life of Riley: Time and motion
Time and motion By Dave Riley I'll tell you what enterprise bargaining is about — consensus. ... one of us on the line felt the need — "Excuse me, may I?" — we had to wait until a set time ... with your pants down. To make this schedule work, some form of device had to be used. A button on the ...
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Perception of Life
From dream to reality that's the prison life You sleep and dream to awake and find reality ... sins... Shane Riley September 27, 1995 204 Culture ...
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Life's a beach
home straightaway. Truly I would. When your life's a beach, you've gotta make the best of it. ... I haven't let the Pacific Ocean out of my sight for so much as a moment — but it is bigger than you led me ... and sand. If it weren't for the fact that I'm paid up to the end of the week, I'd come ...
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Street life in Brisbane
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges ... of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police ... Force. Regardless of the recent headings in the local Courier-Mail, crime in Queensland has not increased ...
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Is there life after work?
the working life, the time spent travelling to and from work, the intensification of the effort ... multitude of demands made on our time and the uncertainties of our daily life we have lost the ability to ... life in the '90s. The quality of life after work is much more than a technical fix. While we ...
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Joys for the sedentary naturalist
The Trials of Life Channel 2 The Life Revolution SBS Reviewed by Dave Riley When someone allocates ... latest offering on the ins and outs of living is The Trials of Life. Whereas Life on Earth was ... life. Herein lies the trap. In its broad sweep, comparing one creature's home life to that of ...
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Of hermaphrodite squids and Chartists
unending interplay of species. This is simply not true. Darwinian life on earth is a succession of ... Darwin By Adrian Desmond and James Moore Penguin. 808 pp, $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley How could ... a wealthy, respectable gentleman of impeccable lineage and reclusive tastes claim in the 1830s that humans ...
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The ecology of indigenous peoples
$19.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley Human history is part of natural history. Human beings arose via their ... is found wanting. Barely does it comprehend the interconnectedness of life. Writers like David Suzuki ... peoples, Knudtson and Suzuki argue that while the dimension of the interconnectedness of all life may have ...
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In praise of cookery books
By Dave Riley Hunger is a craving that demands gratification. For the infant, what we call hunger ... begins with diffuse discomfort which slowly, through the nurture of others, attains some meaning as ... a circuit of pain gratified by food. However, this process is saturated with cultural meaning. Each society ...
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Stand-up comic of the revolution
Riley Over 20 years ago in our shared, boldly political household, we took our icons seriously. To live ... the revolution in those days, we made sure that a portrait of Malcolm X was featured in the lounge ... room. Among the other images on our four walls, that of Lenny Bruce seemed just as relevant to our ...