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Life of Riley: World's best practice
registered as bona fide bludgers, and Australia's indigenous people, who are born into a life of ... existence for the past year a body known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Inordinate Increase of ... Bludgers. Some months ago this body sent out investigative teams to ascertain the level of bludgery ...
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Life of Riley: Deciding
— Decisions. Decisions. By Dave Riley September 2, 1998 331 ...
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Life of Riley: Splash... gurgle
I'm sure, depart like all the others. But the one that is soon to leave us, this year of 1998, was it ... a good year as good years go, do you think? I ask you to take a moment of the little time we have left in ... 1998 to consider its appearance: 1. The temper of the year was too tempestuous. 2. The events of the ...
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Life of Riley: Do you want tax with that?
the footy season is under way, but don't get too carried away. I fear that the introduction of ... a new tax system may be too much excitement for one year. Think of your blood pressure! We can't ... go about your business as you would normally at this time of year. Instead of "Stocktaking ...
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Life of Riley: If not, what?
whether you recognise it or not what we've got here in the way of material pleasures is as good as it ... gets. Yesiree, it won't get any better than this. Enjoy. You may have misgivings. You may be one of ... those who harps on and on about how hard done by you are. Get a life! You're one lucky bastard. ...
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Life of Riley: The pope knows
than a bishop. I mean, popes are like that with God. Your everyday bishop is one of a set, but ... on earth whose job it is to maintain production and oversee quality control of all the world's ... over hire or fire. Got it? Phew! Them popes must be pretty darn sure of themselves. They can afford to ...
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Life of Riley: A message from the sponsor
A message from the sponsor Hang on! Hang on! Let's get a sense of perspective about all this. ... and tired of grubs who break into their homes, steal their cars and anything else that's not ... nailed down. Here, steal and you go to jail, regardless of colour. That's how it should be. No ifs ...
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Life of Riley: A one notion nation
for the right of access to our land. Comrades: everything we hold dear — our way of life, the ... many upturned faces I'm proud of what I am. I'm a sheep, godamit! A ram! A ewe! A hogget! ... a winter's day. I'm a pair of mittens. A baby's blanket. I am I. I am ewe. I am Ovis aries — I am ...
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Life of Riley: Through my own fault
to say many of you can relate to. I'm different, perhaps, because in this matter I'm more ... consequences of my actions dawned on me I, personally, found the guilt overwhelming. In order to seek some ... responsible for debts of such a grand scale? I, on my lonesome, of course, wasn't that wasteful. But me ...
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Life of Riley: Buying back the farm
a life-sized cut-out of Jimmy Barnes saying he eats here every time he is in town. For the kiddies there ... wanted here. We're buying back the farm from the likes of you. Dave Riley October 16, 1996 250 ... She has had several expressions of interest but has been unable to make a sale. This week ...
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Life of Riley: Self-evident truths
down somewhere. The authority of the state is so tarnished that it doesn't impress or intimidate ... a member of the Liberal Party. In the main, we don't demand that sort of moral charisma any more from ... doesn't mean that everything we do is practical common sense. Where's the sense of voting in John ...
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Life of Riley: The wowsers are back
the criminalisation of refugees. Focusing on the real life fellatio (that's cocksucking for ... The wowsers are back Imagine this, if you will. Here's this younger version of me out and ... and it was my want to catch the best of the latest shows. This was Melbourne, 1967, and the occasion ...
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Life of Riley: Next door
To being a particularly nasty situation. Oh. I guess so. Of course you know what those military ... killing of a million or so, I hear. See what I mean. Good riddance. I was glad to see the back of him. Now ... should keep it to themselves. By Dave Riley <dhell@ozemail.com.au> March 1, 2000 395 ...
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Life of Riley: Put One Nation last?
choice guided by the principle of voting for the lesser of two evils. Many is the time I have run with ... fact, I took pride in my ability to approach the topic of who gets citizen Dave's first preference ... advocated principle of putting party C last? It turns my method on its head. Let us just say — for arguments ...
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Life of Riley: Something for nothing
give you — with no scientific training — even a glimpse of my knowledge and achievements in organic ... chemistry. You know me as a politician and leader of the nation. But work that has taken up the best part of ... my life can now come to the fore. Contrary to the views expressed so vocally by the panic merchants ...
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Life of Riley: Figures
to raise with me, via page 17 of the local daily, was that of population. It was his contention that ... around 50,000 per year. I cannot go into all of the figures that graced his article. Suffice to say he ... distanced his views from those of One Nation by emphasising that it was the quantity of migrants, rather ...
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Life of Riley: Ask what you can do for your country
of you is on the threshold of citizenship. And it's about time you learned what that means. If ... — what would you say? Don't think I'm giving out one of the questions in this year's ... exams. Citizenship is too precious and too universal a notion to mark out of 10. Maybe there isn't ...
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Life of Riley: Parliament: a class act
generous salary, travel and electoral allowances) my life's in the toilet. I suspect that instead of ... — as you would expect from a body that can vote in its own wage rises. A few hundred of our fellow ... citizens — members of upper and lower houses nationwide — are doing very nicely thank you. They've ...
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Life of Riley: Winston and Kimbo: just for you!
Winston and Kimbo: just for you! Such has been the massive public response to the announcement of ... the political aspirations of P.M. Winston — ventriloquist's dummy and the future DIY prime ... minister of Australia — that we at campaign headquarters have been inundated with requests from ordinary ...
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Life of Riley: The postmodern condition
The postmodern condition 'Tis a matter of some conjecture in those circles within which I am ... sometimes known to loop, that one must acquaint oneself of all the contemporary theories. That they are ... modern is nowadays not enough. To warrant one's interest, a body of ideas should preferably pass ...