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WolfmanOz at the Movies #5
“Bond. James Bond” And with those 3 words spoken after 8 minutes into Dr. No, a cultural and movie icon was born, 60 years ago ! Initially created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953 in which the American singer Hoagy Carmichael was Fleming’s vision of the character. But when the first Bond film Dr. No…
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To Boosters and Beyond
It was reported today in NSW that thirty-two people had died with covid in the previous 24 hours. Five of those who died had received two jabs plus a booster. That’s 16 percent. Less than the 28 percent of adults who’ve received a booster in NSW. That gap seemed to instil cavalier confidence in CHO…
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Meme of the Day #10
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We’re all in this together
Over the last two years, despite being assured by our Prime Minister Scott Morrison that “we’re all in this together”, the plain truth is that we are not and have never been “all in this together”. The facts are that all those tyrannical Covid rules and regulations have been applied selectively and specifically, the application…
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Open Thread – Mon 17 Jan 2022
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Scott Morrison’s fig leaf
On Friday in the Federal Court of Australia, and after CoB, the Minister for Immigration, the Hon. Alex Hawke, cancelled Novak Djokovic’s Visa for a second time after the defending Australian Open Champion had earlier in the week won his case against the Government cancellation of his Visa for denial of procedural fairness.
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Keep it real
A friend just went through a rough trot with the virus and she posted this up Facebook. Years ago, she came here as a 20yo from Bosnia without a word of English and I’ll wager she was on my father’s bus out of Portsea when she did. The size of her intellect and wit is…
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Meme of the Day #9
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Federal Bureau of Insurrection
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Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022