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To serve or not to serve, that is the question
Received a letter from the NSW government dated May 30, informing me that I had been included on the jury roll from June 2024 to June 2025. In a subsequent, hard-on-the-heels, letter dated June 4, I was told that I had been randomly selected for jury duty for a trial of 12 weeks in estimated…
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Guest Post: Peter Greagg visits the Australian War Memorial
Military minded Cats may be interested to hear I was at the War Memorial the other day in Canberra. A volunteer guide told me that an aboriginal man couldn’t enlist in the AIF in 1914 because of his ‘race’. I told him that I thought that was unlikely. I noted that aboriginal men (and women)…
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Florence’s Futile Burrowing
I see that the Snowy 2.0 giant boring machine Florence, weighing 2400 tonnes and measuring 143 metres in length and 11 metres in diameter, is stuck again. It was stuck in soft ground between October 2022 and December 2023. It is now stuck in hard ground. Goldilocks-like, the machine only thrives in ground which is…
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Without “doxing” myself, eons ago I worked at picturesque place called Victorian Parliament (it truly is a beautiful building, regardless…
New dude who sits next to me (not in my team) is a very devout Muesli. He heads off to…
And from ours. Getting in under the wire.
nukes of course. nuke the living shit of the coastal cities
Took my four kids there when in Vic a few months ago and said “I worked here. That was my…