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Tomic outburst reveals professional sport's awful truth
Ahem. This meeting of the Bernard Tomic Appreciation Society is now called to order.
Garry Linnell is a Fairfax Media columnist and the co-presenter of the 2UE Breakfast Show.
Ahem. This meeting of the Bernard Tomic Appreciation Society is now called to order.
Amid the heat, the noise and heaving mass of humanity, we wondered, could we pull this off?
I smacked my daughter once. Only once. She was nine years old and the princess had turned into an evil queen, sitting on the couch, obstinately refusing to do what she'd been asked. Like all kids, she knew which buttons to press, and in what order. But she'd never pressed them all at once before. So she gave it a go.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos claims the introduction of robots to replace checkout staff at Whole Foods will be a world first, but every consumer in Australia knows that replacing staff in stores and restaurants with robots began here years ago.
If people plead ignorance that stuffing more food into their mouths and doing less exercise leads to weight gain, then what hope?
If the meek really do end up inheriting the earth then Australia is sure to become the world's greatest superpower.
Big religions that long ago lost their Christian spirit certainly don't deserve our dough.
We were robbed last weekend and it's going to take a long time for the anger to soften. Of course, we are not the only ones to have been shaken down and had our money stolen. But that bitter sense of outrage and betrayal remains strong.
The word that always meant 'I've got your back' is in danger of becoming a trite cliche.
How to overcome the outrage at such a blatant intrusion, particularly in a place where your family has traditionally been able to escape to, far from the madding crowd?
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