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What your dog really wants to say to you
Dear Mum and Dad, it's your puppy Clancy here, writing from my home in the city. Man and Lady are still fun to live with, although they're often baffled by the simplest of instructions.
Richard Glover is the author of 12 books, including the prize-winning memoir “Flesh Wounds”. He presents “Drive” on 702 ABC Sydney and the comedy program “Thank God It’s Friday” on ABC local radio. For more: www.richardglover.com.au
Dear Mum and Dad, it's your puppy Clancy here, writing from my home in the city. Man and Lady are still fun to live with, although they're often baffled by the simplest of instructions.
Just how long might equal marriage be delayed? How high might be the social costs? How many people might be driven to suicide by the months, years, of divisive debate?
No need for the horn, the middle finger or a brawl; there a simple way to reduce road rage in Sydney.
It was just a harmless huntsman, but it provided definitive proof of what Australians have long suspected.
Machines, I've always thought, are both amazingly brilliant and often spectacularly dumb.
After a decade of electronic self-obsession, it seems we are now deaf to any message that does not pretend to address us individually.
Mum, Dad – it's your puppy Clancy here, with more news from the city. There's finally some farming work on offer.
Can someone explain why they stop selling winter clothes about three weeks into winter?
You don't have to go back too far to find a time before things become disposable.
When the hammer hits the thumb, "oh deary me" just doesn't cut it. Something stronger is called for.
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