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Scraping The Bottom Of The Bottle

Returning home drunk one night, I fell over out the front of my house at 2am and smashed through a table and a landed on half a pot glass....

Tom Middlebrook
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Hand busting work in the quarries

After arriving in Hamilton from Glenthompson on foot (30 miles), I worked at Mensal Bluestone Quarry for several weeks. ...

Mick Skrijel
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Adjusting for Your New Country

It is 40 years since my husband immigrated as a qualified Aeronautical Engineer to Australia from Egypt. However at the time of his immigration aeronautical engineering was not a skill in demand....

Lorraine Penn
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Seven People That Changed My Life

One’s life is in part shaped by people we meet, whether we realize it or not, and in an average lifetime of 25,000 to 30,000 days we will meet a lot of people....

Bill Jarrard
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The Long and Winding Road

Who is worse; Kyle Sandilands or Adrian Bailey, Justin Bieber or Peter Dupas, Todd McKenney or Ivan Milat? I bet everyone would say "the latter" in all those comparisons....

Jackson Clarke
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Pub Toilet Graffiti and the Art of Avoiding Sectarian Violence

Graffiti’s not new. When they weren’t out subjugating barbarians, the Romans festooned their walls with phalluses....

Baz McAlister
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