6 days ago by bunyanth

. . Michael Leunig ‘Carbon Footprints, War Footprints’ in The Age Newspaper, Friday 11th December 2009 . . “Still, we are at war, and I’m responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill, and some will be killed. And so I come here with an ac ...

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11 days ago by teddybearswednesday

" I search and search and find no dorks I search the whole world through. But not a single dork do I find Except for the dork in you. I can recall when dorks roamed free: As free as the sky was blue, But now the dorks are cool and hip Except for the dork in you. I search and search and find no dorks ...

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15 days ago by poempig

When a poet writes an essay they cannot help themselves. Trapped within the essay are literary jewels, poems of exquisite beauty crafted and polished by the poet’s word-smithing skills. Michael Leunig is a poet so it is not surprising that his essay ‘Sleeping in on Doomsday’ from the Good Weekend, T ...

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24 days ago by Jodi Cleghorn

Saturday morning, amid the cocktail haze from Annie’s 40th birthday party the night before and a rampant summer heat which felt like being wrapped in a hot, wet blanket, the Summer Reading Guide landed on the kitchen table. The first thing I would like to point out about the Summer Reading Guide is ...

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100 days ago by Jo-Anne Berthelsen

I have to admit I’m quite a fan of Michael Leunig’s writings. To my mind, he has a quirky gift of getting to the heart of issues and showing the absurdity of some of our ways of thinking and acting. I particularly love his observation, via the pen of Mr Curly to Vasco Pyjama in ‘The Curly-Pyjama Let ...

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106 days ago by iamlillian

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135 days ago by homepaddock

Monday’s questions were: 1. Who said: “ There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed if he sees them accepted by everyone about him”? 2. What’s a gillie (sometimes written as ghillie)? 3. Which is Italy’s biggest lake? 4. Which sheep breed resulted from crossing Cheviots and ...

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155 days ago by Jason Goroncy

‘I suppose it dates back to an early childhood feeling that people weren’t really saying what they were thinking. I think a lot of children grow up thinking, “Hang on, more is going on here, but people aren’t saying it.” I wanted to know what they really thought, what they were saying to themselves ...

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173 days ago by madeline

By News Online’s Amy Simmons, Thu Jun 25, 2009 Michael Leunig says the tough economic times will plant seeds of change and happiness. (Michael Leunig) // For all the pain and suffering the financial crisis is inflicting, the philosophical among us say there is a plus side – a happier, richer side. A ...

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196 days ago by Jason Goroncy

‘The individual is overwhelmed by the magnitude. We have embraced technology and economic systems that are just unfathomable and massive and all-powerful. I think television is a totally destructive and corrosive medium. People are living lives though television and films and the media rather than t ...

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