Writer, journalist, publicist, musician
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Jun 14
Got to love a good zombie estate. Engineering urban designs can be subject to all sorts of issues and resurrecting the duds can take a bit of time ... like a century or so.
Latest column in the #Geelong Advertiser.
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Jun 2
Not many women can lay claim to being shot at, levitated, crushed, folded into tiny suitcases, pierced and sawn in half, let alone 11,000 times.
Meet the magnificent Moi-Yo Miller.
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May 25
All a bit nihilist, my young bloke tells me.
He's probably right, sadly ...
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May 25
All a bit nihilist, my young bloke tells me.
He's probably right, sadly ...
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Feb 3
Artemis II's Apollo program reprise is nostalgia central. Its music score includes Fly Me to the Moon, Space Oddity, Rocket Man, Walking on the Moon, Bad Moon Rising. Plus TV's Jeannie, Jetsons, Lost in Space, Star Trek. But my head's elsewhere:
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Jan 30
Not every day you manage to get a book published. This one's a corporate showcase of what national developer Villawood Properties gets up to. Lots of stuff. Took a while to pull together ... publuu.com/flip-book/1051543…
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Jan 27
Australia Day and a great Aussie tradition - escaping from gaol. Latest Advertiser column. Throw a lamb chop on the barbie, if it's not a total fire ban where you are!
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Jan 6
Or even tougher, listen to someone you disagree with. Latest column in the @geelongaddy noelmurphy.com.au/.../thrash…
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29 Dec 2025
Gutrot, Gunshot:
Mr Chas Cole, a well-known wine and spirit merchant, of Moorabool-street, was accidentally shot in the left side this afternoon by the discharge of a saloon rifle.
Latest Picture the Past column in the #Geelong Advertiser.
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9 Dec 2025
Tristan de Cunha is about as far away from anywhere as you'll find. And just the kind of place to pursue any sovereign citizen notions you might be harbouring. But don't bet on it ending happily ...
Latest Geelong Advertiser column:
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2 Dec 2025
The Ritz: Boozers, brawlers, prostitutes, proprietors, sinners and saints, naked nymphs. Latest Geelong Advertiser Picture the Past column.
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2 Dec 2025
The Ritz: Boozers, brawlers, prostitutes, proprietors, sinners and saints, naked nymphs. One night, dispensing to the carnal palates of sailors from Southampton to Valparaiso; the next, aldermen and traders anxious about shipping routes, stevedores …
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1 Dec 2025
Played courier one time between this bloke and Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Something about money owing ... pretty ironic really. Sad to see a rock legend depart.
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15 Nov 2025
Heritage rescuer Mick Slocum says historic postal boxes that once numbered in the thousands have been reduced to just 180. And he’s on a mission to help preserve a rare example at Geelong.
See the Geelong Advertiser's coverage below.
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2 Nov 2025
Took the the grain game a while to cotton on to the good sense of the Archimedes screw. Rats, weevils, epidemics, a war and then some ... and the elevator had been invented a century earlier. Talk about dim.
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12 Oct 2025
Set to collapse but will they be able to knock this one over? Breakwater #aqueduct
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5 Oct 2025
Geelong Club members once chilled in a harrumphing fog of stogie fumes paired with brandy snifters, whiskey tumblers, muttonchop and handlebar whiskers, starched collars and bibs. Latest Picture the Past column in the Geelong Advertiser.
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15 Sep 2025
UFOs, Westall sightings, resurrecting the Tassie tiger, 3D time, quantum physics, teleportation, alien prawns, immortality and Mae West ... yeah, that's most of it. Latest Geelong Advertiser column from yours truly.
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25 Aug 2025
An eight-year-old girl emerges from the New Zealand wilderness, collapsing half-starved, covered in blood. And she’s the dead spit of you ...
@HachetteAus' The Vanishing Point by by Zoe Rankin is sharp, clever, menacing and just a little too realistic.
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19 Aug 2025
Lost trades and jobs that AI can't replace.
Latest column with the #GeelongAdvertiser.
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