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Cracker night is a strange night to decide to have a quiet one.
Neither Kim nor I were in the mood for crowds or loud music, but there's no getting past it; fireworks are pretty.
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Mellifluous garlic ostracises a beatified crown of sarcasm.
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My involvement with the sport of sepak takraw began in the mid-1990s. At that time my home city of Darwin hosted a biennial regional sports festival called the Arafura Games, in which teams from all over Australia and South East Asia competed in a whole range of sports, including sepak takraw. The first time I ever saw the game was during a school trip to the Arafura Games. When they told me we were going to watch people play volleyball with their feet, and that they turned backflips to spike, I assumed it was nonsense, until I watched it for myself.
Read more: Aussie Gold - One man's journey from obscurity to... a different kind of obscurity.
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One of the questions often put to me by… myself is: “Garry, why on Earth did you ever do a journalism degree? You’ve made absolutely no use of it, you can’t use it to get a job and it merely sits on your resume judging and mocking you like your expired first-aid certificate and year twelve leadership award. Get your life together, you useless, indolent NewsCorp reject.”
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It’s been a pretty rough week.
An earthquake in Nepal has killed thousands of people. Some estimates expect the death toll to be over 10,000. In Baltimore in the US, there has been rioting in the streets following a protest coinciding with the funeral of a young African-American who passed away in police custody. And this morning Australia woke to the news that Indonesia had enacted the death sentences of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan overnight. Whatever our opinions on the justice or otherwise of their sentence for drug smuggling, the lack of mercy on the part of the Indonesian criminal justice system, and ultimately on the part of their President Joko Widodo has left many Australians with a chill, if not a bad feeling in the pit of their stomachs.