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January 07 Today in History
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Gday... 1799 - Bass and Flinders complete their first circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land. 1912 - Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson reaches and names Commonwealth Bay on the Antarctic continent. 1965 - The first hydrofoil ferry, the MV Manly, begins operating in Sydney Harbour. 1...
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Handy home hints for your perusal
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http://www.viralnova.com/awesome-life-hacks/
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January 06 Today in history
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Gday...1912 - Australias first aircraft crash occurs. Cheers - John
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LOST; WITHIN???
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Unusual Nelson Mandela tribute on Sth Africa's Got Talent.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xhWXzRFks
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"Book Club"
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Who's reading? I have a pile of books waiting for me. 1. Nearly finished Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang 2. Ned Kelly by Peter Fitzsimmons...............loving it 3. The Winter Sea by Di Morrissey .... waiting on the bedside table. 4. Maggie's harvest by Maggie Beer Always wanted to join a book c...
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The last goodbye
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4 wickets in 11 balls
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The whitewash is on, no hope for the Poms now
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RAF Vulcan Aircraft Bomber Raid On The Falklands Islands Airstrip During The Argentinian Occupation
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This will be of interest to those of us who remember the Falklands war in 1982. I wonder how many of you knew the story. I certainly had not heard about it. It took place at the opening of the Falklands war, as a task force sailed towards the Falklands to regain control after the Argentinian invasion an...
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Respect for the Elderly
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My gorgeous Aunty recently celebrated her 90th birthday by taking a hot-air balloon ride in Canberra. She had a ball, said it was the best day of her life. After the balloon ride they all had a champagne breakfast at a posh hotel, and a big fuss was made of her, with birthday cup-cakes for everybody. Tel...
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They are together again
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Well my dads funeral is on friday , 12pm AEDT , (used to saying that with my radio show website) its been such a tough week, emotionally for all of us , don't know how I will handle not having both my folks around now.. Any way the pic I am showing is what we will give out for those who go to the funeral and for a f...
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January 05 - Today in history
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Gday...1778 - George Evans, explorer in the early New South Wales colony, is born. 1819 - English judge John Thomas Bigge is dispatched to inquire into Macquarie's administration in the New South Wales.1891 - Australia's great shearers' strike, which led to the formation of the Labor P...
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Australian English
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Has anyone noticed with sites etc you are asked to choose your language, they have American English and English but nowhere does it say Australian English or simply Australian ? The are some subtle differences between UK English, American English and Australian English and we do have Australian E...
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Unfriendly Towns
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Tomorrow night 6.30pm Melbourne time CH7 TT about the unfriendly GN towns.....both sides of the story!!!!!
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We're Having a Heatwave!
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To everyone who has been through the heatwave as it comes across the country, our thoughts have gone out to you, but now it is SE Qld's turn today, and I am glad that we chose to leave the other side of the Great Divide to come across to the coast. Brisbane apparently expecting a rather high temp., Biggende...
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Santa is coming, maybe
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The American Civil Liberties Union's Christmas poke at the NSA's spying activities on US citizens' phone and internet traffic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pcWlyUu8U4 Maybe a local version should be made for next Christmas, substituting ASIO for the NSA? Joe
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Big day
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Hi guys , what a day, up early and ready and went and saw my father Alan, at the funeral place, I didn't do that with my mother, but I did today. My dad looked really good and they did him justice, better than the last time I saw him. The funeral was really wonderful , for funerals. Also had the last post play...
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Burnt out Motor Home
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http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast-blog/rumour-file-new-year-firebombing/20140102-306m7.html-- Edited by barina on Thursday 2nd of January 2014 06:31:12 PM
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January 04 - Today in history
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Gday... 1688 - English sea explorer William Dampier first lands on Australian soil. 1810 - Governor Lachlan Macquarie takes strong action to restore order following the deposition of Governor Bligh in the Rum Rebellion. 1967 - Donald Campbell, the man who broke the land and water spee...
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WOMEN DRIVERS
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This morning on the motorway, I looked over to my right and there was a Woman in a brand new VW Golf !! Doing 75Mph With her face up next to her rear view mirror Putting on her eyeliner! I looked away For a couple seconds And when I looked back she was Halfway over in my lane, Still working on that m...
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