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Tag: Australia

  • Darwin and the Aborigines

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    Tim Smith
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    What you have to understand is that Darwin, unlike the majority of Australia, has a very visible Indigenous Australian population.  I once had a conversation in a pub in Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, during which I was threatened with a beating and told that the indigenous people were happier and better off…

  • Bad Bait

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    Tim Smith
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    I lived in Australia for a decade. One thing I loved was to go out with my mate, Rob, to fish outside the Heads of Sydney in his boat. One day, Rob left some bait in his car in the heat… 1 It’s 5:37 in the New South Wales morning. Rob and I are ready…

  • Removal Man Conversation

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    Tim Smith
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    Getting around.Seeing the place.The lost world.Scavenging.Removing the detritus.Posing the question. Tall, cool stranger.Eating an orange.Cleaning the peel for later use. Dust free environment.A corroded relationship.Closest to home. Removal man strikes conversation.In a cloudless sky.Pausing for detail.Breathless hard labour.Approval of debits. A tall bruising stranger.Playing piano with zest.Over the haystack.Beaten with broomsticks.Falling in fever.Collecting the debts.Left…

  • The Fat Man

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    Noel Murphy
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    Then he stripped to red-ochre painted nakedness and drank a bottle of gin to wash down a rattle of amphetamines.