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		<title>No comment: linked to source</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<title>Piers Akerman versus the 1933 edition of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s ages since I bothered with Mr Akerman, the self-styled conservative who poses as a reasonable commentator in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Today, given my own little dummy spit on Facebook, I thought I would attempt to out-pedant him. My dummy spit? Here: I was not impressed by yesterday&#8217;s circus in Canberra. If that puts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6460&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a good look</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was disturbed by these scenes, in all seriousness. Were you? OK, for the sake of background go to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy website.&#160; Then there are some related readings: Mick Armstrong, &#34;Aliens in their own land&#34; (Socialist Alternative 23 January 2012) Aboriginal Sovereign Treaty &#8217;88 Campaign and also search tent embassy on Australian Institute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6453&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oz Day Surry Hills nostalgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Bennett Street in 2008, part of my everyday round then. I lived there briefly in 1997. And here in 1954: That’s a still from the 1954 very patronising – God weren’t they in those days? – government documentary called School’s Out. You can see it in the previous post. Over the fold there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6450&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is a land where summer skies&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…are gleaming with a thousand dyes… THE SONG OF AUSTRALIA There is a land where summer skies Are gleaming with a thousand dyes, Blending in witching harmonies, in harmonies; And grassy knoll, and forest height, Are flushing in the rosy light, And all above in azure bright - Australia! There is a land where honey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6428&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I saw this yesterday. So who wins the contest of the critics? David Stratton on&#160; At the Movies and in The Oz heaped it with praise and a rare five stars. DAVID: Well, I had no qualms about it whatsoever. It’s an impeccable cast. It’s so beautifully done and I love the way that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6425&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Diggers Club</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/at-the-diggers-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love this place, and even more since Baby Toshiba is here trying out the free Internet. Filed under: personal, photo post, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6414&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very fitting for Australia Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This arrived in the mail this morning. Thanks, Peter Knox (aka Izzy Foreal) and Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite. And speaking of Illawarra, here’s the window view from yesterday and the day before: Filed under: Australia, Australian literature, Australian poetry, friends, other bloggers, personal, photo post, poetry, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6411&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poet Paul&#8211;still at The Bates Motel</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/poet-paulstill-at-the-bates-motel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I’m afraid that is Paul. Bizarre, I know – and what he would think I have some idea. Perhaps his dark Yorkshire humour would cope. This is the last time anything remarkable happened near that tree: Filed under: events, personal, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6399&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta Episode 3&#8211;SBS last night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did watch it, despite the many alternative offerings last night – and I found it informative and ultimately inspiring. The web discussion covers everything from the cretinous upwards – more upwards, thank God. I’m afraid I get increasingly impatient with Hansonite whingers however: This show could have been great but it was let down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6393&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The wonton soup&#8211;Chinese New Year at Steelers</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-wonton-soupchinese-new-year-at-steelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Australia, China, events, food, multiculturalism, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6391&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And in the previous decade I&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/and-in-the-previous-decade-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[… laughed at this. Sunday, February 16, 2003 on Diary-X: Two of the new interests I developed in my twenties were travel (or rather, driving) and photography, both of them you will note a touch solitary, but they gave me a lot of pleasure. Between 1968 and 1978 I had a number of cars, partly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6384&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Populist crud Abbott&#8217;s unworkable asylum seeker policy</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/populist-crud-abbotts-unworkable-asylum-seeker-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/populist-crud-abbotts-unworkable-asylum-seeker-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend in the Navy instantly Facebooked on this: “Idiot. I may have to leave the country if he becomes PM.” A Navy colleague responded: “Is he going to give us more money, more people and more ships to do this???” I can imagine these reactions will be widespread in Navy circles.&#160; You may recall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6379&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t believe the brain snaps Charlie Teo is causing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/i-cant-believe-the-brain-snaps-charlie-teo-is-causing/</link>
		<comments>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/i-cant-believe-the-brain-snaps-charlie-teo-is-causing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, let’s wait and see exactly what he says. Second, I find nothing at all objectionable about what he has said so far. It’s simple. Respect the man because he really does deserve respect and admiration. Listen to what he says and when he says something is the EXPERIENCE of himself and his family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6376&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese are coming&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-chinese-are-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-chinese-are-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on SBS the BBC2 documentary from early last year commenced. Fascinating. Do watch next Wednesday night at 9.30. Travelling across three continents, Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world&#8217;s economic superpower. In the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6365&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music and my life&#8211; 2&#8212; 1945</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/music-and-my-life-2-1945/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See also Music and my life–1 — 1943. But first last night’s sunset here at The Bates Motel. Our Gracie In Melbourne Australia Live on the Wireless 1945 Filed under: memory, music, personal, photo post, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6357&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese interlude</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/chinese-interlude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese New Year is coming up: the first day of the 2012 Chinese New Year is on January 23, 2012 in China&#8217;s time zone. It’s a Dragon year, and I am a Rabbit**. Bit of a bummer, eh! See – and apologies for the commercial tone – but hey, it is Chinese! ** How silly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6351&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cabramatta again, and William Yang</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/cabramatta-again-and-william-yang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was more able to take in the truly excellent Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta on SBS – see Definitely must see–a shame I was not quite up to it, even if the particular episode was depressing in many ways. There is quite a discussion on the SBS site. NGO Canh Phuong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6348&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1952</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/1952/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year I turned 9 and also the year death became a real possibility. My sister Jeanette – 19 March 1940 – 15 January 1952 Quite a year, 1952. It is surprising what detail I actually remember of that January sixty years ago. I distinctly recall the King dying on 6 February as well. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6346&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeanette Heather Whitfield: 1940 &#8211; 1952</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/jeanette-heather-whitfield-1940-1952/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty years on The night was still. The stars and the moon shone brightly on a troubled world. War in Europe; the second time in a quarter of a century. France was again echoing to the sound of German guns and the rest of the world paused waiting–for what? In an Australian city the young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6340&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And I&#8217;ve been reading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/and-ive-been-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…quite a few books. I did finish My Dog Gave Me The Clap (2011) yesterday. And I do recommend it. The author doesn’t look quite as one might expect: that’s him top left. But we are warned: The author swears this isn&#8217;t one of those semi-autobiographical first novels. Although we once heard him say it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6332&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out and about&#8211;doc, library, pho, Yours and Owls</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/out-and-aboutdoc-library-pho-yours-and-owls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down to the doctors. Aside from rotten teeth – waiting on dealing with them – and sore heel, and of course the heart, and other signs of decay, it turns out I am fine. A blood test I had on Monday indicated alcohol consumption. I wondered how that could be – though I do drink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6307&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflective of the 80s and 90s&#8211;others and myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was simply checking the internet for Dr Cassy’s current number – it isn’t there – when I came upon this: “Don’t Leave Me This Way” (from String Quartet). lylechan.com is a radical experiment in truth-telling. Every week over the next 28 months, I will write approximately 6 minutes of music per fortnight and give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6294&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sirdan and Missie the Jack Russell are off to Gympie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the day has come. That’s the destination. Just as well it isn’t this time last year. Gympie, a rural city of about 16,000 people in the Mary River Valley, is 150 km north of central Brisbane. A gold rush from the late 1860s brought rapid growth and grand buildings in what soon proved to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6287&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>William Yang in today&#8217;s Sydney Morning Herald</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice article about William Yang’s new show. On stage and off, Yang is a quiet presence, his manner disarmingly at odds with the material he presents. For he does not resile from tough subjects. Yang is a paradox: a reserved man who has made a career of solo performance, surely the most terrifying theatrical form. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6284&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through my window tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first&#160; is an hour or so ago, the second a few minutes… Mount Kembla Looking south towards Jamberoo Mountain and Macquarie Pass and the range behind Dapto Filed under: Australia, photo post, Wollongong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6278&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Definitely must see&#8211;a shame I was not quite up to it</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/definitely-must-seea-shame-i-was-not-quite-up-to-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got back from Sydney just in time to see Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta on SBS – Episode One. Unfortunately I was a little too tired, dined and wined. But I could tell this is an excellent series – honest, realistic, not always flattering. I had friends who worked at Cabramatta High in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6271&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely Sunday</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/lovely-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Sydney Uniting Church, Waterloo. Our Artist in Residence, Johnny Bell, has been working hard on a set of paintings for his show this month. It’s been a tough year for him and his family – many worries. And yet Johnny paints joyful scenes – couples dancing, people laughing and singing. There’s a reframing here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6265&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music and my life&#8211;1 &#8212; 1943</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/music-and-my-life1-1943/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be misled – I am neither a musician nor a musician’s bootlace. However, all our lives have their soundtracks, and I thought I would start recording mine. I am prompted in part by one of those books from the $5 shop: It is hardly worth complaining about the truth or falsehood of the title. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6255&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So wise, so true</title>
		<link>http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/so-wise-so-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Winton Bates for drawing attention to something that I had posted in passing back in November: “Thanks also for posting Brene Brown’s video “The power of vulnerability” (November 2: New Blog). Her ideas are challenging but her presentation of them is magnificent.”&#160; So here it is again. I have selected from the transcript [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neil2decade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11035248&amp;post=6249&amp;subd=neil2decade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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