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Editorial Team, Author at News Weekly

Editorial Team

Poetry Letters & Humour

(POETRY)*

A RECKONING When a generation startsto tiptoe awayalmost imperceptibly,one misses the presenceof old friends one didn’t seevery often, and that, too,is sad. A reckoning is due. I should have s…
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By Editorial Team / February 22, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(LETTERS)*

JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered…
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By Editorial Team / February 22, 2020
News Weekly

(AS THE WORLD TURNS)*

BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER
The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier.

In its numerous reports o…
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By Editorial Team / February 22, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(POETRY)*

BREAKING UP CAMP (Prophecy in a supermarket) When nations clash at last, what will I do?I’ve never changed a washer or a fuse;I’ll just get caught – like someone on the news &ndash…
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By Editorial Team / February 8, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(LETTERS)*

FALSE SAVIOURS In commenting on the winner of the News Corp Car of the year’ award, chief judge Richard Blackburn said of the Toyota Rav4 Hybrid: “Its’ guilt-free family motoring &n…
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By Editorial Team / February 8, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(POETRY)*

Down There in the Valley Down there in the valley,as long as I can remember,while the hawk circles overthe plover have crieda lament for each child. It has always been so, the parents, long shelteri…
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By Editorial Team / January 25, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(LETTERS)*

JUSTICE DELAYED In the prosecution of George Cardinal Pell, the long process of appeal is now being subject to further prolonged delays. Even our more elite judicial officers are fallible and on some…
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By Editorial Team / January 25, 2020
Poetry Letters & Humour

(POETRY)*

At Christmas  Two women doing dishes in the sink, both downcast, both trying to think, one sighs to herself: she doesn’t look happy, there’s no way she’s going to be tied down,…
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By Editorial Team / December 14, 2019
Poetry Letters & Humour

(LETTERS)*

Thoroughbred deaths I read Colin Teese’s claim, “Today, all over Australia, there are races every day in every state”, on a day when there was one meeting in Victoria and one in New…
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By Editorial Team / December 14, 2019
Poetry Letters & Humour

(POETRY)*

A Cooking Poem
(Suitable for Dominicans)
   I look, and want to ring right out – “There’s nothing like a Brussels sprout!” I trow Saint Thomas did agree: Hi…
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By Editorial Team / November 30, 2019
Poetry Letters & Humour

(LETTERS)*

Mao’s legacy Bill James (News Weekly, November 2, 2019), in his reply to my letter (News Weekly, October 19, 2019) tells us that “life expectancy in China rose from 35-40 years in 1949 to…
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By Editorial Team / November 30, 2019