...AND ANOTHER THING
The Age
Friday September 4, 2009
THE US, Australia and China in a military menage a trois. For the sake of the exercise, let's hope they are all firing blanks. Paul Custance, St Kilda Tim HoldingQ. SO where the bloody hell are you?A. High country hiking, as it turns out.David Arthur, Maryborough, QldFREEDOM of information documents have revealed that Minister Holding's head lamp was, in fact, the "light on the hill".Pete Dowe, MentoneDO WE now have a Minister for Silly Walks? (Apologies to John Cleese.)Ian Cutter, MentoneJUST heard from a reliable source that a new show is being cast: So You Think You Can Hike. Possibly starring Tim Holding.Myra Fisher, MoorabbinA MINISTER partnered to a tabloid reporter. Hm, the pillow talk could be interesting.Gerald Bleasdale, KyabramMoreoverACCORDING to whom is uranium mining any less controversial than it was a decade ago ("Indigenous workers start to get the resources", The Age, 3/9)? Uranium is just as toxic and, in today's uncertain world, it is potentially more dangerous.Paul Calvert, NorthcoteFORMER NSW health minister John Della Bosca and Hawks coach Alistair Clarkson have joined a long line of politicians and celebrities including Shane Warne and Wayne Carey in giving Clayton's apologies: "I apologise if I offended anyone", instead of "I apologise for my offence".Sampath Kumar, MorningtonSO, JEFF Kennett is now "a great advocate of free speech" (The Age, 1/9). Is this the same Jeff Kennett who, as premier, banned teachers and principals from speaking out against the savage cuts he made to education?Rob Fairbairn, BoroniaSOME $30 million for the MCG and not a cent for the Victorian College of the Arts. Well, let's forget about "culcha" and adopt the axiom: Victoria €” the footy state.Victoria Moore, GerangameteI BET we could get some of our graffiti artists to satisfactorily rebrand the trams and trains for a tad under $35 million.Anne Rogan, GreensboroughCATHERINE Deveny, like Bristow, has not annoyed me for ages. I ignore them both.John Walsh, Watsonia
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