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One safe place in Age of the Almighty Urchin
Lawrence Money ''Is it interval yet?'' whined the wriggling kid in the row behind us on the opening night of Circus Oz in Melbourne last week. Interval? It was only 10 minutes into the show!
Nice try: the Ben Cousins scoop that wasn’t
Lawrence Money Yeah, well you can’t blame New Idea magazine for trying. In case you missed it, the Ben Cousins yarn - the former AFL footballer and girlfriend Maylea Tinecheff are having a baby - ...
That old trouser snake
Lawrence Money A mate of mine, Steve O'Baugh, used to quote a Melbourne copper about the pivotal role of sex in world affairs. The wise old copper, who had been around the traps a long time, reckoned that if you ...
AFL's new rule: holding the handbag
Lawrence Money It will take a little while to get used to the new girlie-tackling rules in AFL footy but it is all in the noble cause of turning the code in to an on-field embroidery class.
Edelsten: can stardom be this easy?
Lawrence Money Like Kamahl, doctor Geoff Edelsten might well ask: why are people so unkind?
Don’t look a gift Osama in the mouth
Lawrence Money I can’t recall anyone damning the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the basis that the lunatic Islamist suicide squads “breached US sovereignty” in their hijacked planes.
House prices: give a little, take a lot
Lawrence Money Amusing to see the real estate agents hail the cut in stamp duty by the Victorian government. That’s the 50 per cent cut for first-time home buyers from July 1, courtesy of an election promise .
What’s the tipping point?
Lawrence Money A bloke keeled over at a St Kilda restaurant this week and was handed the bill as he was loaded into the ambulance. Caused a
All the best from Sudan
Lawrence Money There was a time when both Australian media and police shied away from racially profiling offenders because it could be seen by social bleeding-hearts as “racist”, despite the ...
And THAT’S why we need detention centres
Lawrence Money Funnily enough, the overnight trashing of Sydney’s Villawood detention centre by the sainted seekers of asylum shows just why those sort of centres are needed. Centres where strangers who roll .
Good luck, Jonathan, you’ll sure need it
Lawrence Money It sure is good news that Goodluck Jonathan has got up as president of Nigeria today with a 57 per cent vote -- maybe he can now fix all that Nigerian bad luck. Honest, you just can’t believe ..
Lay your bets on a carbon compo cock-up
Lawrence Money Run that past me again? Gillard & Co are going to “assist ...
101 uses for your redundant water tank
Lawrence Money I’m thinking: a very large planter box. Yeah, that’s it. I can convert my very expensive, redundant backyard water tank into a garden feature. Cut off the top, plenty of soil, put ..
The burqa and the Lone Ranger
Lawrence Money In a world where you are required to remove your motorcycle helmet if entering bank, it is hard to understand those who are outraged at the new burqa laws in France.
Freeway to a dead end
Lawrence Money Listen here, CityLink: if you're going to keep jacking up the tolls on Melbourne tollways (they're now milking motoring teats at
All this social engineering is True murder
Lawrence Money Riverdance is coming back to Melbourne but I’m not attending this time – it offends me under the new entertainment race rule.
Stick that arm out, driver
Lawrence Money Sure was quiet the way Victoria sneaked in its new Arm Law for motorists. You know, the law that states that in every group of cars out there on Melbourne’s asphalt rat run there has to be at...
Nukes and the X factor
Lawrence Money Someone once defined “expert” as “X”, the unknown quantity, and “spurt”, a drip under pressure. So let’s hear from the X-spurts at the US Nuclear ...
Julia and Barack: the novelty wears off
Lawrence Money When the “first female Australian prime minister” played indoor footy with the “first black US president” this week the clock ticked back briefly to those magical few months...
Really? Women bash men?
Lawrence Money Talk about spoiling the party! Just as the 100th International Women’s Day dawns over a perfumed world Aussie professor Kim Halford has released a study on female violence.
