Geoff Strong

Geoff Strong is a senior writer at The Age. His career started accidentally when he was intending to work as a builder's laborer. He then trained as a photographer. In the years since he has written widely on subjects from arts to politics, including for the original National Times.

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No fishy business in a nuclear plant

Geoff Strong One un-Australian thing I did recently was to eat carp. This was in Warsaw's old town and the fish was served Jewish style: cold with aspic on top.

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Not giving an inch on 'alien' metrics

Geoff Strong I was told on a trip to the country, that real men still measure things in miles, feet and inches.

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A herbal symbol for social progress

Geoff Strong Australia might be a nation divided by football codes, toxic politics, railway track widths and in the past the religious distrust between Catholics and Protestants, but there is one thing that has...

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I'm in training for music's marathon

Geoff Strong Staging Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring Cycle in the era of the 10-second attention span seems a bit like resurrecting the musical Hair in the age of the Brazilian wax.

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What's mined is yours ... sort of

Geoff Strong From a country that once believed its prosperity rode on the back of a sheep, we have transformed into one that rides on the top of a mineral conveyor belt.

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God's No. 1 ticket-holder saved me from damnation

Geoff Strong The 99 per cent that is atheist is now joined by the final 1 per cent.

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Unloved lemons leave a sour taste

Geoff Strong It is worth keeping the P76 saga in mind as Australia's governments fork out more assistance for our struggling car industry.

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Perils outweigh thirst for speed

Geoff Strong Jet-skis are the blowflies of the bay: on a hot summer day they multiply to plague proportions and for anyone in their proximity not of their kind, they are a pest.

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Dental health in a world of pain

Geoff Strong I haven't been to Kathmandu since 1981, but it was in my mind this week as the federal government released a report recommending a Medicare-style system for dental health.

Out in the constituencies

Geoff Strong There's a wide range of reactions to the leadership question in Labor-held electorates.

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A dog's life can depend on those they take to heart

Geoff Strong I am particularly disturbed by the vainglorious belief that humans are somehow special and uniquely possess what the religious like to call a soul.

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We're happy to be haunted by ghosts of Christmas past

Geoff Strong For $1999, the Christmas trim shop in Myer's basement has been offering the ultimate decoration.

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Democracy sometimes can be too much of a good thing

Geoff Strong It was the British wartime bulldog Winston Churchill who quipped that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.

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There's no place like home, even for ageing empty nesters

Geoff Strong Given the retirement village rip-offs, I'd rather stay where I am, thanks.

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Abused and neglected children need their own revolution

Geoff Strong To save children, adoption - out of favour as it is - may well be the key.

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Captain Courageous, an unsung hero who saved Brisbane

Geoff Strong A lack of media saturation allowed a feat to go unrecognised.

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The boat that almost became a ruinous dam

Geoff Strong Surely this time we'll learn to plan our cities to cope with future disasters.

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A bureaucratic nightmare from a simple visa request

Geoff Strong Fall in love, marry, decide to settle here. Should be easy. It isn't. An appeal has been lodged, an extension of time has been granted and an Immigration Department official has confirmed the case is...

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