Heckler on Education
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Education cuts score a fail now and for the future
Heckler I HAVE drafted this missive many times, each time trying to form my anger into some kind of coherent shape. I have tried to be witty; I have tried to be even-handed; I have tried to be analytical.
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Train fix may only work in Wonderland
Heckler RECENTLY, I noticed a positions vacant advertisement, in the Herald, for managers for NSW trains.
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Invisible living in a wheelchair
Heckler YVONNE is disabled by severe arthritis. We often go out for lunch or a film together - she in her wheelchair and me pushing.
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Stewing over rabbit epidemic
Heckler MY SYDNEY suburb is experiencing a rabbit plague - we recently counted 25 at a local park at dusk. I have asked the council for advice, and they put me on to a rural group who suggested I trap them...
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Word to the wise, if that's OK
Heckler I WANT to change the English language - well, the use of it - but I'm going to need your help and your consensus to do it. Are you prepared to try? Yes or no?
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No universal way to make a connection
Heckler MY BLOOD had been simmering through the school holidays because of the ubiquitous umbilical cord. Not, I hasten to add, the human kind, but over the multitude of cables that connect modern electronic...
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Youngsters are clueless about life for oldsters
Heckler AT 64 I have read that a group of 40-year-olds working for a think tank recommend raising the knackery level to 70. Oh, the aches and pains now.
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Medication complication a bitter pill
Heckler PICTURE two nights before Christmas 1990. A hot, dry summer in Sydney, a dearth of organ donors and a 50-year-old professor connected to a pump that, with the aid of helium and very skilful medical...
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Dumping on those litterbugs
Heckler I HATE dumpers. I've never liked them. Who does? The other day, however, they went too far. I was disgusted. Disdain of dumpers escalated to hate.
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Having a flight of fancy in a taxi queue
Heckler ARRIVING at Sydney Airport on a Sunday night, delayed two hours because of congestion. Not unusual; I try not to be irritated and think instead of the flight attendants.
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Waiting for some sense over weight
Heckler CHILDHOOD obesity is in the spotlight again, with Professor David Penington's suggestion that a child's weight be recorded on their primary school report.
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Shrinking feeling as the gown fades away
Heckler No garment is more useless than the waffle weave dressing gown. You see them in all the department stores at this time of year.
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Anti-football rants out of line and date
Heckler OF COURSE I realise Michael Carlton is exaggerating for comic effect in his attempt to bait me and others with his anti-football rant in the paper last Saturday.
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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies
Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.
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Nothing but a pointless piece of cloth
Heckler Why do we even need a flag in the first place. Honestly, what use is the bloody thing?
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Bad mothers confab: no fakes please
Heckler DUE to escalated interest in the bad mothers meetings, which have been held on an irregular basis through the year, a Bad Mothers Conference has been planned so that we can all sleep in following the...
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Forgive me for my assault on batteries
Heckler ''ARE there any triple-A batteries in this house?'' screamed an almost hysterical daughter on the morning of the maths exam. Of course there weren't. There never are.
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Logging off the horror of online dating
Heckler BEING single and at times lonely for some male company, I made the mistake of joining a couple of online dating sites. I now call them ''non-dating sites'' because of recent experiences.
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It's OK to be pernickety about some pick 'n' mix
Heckler NOT that it's any of my business, but it seems there is a breed of shopper who feels they are entitled to rummage until they find the only one item that is good enough for them.
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Converted to pushing the party line
Heckler I COULDN'T think of an excuse quickly enough when the call came. ''I know you don't like them,'' my friend pleaded. ''But you don't have to buy anything.
