Heckler on Media & Advertising
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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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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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No worries? Now there's some hot air
Heckler CHRISTMAS 2011, with a house full of family, guests and pets, and an expired vacuum cleaner, we enjoyed the domestic bliss of shopping for a new machine, and were delighted to purchase a super-duper,...
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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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Manners set adrift as buoy racers arrive
Heckler IT'S the silly season for houseboats once again. It runs from mid December until the end of February.
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No fear, I'll just clear the deck, by gum
Heckler LAST year, we replaced the old deck on our steep bush block in the lower north shore. There are numerous angophora (Sydney red gum) on the block below us, two of which have branches that overhang our...
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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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Something fishy about Yule appeals
Heckler It's that time of year again, the merry season, when my husband has more followers than Jesus.
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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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Why call centres get my goat
Heckler I WRITE this on behalf of the 3 million Australians who, like me, are fed up trying to have our domestic problems solved by doubtless well-meaning, but culturally challenged, people sitting in small...
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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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Much to be learnt from nicer LA drivers
Heckler HAVING just spent a month-long holiday in California, it is my sad duty to inform the good citizens of Sydney that there is one area in which our American cousins leave us for dead.
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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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Hoping to hear silent night this Christmas
Heckler CHRISTMAS has a distinct resonance in our house. In other homes, the festive season might be accompanied by the sound of Jingle Bells or the comforting noise of cooking from the kitchen.
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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.
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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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Going to ground with casino plan
Heckler THE redevelopment of Barangaroo has the potential to create a great public space for all Sydneysiders and tourists to enjoy, as well as the chance to restore part of the foreshore of the harbour to a...
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Report card that 'could do better'
Heckler WRITING reports for the end of a school year used to be one of the more bizarrely enjoyable duties a teacher had. Certainly it was onerous and time consuming but it was also cathartic.
