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Putting a label on it: ephemera from all over

Pretty pieces of paper. I like them. So I've made a collection of them, gathered from all sorts of places. I like the artistry of them. Sometimes I see some humour or something peculiar in them that makes me collect them and put them in albums, occasionally to look at. Here's a selection of some of my paper ephemera. Beer labels - all Australian. Some older iterations of products that are still around, and some others not so much. My Dad was a KB drinker, in longnecks and later in those gold cans. Back in the…

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“Free” shouldn’t mean careless

October 11, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray So the lockdowns are lifting. The shops and businesses are reopening. People are flocking back to their crowded, busy lives. Mr Murdoch, Mr Morrison and Mr Perrottet are very happy that dollars will be flowing more freely again, and no doubt many other people are glad for the same reason. But we already know, from overseas experience, what is likely to happen next, so we need to be careful not to be too carried away by the "Freedom Day" headlines. Masks and social distancing are still going to be…

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New Premier for NSW, and happy King Coal

October 8, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray IT'S difficult for me not to feel nervous about the new premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet. After all, it was only in July that Rupert Murdoch's propaganda sheets were applauding the then-treasurer for standing up in Cabinet against "Go-Slow Gladys" and her lockdowns, in favour of more opening up - just as the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus was starting to bite. Also troubling - to me at least - is his status as a pro-Trump pseudo-ideological warrior. In his tribute to Trump's election victory in the USA…

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