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Read more about the article A gallery of dogs and other characters
Dog in a toy car. Photo by Syd Smith

A gallery of dogs and other characters

Scrabbling around collections of amateur and family photos, several common themes naturally emerge. In previous posts I've covered fishing and beachgoing. This time it's pets - mostly dogs. People do love their pets, and they do love to photograph them. Here is just a handful of pet photos from our collection. Funny how dogs in photos so often look like the people they are pictured with. Thanks to Pete Smith for these classic motoring dog shots from his grandfather's collection. The photographer is watching the kids. The girl is watching the camera. The baby is watching…

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Read more about the article Ask no questions, get told no lies
Photo by Anne-Maree Hunter

Ask no questions, get told no lies

So it turns out there is no $2billion bushfire recovery fund. Under questioning in the Senate, the federal public servants whose job it was to provide answers to the parliamentary representatives of taxpayers and voters admitted the fund was “notional”. It’s a “notion”, an idea. It exists in theory, but not in practice. There is no allocation of money in the budget. Parliament has not set aside $2billion to help in bushfire recovery. The much-vaunted fund does not exist. This doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s more or less what I expect from Australian governments these…

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Read more about the article Things found in old books
A 1951 calendar used as a bookmark

Things found in old books

When you have as many old books as I do, or if you rummage among as many old bookshops as I do, you inevitably find many things pressed between pages. Usually you find items that people have used as makeshift bookmarks, but sometimes you discover things that people just wanted pressed flat. Occasionally you might happen on something that somebody probably wanted hidden. One way or another I've ended up with a couple of albums full of interesting bits and pieces of ephemera that have fallen out of old books. Some I've chosen to leave with…

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