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Shaking a tower with Rev. Spooner

My problem with spoonerisms started a long time ago. Once I heard about poor old Reverend Spooner and his habit of accidentally transposing the first letters of words in an expression I started doing it myself - deliberately. Once I started I didn't seem able to stop, and now they tend to spring automatically into my head. Somebody tells me that it’s pouring with rain, for example, my brain does the transposition and, hey presto, it’s roaring with pain instead. Years ago when my daughter made a sticky date pudding I couldn’t help instinctively renaming it…

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A modest proposal to import politicians

TIME to get rid of that silly section in the Constitution that says Australian federal parliamentarians can’t hold citizenship of foreign nations. Not because so many of our pollies seem to come from other lands and it's sad to think of losing them because they may have forgotten to renounce their alternative allegiances. No, we need to ditch that silly rule because of the tremendous economic advantages. Over the past couple of decades of globalisation Australia has benefited, so big business says, from exporting just about every job imaginable. I get a shock now if I…

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Boomers v Millennials: who’s robbing who?

YOUNG people have been robbed by older generations, some political and media prawns love to assert. How do they figure this? It’s because old households have more wealth than younger ones, and because many younger people are wondering forlornly whether they will ever be able to afford to buy homes of their own. According to some commentators this is the fault of oldies, who are selfishly sitting around taking up space in the cities and the burbs that could be occupied by the young, if only they’d get out of the way. I don’t know whether…

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