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Capital! Capital!

Last week, former prime minister Paul Keating (who, apart from this particular little stuff up, has always been one of my favourite Aussie ex-PM's) decided to engage in a little bit of Canberra Bashing.
Getting stuck into the National Capital isn't exactly a new sport. Ever since Canberra was built as the nation's capital, it's become somewhat de rigeur in Australian conversation to express regular and loud dislike of the city. I suspect that part of the reason for this is that the four main...
3 comments Published on November 02, 2009 16:30 | 36 views



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message 3: by rivka (new)
Nov 05, 2009 04:37PM

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message 2: by Anthony (new)
Nov 05, 2009 03:58PM

2196240 Oooh - I forgot to mention the birds. Might have to do a whole other post on that one some time...

A turkey's neck is called a wattle?


message 1: by rivka (new)
Nov 02, 2009 08:47PM

171430 It's been a long time since I was there, but I definitely remember Canberra as lovely. My favorite visual memories are of trees full of pink cockatoos every morning, and those yellow flowers I never remember the name of -- these!

(Google reminds me that they're called wattle. But that just makes me think of a turkey's neck.)


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Musings from an Outer-Spiral-Arm

Anthony Eaton
Just some random, probably very sporadic musings on my life in the world of books, academia, and nappies.
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