The postgraduate colloquium at La Trobe have “archived their radio show”:http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/ltppc/web/radio.html on the web. I’ve listened to bits of the “democracy” programme and to this Pom’s ears, the participants begin by exuding a certain antipodean charm and thereby remind me of a certain Monty Python sketch … but the discussion gets serious pretty quickly. It continues the be marked by a certain Australian robustness, however, as when one participant utters the words:
bq. “.. if only those stupid arseholes out there would vote the right way, and take the right decision … yet we can’t disenfrancise any of them ….”
Other programmes have a bit too much of a po-mo ring about them for my taste, but others will disagree.
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Andrew McManama 12.08.04 at 9:36 am
What’s the world coming to when some pommie bastard points out something Australian I haven’t heard of before …
Andrew McManama 12.08.04 at 5:39 pm
Sorry, I meant “pommie bastard” in an endearing way. I hope I don’t seem to stereotypically Australian…
harry 12.08.04 at 8:05 pm
I’ve never known “pommie bastard” used any other way, Andrew. Perhaps if we started beating you at cricket that would change?
derrida derider 12.09.04 at 2:28 am
Perhaps if we started beating you at cricket that would change?
A condition that, God and Ricky Ponting willing, will not be realised in the foreseeable future.
derrida derider 12.09.04 at 2:29 am
Perhaps if we started beating you at cricket that would change?
A condition that, God and Ricky Ponting willing, will not be realised in the foreseeable future.
harry 12.10.04 at 2:35 pm
bq. A condition that, God and Ricky Ponting willing, will not be realised in the foreseeable future.
yes, that’s what I assumed…
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