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So, the Kiwi dream is "buy a bus and just travel around and go fruit picking and fishing for whitebait". What's the Aussie equivalent? Win Lotto, buy a plasma the size of a house and order gravy with the chips? (OZ)

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Who cares if Rudd gives back the ute today, next week, or after three more elections? I would like to have the 11 years of John Howard back, that's what I'd like. (SMH)

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May my children and my children's children stumble like humans when they dance, sing as best they can in praise of what is worthy, and live a polite and humble life free from celebrity, free from fame and free from the splendid prison of gratuitous material wealth. If they are boys they can be called Michael which was the name of my convict great grandfather who first stole a lamb and then a sheep. (OZ)

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No one beats Woolworths; no one beats Coles. In our democracy, we get what we deserve: miles of over-priced isles and the occasional special pumpkin. (OZ)

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Kids will climb trees, kids will follow drains, kids will seek out tunnels and hidden spaces. Kids will find, in the everyday world, the special places that match and promote their feelings. Kids will mark such places with their names. Sadly, kids will fall from trees, be taken by stormwater and drown in sand. We can only take care. (OZ)

Yes, Mark Hagan, back in the education day, we ate stale bread and fried chip scraps and went to school without shoes or underpants. We were belted by drunks and verbally abused by war-damaged cranks who saluted the flag and mouthed God save the Queen. We learnt about heroic explorers and the wonders of wool and wheat. We learnt how to recite times tables endlessly. Above all, at assembly, we were neat. (OZ)

What to do with so much public emotion? Twitter? Whatever, offer the people an opportunity to discharge the affects of disappointment, anger and frustration. Such is the process of repressive de-sublimation as practised by democracies and all other forms of managerial governments. Oh, and yes, if there are global logos in the background of all the mobile phone videos, so much the better. (OZ)

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