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..differentiates Melbourne from the rest of the world. Or maybe just Australia. It gives locals the joy of being the best in the world at a game that no one else plays or wants to play; in this it is like gridiron football writ very small. Rugby is at least played by more countries though…

Robbo’s blah cont. .. after the game. Anyway the gig went well – I wore a TONY SHAW mask during the 1st set and after the gig rushed home and watched the replay and partied on! I’ve also been there the last two GF’s – OUCH! I had a gig on with Spectrum after the…

Anthems are sung – New Zealand gets three verses one in Maori and two in English to Australia’s single chorus. Hymns are sung with embarrassed and tremulous Australian accents. The service, my first for about 60 years, is lead without apparent irony by a Vietnamese minister; there is a moving address in a Scottish accent,…

that there is a world where you could travel where everything looks much the same, where there is no sense of place. Just the same experience. The perfect model is the airport where pretty much no matter where you are it is deliberately the same experience. Many travellers must wonder whether the plane merely flew…