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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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Post subject: Landline: The Smartest HQ Aussie TV Program by a Margin | |
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If you're half interested in the Australian economy, agriculture, environmental science, innovative rural technologies and thoughtful outback characters, Landline is brilliant.
If you only watched Landline you'd think Australians were educated, clever and globally aware. Not a useful message for electorates excited exclusively by the beating down of asylum seekers and thuggish one-liners from mining barons, but a promising one nonetheless.
An awesome program and a great message, despite the chest-puffing, loudmouthed efforts of ignorant dunderheads to drown it out and of course kill it at the source by de-funding the ABC.
http://www.abc.net.au/landline _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand
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Been watching it for years and watch it in Thailand. I doubt the Nationals will want it ended. Was good when Tikki Fullerton was the host too. She interviewed Hockey one night and Hockey tried to play her down and she responded with "well we dismissed that idea in my first year of doing economics at Oxford". _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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watt price tully
Joined: 15 May 2007
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Yep, me too. Been watching for years when a bloke called "Blair Roots" was hosting. Apt name I thought for his job.
At Latrobe Uni in the 70's or so, the Head of English was called Douglas Bate
(D Bate). Another apt name too for his profession. But I digress. _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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^ Sounds like he must have been a master of his profession. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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watt price tully wrote: | Yep, me too. Been watching for years when a bloke called "Blair Roots" was hosting. Apt name I thought for his job.
At Latrobe Uni in the 70's or so, the Head of English was called Douglas Bate
(D Bate). Another apt name too for his profession. But I digress. |
If only he'd taught Mathematics. Sign on the door:
Maths - D Bate |
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John Wren
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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i just happened to watch it the other day. they had a good segment on the turf manufacturing industry. my interest was piqued because they talked about the turf grown for the adelaide oval and mcg. _________________ Purveyor of sanctimonious twaddle. |
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