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Month: May 2019

Word power: vital question for Bill Shorten

Our politicians and our mainstream media are equally to blame for Australia’s 2019 Federal Election campaign having become a seemingly-endless avalanche of inanity, predictability, pork-barreling, propaganda, evasion and irrelevance.

However, letter-writer Ian Bevan of Landsdale, WA, has at last voiced the burning question…

(as published in The West Australian on Friday May 3, and quoted in full, below)

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Mou Waho (final, of 3): reptile, insect, plants

Our hero/heroine was not delighted by his/her (temporary, brief) removal from the “motel” which s/he shares with an even more astonishing animal.

Respectively, reptile and insect, the Southern Alps gecko and the Mountain stone weta are two of many reasons that visitors to Wanaka ought ensure they visit Mou Waho; as well as scenic splendour, the island offers crucial sanctuary to vulnerable species.

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