Tag: South Australia
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John Rowe and the seed of South Australian secession
This was published in Quadrant Online under the title, ‘You’ll be Sorry When We’re Gone’ – here. In his 1972 novel, McCabe PM, John Rowe tells the story of a maverick Prime Minister from New South Wales Prime whose authoritarian tendencies reach the point where, after South Australia and Western Australia announce their intentions to…
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The South Adelaide Football Club Women’s Team, 2018-2025
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The South Adelaide Football Club through the early 20th Century: 1901-1925
Co-authored with Chris Haines.
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Home grounds and Heartlands: an off-field History of the South Adelaide Football Club
This is intended for the forthcoming book, The Grand Old Blue and White: A History of the South Adelaide Football Club, 1876-2025. It can be downloaded at the tab.
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Perrottet’s ‘Adelaide card’ in the NSW election
For the people of South Australia, one point of interest in the upcoming NSW election concerns Dominic Perrottet’s repeated comparisons between Sydney and Adelaide. In Perrottet’s view, Sydney’s greatness is best measured against Adelaide because the South Australian capital leads the country in one respect only – dysfunctionality. His comments to this effect, which include…
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An alternative South Australian perspective
An edited version of this article was published on Flat White – here. The Flat White article, ‘A South Australian perspective’, written by Ross Eastcoast, will win him plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. Of all of the articles written by journalists who seek popularity by slipping a boot into Adelaide or South Australia,…
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Bagging Adelaide
(My 3AW interview with Tom Elliott about this article can be heard here. The article was published by The Big Smoke under the title, ‘Interstate ribaldry: Why is Adelaide the national punching bag?‘) It’s been a bumper season for bagging Adelaide. The running ‘joke’ in Sydney and Melbourne that South Australia is the pits has…
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