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Here is the portrait of Lord Tonio Abbattoir (aka Tony Abbott), painted by the famous portrait artist and occasional cartoonist, Sir Gus de Leon-y-après-ski.
Sir Gus de Leon-y-après-ski's influence has been enormous — revolutionising contemporary portrait painting with the inclusion of shitty props. Not only did the three-quarter pose become the standard, but Sir Gus de Leon-y-après-ski’s preliminary drawings encouraged other artists to make freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. All these Sydney-esque works have so far been rejected by contemporary, classical, underground, Chinese and modern galleries alike…
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poor fellow, my country...![]() Already, around the circuit of well-intended thinkers on the left, many think that Albo left his run too late… Well not his particularly, but Labor with Albo... Who knows. Now Albo is introducing his vision. We need to be careful. He needs to be careful.
a plan is a plan...
Elon Musk recently said that he aims to get humans to Mars by 2026, which is seven years before NASA aims to land astronauts there.
on groundhog day...![]()
mediocre perrottet wants to change your city with his mediocre thinking and a few outdoor cafés...
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has said Sydney’s Harbour’s iconic beauty is holding the city back as he called on people to shun mediocrity in reshaping the metropolitan landscape.
discreetly happy that the poms have left the union...
From Brussels to the Rest of the World
How Europe Became a Model for the 21st Century
An Essay by Ullrich Fichtner
Despite its long list of crises in recent years - including the most recent vaccine snafu - the European Union has become a global pacesetter. Its laws and regulations have established global norms. This has made the bloc a 21st century model.
cold noughts and ones — and quantum in-betweeners...![]() The system, called Gooseberry, runs at a temperature 40 times colder than deep space – a
Трамп, лишенный политического лицемерия...As most world leaders have been shown to be hypocrites and massagers of half-truths in order to play a political game, as is traditional with their own people as it was with the previous US presidents — dealing with Donald Trump was like crossing a buzzzy highway with buses everywhere, while being blindfolded.
Here some of these world leaders remember how Trump, had freed himself from the political hypocrisies of office...
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free assange, president biden...
Let’s not forget that Joe Biden is an IMPERIALIST. Quite amazingly the “liberal media” has fallen in love with him, possibly because he presents a nice decent contrast to Trump-the-idiot-the-mad…
the miracle man boils a frog...
Man does job. That’s the review Scott Morrison should have been given for his underwhelming speech paraded as a launch of the political year.
keeping the old dream afloat...
A boom in new and used boat sales has left Australian importers, manufacturers and second-hand brokers scrambling for stock, according to the Boating Industry Association.
at face value...![]()
fighting covid-19 in the trenches...
white house improvements...
the interview of the day...
Awaiting for the transcripts...
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