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swaggies: January 2015
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Travels here and there. Friday, January 30, 2015. Qld: Stop the Assetts Sell Off Poster. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Sydney Festival - Tabac Rouge. Tabac Rouge - Sydney Festival. One of the world’s greatest circus performers, James Thierrée has lured Sydney audiences inside his surreal imagination three times before, in The Junebug Symphony, Bright Abyss and Au Revoir Parapluie – but nothing will quite prepare you for the sublime pandemonium that awaits you in Tabac Rouge. Sunday, January 11, 2015. Membe...
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NSW Rail Rambler: October 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, October 24, 2014. Travels with and in Uncle Sam. Over nearly a hundred posts on this blog I think I may have displayed a fairly parochial view of railways. To recompense, it may be time to display a broader horizon, starting with my various travels in the United States of America. This was my first train trip in the States - 3 January 1991 on the Texas Eagle. Over the next eight days I travelled from Texas to Chicago,...
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NSW Rail Rambler: July 2015
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, July 31, 2015. Went down to the local station this morning to watch the star attraction of the NSW heritage railway scene steam by on its way to Botany. Anyway, before I load up this morning's proceedings, here's a couple of 60 classes in revenue service in 1966/67. Both at Campbelltown, both on coal trains. First up, 6002, in February 1966. Now just check out those cars behind 6016! Saturday, July 25, 2015. It even got a...
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NSW Rail Rambler: December 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Sunday, December 7, 2014. Twenty years ago yesterday the NSW State Rail Authority auctioned locomotives which were deigned to be either at the end of their service life and/or surplus to current and anticipated requirements. In what became known as the Great Loco Auction. Another to survive the two decades through a series of (ahem) novel liveries has been 4488. It was purchased for a meagre $17,000. Currently it sits in ...CD re...
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swaggies: September 2014
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Travels here and there. Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Huge World-wide Climate Demos. We have the power to change the world': Thousands march in cities from New Delhi to New York demanding action on climate change. 40,000 campaigners in London. 2,000 events taking place in 150 countries ahead of United Nations climate summit next week. 100,000 people expected to get involved in demonstration in summit's location of New York. 30,000 in Melbourne. About 2,000 marches were expected to take place in the lead...
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swaggies: Varoufakis on Greek bailout
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Travels here and there. Sunday, July 19, 2015. Varoufakis on Greek bailout. Yanis Varoufakis said Greece was subject to a programme that will "go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever". The German parliament approved the opening of negotiations on Friday. The bailout could total €86bn (£60bn) in exchange for austerity measures. In a damning assessment, Mr Varoufakis told the BBC's Mark Lobel: "This programme is going to fail whoever undertakes its implementation.".
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Australian Railway Story
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Australian Railway Songs - Research Blog. A Continuing Project: the culture associated with Australian Railways. Further the collection and documentation of songs, poems and stories that reflect on the contribution railways have made (and continue to make) to the social history of Australia and encourage their on going contribution to Australian popular culture. Click on Australian Railway Story. For the latest update. Search using key words or short phrases enclosed in quotes (eg frank the poet). An imp...
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The Australian Railway Story
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Australian Railway Story: An Ongoing Saga, the Project From 2001. Following the announcement that the Alice Springs Darwin Railway link would finally be constructed; the Trains of Treasure Exhibition was tour in major Northern Territory centres in 2001. This tour drew attention to the long standing tradition of recording Australian Railway themes in song and poetry and several proposals for a project followed. A Book of Railway Songs and Poems. The Alice Springs Darwin Railway. This railway line was to b...
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swaggies: June 2015
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Travels here and there. Monday, June 29, 2015. Australia: News Corpse Waging War on Workers. Murdoch's Sydney Rag in a Rage – Monday 29 June 2015. Friday, June 26, 2015. Meanwhile, Back on Planet Quacko . Tuesday, June 09, 2015. Abbott Government finds Gillian Triggs "Guilty of Human Rights". The Shovel on June 8, 2015. Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs has been looking out for the welfare of others, it has been alleged. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has laid out. Monday, June 08, 2015. Ms Gil...
