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* The Great Red Whale

* A dilettante's 31 dot points on the opening of the Bowery Theatre, St Albans

* Poking mullock: The Populist Party, One Nation and political jokes

* My cannibal banquet

* Klan Meeting: Metal in Timor

* Local lunar landings

* The last summer

* Abu Ghraib and dark public appetites

* The cult of the Kombi

* Recent taxi trips

* The Aussie lawn

* Pain, professional wrestling, modern art

* Beach holiday

* Making the leap: tracing the story of Alick Wickham