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Chris Salisbury
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recovering academic, hopeless nostalgic, unrepentant pop culture tragic | longtime Brisvegan
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
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Happy birthday to the brilliant Lindy Morrison. Here's a glorious Go-Betweens performance filmed for Australian TV in 1987. It boasts their best line-up and a short but sweet set including Bye Bye Pride, Right Here, Cut It Out, Spring Rain, Cattle and Cane…
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The Go-Betweens - Live in studio (Rock Arena 1987) (HD 60fps)
YouTube video by The 80s, a Decade of Music (Master Noise HD 60fps)
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Given Hinze was planning minister at the time, it does look to have more of his touch about it than Joh whose tastes were usually more austere than a flash spa bath
Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s secret spa bath/jacuzzi with city views on the Premier’s private floor of the parliamentary annexe building, Brisbane, Queensland (built c.1979)
Oh gosh I’d forgotten about that bit 🤦‍♂️

Very kind take on that old piece, André :)
Saturday night soul salve … cos after this week’s Joy Division t-shirt carry on our souls are that much deader inside 🖤 youtu.be/MhEm4S-4v_U
Joy Division - Dead Souls
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Thought I’d re-up my piece on this perfect day as the Saints (73-78) prepare to embark on a national, then international tour. I’m dead proud of it, if I do say so myself www.patreon.com/posts/saints...
The Saints @ Pig City: An oral history | Andrew Stafford
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Your annoying regular storm season update from Brisbane/Meanjin ⛈️
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Sussan Ley once said she loved the "theatrics" of punk. She seems strangely unaware of what those theatrics were, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.
This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
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#OtD 28 Oct 1916 conscription to the army in Australia during World War I was narrowly defeated 51% to 49% in a referendum. Labor PM Billy Hughes blamed the @IWW union for this, and responded by banning the group and jailing members. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e19-...
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opening a new front in the (ahem) Sub-culture wars

I’ll see myself out
Sky are actually attempting a culture war over the band name of Joy Division. There is nowhere ever too stupid for these people to go.
Sorry to hear on both counts. Can sympathise re slipped disc pain, it’s so debilitating - definitely not conducive to festival going! 🙁
Octobanana it ain’t, but something even grander: 4ZZZ 50th anniversary festival/market day in Brisbane/meanjin tomorrow. Cannot wait 🤘
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#OtD 24 Oct 1975 90% of women in Iceland went on general strike for equality with men. Working women stayed home, and house workers refused to cook, clean and look after children. Today Iceland has the lowest gender inequality in the world stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9692...
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the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution
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Informal voting at federal elections has more than doubled since 1987. New research shows why some young people spoil their ballots.

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Yeah thank heavens for small mercies 🙄