“Level at the break, the Matildas composed themselves and, helped by the substitute Lisa De Vanna, killed off the Equatoguineans“.

(News report on Australia’s 3-2 win over Equatorial Guinea)

 

“At other times I would tell myself that it was all a question of attitude, that there was really nothing wrong in being moved to distraction by girl-children.”

Humbert Humbert [Lolita], academic and paedophile

“I’d like to reclaim for women the right to appreciate the short-lived beauty of boys.”

Germaine Greer, academic and feminist

“Watch the sun rise over the crystalline streams and ancient wetlands. At night, your contemplation is only interrupted by the cry of sea birds as they circle above the reeds and river banks, as you gaze at the twinkle of the city’s lights on the skyline.” (promotion for Metricon’s Golden Waters estate.)

Set on the urban fringe – regions once deemed unfit for human habitation – are the new and ever-expanding housing estates or “communities”. Striving to make them appear what they are not (rural paradises), the companies responsible for these stapled chipboard creations give them names that fall into four categories.

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