Like most of the rest of Australia I have been shocked, distressed and frustrated by the Victorian bushfires. Shocked and distressed by the overwhelming level of death and destruction and frustrated that I can’t actually ‘do’ anything. (Apart from give a sizeable donation to the Red Cross). Although the NSW SES has hundreds of chainsaw [...]
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The 2007 Rescue Competition This video was placed here after YouTube disabled the audio on their site due to copyright reasons. var myQTObject = new QTObject(“http://www.alternateroute.com.au/wp-content/video/RescueComp.mov”, “vvq-958-quicktime-1″, “400″, “300″); myQTObject.addParam(“autoplay”, “false”); myQTObject.addParam(“controller”, “true”); myQTObject.addParam(“scale”, “aspect”); myQTObject.write(); A mass casualty exercise. var myQTObject = new QTObject(“http://www.alternateroute.com.au/wp-content/video/RescuePractice.mov”, “vvq-958-quicktime-2″, “400″, “300″); myQTObject.addParam(“autoplay”, “false”); myQTObject.addParam(“controller”, “true”); myQTObject.addParam(“scale”, “aspect”); myQTObject.write(); The other day Rod Moon showed me a CD that had been released last year. It is called “The Lawson Project” and is a spoken word CD of Henry Lawson’s short stories. It comes with a bonus CD containing “Seventeen Classic Bush Poems” including two written by me. They are read by Dobe Newton [...] Here is another one of my TV appearances. It was on the “Have A Go” show. I ended up coming second, being beaten by a sexy woman with large breasts in a short dress made of wetsuit material. That was the only good things about her act. The producer of the show thought I had [...] After being ripped off with my first appearance on the “Have A Go” show, I was invited back to a special “Shakespeare” edition. I managed to create a rough segue between Shakespeare and modern TV as an excuse to do this poem. I hadn’t been told to bring my own costume and so the rag-tag [...] Having posted my roasting of Red Symons, I have had numerous requests (well one actually) to load up the act that came before. This is me (then called Anthony) reciting the poem “In praise of the TV housewife” on the Christmas 1987 show of Hey Hey It’s Saturday. swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/5gLvGURrGPU&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-263-youtube-1″, “400″, “324″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, [...] Long distance information,This is Memphis Tennessee, I don’t remember much last night, Don’t eat that apple till its washed, Years ago I began writing and performing bush poetry. It has been published in the Australasian Post and the ABC book called “Songs and Stories of Australia”. I also had one poem on each of Volume One and Volume Three of the “Songs and Stories of Australia” CD. In 1988, I released a cassette called [...] |
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