Dr Pacific is specifically good for you – a Robert Drewe short story
Robert Drewe’s latest book of short stories, The True Colour of the Sea, is published this month. The Bangalow-based author may just have drawn…
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Drinking can lead to death – sooner or later
Robert Drewe examines the latest alarmist findings on alcohol consumption – and finds them somewhat misleading. Thank goodness. Shock! Drama! Panic! Modest drinkers around…
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Because I said so! Robert Drewe on ‘Mother’ sayings…
It seems as if we don’t tick off our children quite like we used to, surmises Robert Drewe after a visit to his local…
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Lisa Walker’s Creative Melting Pot
Lisa Walker’s on a creative roll – her latest novel may appear to be a light-hearted romp, writes Jane Camens, but crack the surface…
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Barbara Carmichael’s memoir of love and friendship in India
Paul C Pritchard reviews a memoir that explores how pure friendship – even the most unlikely kind – can create magic. Local Byron-based writer…
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Robert Drewe on why these days it’s a dog’s life
Robert Drewe says he’s a dog lover, but there’s limits. And they’re being stretched… In my day I’ve owned intelligent, obedient, affectionate and adventurous…
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Warning: Tamper with Vegemite at your peril, writes Robert Drewe
Like most Australians who have consumed Vegemite all their lives, Robert Drewe had never given the nation’s favourite shiny black yeast extract a conscious…
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Baby talk – but not from babies, writes Robert Drewe
Sometimes Australia’s obsession with shortening words goes just too far and that’s ‘defo’, writes Robert Drewe. The other day I heard a hospital administrator…
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Robert Drewe on why he’s never going to Burundi
Burundi may be the unhappiest place on earth, but it’s still got a nerve when it comes to scamming, writes Robert Drewe. Three times…
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Heartbreak grape at the Whipbird Winery
There’s satire, revelation and redemption aplenty in Robert Drewe’s latest novel, Whipbird, writes Digby Hildreth. Launching the new novel from Bangalow author Robert Drewe…
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