The Best Australian Humorous Writing (32 page)

Marieke Hardy, “A time to repent:
Big Brother
's over”,
The Age, Green Guide
supplement, 9 August 2007.

—— “Lashings of lust curved up by Nigella”,
The Age, Green Guide
supplement, 24 January 2008.

—— “Er, thanks for your support. No, don't call us, we'll call you”,
The Age
, 5 June 2008.

Matthew Hardy, “Pump more beer, iron out muscle”,
Herald Sun
, 5 January 2008.

Wendy Harmer, “Torn between satay skewers and children as an endangered species”,
The Sydney Morning Herald
, 26 January 2007.

Clive James, “On climate change”,
A Point of View
, radio broadcast, BBC Radio 4, 2 and 4 February 2007, transcript viewed August 2008. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of Clive James.

—— “The perfectly bad sentence”,
The Monthly
, February 2008. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of Clive James.

Danny Katz, “Love is never saying sorry … so there”,
The Age
, 14 February 2008.

Malcolm Knox, “Corporatising culture: Who holds the past in common trust?”,
The Monthly
, February 2007.

Peter Lalor, “Fashion pinkoes are the fifth columnists of masculinity”,
The Australian
, 17 August 2007.

John Lethlean, “Telly tubbies”,
The Age
, 9 June 2007. John Lethlean would like to acknowledge Jonathan Green and Sally
Heath, the first a former editor of
A2
at
The Age
and the latter, the current wearer of that hat.

—— “Silence of the lamb”,
The Age
, 1 December 2007. John Lethlean would like to acknowledge Jonathan Green and Sally Heath, the first a former editor of
A2
at
The Age
and the latter, the current wearer of that hat.

Mungo MacCallum, “The pollies went a little crackers”,
The Bulletin
, vol. 125, no. 51, 18 December 2007.

Shane Maloney, “In from a busy day at Barwon jail, Carl asks for a fair go”,
The Age
, 28 April 2007.

—— “Cook's tour: Peter Cook”,
The Bulletin
, vol. 125, no. 51, 18 December 2007.

Shaun Micallef, “My father sat on Winston Churchill”,
The Age
, 29 December 2006.

Paul Mitchell, “Contact”,
Overland
, vol. 184, Spring 2006.

Les Murray, “Fame”,
Quadrant
, vol. LI, no. 4, April 2007.

Olga Pavlinova Olenich, “Teacherwoman”,
Overland
, vol. 189, Summer 2007.

Rod Quantock, “Group giggles groovy again”,
The Age
, 15 April 2006.

Guy Rundle, “The right wing”,
The Sunday Age
, 8 July 2007.

—— “Don't worry, just testing”,
The Sunday Age
, 30 December 2007.

Roy Slaven, “Seven modern wonders indeed? I think not”,
The Age
, 11 July 2007.

Steve Vizard, “The Library hotel, Thailand, and other hip hotels”. This article was written for this collection.

Garry Williams, Interview with Ja'mie King,
Sunday Herald Sun
, 21 October 2007. The piece in this collection was taken from a longer article titled “Ja'mie's frocky horror”.

Tony Wilson, “Having a ball: How we finally fell in love with the world game”,
The Age Melbourne Magazine
, November 2007. The piece in this collection is an extended version of an article originally published in
The Age
.

Julia Zemiro, “Idle hands make for short nails”,
Herald Sun
, 1 September 2007.

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