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This Key-Coldplay brouhaha sure is a gift to pun-lovers everywhere.
The Herald has given us Key out of tune with Coldplay
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Coldplay-lite strikes wrong Key wherein Audrey Young writes
My colleague Claire Trevett wrote about the DVD last week and it was the subject of the Weekend Herald billboard. Claire talked to Otago University musicologist Graeme Downes (he is in the Verlaines) for her story.
He said music on the DVD and in Clocks were both in F minor - perhaps that should be a major F (up).
Hilarious.
I suggest (with apologies to W.H. Auden) Stop all the clocks
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This Key-Coldplay brouhaha sure is a gift to pun-lovers everywhere.
The Herald has given us http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10479448|Key out of tune with Coldplay
and
Coldplay-lite strikes wrong Key wherein Audrey Young writes
My colleague Claire Trevett wrote about the DVD last week and it was the subject of the Weekend Herald billboard. Claire talked to Otago University musicologist Graeme Downes (he is in the Verlaines) for her story.
He said music on the DVD and in Clocks were both in F minor - perhaps that should be a major F (up).
Hilarious.
I suggest (with apologies to W.H. Auden) Stop all the clocks
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Paul Keating apologised in his 1992 Mabo speech at Redfern. An excerpt:
We non-Aboriginal Australians should perhaps remind ourselves that Australia once reached out for us. Didn't Australia provide opportunity and care for the dispossessed Irish? The poor of Britain? The refugees from war and famine and persecution in the countries of Europe and Asia? Isn't it reasonable to say that if we can build a prosperous and remarkably harmonious multicultural society in Australia, surely we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians - the people to whom the most injustice has been done.
And, as I say, the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians.
It begins, I think, with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion.
It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us. With some noble exceptions, we failed to make the most basic human response and enter into their hearts and minds. We failed to ask - how would I feel if this were done to me?
As a consequence, we failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us.