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Blog Central: Danksta Downunder Danksta Downunder, a.k.a. Hamish Danks Brown of Noosa Heads, is the founding heads-and-tails of the newly emerging microstate of Danksta Downunder. This is a realm devoted to performance poetry, writing, music, experimenta and obscura.

Recent entries

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Council opera turns to soap

Our Chamber Choir Orchestra is starting to sound a bit off-key. >>

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

My great land solution

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I've got enough neighbours already thanks very much. >>

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

So, a nude beach for the Coast?

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I just hope they've thought about frostbite and hypothermia. >>

Friday, April 4, 2008

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Namberra we go!

But I haven't noticed any new high-rises in Noosa yet. >>

Friday, March 7, 2008

The end is nigh for Chez Noosa

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The shire will soon go to meet its municipal maker. >>

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Could Gong-Gate come to the Coast?

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Steamy saga may be a taste of things to come. >>

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Watch it or we'll all be Noosafied!

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To Noosafy or not to Noosafy? That is the question. >>

Friday, November 9, 2007

Political parties are a lot like supermarkets

My mailbox is crammed with catalogues spruiking special offers. >>

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

I am the richest person in Noosa

Say hello to the Numero Uno Currency Cruncher. >>

Friday, October 5, 2007

We're living in testing times, my friends

Nowadays, it seems that to be accepted as a member of any country's club of citizens anywhere, there is the requirement to sit for a citizenship test. >>

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The Gaul of it: Asterix down under

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The truth about Mayor Bob's French connection. >>

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Bountiful one day, mutinous the next

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Setting forth on a new voyage under Captain Bligh ... >>

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Faster than a speeding bullet

Is it absurd? Is it profane? Yes, it's Super Council! >>

Sunday, September 2, 2007

The crazy ways of Mother Nature

Nature presented us with a deluge and we got very wet indeed, whether we wanted to or not. >>

Friday, August 24, 2007

Taxpayer-funded voyages of voyeurism

Who needs to know about dalliances between the politician and the polemic dancer? >>

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Turning 50 is all rather nifty

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This weekend I'm celebrating my half-century, the half-ton, the big five-oh. >>

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Arthurmayor and the Knights of the Roundabout

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Musical jeers expected as Specialot show comes and goes at an amalgamated multiplex near you. >>

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

AA virus sweeps through Queensland

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People's pandemic has Premier Pete in a panic. >>

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

It's all vroom and gloom on the supercity track

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Get set for the inaugural Local Government Grand Prix Election. >>

Thursday, August 2, 2007

The lost tribe of Noosanauts

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The Sunblock Coast Regional Council will celebrate its centenary in 2108 with an archaeological dig. >>

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Living next door to a McMansion

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Danksta Downunder and his parental publishers and analogue ancestors live in a modest circa 1950s-fibro and timber cottage on a steep street in Noosa. >>

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Killjoys threaten our live gigs

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Popular community events such as the Peregian Originals and the Pomona Hotel community jams are in danger of being silenced by small cliques of residents. >>

Monday, July 16, 2007

There's nothing like a spot of time travel

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The weekend found Danksta Downunder recuperating at home after a brief excursion to a 19th-century neighbourhood. >>

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Have your yellowcake and eat it!

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Why should this Coast need to rely on old-fashioned Sunshine, when the Federal Government insists that we can have our Yellowcake, and eat it! >>

Monday, June 18, 2007

The Lord Mayor's prayer

Our mayor, who art in chambers, give us our daily rates... >>

Monday, June 18, 2007

A new nation of Noosa?

Noosanauts, it's time to stand up and declare your own nation, rather than be swallowed up by Peter Beattie's super council. >>

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Painting a tourism future

First the painters come, then the fashionable, then the tourists, and the painters leave. Such is the cycle of tourism. >>

Thursday, April 26, 2007

When wounds of WWW wind on

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Hamish Brown reflects on the days when WWW had more to do with world war than the web. >>

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Turkish delight

Jock Brown shared some of his thoughts on the war and the Turkish as we remembered the fallen. >>

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