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
Council opera turns to soap
Our Chamber Choir Orchestra is starting to sound a bit off-key. >>
My great land solution
3 CommentsI've got enough neighbours already thanks very much. >>
So, a nude beach for the Coast?
1 CommentsI just hope they've thought about frostbite and hypothermia. >>
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Namberra we go!
But I haven't noticed any new high-rises in Noosa yet. >>
The end is nigh for Chez Noosa
4 CommentsThe shire will soon go to meet its municipal maker. >>
Could Gong-Gate come to the Coast?
3 CommentsSteamy saga may be a taste of things to come. >>
Watch it or we'll all be Noosafied!
5 CommentsTo Noosafy or not to Noosafy? That is the question. >>
Political parties are a lot like supermarkets
My mailbox is crammed with catalogues spruiking special offers. >>
I am the richest person in Noosa
Say hello to the Numero Uno Currency Cruncher. >>
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. >>
The Gaul of it: Asterix down under
2 CommentsThe truth about Mayor Bob's French connection. >>
Bountiful one day, mutinous the next
2 CommentsSetting forth on a new voyage under Captain Bligh ... >>
Faster than a speeding bullet
Is it absurd? Is it profane? Yes, it's Super Council! >>
The crazy ways of Mother Nature
Nature presented us with a deluge and we got very wet indeed, whether we wanted to or not. >>
Taxpayer-funded voyages of voyeurism
Who needs to know about dalliances between the politician and the polemic dancer? >>
Turning 50 is all rather nifty
1 CommentsThis weekend I'm celebrating my half-century, the half-ton, the big five-oh. >>
Arthurmayor and the Knights of the Roundabout
1 CommentsMusical jeers expected as Specialot show comes and goes at an amalgamated multiplex near you. >>
AA virus sweeps through Queensland
1 CommentsPeople's pandemic has Premier Pete in a panic. >>
It's all vroom and gloom on the supercity track
2 CommentsGet set for the inaugural Local Government Grand Prix Election. >>
The lost tribe of Noosanauts
4 CommentsThe Sunblock Coast Regional Council will celebrate its centenary in 2108 with an archaeological dig. >>
Living next door to a McMansion
2 CommentsDanksta Downunder and his parental publishers and analogue ancestors live in a modest circa 1950s-fibro and timber cottage on a steep street in Noosa. >>
Killjoys threaten our live gigs
6 CommentsPopular community events such as the Peregian Originals and the Pomona Hotel community jams are in danger of being silenced by small cliques of residents. >>
There's nothing like a spot of time travel
1 CommentsThe weekend found Danksta Downunder recuperating at home after a brief excursion to a 19th-century neighbourhood. >>
Have your yellowcake and eat it!
3 CommentsWhy should this Coast need to rely on old-fashioned Sunshine, when the Federal Government insists that we can have our Yellowcake, and eat it! >>
The Lord Mayor's prayer
Our mayor, who art in chambers, give us our daily rates... >>
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. >>
Painting a tourism future
First the painters come, then the fashionable, then the tourists, and the painters leave. Such is the cycle of tourism. >>
When wounds of WWW wind on
1 CommentsHamish Brown reflects on the days when WWW had more to do with world war than the web. >>
Turkish delight
Jock Brown shared some of his thoughts on the war and the Turkish as we remembered the fallen. >>
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