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...Gadenne has been in the fairy business for "quite a lot of years," ever since she opened the area's first fairy shop, in Mooloolaba. There are two others within 50 km of here, she says: "We're the country fairy capital of Australia." But there's no ill feeling: "No one competes in fairies...
...Like many cockies, Burton is a mix of strong opinions and grit. Yet there's a sense that he has softened, perhaps even been humbled. Farmers are often derided by environmentalists and animal-rights activ-ists for not respecting the land and ill-treating their stock. "We were bastards before. Now we've changed," says Burton, pointing out several improved farming practices. "Let's work together and look after the land. But give us a break. I say, Sort out the cities first. You people could become another Indonesia." There's a Big Australia ethos behind his thinking. Burton believes...
...militias. Never mind that the Prime Minister was himself a Shi'ite partisan until his nomination--whereupon he sought to reinvent himself as a nonsectarian leader--and that his party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington. An ornery figure, al-Maliki is a backroom politician plainly ill at ease in public; few Iraqis had even heard of him, and few are convinced that his rancorous all-party government can last the year, much less its full four-year term...
...true that as causes go, Madonna did not choose a difficult one to champion. African orphans--photogenic, sympathetic, innocent--are not a hard sell. (An A-list star brave enough to fight for the rights of, say, the mentally ill has yet to emerge--unless acting crazy counts as advocacy.) But she recognized, as she has so often before, an opportunity to really make an impression. "My first thing was, I'm going to call people who I know have money, and I'm going to call people who I know want to make a difference in the world...
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