Word: yackandandah
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...Strange Bedfellows. On the stage at a country firemen's ball, sexagenarian mechanic Ralph Williams (Michael Caton) professes his love for local projectionist Vince Hopgood (Paul Hogan). Whether it's more than platonic he refuses to tell. Judge us as people first, he says. To the other townsfolk of Yackandandah, he and Vince have been sending out mixed messages. Hitherto heterosexual, a widower and divorc? respectively, they've shacked up together and been spied draping their lounge room in rainbow flags and befriending the local hairdresser, with whom they perform a passable Peter Allen?inspired dance routine. Most of this...
Such protests came to a head last week, when 60,000 farmers wearing broad- brimmed bush hats converged on Melbourne to dramatize their hardships. Coming from specks on the map like Yackandandah and Koo-wee-rup, they marched along leading sheepdogs or, in two cases, mounted on camels. AUSTRALIA FOR SHEEP, NOT POLITICAL GOATS proclaimed one placard. Rally leader Danny Johnson from Warracknabeal drew cheers when he shouted, "The heart has been ripped out of country Australia by high interest rates and excessive government taxes...
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