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There’s Meat on the Bone

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Written by: Op-Ed Ratty News

There’s Meat on the Bone

A Ratty News Investigation

By Roderick “Whiskers” McNibble
Chief Investigative Correspondent, Ratty News

It began with the Great Dog-Fence Summit.

Two dogs.  One fence.  One bone. A great deal of barking.

And one Red Dog who looked at the whole performance, walked around the fence, and went about her business.

That reminded me of a nursery rhyme.

Knick-knack, Paddy-whack, give a dog a bone.

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The Great Dog-Fence Summit

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Written by: Op-Ed Ratty News

DUSTY GULCH GAZETTE

Special Political Correspondent Edition
Filed from the wrong side of a perfectly ordinary fence

THE GREAT CANBERRA DOG-FENCE SUMMIT

(or: Why They Still Haven’t Climbed Over It)

There are certain things in life that nobody in Dusty Gulch has ever properly explained.

Why two dogs will bark themselves hoarse through a fence they have no intention of climbing is one of them.

Why 226 grown adults in Canberra will do the exact same thing for an hour every sitting day is another.

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The Timeless Strategy of Deception: Propaganda as a Weapon Against Society

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Written by: Op-Ed Blythe

I’m a teacher who’s spent years studying history and who cares about using words honestly.
I ask everyone reading this to face a hard truth:For at least 80 years, harmful propaganda has spread through our media, schools, and entertainment.
It was made to trick people and weaken society.
I’m from an older generation, not a Boomer.
Boomers are young compared to me. I’m from the generation before them.
Until we admit this, we stay blind to the real enemies of our civilization.
History, studied carefully, makes things clear.
So let’s look at history to open our eyes.

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All Available Boats

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Written by: Op-Ed Shaydee Lane

When I was a child, I loved a story about little tugboat called Little Toot.

He was a tugboat in New York Harbour.

He wasn't the biggest boat in the harbour. He wasn't the strongest. And he certainly wasn't the sort of vessel anyone would have expected to do anything particularly important.

But Little Toot had something the big boats sometimes lacked.

He was willing to have a go.

I hadn't thought about Little Toot for years.

Then I read about what happened in that same New York Harbour on September 11, 2001.

And suddenly I remembered him.

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You Either Get It or You Don't

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Written by: Paddy

You Either Get It or You Don’t

People have lost their sense of humor.

Not shoved it in a basket or the rubbish bin.

Lost it the way a man loses his dignity in a public toilet with no lock: suddenly, publicly, and with witnesses.

If you can’t laugh, fook off. The rest of us have work to do.

That’s the trouble with the humorless. They treat a joke like a fire alarm. One wrong word and they’re evacuating the building. The old priests at least had the decency to threaten you with hell. These ones threaten you with an HR meeting.

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The Hole in the Ground That Built a Navy

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Written by: Op-Ed Happy Expat

The Alfred Graving Dock -  a monument to Victorian engineering and Australian shipbuilding

Most readers have probably never heard of the Alfred Graving Dock.

Indeed, I suspect many would quite reasonably ask: “What is a graving dock?”

The answer is rather more interesting than the name suggests.

There is an interesting piece of language hidden in the name. “Graving” is an old word associated with digging, cutting or carving. A grave, in its original sense, was simply a hole dug into the earth, while to grave something was to cut or carve into it , hence engraving. A graving dock is therefore, quite literally, a dock that has been dug or carved out of the ground.

One of Australia's finest examples is the Alfred Graving Dock at Williamstown in Melbourne.

And it is quite a remarkable place.

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I am not a Number. I am a Free Man

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

I was 12 years old when "The Prisoner " came out. Sometimes, I would sneak out of bed and watch it from the hallway when my parents were engrossed in watching the TV. I will never forget my fascination with some bloke running around a quirky town being chased by giant bubbles and mini mokes were the go-to vehicle of the time. It confused me and intrigued me. No doubt, my parents felt the same way.  It was hardly the same as watching " I love Lucy " or " Rawhide " but it surely got my little grey cells working overtime. 

"The Prisoner," a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, first aired in September 1967 and ran for 17 episodes. It followed the story of a British secret agent named Number Six, played by McGoohan himself. Set in a mysterious and surreal village, the series explored themes of individualism, freedom, surveillance, and the power of the state. 

Number Six’s line -  “I am not a number. I am a free man” -  is not just a catchphrase. It is a refusal to let the collective rewrite the terms of his existence.

A lone juror who will not move, even when eleven others and the machinery around them want him to, occupies a similar position: one person insisting that his own judgment is not for sale. 

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The Strange Case of a Goat, Mulberries, a Pie and Dodgy Directives

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Written by: The PR Blog

THE GREAT MULBERRY VACCINATION SCANDAL

A Ratty News investigation by Roderick “Whiskers” McNibble

I knew Dusty Gulch was in trouble when Dusty McFookit started counting his mulberries.

There were thousands of them.

And, according to an order issued by the very sinister Prentis Penjani on instructions from Honkland Central, every one of them was required to be vaccinated against Fowl Flu.

The reasoning appeared to be that birds ate mulberries.

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Does Australia Pass the Pub Test?

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Written by: The PR Blog

Is Australia Becoming a Pub With No Affordable Beer?

Oh, sure, the beer is still there. The taps are still running. The glasses are still being filled.

It is affordable beer that is becoming the problem.

It is the customers who are beginning to disappear. Some have stopped buying the second beer. Some have stopped ordering dinner.

Some are sleeping in the carpark.

And some are simply staying home.

Perhaps that is the modern Australian version of A Pub With No Beer.

A pub with beer -  but increasingly without the people who used to drink it.

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The Road to War

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Written by: Op-Ed Happy Expat

The War Did Not Begin on 1 September 1939

The details of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi seizure of Germany fill volumes far beyond the scope of an article written for this site.

This piece therefore begins with the years immediately preceding the Second World War and looks at them primarily from the German side of the ledger.

The detail remains stunning, if not terrifying: a party that began as a noisy minority, never won an outright majority in a free election, and still, through a mixture of popular support, street violence, political calculation and the misjudgement of better-placed men, took hold of what had been one of the most advanced states in Europe.

The rest of Europe watched, protested, bargained, conceded -  and failed to stop the process until it was almost too late.

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The Weimer Republic Mk II - The Powder Keg of Collapse?

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty
In the shadow of a shattered empire, the Weimar Republic rose in 1919, promising democracy, freedom, and a new dawn for Germany. Yet, beneath its glittering cabarets and progressive ideals, a storm was brewing, fueled by a punishing treaty, economic despair, and a society split between indulgence and desperation.
 
The collapse that followed wasn’t just a failure of politics; it was a betrayal of trust.
 
Today, as global mandates tighten, institutions falter, and the gap between elites and everyday people widens, we must ask: are we writing our own Weimar story, one reckless promise at a time?
 

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  4. The Dunny Dilemma - Pissing Napalm Is No Laughing Matter

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