Dusty Gulch Gazette – Reference Guide
Purpose:
A canonical reference for writers, artists, and collaborators to maintain consistency across stories, visuals, satire, and lore.
1) Core Identity
Genre:
Satirical outback fantasy, absurd political allegory, bush mythology, anthropomorphic epic.
Tone:
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Australian bush humour + dry irony + exaggerated folklore.
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Ridiculous events treated as historical fact.
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Mischievous, heroic, playful.
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Never cynical; always slightly epic and deeply Australian.
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The Birth of the…
In the 1880’s shearers wielded a lot of influence on our country. Despite us not…
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Country or Cause? The…
During World War II, Australia was a vital cog in the Allied machine, sending troops…
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Lest We Forget The…
The Battle of Long Tan took place on August 18, 1966, in the Phuoc Tuy…
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Stop the Presses! No,…
The Gazette May Be Slow, But Roderick Isn't Giving Up By Roderick (Whiskers ) McNibble. …
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Parliament and Government
I have been reading about the state of affairs in the United Kingdom and what…
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Selective Governance: Is It…
Democracy: Now With 97% Less Majority Rule Because who needs the will of the people…
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Is Australia at War…
The Emu War is one of Australia’s strangest historical events. In late 1932, the government…
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Not Everything That Says…
AI, governments and the dangerous imitation of friendship. We live in a strange age where…
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Who Carries the Wounded?
Civilisation is not what we create. It is what we do when someone needs a…
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A Moment in Time…
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the…
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The Professor Peck Phenomenon
RATTY NEWS SPECIAL REPORT THE PROFESSOR PECK PHENOMENON How Dusty Gulch University Accidentally Created the…
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Barefoot in the Grass:…
Barefoot in the Grass: The Last Lesson My Father Taught Me My father passed away…
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Remembering The Rats Of…
Thomas Pritchard, Australia's last "Rat of Tobruk" passed away at the age of 102 on…
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Strain the System, Break…
From immigration policy to identity politics, energy to ideology - the erosion of Western society…
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Back When We Trusted…
Twenty-Five Teenagers. One Mother. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? When I was about twelve years…
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Foiled Again! Swish Swish!
Swish, Swish... Off With Their Heads When I was a young lass, I was a…
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The Chookhouse Four: Friends,…
Mystery Deepens: Who Are the Chookhouse Four? By Roderick (Whiskers ) McNibble, Chief Investigative Correspondent,…
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When the Ship Goes…
The sea doesn’t warn you. It doesn’t care who you are, what rank you hold,…
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From Private Citizen to…
The Census Came for the Quiet Ones I have just finished the Australian Census. Had…
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The Vanishing Voice of…
In a fast-changing Australia, where new cultures and identities weave fresh threads into our ever…
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The Tyranny of Censorship…
“Every tyrant must begin by claiming to have what his victims respect and to give…
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Bangles Beads and Broken…
At nine years old, I felt the silence of the lambs, long before I knew…
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Old Pilots, New Aces,…
While the new aces argue about the runway, the old crew still knows how to…
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Howling into the Abyss…
Howling into the Abyss of Settler-Colonial Absurdism A Decolonial Reading of "The Werewolves of Dusty…
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The Werewolves of Dusty…
RATTY NEWS SPECIAL INVESTIGATION THE WEREWOLVES OF DUSTY GULCH Project Howl, the Hacked Rolling Pin,…
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The Ghost Returns: The…
The Ghost Returns The first thing he noticed was the silence. Not the silence of…
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The Dreamers and the…
A Dream Needs a Driver: Sir William Hamilton, the Jet Boat, and the Men Who…
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The Accidental Beekeeper
When I tell people I’m a beek, inevitably the first thing they say is, “Yes,…
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Tribute to a Mountain…
He stood on top of the world - literally. But Sir Edmund Hillary never saw…
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The Faces Behind the…
The Basement at Yekaterinburg When People Become Symbols, History Takes a Dark Turn On the…
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How Traditions Are Born...…
In many Western countries today, we often speak of multiculturalism as though traditions no longer…
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The Ducks Who Knew…
RATTY NEWS EXCLUSIVE THE DUCKS WHO KNEW TOO MUCH How the Mysterious Death of the…
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