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It is not often that a hero can also be a larrikin and vice versa.…
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On ANZAC Day we remember the fallen, the brave, the heroic. But behind every name…
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Magic happens everywhere and goodness, wonder and delight can be found alive and well throughout…
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How many people around the world have been warning about the danger we are in? …
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Two names. Two battles. One legend. At Chunuk Bair and Lone Pine, ANZAC soldiers faced…
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It has been truly said that Australia arrived in Gallipoli as six separate States and…
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By Roderick (Whiskers) McNibble, Investigative Reporter Extraordinaire The Ratty News Foreign Desk | Special Report…
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There are men who live great adventures and there are men who write about them.…
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When life collapses and the weight of grief threatens to bury us, we have two…
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He was short, wiry, and came from the dusty outskirts of Clermont in rural Queensland.…
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As the sun rises on another ANZAC Day in less than two weeks, and an…
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Some memories shimmer in the mind like a heat haze, half mischief, half magic. This…
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For over five years now, this blog has grown into more than just a place…
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In a stunning turn of events, Roderick “Whiskers” McNibble - microphone-wielding rat and founding fur…
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How did it happen? How did a failed artist and fringe political agitator rise from…
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What happens when the battlefield goes silent....but the war doesn’t end? When soldiers come home,…
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John B. Calhoun’s “rat utopia” experiments of the 1960s, designed to be paradises with unlimited…
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Throughout history, religion has been hailed as a guiding light, a beacon of morality and…
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In a fast-changing Australia, where new cultures and identities weave fresh threads into our ever…
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When I was a young lass, I was a fencer. No, not the farming type…
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By Roderick (Whiskers) McNibble, Ratty News Investigative Correspondent Heard Island, Antarctica - A once-quiet expanse of…
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In a world obsessed with competition, the most powerful alliances are often overlooked, those between…
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Fear has always been the most powerful weapon of control, whether wielded by governments against…
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On a chilly October night in 1938, millions of Americans huddled around their radios, unaware…
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The exact origins of April Fools’ Day remain unclear, but historians have traced it back…
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In 1653, Oliver Cromwell stormed into the Rump Parliament and, with a fury that still…
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They didn’t need guns, tanks, or barricades. The revolution came silently.... through legislation, compliance, and…
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By Rodererick Whiskers McNibble, Chief Investigative Reporter – Ratty News In a week of shocking…
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At first glance, trees seem the epitome of urban charm, offering shade on sweltering summer…
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When our leaders and politicians sign us up to these global accords, declarations and agreements,…
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In the 1950s, thalidomide was hailed as a medical breakthrough - a safe sedative that…
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For as long as humans have walked the earth, the issue of abortion has existed…
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