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Hammond, William (Bill) - Wishbone Ash Stash, 2010.

Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/entertainment/christchurch-arts/4209996/Bill-Hammonds-visionary-artworks

Hammond, William (Bill), Jingle Jangle Morning, 2006.

Source: https://www.aasd.com.au/artist/45-william-bill-hammond/works-in-past-sales/

Bill Hammond - The Fall of Icarus, 1995, Acrylic on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery, purchased, 1996. Reproduced with permission. Source: https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/events/bill-hammond-the-fall-of-icarus-1995

Bill Hammond born William Hammond (29 August 1947 – 30 January 2021) was a New Zealand artist who was part of the Post-colonial Gothic movement at the end of the 1990s. He lived and worked in Lyttelton, New Zealand. The theme of his works centred around the environment and social justice.

Hammond was born in Christchurch on 29 August 1947. He attended Burnside High School. He went on to study at the Ilam School of Fine Arts of the University of Canterbury from 1966 until 1969. Before embarking on his career in art, he worked in a sign factory, made wooden toys, and was a jewellery designer. He also had a keen interest in music, serving as the percussionist for a jug band.

Hammond started to exhibit his works in 1980, and went back to painting on a full-time basis one year later. His first solo exhibition was at the Brooke Gifford Gallery in Christchurch in 1982. In March 1987 he showed for the first time at the Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington, an exhibition followed by over 20 others.

One of Hammond's best known work was the painting Waiting for Buller (1993). This was in reference to Walter Lawry Buller, the first New Zealander ornithologist who wrote A History of New Zealand Birds in 1873. Hammond was particularly interested in the contradictions in Buller's life, in how he documented birds while being a hunter and taxidermist. Another noted piece of his was Fall of Icarus (1995), which explores the effects of the colonisation on the country, and is exhibited at Christchurch Art Gallery. The Guardian described this as "his most famous work". His painting Bone Yard, Open Home (2009) was the largest single piece of canvas he painted, with a width of more than four metres.

The overarching theme of Hammond's work was social and environmental issues. Specifically, it touched on the imperiled state of both, as well as the destruction brought on by colonisation. His paintings feature two common themes: references to popular music and gaunt creatures with avian heads and human limbs. The characters in Hammond's paintings, which were often anthropomorphic animals, rarely move away from their natural habitat and are in no hurry. Humans are notably absent from his works during the later part of his career, which was influenced by his visit to the Auckland Islands in 1989. Two signature colors employed by Hammond were emerald green and gold. He was also at the forefront of the Post-colonial Gothic movement. This ultimately became "one of the most influential tendencies in New Zealand painting" at the turn of the 3rd millennium.

Hammond eschewed giving interviews and guarded his privacy. He died on the evening of 30 January 2021, at the age of 73. He was labelled as one of the country's "most influential contemporary painters" by Radio New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hammond

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Soaking Dishes in the Sink

Your ability to make life more difficult is unmatchable. If an easy solution is available—and I mean a mind-numbingly obvious one—you decide that maybe the fix can’t be so simple and that you’d better let things marinate for a few days, at which point, yes, they’ve now become the nasty thing that you imagined, seeped in a rancid cesspool of indecision and procrastination (and, literally, rotting food). By the time you get ready to take any form of action, someone has come along and done the cleanup for you, which is what you wanted all along.

Letting Unopened Mail Pile Up

Typically, you are one of those people who doesn’t check voice messages because they make you anxious. You have an extreme fear of the unknown and are marginally equipped to navigate adult life. Like the Soaker, you avoid making decisions, but, rather than acknowledge problems and put off solving them, you delay identifying the issues altogether until you have no choice—because, well, you’ve run out of places to eat your breakfast. Besides, if a bill is mailed and no one is there to open it, does it even exist?

Leaving Kitchen Cabinets Open

You’re made up of equal parts courage and fear. You’re brave enough to start any old task that pops into your overactive mind but too afraid to finish one godforsaken project. You balk at the notion that if one door closes, another one opens, because, afraid of making the wrong decision and missing opportunities, you leave them all ajar. Your life is dominated by what-ifs, and you’ll likely never learn to take definitive action—at least not until you crack the top of your skull on a cabinet-door edge.

Leaving One Bite or Sip

Greedy glutton? No. Self-absorbed free spirit? No doubt. You leave a spoonful of banana pudding in the bowl and a swig of orange juice in the bottle because you’re too busy with your own life to think about anyone else’s. You’re fun as hell to be around because you live for the moment, but, when faced with the unfortunate consequences of your actions, you claim, “It’s not my problem,” when in fact you, my friend, are everybody’s problem.

“Mopping” with Your Foot and a Clorox Wipe

You’re a visionary who lives by the maxim “There’s got to be a better way.” And that way is yours. Your unbridled and unfounded confidence helps you discover new paths, even if they turn out to be ones that others have abandoned with good reason. To your credit, you’re willing to risk physical harm executing your creative yet lazy strategies, because there’s nothing a $12.99 plastic pole can do that your God-given right leg can’t do better, notwithstanding a soggy sock and that cramp in your hamstring.

Keeping Leftovers in the Fridge Past the Point of Viability

Let’s not mince moldy garlic—you’ve got severe abandonment issues, which cause you to hold onto every damn thing. A perpetual people pleaser, you fear tossing something that may have potential because, well, it will all be good if you just wait awhile and add a little Lawry’s. It’s not. Lesson almost learned.

By Nicole Rose Whitaker :: February 16, 2022

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jazz season cancelled there's a big fuckin lobster

I think it's gonna fight godzilla

credits under break

Peter Vettese keyboards

Jeff Berlin bass, composition

Bill Bruford electronic drums, composition

Kazumi Watanabe guitar, composition

Akira Yada producer

Adam Moseley recording engineer, mixing

James Hatton assistant engineer

Nick Blundell assistant engineer

Julian Adair assistant engineer

Beth Yenni art direction

Izumi Inoue Design Plus design

Yutaka Kawachi photography

Lawrence Lawry photography

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Scrap laws allowing Australian schools to sack gay teachers

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Scrap laws allowing Australian schools to sack gay teachers

Laws allowing religious schools to sack teachers on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity should be repealed, advocates say, as Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College is back in the news.

Citipointe Christian College has issued a “statement of regret” for distress caused by a withdrawn 2022 enrolment contract that suggested gay and trans students could be expelled.

Outraged Citipointe parents complained to the Queensland Human Rights Commission. The legal action led to the settlement and statement from the school.

However in some Australian states, discrimination like this against students and teachers is sadly legal.

LGBTQIA+ advocates want the federal and various state governments to finally repeal religious exemptions that allow it.

Months ago, the Albanese government drafted a pair of bills on this, in response to a Australian Law Reform Commission report.

The Commission recommended scrapping provisions in the Sex Discrimination Act that allow religious schools to discriminate against staff on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity.

However, the government hasn’t released the draft laws to do so and delayed their introduction for months.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he’d only move forward with bipartisan support. However the Coalition hasn’t offered its final position on the draft bills.

‘The government promised to close the gaps’

But the delays are frustrating Equality Australia, Just.Equal Australia and Brisbane’s LGBTI Legal Service.

Equality Australia legal director Ghassan Kassisieh said if Citipointe was in another state, such as NSW or Western Australia, discrimination against students and teachers is permitted.

“The federal government promised to close those gaps. There are bills the government can introduce today,” Ghassan said.

New YouGov polling commissioned by Just.Equal found over half (52%) of Australians oppose laws allowing faith-based schools to legally sack or refuse to hire teachers because of their sexuality or gender identity.

59% of surveyed voters are against public funding for schools that discriminate, including 71% of Labor voters

64% of Labor voters polled want teachers protected, only 35% of voters don’t

65% oppose discrimination by faith-based service providers (such as hospitals, age care facilities, disability support services, charities, employment services), including 76% of Labor voters

“These results should give added impetus to protect LGBTIQA+ school staff and students from discrimination,” Just.Equal’s Brian Grieg said.

“If Labor wants to stop voters who care about discrimination defecting to the Greens or independents at the next election, it must take action to repeal laws that allow discrimination against LGBTIQA+ people in faith-based organisations.

“With the election less than a year away, Labor is running out of time to fulfil the promise it made to Labor voters that it will end discrimination in faith-based schools.”

Queensland and NSW governments must act

Queensland’s LGBTI Legal Service provided assistance in the complaint against Citipointe Christian College.

Director Jo Sampford said Queensland’s discrimination laws provide strong protections for students.

But Jo warned “big loopholes” still allow religious schools to sack gay and trans teachers.

She called on the Queensland government to change this before the state election in October.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre also said the NSW government must scrap the state’s own “broad and outdated” exemptions to protect students and teachers.

“All students should have the right to learn and grow, free from the fear of discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” the Centre’s director Alastair Lawrie said.

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Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Too many emails? Manage email preferences or unsubscribe. LIVE at 10:30 AM ET: Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message Watch Now PREMIERING at 7:30 PM ET: Dr. Tess Lawrie: COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Inflammation in ‘Every Organ and Tissue of the Body’ Watch Video Divided Loyalties? Who Was Former AG Bill Barr Really Serving? Watch…

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Five dramatic moments from the Netherlands vs South Africa game: When Tom Cooper passed the baton to Babar Azam and other highlights

Five dramatic moments from the Netherlands vs South Africa game: When Tom Cooper passed the baton to Babar Azam and other highlights

Perhaps, we should retell the words of Ian Smith, the modern Bill Lawrie, to re-live the moment. “It’s gone, is it going to be safe,” said her within a second, sparking our doubts, apprehensions and hopes. “Is this the moment?” Big reference even in a flash, just in case we didn’t realize. It was David Miller on whose bat South Africa’s hopes rested. He did all of that in the 14th over with…

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Freo Groove - Musicians of Fremantle

Kevin Parker is pounding along the coast, between the sea and the great shattered ruin of the old South Freo Power Station, his mind buzzing with musical possibilities. He's always said you can make great music from anywhere - that place isn't a big deal. But the front man of successful psychedelic band Tame Impala recognises that Fremantle has shaped his musical journey: from his first exploratory jams with future band-mates to the modest weatherboard in South Fremantle that he's converted into a recording studio. 

`I used to say that I could be anywhere in the world, and I still like to believe that, because I don't believe that the quality or the style of the music that someone makes is dependent on where they are. However, there are many things that seep into your music and one of them is where you live. 

`Making the last album, Currents, I was stuck, sitting in the studio and my four walls. I got to a spot where I just wasn't feeling it and the music wasn't very evocative. I got my iPhone and headphones and walked along the beach down to the power station in Coogee. I couldn't believe how much the music opened up and spoke to me, made me feel all kinds of things again. 'A lot of the songs on Currents have passages that were directly inspired by the power house and doing laps of it. It is scary and confronting, but such a beautiful thing. I had one of the songs I was working on at the time on repeat and I wrote a lot of the lyrics down on South Beach. I suddenly remembered the value of being somewhere serene and beautiful and getting inspired in that way. I don't like to think of it as a necessity because music can be written for the purposes of escape. But so much of Currents was mentally conceived between here and the power station all along the coast.'

Gravity

He grew up in Perth, got drum lessons while in high school, and played rhythm guitar with his father, Jerry, playing lead. He went on to play music with Dom Simper, whom he met in high school. The two formed The Dee Dee Dums, the precursor to Tame Impala. Somewhere around the age of twelve, he began fooling around with cassette recorders; bouncing tracks and layering sounds, building a creative methodology that still endures, although the technology is worlds apart. His Fremantle musical story began when he was about twenty and he met the guys from the band Mink Mussel Creek. 

`I was in a different band at the time, but I started hanging out and jamming with them. I was living in Subiaco then. I would leave Subiaco on Friday evening and go back on Sunday night. It was like a time warp, like another world. We would have a lot of fun and get up to mischief and make music. I thought it was amazing because it was like being in a parallel universe. It was just this black hole of the weekend when I'd be around Freo. 'It was just such an intoxicating environment, the absolute tunnel vision of the music. It was the centre of how we lived our lives. Everything was based around that. Going out for them was going out and playing a show, and we would start drinking and getting stoned in the afternoon. At some point in the night the show would happen. The show was just part of the evening. That was kind of what our lives revolved around and I just felt such a sense of belonging. A newfound identity.' 

It was an intense period of short-lived bands thrown together as fluid musical experiments, with several bands running at once comprising different line-ups of the same core set of musicians. Often, he'd play two gigs a night - one with his old band, The Dee Dee Dums, and then just stay on stage for Mink Mussel Creek. There were gigs at The Swan Basement, The Railway Hotel, Mojos, and the Newport, but the Norfolk Basement - and its bar manager -provided the opportunity for Kevin to take his work to a new level.

'The Norfolk became our second home, because we met Jodie [Regan] and she fell in love with Mink Mussel Creek. She was the bar manager downstairs, and we just thought she was great. She was enchanted by us young, scruffy stoners, who were obsessed with music and didn't have any kind of ego about it. She was like, "Hey, I'll manage you" and we thought, Hey, we've got a manager! We'd go down there during the day and rehearse. The bar wouldn't open until later and I ended up doing a lot of recording down there. They had microphones and mic stands. So I could just go down there for as long as I wanted, which was a dream because up to then I had nowhere to record drums. `The first gig we ever played under the name Tame Impala was at Mojos. It was like a new and exciting time for me because it was just another step of me consolidating what I wanted musically. `There weren't a lot of people, but that didn't matter. Until I first started hanging out with those guys - hanging out in Fremantle - would care a lot more about the audience: how many and how much they were into it. After, it was, well, "they are there or they are not". Our attitude was, we are doing what we are doing because we love doing it. We're not out for approval or validation.' 

A Fremantle share house provided a base for a while. Then as Tame Impala enjoyed wider success, Kevin was based in Paris before moving back to South Fremantle. 

'I think it was a no-brainer. I had a lot of friends here. I bought a house and lived there for a while and then tore all the walls down and turned the entire thing into a studio and then I bought another house and moved there.'

Complexity

Kevin Parker's approach to making his own music is intense and solitary, although he has had long-standing working relationships with different local musicians. He composes in isolation and works with others to create the live performance. 

'Tame Impala on the albums is just one person. It is just me multi-tracking; so basically, me recording wherever I am. 'Because I make music alone and it has got so many different parts to it, there is never a verbal conversation about it. When a band plays music, they are constantly having to talk about it to communicate it. So just from that process, just talking about it out loud, you work out what you like and you don't like. When that entire conversation stays in your head, it is just a thinking process, and you never really work out what you like and don't like and what strategies you like. It just happens. I don't have a framework. I have been doing it for that long it is something that kind of comes naturally. 'I potter in the studio even when I have other things to do. I might record a song or I just go around going, "hullo, what is this?" Unplug this...plug this in. Find a better way to record - kind of like a mad scientist. A cross between a mad scientist and an old lady in the garden pottering around. Somehow songs come out of that. `I make things more complex than they need to be. I would love my music to be simpler. I call my music "kitchen sink music". I just throw everything at it. I will think of a keyboard line - put it in. Think of a guitar line - put it in. Two different vocal melodies - put them in. As I get older I am trying to develop a musical discipline.' 

Following the phenomenal commercial success of Tame Impala, Kevin's instincts and production skills, honed over countless hours and through endless musical experiments, are in high demand. As well as working with local bands, including Koi Child and Pond, he's been approached to produce a number of American artists in Los Angeles. 

‘I like that I have two lives as a producer. One is doing my friends' stuff in Freo, the other is iconic artists that I've always dreamed of working with. I am suddenly in the same room. It's kind of two extremes.' 

As for another Tame Impala album, Kevin will only say that there's some paint on the canvas, but he doesn't know what the final result will be. 

‘The change in styles is one of the only things you can bet on. I don't think I would bother doing the same thing again. That is one of the only rules I put on myself. It has to be different and has to have evolved in some way.'

- Freo Groove - Musicians of Fremantle by Bill Lawrie & Claire Moodie. 

Photo by Jeff Atkinson. 

Published by UWA Publishing.

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Who do I have to call in order to make a feature-length Horrible Histories series 1-5 blooper reel a reality?

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Photographer Mike Lawrie/Getty Images

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Legends’ harsh reality check for Langer – and what Paine ‘should have done’

Legends’ harsh reality check for Langer – and what Paine ‘should have done’

Even if they retain the Ashes, Ian Chappell believes Justin Langer is on borrowed time as Australian cricket coach. While Chappell also believes the furore surrounding Langer’s tenure could have been prevented had captain Tim Paine followed the lead of Mark Taylor in the mid-1990s and taken control of the team. Langer will all but certainly continue in his post through to the Ashes, but the…

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5 Finest Left Handed Australian Opener Batsmen 

Mark Taylor – One of Australia’s best opening batsmen

Bill Lawry - Australia's best opening batsmen in Test cricket.

Justin Langer - Australia's greatest ever left-handed opening batsmen

David Warner – Left-handed opener in Australian cricket history

Matthew Hayden - Greatest opening batsmen

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Did you know that Adam Ant and Lulu share the same birthday?

▪ Lulu Frieda (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on November 3, 1948, Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire) better known as Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actress and television presenter, who has worked in show business for 50 years.

▪ From the 1960s to the present. She is best known worldwide for her song "To Sir, with Love", and in the UK for her song "Shout". She was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

☆ Adam Ant, Lulu and Cliff Richard, Royal Variety rehearsals. 22nd November 1981.

▪ Lulu appeared as Princess in Adam Ant's music video "Ant Rap" (Prince Charming Album, 1981.)

Two beautiful Scorpio people!

▪ Lulu's son Jordan, aged 4, is a very keen Adam ant fan himself, and asked his Mother of him to purchase the very popular Adam ant costume!

Happy 73 years to Lulu!

Photo and info Credits:

📷 Photo 1 & 2 was taken by Bill Rowntree.

✔ Lulu's biography from Wikipedia.

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i wish bill lawry was here to commentate what’s happening in the cricket rn lmao

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Bye bye: Ex-PM Scott Morrison is quitting politics

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Bye bye: Ex-PM Scott Morrison is quitting politics

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison will quit politics in February after more than 16 years in the federal parliament.

Australia’s 30th Prime Minister confirmed on Tuesday he will “leave parliament at the end of February”.

Scott Morrison, a Pentecostal Christian, led the Coalition to a surprise election win in 2019 followed by a walloping defeat in 2022 after his popularity plunged.

On Tuesday, he said he’s off to “take on new challenges in the global corporate sector and spend more time with my family”.

“I am also looking forward to being more active in my church community, outside the constraints of public office,” he said.

It’s difficult to pick which controversies and scandals were most damaging to Scott Morrison’s legacy.

But just one month into the top job, Prime Minister Morrison was already targeting LGBTQIA+ Australians.

In 2018, he posted his infamous “gender whisperers” tweet criticising support for trans youth.

At that time he also claimed queer-inclusive sex ed in schools made his “skin curl”.

A few months later, he described state birth certificate reforms benefiting trans people as “ridiculous”.

Scott Morrison pushed for doomed religious discrimination bill

As PM, Scott Morrison also pushed for the parliament to pass his government’s doomed religious discrimination legislation.

But the government ultimately had to dump it when some of Morrison’s own MPs opposed the proposal over its concerning impacts on LGBTQIA+ Australians.

During the 2022 election campaign, Scott Morrison was accused of “dog-whistling to ultra-conservatives” by supporting anti-trans legislation.

Morrison refused to dump Katherine Deves, his hand-picked candidate for the Sydney seat of Warringah, despite a truly sickening catalogue of transphobia online.

Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP has slammed supports for gender diverse kids in schools describing it as “gender whispering”. We are appalled at his lack of knowledge or compassion. His comments harm the young people this affects. We strongly condemn the views he has expressed. https://t.co/Um9Teu7Ryn

— Transcend Australia (@transcend_aust) September 5, 2018

I am glad he’ll resign never having implemented his Religious Discrimination Bill, which would have unnecessarily divided the community, and increased discrimination against women, LGBTQ people, people with disability & people from minority faiths. #auspol https://t.co/qh39FZnhOj

— Alastair Lawrie (@alawriedejesus) January 23, 2024

Scott Morrison’s resignation will spark a byelection in his southern Sydney seat of Cook.

In May, he will release a memoir Plans for Your Good – A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness.

The book, with a foreword written by Mike Pence, will reportedly reveal how Morrison’s Christian faith influenced his politics.

Read also:

Scott Morrison: Australia’s Religious Freedom PM & Minister for Everything

Scott Morrison urges trust in God over government in sermon at Margaret Court’s church

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s nasty, duplicitous, nutty behaviour

Prime Minister Scott Morrison: from friendly fire to backfires

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