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go cards lock up users' funds

Go card penalises wary transport users

March 10, 2013by reporting4work 2 Comments

WHAT is it with “a lot” of Translink’s go cards expiring before the cash stored on them has been spent? And why, when this happens, should commuters be forced to […]

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Style matters #4: When ‘wake’ is a fright

March 10, 2013by reporting4work 1 Comment

Increasingly we are reading/hearing the phrase “in the wake of …” If one is referring to the disturbed water behind a boat, then that’s fine. For everything else, why not […]

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Style matters #3: Where did ‘fewer’ get to?

March 10, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]

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Style matters #2: Slicing the ‘e’ off swathe

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While working as a sub-editor, an erudite colleague once pointed out to me that while we say – and more often write – the word swathe (which rhymes with lathe) as […]

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Turkish bowls at a Brisbane CBD market

Is Australia surrendering its egalitarianism?

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TWO very close friends are off on an extended European holiday later this year and last week asked, via email, whether there was any truth in a rather alarming article […]

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Crowd at opening of Bee Gees Way at Redcliffe on February 14, 2013

Crowd control must start with the individual

February 21, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

WHAT is it about big crowds that they seem to be magnets for the ill-mannered almost every time? Recently I stood amid thousands of Barry Gibb fans just to hear […]

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Style matters #1: ‘Myriad’ never married ‘of’

February 21, 2013by reporting4work 1 Comment

How many times have you seen a sentence that contained a phrase such as “We were attacked by a myriad of insects and …” OR “They loved him in a myriad of […]

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