Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re now at the end of the year, so let’s see how we went.
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You might also want to listen to our half-time update from July.
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A platypus of many talents. Interested in politics, food, pop music & basketball.
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[1 January 2024] On New Year’s Eve Snarky Platypus and I created this bingo card for 2024 listing 25 distinctly possible things. And we list another 25 possibilities that didn’t make the cut.
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[8 July 2024] Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.
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[26 December 2024] Stunning Bronte Beach, in the exclusive eastern suburbs, was overrun on Christmas Day for the second year in a row by thousands of people. Despite being an alcohol-free zone, residents said drunk revellers urinated in people’s gardens and caused chaos well into the night.
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The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of race riots in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It began in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on 11 December, and spread over to additional suburbs the next few nights.
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The byline (or by-line in British English) on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name of the writer of the article.
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[26 December 2024] The Gavin and Stacey finale attracted an average of 12.3 million TV viewers - the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, overnight data shows. The new Wallace and Gromit film also attracted a large audience on BBC One, with more than 9 million viewers tuning in to watch the animated duo's latest adventure.
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Our Trends and developments in viewing and listening report explores the Australian broadcasting and digital media landscape in 2023–24. It highlights the developments in the supply and use of media infrastructure and services.
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[11 May 2024] A collaborative effort between Harvard researchers and Google AI experts took the deepest dive yet into neural mapping with the recent full imaging and mapping of the brain sample, making puzzling discoveries and utilizing incredible technology
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The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It started in 1990 and was completed in 2003.
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[6 November 2024] Two drill rigs, installed on barges, have started work on the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn and at Brisbane Water near Gosford
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The NBA investigate the feasibility of a very fast train connecting Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane.
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[3 June 2024] The 93-year-old marries 67-year-old Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist.
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[28 December 2024] John Pesutto's ham-fisted expulsion of Moira Deeming was just the latest front in long-running struggles.
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On 18 March 2023, Deeming spoke at an anti-trans rally, which she helped British anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull organise in Melbourne. The rally was also attended by the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network (NSN) and its leader Thomas Sewell. The neo-Nazis repeatedly engaged in Nazi salutes and carried far-right extremist banners (including one that compared transgender people to paedophiles), which sparked clashes with counter protesters who attended the rally.
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[28 August 2024] A world-first treaty with Australia ensures Tuvalu’s statehood will continue, even in the face of a climate catastrophe... In November 2023, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and then Prime Minister of Tuvalu Kausea Natano signed the Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union. This week, with the support of Natano’s successor Feleti Teo, the treaty entered into force.
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Australia and Nauru have signed a new treaty that will lock other nations out of providing security or critical infrastructure to the island nation. The deal has been inked as Australia competed with China for influence in the Pacific.
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Nauru (/n???u?ru?/ nah-OO-roo or /?na?ru?/ NOW-roo; Nauruan: Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru (Nauruan: Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific.
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The Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Management of Fisheries of Common Interest, or The Nauru Agreement is an Oceania subregional agreement between the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. The eight signatories collectively control 25–30% of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60% of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.
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This interactive database tracks and maps aid and development finance flows from the international community to the Pacific Islands region. The research covers Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, with complete data from 2008 to 2022.
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[27 November 2024] Outgoing Neighbours star Lucinda Cowden says not knowing about the show's future is proving difficult for writers, cast and crew.
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[2 August 2022] In the extraordinary clip, which has gained attention on YouTube after the series finale last week, Jim Robinson's daughter Julie Martin (played by Julie Mullins) accuses the Lim family of eating her missing dog.
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"Rapture" is the first single the New York-based dance music duo iiO. Released in 2001, the single became a huge dancefloor hit in the US and also peaked at number 2 on the UK singles chart. It was included on iiO's debut album, Poetica.
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Jinn (Arabic: ?????), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds and can be either believers (Muslims) or disbelievers (kafir), depending on whether they accept God's guidance.
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Gin (/d??n/) is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients.
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Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin (then a generic term for grain-based distilled spirits) as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer.
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[21 April 2028] After a short cold walk around the hotel in the morning, the first full day in Murmansk was a drive to Teriberka (?????????) to see the Arctic Ocean. That wasn’t just long but also plain white and full of snow. And it was worth the ride. [See also the posts either side of this one.]
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[14 December 2024] The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States.
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[19 December 2024] A major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile killing in the United States.
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[20 December 2024] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend next month's ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Poland, citing concerns that he could be arrested due to the warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court last month.
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A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the oldest and most widely respected newspapers in the world. The number and trend of "newspapers of record by reputation" is related to the state of press freedom and political freedom in a country.
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[25 July 2024] During the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024), being held in Munich, Germany, a new case of long HIV remission was reported and fuels optimism for an eventual HIV cure.
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[27 December 2024] South Korea’s acting president faces an impeachment vote on Dec 27, intensifying a political crisis as the Constitutional Court meets for its first hearing on suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law declared on Dec 3.
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[6 December 2024] Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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[25 August 2024] City leader Lee and education secretary Christine Choi dismiss claims the advice, which includes playing badminton to curb sexual urges, is ‘unrealistic’
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[26 August 2024] Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused.
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John Lee Ka-chiu GBM SBS PDSM PMSM (Chinese: ???; born 7 December 1957) is a Hong Kong politician and former police officer who is the fifth and current chief executive of Hong Kong.
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John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church... According to Encyclopædia Britannica, his "development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry, with the founding and the culmination of the global conglomeration brand of Kellogg's (now Kellanova)."
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Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
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CONVERSATION TOPICS: Andrew Best, Gay Rainbow Anarchist, Paul McElwee, and two people who choose to remain anonymous.
THREE TRIGGER WORDS: Bernard Walsh, Joanna Forbes, kofeyh, Mark Newton, Paul Williams, and two people who choose to remain anonymous.
WE WILL, WE WILL JUDGE YOU: David Porteous, John Lindsay, Peter Wickins, and Trent Yarwood. This is one of the two new rewards for the Untitled Music Podcast with Snarky Platypus, two pilot episodes of which we’ll produce in January. Send us your three-song playlist and we’ll play a bit of each one and judge your taste.
ONE TRIGGER WORD: Andrew Kennedy, Andrew M, Bic Smith, Bruce Hardie, Frank Filippone, Joop de Wit, Kit Biggs, Mark Newton, Michael, Michael Cowley, Mindy Johnson, Miriam Faye, Nicole Coombe, Oliver Townshend, Peter Blakeley, Peter McCrudden, Ric Hayman, Rohan Pearce, Shane Perris, Tom Carding, Tom Carding again, and one person who chooses to remain anonymous.
RECOMMEND A SONG TO US: Kimberley Heitman and Rhydwyn. This is the other new reward linked to the Untitled Music Podcast. In 25 words or less tell us why we should like a song and we’ll play it and tell you what we think.
PERSONALISED VIDEO MESSAGE: kofeyh.
PERSONALISED AUDIO MESSAGE: Ben Harris-Roxas, Matthew Tayloe, Michael Harris, and two people who choose to remain anonymous.
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MEDIA FREEDOM CITIZENS who contributed a BASIC TIP: Two people who choose to remain anonymous.
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