10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATBAGGERY»
Discover the use of
ratbaggery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ratbaggery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Best Australian Poems 2013
... inClassical Chinese Love Poems' also appears inAustralian Love Poems 2013
, edited by Mark Tredinnick (Inkerman & Blunt, 2013). Cameron Lowe's 'Riseand
Shine' appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 41.1: Ratbaggery, 2013.
2
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 53, 1992 ratbaggery
noun behaviour which is eccentric, despicable or otherwise contemptible
AUSTRALIA, 1943 • Hence ratbaggery, anything un-Aussie or un-normal.—
Arthur chipper ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
3
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State
In this 1991 book, the first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to the empowering of a certain ...
4
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives
It is simply a cover for an opportunity to reward a piece of ratbaggery. When we
look at the definitions of terms in the report, we see that it is simply that: a piece of
ratbaggery. Ratbaggery, by definition, must be withdrawn. The proposition here ...
Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1993
5
The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism
It is seen as political correctness gone mad, or radical, left-wing ratbaggery.
Women we know mutter about the unfairness but swiftly justify the division of
labour at home with the fact their husband is the main income earner or just takes
too ...
Jane Caro, Catherine Fox, 2008
6
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier
33 A respondent to a survey of cabinet leadership describes him as 'an enigma',
adding that, for most of the time, he was a 'benevolent dictator' but could also be
a mixture of 'excitement, ratbaggery and down-right vindictiveness'.34 Bill ...
7
Topics on General and Formal Ontology
For a while, in the 1980s, I toyed with internal realism, and earned myself a bit of
a reputation for ratbaggery, as Putnam did on very different grounds. He had
come to his position independently through formal semantics, and theorising
about ...
8
Talking Politics: A Wordbook
So, setting aside anti-humanitarian ratbaggery, the predicate '...is in the general
interest' is defeasibly endorsing. Defeasibly because one can, without
inconsistency and without committing oneself to some antihumanitarian outlook ...
Smithy had never once broken his word to me across the years of ratbaggery. If
he said he‟d be there, he was. Drunk and stumbling or otherwise. If we planned
a day, he never failed to show, whether grounded and in trouble already, ...
10
The Daughters of Mars: A Novel
No, don't dare protest. You have been calm and brave and solid. And better able
to govern yourself than others have been. What about your own courage? What
about you breaking in to see Nettice? They were acts of pure ratbaggery.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RATBAGGERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
ratbaggery is used in the context of the following news items.
Andrew Gaze shows how to be a class player and also have class
There is no medal anywhere for ratbaggery. Not of alcohol abuse, not a Stilnox hijinks. Not a public brawl with officials. Not a charge of foul and menacing play. «The Australian, Jul 15»
What really went on at Brandis' terror talkfest
No-one who goes DAESH sprang from the green turf fully lobotomised - they would have been nurtured in the Petrie dish of religious ratbaggery in the first place ... «Crikey, Jun 15»
Lessons from London and Copenhagen on how local councils could …
Sure, such sackings rest on the ratbaggery of councils themselves. But it's the sackings that cause the ratbaggery, more than vice versa, by keeping local ... «The Age, May 15»
Kane has earned his England call-up but the U21s will need him at …
When you didn't feel compelled to defend them on social media in the face of overwhelming evidence of ratbaggery. And long may it continue. But while he ... «ESPN FC, Mar 15»
Nick Kyrgios – give a kid a break
But whatever Kyrgios' shenanigans, they don't exactly register on the Richter scale compared to the genuine ratbaggery dished out with impunity by your ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
Memewhile ... how cats won the internet (and helped kickstart the …
The clips implied corruption and high-level ratbaggery. The response of the Tunisian authorities was to block access to the service. Not many Tunisians saw the ... «Stuff.co.nz, Dec 14»
GDP: What are you going to do about it, Joe Hockey?
So the government's hands have been tied by its ratbaggery in opposition and the ideological fervour of its key supporters. The good news is that this is no ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 14»
Book review: Molly Meldrum recalls his days on Countdown
Yet the whole thing hung together: underneath the chaos there was a sharp mind and good pop taste. Maybe the ratbaggery worked for him as much as against ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 14»
The Whip, the Lash, and the Blood, Sweat and Semen of Jazz
Mr M. for example, let the class's ratbaggery unhinge him to such an extent that he picked up a table and hurled it at a student. (Sure, the kid ached to be ... «The Conversation AU, Nov 14»
Labor shows a weakness for ratbaggery
For close to 12 years, since Mark Latham was elevated to the Labor leadership on December 2, 2003, the Labor Party has had a weakness for ratbaggery from ... «The Age, Sep 14»
