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Schoolies week

It’s been a tough couple of years for high school graduates across Australia. Learning from home, cancelled school formals and exams with the added stress

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Making a barry

When’s the last time you made a barry, that is, a blunder or terrible mistake? The shortened form of Barry Crocker, barry is rhyming slang for shocker,

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The when of Easter

The origin of the word Easter is quite straightforward: Middle English ester, Old English ēastre, originally, name of goddess associated with the vernal equinox; distantly

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