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Posts by Author: Wicking
110 published posts by Wicking.
Ned the Bear gets an iPad
Yep. Ned is back for another crack at internet stardom.
Posted in Ned the Bear
Ned the Bear and the r-word
This one features gratuitous swearing so I'm linking to it rather than posting directly on Troppo. Don't want to lower the tone around here too much. Probably not safe for work.
Posted in Ned the Bear
Ned the Bear and the stimulus package
Yes, Ned the Bear is back. Again. After an exceptionally busy 2008, Ned now has time on his paws, so much time, in fact, that he has started his own blog , where Ned will attempt to appear daily. (Well, Monday to Friday, at least.) Of course, on particularly cranky days Ned wi...
Posted in Ned the Bear
Chewing the fat
When I was a boy growing up in Sydney - and this is the 60s we're talking about here - I often spent school holidays at my grandmother's house in the western suburbs. Generally speaking, it wasn't much fun. My grandmother never had any money. There was a box on the wall out th...
Posted in Economics and public policy, Food
Behind the Lines
The National Museum of Australia has launched its annual Behind The Lines exhibition, featuring the work of the country's top editorial cartoonists. (I didn't submit anything this year so I'm not in it.) This year's review covers everything from the NT Intervention to Kevin 07...
Posted in Media
Ned the Bear starts a blog
Meet Ned the Bear. He's cranky. He's orange. He's a cartoon bear. Ned will appear two or three times a week right here, until such time as some giant, megalithic media conglomerate offers me money for him.
Posted in Ned the Bear
New to Channel 7 this summer!
[photopress:kimbo.jpg,full,pp_empty] FEDERAL Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has committed a major blunder , confusing grieving TV host Rove McManus with White House strategist Karl Rove.
Posted in Uncategorised
24/7 news channel for NZ
[photopress:nz_news.jpg,full,pp_empty] New Zealand is to get its first 24-hour news channel. News 24 will be launched late next year. Of course, it will be 24-hour news from 1950.
Posted in Uncategorised
Cat lady
[photopress:cat_lady.jpg,full,pp_empty] Time for a cartoon, methinks.
Posted in Uncategorised
This just in
[photopress:robson.jpg,full,pp_empty] TodayTonight host Naomi Robson was trying to get to Papua to save the life of a young boy earmarked to be eaten by a tribe of cannibals, an industry source claims. They're kidding, right?
Posted in Uncategorised, Humour
Waiter!
[photopress:snap.jpg,full,pp_empty] Take it from me, snapping your fingers at a waiter does not work.
Posted in Uncategorised
The secret life of us
[photopress:inflate_a_man.jpg,full,pp_empty] We have a lot of sex shops here in Darwin for some reason...
Posted in Uncategorised
Back to the beach
[photopress:beach.jpg,full,pp_empty] The Top End's dry season officially starts next Monday, the 1st of May, which I point out solely as an excuse to run a cartoon to see how it copes with this new-fangled layout.
Posted in Uncategorised
Offensive cartoon, hopefully
[photopress:cross.jpg,full,pp_empty] Feel free to be offended by the above. I could use the publicity. Have a top Easter everyone.
Posted in Uncategorised
Blue singlet blues
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Light relief
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Deep North Dispatch #5
[photopress:triviaman.jpg,full,pp_empty] A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this sort of thing. May contain cane toads and/or crocodiles. Brokeback Territory Territorians...
Deep North Dispatch #4
[photopress:full.jpg,full,pp_empty] A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this sort of thing. May contain cane toads and/or crocodiles. SCAREDY CROCS The Top End's crocodiles...
Educational toys
[photopress:record.jpg,full,pp_empty] TEACHERS who express radical left-wing views in the classroom are facing a new tactic in America: conservative parents are encouraging students to make recordings of their views. The use of micro-recording devices, often in mobile phones o...
Deep North Dispatch #3
A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this sort of thing. May contain cane toads and/or crocodiles. JUST THE TICKET The NT Government has been losing hundreds of thousands of...
Deep North Dispatch #2
A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this sort of thing. May contain cane toads and/or crocodiles. DING DONG Darwin military police are hunting for a serial flasher who is t...
Posted in Life, Print media, Politics - Northern Territory, Media
Deep North Dispatch #1
A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this sort of thing. May contain cane toads and/or crocodiles. SUPER TOAD Cane toads on the rampage across the Top End are evolving rapid...
Posted in Humour, Politics - Northern Territory, Media