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[edit]Hi. You voted for Military history of Australia during World War II which has now been selected as Australian collaboration of the fortnight. Please help to improve the article. --Scott Davis Talk 15:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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I've created a page Prosh (University of Adelaide) and moved the page Prosh to Prosh (University of Western Australia). Ozdaren 15:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit]I sincerely want to thank you for your response to our response to the Duthie article. I've seen plenty of editors react much worse to the "rejection" of an article, so whilst we disagree on what our preferred outcome is, at least we are all still talking civilly to each other! Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 12:58, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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The Most Significant Cultural and Historic Urban developments in Australia.
[edit]Hi Ian Page I thought you might be interested in:-
The Gateway Site
[edit]Landing Site of the First Fleet 26th January 1788.
Buried in the basement carpark of a commercial tower built to profit the rich, under the guise of political correctness.
East Circular Quay
The Sydney Opera House Precinct.
[edit]The "toaster" obliterates views of the Sydney Opera House from the main pedestrian approach. Public Land worth at least $375,000,000.00 sold to developers for $5,000,000.00.
Historians don't seem to be interested. Reconciliation on the Australia Day date, and on location, might be better than trying to hide the history that isn't going change. Discussions with other Wikipedia editors seem to suggest that articles created by myself, would fall under the category of not being neutral (NPOV), because of my extensive published involvement in these historic developments. However, I have been allowed the courtesy of airing my views on my user page, Viz:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony_Rodi Neither of these recent developments will outlast their respective histories. Both the Sydney Opera House, and the Landing Site of the First Fleet will outlive the present short sighted impositions. Please feel free to delete this entry on your talk page if you find it inappropriate. Tony Rodi (talk) 01:52, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Inbye
[edit]This is a precise mining term meaning towards the coal face and away from the shafts. Hence those miners who were inbye of the fire were trapped. See Merriam Webster for example. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 15:36, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
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