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'In Dubai, it's Abu Dhabi, or as we say in Perth, Abu Derby'— RIP Dennis Cometti
Dennis Cometti has died. Overseas readers won't know him, but for Australians he was our Red Barber, our Jim Nantz, our Peter Drury.
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE #61 — 'Singing for me is sweet relief', Meg Washington's TEDx talk, 2014
My guest on the podcast is singer-songwriter-screenwriter Meg Washington, whose TED talk on stuttering and the power of singing has had three million…
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'I am somebody' — RIP Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)
A civil rights titan and one of the greatest speakers of all time has died, aged 84. .
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'That's my stick' — Rob Carlton's story about a meaningful object
Ten years ago today, Australian Silver Logie winning actor Rob Carlton participated in my Wheeler Centre night called 'Show and Tell for Grown Ups'. He…
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'I esteem foreigners no better than other people, not any worse' — Abraham Lincoln, Ohio, 1861
On this day in 1861, America's greatest Republican president, America's greatest president, spoke to a German immigrant crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio. He…
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'Without commitment you'll never start. Without consistency, you'll never finish'
Denzel Washington's 2017 NAACP Image Awards Acceptance is one of the shortest speeches on Speakola, yet the seventh most viewed speech in the history of…
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'Goodbye, my beautiful girl'
Last month, I watched Australian screenwriter Adam Zwar deliver a eulogy for his writer/director wife, Amanda Brotchie. It was a near perfect piece of…
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