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EXCUSES! EXCUSES! In the first entry of ‘The Complete Perks’ in January, I quite pointedly suggested that the first month of the year was littered with the promise of blogs that had foundered on the rocks of May. As it has transpired, this subscriber chronicle barely stumbled…
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I currently have the great pleasure of reading Sharon Connolly’s wonderful book ‘My Giddy Aunt.’ The book was inspired by opening a zither case that belonged to her great aunt, a professional whistler and comedian, who plied her trade across Australia & New Zealand, beginning a…
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THE PROMISE OF JANUARY The extended family have returned to their various corners of the country; the browning, pinus radiata has been dumped on the nature strip and the supermarket mince tarts have been replaced by hot cross buns: It’s mid-January and it’s time to commit to that…
The first real test for any university student is negotiating the wilfully confusing maps that are dotted randomly around the campus. The large red spot indicating ‘you are here’ unhelpfully reminding you that ‘you are not where you need to be.’ Some students become so…

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Extracts from the autobiography of the second son of a Queensland cattle farmer.
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On June 30th, 1984, on what was his 60th birthday, my dad retired as Principal of Macleod High School in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. He’d worked…
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"DARCY UP" THE DIALOGUE. With the Complete Perks Blog in its infancy and barely able to walk without holding on to a sturdy piece of furniture, there…
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( The author with Piper Graham) The hamlet of Savernake sits in the south eastern most reaches of NSW’s Riverina in the Federation Shire, about 30kms…
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The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan

Here you'll been given unfettered access to the pithy musings, early drafts, tour diaries, court transcripts & general news relating to comedian, actor & writer Damian Callinan.
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