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CNWB
About

CNWB is a wikipedian from Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Perth in 1973 and lived briefly in Adelaide before his family moved to Melbourne in the late 1970s. CNWB is currently teaching History and English at a public high school in Melbourne's western suburbs. He enjoys a short gin and tonic with freshly squeezed lime, strong coffee, Coopers Sparkling Ale, and pinot noir. His favourite spice is cumin, his favourite herb is coriander, his favourite spice-mix is za'atar. His user page design was ripped off from User:Vague Rant.


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Wikipedia involvement

CNWB has been a member of the Wikipedia community since 1 July 2004, and an administrator since 4 December 2005. He enjoys writing and contributing to articles about Melbourne and Victoria, Australia. You can often find him lurking at the Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, patrolling New Pages, checking Proposed Deletions, copyediting, speedy-deleting, and other assorted tasks, and updating his ever-increasing Task List. Here is a gallery of photos uploaded to Commons, and an older gallery of stuff here.


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Italo Calvino

...who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable...

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.

Jean-François Lyotard

No self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations now more complex and mobile than ever before... one is always located at a post through which various kinds of messages pass

Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays his parts...

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

John Peel

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise.'

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27 August 2024 –
Australian Police and New Zealand Police announce they have concluded a joint illicit drug operation that resulted in 1,611 arrests and 2,962 charges nationwide. The police also confiscated almost 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of illicit drugs and over 2,500 cannabis plants, worth 93 million AUD (US$63 million). (DW)
25 August 2024 –
Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody. (Reuters)
15 August 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Peter Dutton, the leader of Australia’s Liberal Party, calls on the Australian government to ban the entry of Palestinian refugees fleeing from conflict in the Gaza Strip, which is met with significant condemnation from several politicians and organizations as promoting racial stereotypes. (ABC Australia) (Al Jazeera)
SBS World News reports that the Australian government has rejected a majority of Palestinian visa applications, accepting 2,922 applications and rejecting 7,111 applications while granting 8,746 visas to Israeli citizens and rejecting only 235 applications. (Al Jazeera)
12 August 2024 –
One person is killed and several others are injured when a helicopter stolen from Cairns Airport crashes into a hotel in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. (The Guardian)
7 August 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics
French police detain Australian field hockey player Tom Craig for allegedly purchasing cocaine. (DW)


World News
Typhoon Yagi over the South China Sea
Typhoon Yagi over the South China Sea
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