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Diary Australia

Diary

14 January 2017

9:00 AM

14 January 2017

9:00 AM

My two sons, aged 16 and 14, are at the wonderful stage where, in the sharp-humoured traditions of Australian larrikinism, they love to pick apart my parental authority. I feel like the Seinfeld character Babu Bhatt, the hapless Pakistani restaurateur complaining of how, ‘All they do is mock me: always mocking, mocking, mocking.’

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