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Aussie Life

Aussie life

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

‘Where did all the poof readers go?’ is not a question which would make it into many Australian publications. I say this not because The Spectator Australia is a haven for writers with a penchant for outdated and offensive nomenclature, but because the software most Australian publications now depend on for their proofreading would have either auto-corrected one word of that sentence or red-flagged it as a hate crime.

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