The Best Australian Humorous Writing
By: edited by Andrew O'Keefe & Steve Vizard
Publisher: Melbourne University Press; x15 PTY Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780522859195; 9780522855944
Subjects: Australian wit and humor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-269).

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Table of contents: label: Introduction / Andrew O'Keefe and Steeve Vizard
title: xi; title: Everyday Life; label: Teacherwoman / Olga Pavlinova Olenich
title: 3; label: Torn between satay skewers and children as an endangered species / Wendy Harmer
title: 11; label: Lover is never saying sorry... so there / Danny Katz
title: 15; label: Listen up, you selfish and ignorant people. Stop driving 4WDs / Catherine Deveny
title: 18; label: Song of the crestfallen pigeon / Suzanne Edgar
title: 21; label: My 2UE producer noticed a tendency for me to nod off during interviews. In my own defence, they lined up some boring farts / Phillip Adams
title: 23; label: My father sat on Winston Churchill / Shaun Micallef
title: 26; label: Idle hands make for short nails / Julia Zemiro
title: 30; label: My loyal subjects and possums! A seasonal message from President Edna / Dame Edna Everage
title: 33; title: Politics; label: Phoarr, check out the policies on Julia Gillard / Kaz Cooke
title: 39; label: The right wing / Guy Rundle
title: 42; label: The pollies went a little crackers / Mungo MacCallum
title: 51; label: All is not lost when you can see success in anything / Frank Devine
title: 56; label: Er, thanks for your support. No, don't call us, we'll call you / Marieke Hardy
title: 59; label: Don't worry, just testing / Guy Rundle
title: 62; title: Society; label: Adventures in LA-Land / Mark Dapin
title: 69; label: Fame / Les Murray
title: 81; label: Seven modern wonders indeed? I think not / Roy Slaven
title: 82; label: Corporatising culture: Who holds the pat in common trust? / Malcolm Knox
title: 85; label: The perfectly bad sentence / Clive James
title: 97; label: In from a busy day at Barwon Jail, Carl asks for a fair go / Shane Maloney
title: 103; title: Environment, Science and Technology; label: On climate change / Clive James
title: 109; label: Contact / Paul Mitchell
title: 115; label: Planet Earth: Beware of the chimps / Kaz Cooke
title: 116; label: Modern telecoms runs rings around me / Barry Cohen
title: 119; title: Popular Entertainment; label: I came, I buzzed, I lost / David Astle
title: 125; label: You just know it will be deliciously messy / Ian Cuthbertson
title: 133; label: Madonna's latest offering leaves listener pondering: Just because she can, does it mean she should? / Larissa Dubecki
title: 135; label: A time to repent: Big Brother's over / Marieke Hardy
title: 138; label: Lashings of lust curved up by Nigella / Marieke Hardy
title: 141; label: Interview with Ja'mie King / Garry Williams
title: 144; label: The Chaser's Logies / Andrew Hansen, Dominic Knight, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucastel
title: 146; title: The Arts; label: Cook's tour: Peter Cook / Shane Maloney
title: 155; label: The satire we had to have: Keating / Alexander Downer
title: 163; label: So Ian McKellen drops his trousers to play King Lear. That sums up the RSC's whole approach / Germaine Greer
title: 166; label: Group giggles groovy again / Rod Quantock
title: 169; title: Business; label: Packed it in: The demist ofthe Bulletin / Gideon Haigh
title: 177; label: It's a loathe-hate relationship, but at least I own a slice / Frank Devine
title: 201; label: Lies, damned lies / Charles Firth
title: 204; title: Sport; label: Pump more ber, iron out muscle / Matthew Hardy
title: 211; label: Having a ball: How we finally fell in love with the world game / Tony Wilson
title: 214; title: Lifestyle; label: A bookworm's-eye view of the world around us / Charles Firth
title: 229; label: The Library hotel, Thailand, and other hip hotels / Steve Vizard
title: 232; label: Who cares if he can't sing and can't dance? Posh Spice is the Damien Hirst of dress-wearing / Germaine Greer
title: 242; label: Fashion pinkoes are the fifth columnists of masculinity / Peter Lalor
title: 245; label: Silence of the lamb / John Lethlean
title: 248; label: Telly tubbies / John Lethlean
title: 251; label: Rude food / Graeme Blundell
title: 255; label: Contributors
title: 259; label: Acknowledgements
title: 266