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  • ...interested. We can only admire their straightforward point of view. Poets? satirists? philosophers? comedians? social commentators? Derek and Clive sum it up mo ...orian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=88}}<
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  • ...[[Rosedale, New South Wales]], near [[Batemans Bay]].<ref name="ABCNSW">[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] South East NSW website [http://www.abc.net.au/so [[Category:English satirists]]
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  • ...be|cVBV7e0ksXg|Amazin' Man}}</ref> The record stayed for 12 weeks in the [[Australian Singles Chart]], peaking at number 26. In 1975, Bird took the part of Mr Re [[Category:English satirists]]
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  • ...try his luck in Australia. Moving there, he worked with [[Digby Wolfe]] on Australian television, becoming Wolfe's resident comedian. ...However, only six months after his television début he was banned from the Australian airwaves when, during a live broadcast, he told his show's producer—who h
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  • ...ries''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|AO|CBE}} (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian [[comedian]], [[actor]], [[author]] and [[satirist]]. He is best known for ...a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Victoria|Moonee Ponds]] housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over fou
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  • ...inst Republican nominee Senator [[Barry M. Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]]. The satirists sang that Goldwater could not win because he "does not know the dance of th An Australian show, ''[[The Mavis Bramston Show]]'', aired from 1964 to 1968 on the [[Sev
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  • ...theatre and sit there listening to a group of sappy, urgent, vibrant young satirists with a stupid great grin spread all over my silly face", ''Tragically I Was Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor [[Barry Humphries]], who began his British solo career a
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  • ...central figure in the [[Profumo affair|Profumo scandal]] of 1963. For the Australian publisher, this was a bruising encounter, although Frost said that he had n In February 2009, Frost was featured on the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s international affairs programme ''[[Foreign C
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  • ...orian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=73}}< [[Category:English satirists]]
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  • ...homeland. He married her in 1968. He also had several series of his own on Australian television, ''Don’t Adjust Your Set – The Programme is at Fault'' and ' [[Category:English satirists]]
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