• Hazel has not been far from my mind since she was diagnosed with dementia. She was a wonderfully down to earth, smiling example of an Australian woman who worked tirelessly for her family and her country. My thoughts are with her family today. Hazel will be remembered for a very long time, for all the right reasons. Vale Hazel. - Nel Matheson
  • My laugh for today. Wonderful, bonkers questions! Ah Kaz, there's lots more material out there for you to harvest! Great books. - Nel Matheson
  • Enjoyed the article immensely. I think that journalists will always be viewed from an individuals perspective and biased viewpoint, no matter how hard the journo tries to keep it fair and reasonable. I do have a problem when I see TV journos going for the jugular, not allowing the interviewee to finish a statement or sentence, and for aggressive questioning. But on the other hand, it's frustrating when interviewees constantly block, sidestep and waffle on without any intention of accurately responding to the question. I wouldn't want a journalists job for all the tea in China, as they say! You have my sincere admiration for the work you do. - Nel Matheson
  • She was accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. - Penster
  • Emma, would you please arrange an interview with one of the many members of the IPA who comment regularly on the ABC, and probe them relentlessly to admit where they obtain their funding from – oil, tobacco Companies etc.?, and how they have so successfully infiltrated the ABC and obtained ‘credible commentator’ status on all major current affairs TV and Radio programs. The IPA is the propaganda machine of the Liberal Party with USA Tea Party aspirations, and should be introduced as such whenever they appear on ABC programs. I have tried complaining and been told about the necessity for balance …I find that hard to believe when I observe an IPA member sitting beside a failed Coalition politician with both spreading anti-Government bias which rarely gets checked. - JoanneH
  • Vale Hazel Hawke Thank you for your amazing gifts in so many areas of your life from health, social justice, music, helping the disadvantaged and so much more. The most important was your being an incredible mother and role model to your children. I have just watched my next door neighbour being removed after dying this morning aged about 87, and the fantastic relationship he had with his 5 children and extended family, he was a kind and good man. This reminds me in the end, we can be remembered for the love we gave and received or all the other things eg if we were cruel or did bad things and caused others harm. I send my heartfelt sympathies to your children and their families and your dear friends . With light and love PS Hazel should have a state funeral so all Australians especially our young understand who she was one and her role in helping to shape our Australia today and into the future. - Daria
  • Sorry... one more thing.... Isn't there a push by some quarters of the Liberal Party (in Victoria, I think) to completely privatise the ABC (and SBS?)? They just hate ALL public broadcasting. A few nights ago, I saw the tail end of TT or ACA (both look the same to me, so I can't really say which one it was!). The drivel on that show.... My goodness, I shudder at the thought of the ABC going downhill like that. Or SBS. We've got to keep fighting the good fight in favour of good, unbiased, publicly-funded broadcasting. It's the only thing between us and the barbarians. If that's a 'lefty' opinion, well, bad luck. Good people like Emma Alberici would be toast in a completely privatised ABC. - Lydia
  • Thanks, Emma. I really like your work - and your attitude. Your interviewing is exemplary and you always strive to present and interrogate the different views on an issue. I can only say that I wish there were more journos like you. Most should not even call themselves 'journalists', because all they write/say is thinly veiled opinion. I don't think any journalist at the ABC is particularly biased in favour of green/left/progressive politics, but I am noticing increasingly angry interviews by Uhlmann especially - it's like they have to 'prove' they are not biased in favour of Labor or the Greens, so they go at them, hammer and tongs. I saw an interview with Bob Brown (Uhlmann) a few months ago - about the Sea Shepherd stuff - and it was just accusation after angry accusation. I don't think Bob Brown got a fair go at all. It's very annoying. There's no point shouting people down to try and make a point about your own views - I wish more journalists would remember that! As you say, Emma, it's about uncovering truth (the facts) and not about YOU. - Lydia
  • Oh Hazel ! You great icon you deserve your rest enjoy your peace and please watch over our polies and guide them to find the moral compass that you lived by ox much love to your family and Ill pray for the love and light to find them always . Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooo Nelly a great admirer - Nelly Dean
  • Oh Kaz, there once was a greeting card of yours with a band on the front called "Pre-Mentstrual As Anything" complete with keyboard player collapsed over the instrument and copious tissues on stage. I bought 10 copies of it and have only just signed away my last one! I'm hoping you might have a menopause one that tickles my fancy just as much. Love your work! - sherbetgirl
 
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Categories:  Entertainment, News and Opinion

ALAN BROUGH’S FRIDAY QUIZ

By Alan Brough
August 10, 2012

On Monday the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars.

The Curiosity Rover is a nuclear-powered portable science lab about the size of a small car which will rove around Mars looking for signs of life.

To celebrate this wonderful event here is a quiz about all things Mars.

1. The planet Mars is named after Mars, the Roman god of…

a) War
b) Red Heads
c) Mars
d) The Sea

 

 

2.Why is Mars red?
a) Rust
b) Red wine stains
c) Sunburn
d) Red hair

3. Which of these is NOT an actual variety of Mars Bar?
a) Mars Midnight
b) Mars Lava
c) Mars Fling
d) Mars XXX

4. What is this?

5. Cee Lo Green’s mega-hit “F–k You” was co-written by singer-songwriter Peter Gene Hernandez, better known as…
a) Mars Bar
b) Bruno Mars
c) P.G. Hernandez
d) John Smith

6. In 1985 which Australian band released the album Mars Needs Guitars?

7. Which of these movies aren’t set on Mars?
a) Total Recall
b) John Carter
c) Martian Child
d) Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

8. True or False: starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will begin Project Virgle, a quest to establish the first permanent human colony on Mars?

9. Which classic David Bowie track, described as a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dali painting, was actually inspired by Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”?

10. You are the first person to set foot on Mars and this is the first Martian you meet.

In 25 words or less: snog, marry or avoid and why? (The best answer wins a prize. Leave your answer in the comments below.)

See next page for answers>>

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13 Responses to this article

  1. Stephen August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Avoid. Anyone who has teeth as perfect as that have something to hide

     
  2. Bronwen August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry. An asteroid is going to hit the earth, right?

     
  3. AJ August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry of course! With my IQ and his big brain imagine the potential of the offspring! Pinkie, we’re going to take over the world!

     
  4. RES August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Sounds like my life, first snogging, then marriage and now avoiding. Probably be the same on Mars. Alan – congrats on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

     
  5. Wendy Harmer August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Avoid… if your planet really looks like this! AMAZING!!
    http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

     
  6. Fiona August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry and reproduce. Our children would have the ultimate dual citizenship.

     
  7. Sarah Boggs August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    SNOGGING IS THE BEST STILL MARRIED (MY HUSBAND WON’T DIVORCE ) AVOID HARD CAUSE DON’T KNOW IF HE ZAP YOU THAT’S NOT GOOD AT FIRST MEETING.

     
  8. Susan August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Take it to meet my parents at the cemetry. I still need their approval-it looks like it would fit in with their new circle of friends.

     
  9. Trystyn August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry. From a distance I thought it was Tony Abbot! Dodged a bullet there…

     
  10. Julia August 10, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry – I’m very attracted to high cheekbones, perfect pearly whites and a HUGE pre-frontal cortex.

     
  11. Melanie August 11, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry. I would then be the ultimate in political correction perfection with my intergalactic marriage and my 2.2 interplanetary little Humanoid/Marslings.

     
  12. moiby August 11, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Avoid. No nose is a dead giveaway.

     
  13. Jennie August 13, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Marry, then bring him back to earth and hit the talk show circuit. I’ll never have to work again once I’ve sold the book and film rights, and with any luck he’ll only want to make love like they did in Cocoon, so I won’t have to get too close to him …

     

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