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New COVID vaccines are developing quite fast. It’s only about a year since the first vaccines were introduced, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and various Chinese and Russian offerings, but GlaxoSmithKline has a new vaccine in...

A whisky retailer has a good promotional line in their ads: ‘It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get the more I like it.’

NSW Farmers has told a Senate Inquiry that plant-based proteins should be banned from using words like “meat”, “beef”, “lamb” and “milk” and pictures of the associated animals should not be allowed. Why would vegans or...

“The English lexicon continues to evolve, but not always for the better,” a correspondent tells Topical.“I am astounded at the words that get added to the dictionary.” Some of the additions are COVID-related, including long...

The COVID lockdown has ended just in time for many – that is those who were getting desperate for a haircut. “I know someone who was so keen to get a haircut he turned to an instructional video on Youtube,” a reader...

The mass vaccination clinic recently held in Narrabri has brought up some old memories of a similar effort decades ago. Can anyone remember the polio immunisation clinics held in the old town hall?

A ‘grey nomad’ now on the road with his wife was asked on ABC radio what it was like for two living in a confined space, a caravan, for months. He was learning to cook. “My wife claims I use the smoke detector as a cooking...

Masks are one item we are not short of in these COVID days. The transition from mass produced paper masks, with which we soon became uncomfortably familiar, to fashion masks has been fascinating. We now have masks with corporate...

The price of aluminium has risen – perhaps because more people are staying at home in COVID lockdowns and drinking more beer. Hence demand for aluminium cans has risen and the price of beer cans has gone up! (There also...