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Jackaroo: A Memoir by Michael Thornton
Category: Biography
In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almos ...Show more
Jackaroo: A Memoir by Michael Thornton
Category: Biography
In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almos ...Show more
Pissed Off: 3,300 Baby Boomer Gripes by Michael Thornton
Category: Humour
Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things, he's listed 3,300 gripes. Among them:? otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say 'amount' of people instead of 'number'? Australia's richest person is said ...Show more
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