User:Cnwb

CNWB
About CNWB is a wikipedian from Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Perth in 1973 and lived briefly in Adelaide before his family moved to Melbourne in the late 1970s. CNWB is currently teaching History and English at a public high school in Melbourne's western suburbs. He enjoys a short gin and tonic with freshly squeezed lime, strong coffee, Coopers Sparkling Ale, and pinot noir. His favourite spice is cumin, his favourite herb is coriander, his favourite spice-mix is za'atar. His user page design was ripped off from User:Vague Rant. Talk to me by clicking HERE.	Wikipedia involvement CNWB has been a member of the Wikipedia community since 1 July 2004, and an administrator since 4 December 2005. He enjoys writing and contributing to articles about Melbourne and Victoria, Australia. You can often find him lurking at the Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, patrolling New Pages, checking Proposed Deletions, copyediting, speedy-deleting, and other assorted tasks, and updating his ever-increasing Task List. Here is a gallery of photos uploaded to Commons, and an older gallery of stuff here.
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Italo Calvino ...who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable...	Claude Lévi-Strauss Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.
Jean-François Lyotard No self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations now more complex and mobile than ever before... one is always located at a post through which various kinds of messages pass	Shakespeare All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays his parts...
Jorge Luis Borges Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.	John Peel Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise.'
Aust / NZ News 16 December 2024 – 2024 Australia heat wave Walpeup, Victoria, Australia, reports a temperature of 47.1 °C (116.8 °F), the hottest temperature reported in the state since 2019. Extreme heat wave warnings and fire risk warnings are are also issued for areas across Australia. (The Guardian) (ABC News Australia) 15 December 2024 – Australia–Indonesia relations Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the remaining five members of the Bali Nine drug-trafficking group, who were serving life sentences in Indonesia, have returned to Australia following an agreement between the two countries to end their imprisonment. (CNN) 9 December 2024 – Australia–Nauru relations Australia and Nauru announce a joint security treaty that will see Australia sending Nauru AU$100 million (US$64 million) in direct support over five years in exchange for Nauru consulting Australia before signing any bilateral agreements with other countries. (DW) (Nikkei Asia) 6 December 2024 – Antisemitism in Australia Two people are injured in an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia. (DW) (The Australian Jewish News) 2 December 2024 – Maritime drug smuggling into Australia Australian Federal Police announces they have arrested thirteen men, including the vice president of the outlaw Comanchero Motorcycle Club and two teenagers, for illegally smuggling 2.34 tonnes of cocaine into the country after their fishing boat broke down off the coast of Urangan, Queensland, Australia. (Al Jazeera) (RNZ) (ABC News) 29 November 2024 – 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season The death toll from the floods and landslides in North Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 31, with ten others injured, and dozens of others missing. (DW)	World News Woo Won-shik, the speaker of the South Korean National Assembly, signing the impeachment resolution President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached (signing pictured) following his declaration of martial law. Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards. Gukesh Dommaraju defeats Ding Liren to win the World Chess Championship. Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad flees to Russia. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israeli invasion of Lebanon Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: S. M. Krishna Thomas Hertel Clarke Reed John Fraser Hart David Bonderman Rachmadi Bambang Sumadhijo
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