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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 studying history via correspondence at Macquarie University. 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. Here is his blog and here are his Furl links. His user page design was ripped off from User:Vague Rant.

Wikipedia involvement

CNWB has been a member of the Wikipedia community since July 1, 2004, and an administrator since January 20, 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, copyediting, speedy-deleting, and other assorted tasks.


Toolbox

AfD/ + / ?Sp?(c)tplstbMoSauau.nbnew.auev / ev.au.nznewtodomelbuse

Big screen / Small screen

The Cars That Ate Paris, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, At Home with the Braithwaites, The Office, The Royle Family, Twin Peaks, Mad Max, I ♥ Huckabees, Shameless, The League of Gentlemen.

Current musical interests

Konono Nº1, Stella Chiweshe, Yegelle Tezeta, Ali Farka Toure, Bert Jansch, Shirley Collins, John Fahey, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Os Mutantes, Sun Ra, Bridget St John, Ayelew Mesfin, Nass el Ghiwane, Toumani Diabate, Arthur Russell, and Ultimate Spinach.

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.

Aust / NZ News
Read and edit Wikinews


25 November 2024 – 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
Sixteen people are killed and six others are missing in flash floods caused by Tropical Low 01U in Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP) (The Irish Examiner)
25 November 2024 – Censorship in Australia
Australian Parliament vetoes a bill that would authorize the Australian Communications and Media Authority to implement detailed surveillance on digital platforms and enforce anti-misinformation punitive measures on them, which opposition politicians condemn as "censorship laws" and a betrayal to democracy. (AP)
22 November 2024 – 2024 Laos methanol poisoning
A second Australian tourist dies of alcohol poisoning in Vang Vieng, Laos, bringing the death toll from the incident to six. Eight others remain hospitalized. (ABC News Australia)
21 November 2024 – 2024 Laos methanol poisoning
An Australian and a British tourist die after consuming poisoned alcohol in Vang Vieng, Laos, bringing the death toll from the incident to five. Nine others are hospitalized. (BBC News) (AP)
30 September 2024 – Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu
Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)
28 September 2024 – 2024 AFL premiership season
The Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans 120–60 in the Australian Football League Grand Final to win their fourth AFL premiership title. (The Guardian Australia)


World News
Gintautas Paluckas in 2023
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