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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.
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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 11 June 2025 – Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition. (BBC News) 10 June 2025 – War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza humanitarian crisis The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war. (Reuters) 6 June 2025 – Radar on the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Canberra (L02) accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand before the incident is resolved. (The Guardian) 4 June 2025 – Chile signs an agreement with Google to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting between South America and Australia. Google invested at least $300 million while the Chilean government will invest $25 million. (DW) (AP) 28 May 2025 – 2025 Australian federal election The National Party rejoins the Opposition Coalition one week after moving to the crossbench. (The Guardian) 25 May 2025 – At least four people are injured, including one seriously, in a mass stabbing attack with a machete and fight between gangs at the Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (ABC News Australia)	World News Air India Boeing 787-8 in 2014 Air India Flight 171 (aircraft pictured) crashes in Ahmedabad, India, killing more than 260 people. The Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson dies at the age of 82. A shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria, leaves eleven people dead. At the Tony Awards, Purpose wins the Best Play and Maybe Happy Ending wins the Best Musical. Prime Minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests. Ongoing: Gaza war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Uriah Rennie Luis Jalandoni Norman Hutchins Maganti Gopinath Mike Eghan Bill Atkinson
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