Wally Salinger, Author at Star Observer /author/wsalinger Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:45:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Wally Salinger, Author at Star Observer /author/wsalinger 32 32 Credit where credit is due /news/sport/credit-where-credit-is-due/77445 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:17:58 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=77445 Being involved in the management of sports organisations gives one the opportunity to form and maintain relationships with various levels of the community — not merely the gay and lesbian ...

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Lead on /news/sport/lead-on/75887 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:40:47 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=75887 Many of us fail to recognise good leaders, whether they are in our workplaces, homes and families, volunteer organisations or sports clubs. No two leaders are alike, and different styles ...

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Lost /news/sport/lost/73845 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:46:59 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=73845 The occasion to immerse oneself in a tiny section of highly endangered Illawarra rainforest provided a golden opportunity for a moment of soul-searching. The reality was marginally different. For a ...

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Sidelined twice /news/sport/sidelined-twice/72828 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:20:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=72828 Scattered around the gym are little comfortable havens. Places where the gay versions of “The Ugly Parent” sit. Not to be outdone by their hetero role models, these partners, children ...

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Sidelined once /news/sport/it-had-to-happen-the-ugly-parent-gay-style/71710 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:52:07 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=71710 It had to happen – ‘The Ugly Parent’, gay-style. This is not about a poor human with a head like a bashed crab but a description that has been applied ...

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Abs, circle, row /news/sport/abs-circle-row/69062 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:00:54 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=69062 Being queasy on the high seas just south of Chile made sleep difficult. If the sailors and rowers can do it, it must not be all that difficult, I thought. ...

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Happy feet /news/sport/happy-feet/68972 /news/sport/happy-feet/68972#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:39:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=68972 After years of planning, we are at the end of the world, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, on the way to visit happy feet in Antarctica. Buenos Aires has been ...

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Keeping your balance isn’t easy /news/sport/keeping-your-balance-isn%e2%80%99t-easy/68560 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:00:05 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=68560 Today’s lesson encompasses undertaking the warm weather balancing skills in a cabin on an Antarctic explorer ship. We have relearned our gym skills, climbed ice-covered rock pathways, noted that penguins ...

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Thanksgiving pilgrims /news/sport/thanksgiving-pilgrims/66718 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:39:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=66718 In a situation that is sure to shock the most ardent members of our community, the moving of all things gay to another state has occurred. Not a miracle in ...

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The pride of the fleet /news/sport/the-pride-of-the-fleet/66294 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:15:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=66294 Sydney doesn’t spring to mind when we talk of renowned Pride festivals. Mardi Gras is the homegrown version, celebrating, protesting, challenging, promoting all that is wonderful in our community. The ...

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Bees to the honey /news/sport/bees-to-the-honey/65762 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:11:24 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=65762 A minor arrived in our home a week ago. Young, cute, bubbly, happy, vivacious, attention-seeking, gorgeous — all the attributes which drip off the young like sweat from an athlete’s ...

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Sports mum /news/sport/sports-mum/65130 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:58:07 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=65130 In her heyday, Mum could hold her own in any gaggle in the pen. She could make a story out of a brush with fame while her inabilities to swim ...

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Just a tramp /news/sport/just-a-tramp/59064 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:38:59 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=59064 While a friend is visiting from the Parisian summer, to escape the rain and floods no doubt – we felt a serious bushwalk was in order (or head out tramping ...

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High time /news/sport/high-time/58472 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:49:38 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=58472 Having enjoyed Brisbane’s sun this week, I was deflated when I landed in a sodden Sydney. The local oval was so far under water that pelicans fished around the boundary ...

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Caught in the spokes /news/sport/caught-in-the-spokes/57163 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:19:09 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=57163 It was a good week for sport in this country with the Great French Bike Ride forcing sunburnt English people in Wimbledon stands off the front page. My late night ...

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Some are more equal /opinion/soapbox-opinion/some-are-more-equal/56958 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:06:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=56958 Good Sports with Wally Salinger “Oh Link, what are you doing here in this huge crowd of minorities!” This week’s authoritative statement comes from Hairspray the Musical. When seen on ...

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Wally Salinger – Ash Wednesday /opinion/wally-salinger-ash-wednesday/55502 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:30:05 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=55502 Life was put on the mantelpiece for a couple of days, as my week was interrupted by a smoking Chilean. It did make me review priorities. Astronauts viewing earth from ...

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Size matters /news/sport/size-matters/55618 /news/sport/size-matters/55618#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:03:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=55618 It is a rare occasion when I am the dwarf in any context. My mouth is the size of a ReadyMix cement truck and I cannot remember ever having to ...

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Go south /news/sport/go-south/54910 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:53:30 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=54910 Freezoners head to the cultural capital down Mexico way for the annual Winter Whack Volleyball Tournament. It is hard to keep up with this collection of refugees, students, homegrown sports ...

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A real tragic – Wally Salinger /opinion/a-real-tragic-wally-salinger/54505 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:30:48 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=54505 Here am I supporting a footy team that never wins. It doesn’t stop me leering at the shorty shorts on lovely legs week in week out. A sad moment finds ...

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