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If you would like to contact me, please {{Mail|Grant65|email me}} or leave a message at the bottom of [[User_talk:Grant65|my talk page]].
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==Favourite pictures==
''Some of my favorites, all of them related (possibly indirectly) to articles I've worked on:''
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|[[Image:2008 Tiliqua rugosa.jpg|thumb|230px|A bobtail ([[Tiliqua rugosa]]) on a verandah.]] [[Image:Kangaroo paws darling range.JPG|240px|thumb|Another one of mine: Red [[Kangaroo Paw]]s (''A. manglesii'').]] [[Image:Vincent Van Gogh - The Potato Eaters.png|230px|thumb|''Aardappeleters'' ("The Potato Eaters") by Vincent Van Gogh, 1885. Great [[expressionist]] painting of ordinary people. Used by [[G. E. M. de Ste. Croix]] as the frontispiece of ''The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World'' (1982), one of my favourite books.]]
|[[Image:Ntini bowls.JPG|230px|thumb|[[Makhaya Ntini]] bowls at the WACA Ground, Perth on 16/12/05, the first day of the First Test, [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] v South Africa. [[Adam Gilchrist]] was facing, [[Andrew Symonds]] is the non-striking [[batsman|batter]]. Ntini took five wickets for 64 runs on the day. I took this with my run-of-the-mill Fuji and got lucky with the timing &mdash; both the ball and Ntini are suspended in mid-air.]] [[Image:1933 state carnival SCG football.jpg|250px|thumb|Players contest a [[mark (Australian rules football)|mark]] at the 1933 [[interstate matches in Australian rules football|Australian Football Carnival]], at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The teams are Victoria and an unknown state (possibly Tasmania). (Photographer: Sam Hood.) I don't have a strong reason for including this, other than it has a nice composition and its a classic, timeless Aussie rules pic.]]
|<!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Stirling Range 2007.jpg|thumb|The [[Stirling Range]]s, Western Australia. If you take away the mountains, the scenery is similar to that which I grew up with; blue sky, red dirt, [[star picket]]s and parched [[paddock]]s.]] -->[[Image:Wounded Australian soldier led by a Papuan orderly at Buna.jpg|thumb|One of the most poignant photos I've ever seen. Christmas Day, 1942. An Australian soldier, George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, at the [[Battle of Buna-Gona]]. Whittington died in February 1943 from the effects of [[scrub typhus|bush typhus]], the little-known killer of many Allied and Japanese soldiers in the Pacific. (Picture by [[George Silk]].) ]] 
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==Pet hates==
# Use of '''[[adjective]]s as [[noun]]s''': "eat more [[dairy product]]s" [[Image:Check_mark.svg|15px]] not "eat more [[dairy]]" [[Image:X mark 18x18 02.gif|20px]] (Consuming a shed is a recipe for indigestion.)
# Misuse of '''[[dash]]es''' and '''[[hyphen]]s''', i.e.:
##'''[[emdash]] ( &mdash; )''' only ever used as [[parenthesis|parentheses]], either with or without spaces, according to style and preference, i.e.: ''Sdgdf sdasfasag &mdash; bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf &mdash; fgagfga fasdfasdf'' or; ''Sdgdf sdasfasag&mdash;bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf&mdash;fgagfga fasdfasdf.''
##'''[[endash]] ( &ndash; )''' used in ranges, such as "10&ndash;20" years. Now sometimes used as parentheses, usually with spaces, i.e. ''Sdgdf sdasfasag &ndash; bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj  hfhsf  agdfgf &ndash; fgagfga fasdfasdf.''
##'''hyphen ( - )''', which should only ever be used both to join two words, without spaces, e.g. ''[[Hobson-Jobson]]''. (See also '''[[dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash|en dash versus em dash]]'''.)
# The qualifier '''"in the [[southern hemisphere]]"''', which is popular with some of my fellow Australians; do people who use this have any idea what goes on in [[South America]] or [[southern Africa]]?

==Useful resources==
* [http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The Wayback Machine] &mdash; a huge web archive, which contains lots of dead pages. It's a great way of getting hold of those useful but fly-by-night web articles.

==Tasks we can all do==
{{Opentask}}

==Project membership==
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|{{User WikiProject Western Australia}} {{User OrgLabour}}
|{{User WikiProject Military history}} {{User WikiProject AFL}}
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==Areas of interest==
===[[History]] and [[historiography]]=== 		
* [[Periodization]] 		
** [[Early Modern period]]
====Australian history====

====Military history====
* [[World War II]]
*** [[Mediterranean Theatre of World War II]]
** [[Pacific War]]
***[[South West Pacific theatre of World War II]]
**** [[South West Pacific Area (command)]]
**** [[New Guinea campaign]]
**[[Military history of Australia]] (needs a ''lot'' of work)
** [[Australian Army]]
***[[Australian Citizens Military Forces]]
** [[Royal Australian Air Force]]
** [[Royal Australian Navy]]
* [[Military aviation]]
* [[Commando]]
* [[Militia]]

===[[Labour]]=== 		
* [[Peon]] 		
* [[Unfree labour]] 		
** [[Debt bondage]]  		
** [[Slavery]] 		
** [[Convict]]
** [[Truck system]]

===[[Colonialism]] and [[Imperialism]]===
* [[Colony]]		
* [[Dominion]]		
* [[Settler]]

===[[Rock and Roll]]===
*[[Punk rock]]
*[[Punk rock in Australia]]

===Sport===
[[Cricket]]<br>
[[Football]]
* [[Australian Rules Football]] 		
** [[Australian Football League]] 		
*** [[Fremantle Football Club]] 		
** [[Western Australian Football League]]
*** [[Claremont Football Club]]
** [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football]]		
*** [[State of Origin]]
* [[football (soccer)]]
** [[Football (soccer) in Australia]]
** [[football (soccer) names]]
* [[football (word)]]
*[[Gaelic football]]
*[[International rules football]]
*[[rugby football]]
**[[rugby league]]
***[[history of rugby league]]
*[[American football]]
**[[history of American football]]


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{{Barnstar|image=Original_Barnstar.png|text=I, [[User:Natalinasmpf|Natalinasmpf]] give Grant65 this barnstar for his knowledgeable documentation of battles in history.}}

[[Image:Original_Barnstar.png|right|frame|In recognition of your work I award you this [[WP:STAR|barnstar]]. In particular, for the exceptional read that was [[CAC CA-15]]. Thank you! [[User:beneaththelandslide|michael]] <sup>[[User_talk:beneaththelandslide|talk]]</sup> 12:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)]]

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[[Image:Barnstar.jpg|center|thumb|I award you the ''Aviation Barnstar'' in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -[[User:Bzuk|Bzuk]]]]
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for your efforts with Australian articles [[User:Gnangarra|Gnan]][[User_talk:Gnangarra|garra]] 00:11, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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