The Harsh Couch
The Harsh Couch is a weekly wireless programme in which we review Australian and World news, politics, sport and other things that are making us sad, glad or mad.
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2026.09.21 Central Eucalypt Bureau (opens the original)
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...We don't value remembering things as a society, anymore. Since the internet came about, I can just look (anything) up. – ThePrimeagen
2026.09.07 Debasification (opens the original)
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We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. - Douglas Adams
2026.08.31 The Chickens of Bannockburn (opens the original)
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. - Albert Schweitzer
2026.08.24 Private Guano Hunters (opens the original)
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That is not only not right; it is not even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli
2026.08.10 We are back (opens the original)
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. - W. B. Yeats
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