wipeout.com.au is the website of Wipeout Publications. Wipeout Publications is an Australian-owned publishing shed which was established in 2003 and sells:

Footprints outdoor education workbook and

The colonisation of Australia, as told by a nine-year-old in 1960.

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My mum couldn’t jump puddles

by Robbo Bennetts
5 August 2016 

I could not believe my eyes when my mother stood up and walked towards me. Mum had died years earlier. When she was alive, she was in a wheelchair and I never saw her walk. But this wasn't my mother. It was her sister Elsie, who I hadn’t seen for forty years. For a bewildering moment, though, I had thought it was mum. Auntie Elsie extended her hand and said, "Welcome to Africa."

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Love at 18

by Robbo Bennetts
first published in the Age, 5 December 2000, under the title "Closing the book on my first love"
 

It must be safe after 32 years to mention a high school affair of the heart.

For most of my secondary schooling I went to a private school. In an all-boys setting opportunities for romance were limited. The only person attracted to me during that period was my English teacher in Form 3. One day he fondled my chest in full view of the rest of the class.