::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" Boulevard of Broken Dreams " — Green Day ( 2004-05 )

::" Valentine's Day ", Australian Story, ABC TV

::" The Day You Went Away ", Wendy Matthews

::" Cedar Bay ", This Day Tonight, Brisbane, ABC

::" The sovereignty of Afghanistan was vested formally in " The Islamic State of Afghanistan ", an entity created in April 1992, after the fall of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government.

::" The Jesuits ", The 7. 30 Report, ABC TV

::" Making a Killing ", 60 Minutes, Nine Network

::" The hunter-gatherers show the greatest similarity to modern-day Finns ", says Pontus Skoglund, an evolutionary geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden.

::" Achtungs ", machine gun retorts, and frantic gestures.

::" Permitted ", " Forbidden ", of all sorts of things.

::" L " tap, tap, wiggle, tap, " E ", wiggle, wiggle, tap " P " tap wiggle drill.

::" The al-Qaeda Tapes ", ABC News, ABC TV

::" Bali Explosion ", ABC News, ABC TV

::" The New Kurdistan ", Dateline, SBS TV

::" Bali Explosion ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" Bushfires ", Seven News, Seven Network

::" See No Evil ", Dateline, SBS

::" The Dirty War ", Dateline, SBS

::" Wahid — Inside the Palace Walls ", Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV

::" Party Tricks ", Four Corners, ABC TV

::" The Body Snatchers ", Sunday, Nine Network

::" Afghanistan ", ABC News, ABC TV

::" September 12th ", ABC News, ABC TV

::" America Under Attack ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" NSW Christmas Bushfires ", Seven News, Seven Network

::" Tampa Crisis ", Seven News, Seven Network

::" Fixing Cricket ", Four Corners, ABC TV

::" Balibo: The Simple Truth ", Dateline, SBS

::" World Economic Forum / S11 Protests ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" Shoot-out in Suva ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" The Keating Millions ", 60 Minutes, Nine Network

::" Papua New Guinea Tidal Wave ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" The Waterfront Dispute ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" Showdown in Emerald ", Sunday, Nine Network

::" The Prisoners Who Waited ", Sunday, Nine Network

::" Muraroa Protests ", National Nine News, Nine Network

::" Ships of Shame ", Sunday, Nine Network

::" Sydney 2000 Announcement ", Nine Network

::" Romanian Revolution ", Mark Burrows, Nine Network

::" Tax Summit ", Jennifer Byrne, Sunday, Nine Network

::" Dr Edelsten ", Mike Willesee, Willesee, Nine Network