THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

That's rich coming from NT!

It was in reference to the roads. It was dirt from Camooweal to Mt Isa, and often under a metre of water.

Even the bloody horses are dangerous in Oz.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38592390

Mate

Everything here is dangerous!

We're just about the bravest, most courageous people on earth!

With airconditioning.

Funnily enough it seems that the tourists cop it disproportionately, we've recently had an elderly french couple die from irukandji stings and there seems to be regularly space reports about crocodiles eating backpackers. Guess the critters have seen Crocodile Dundee and stay away from the locals.

It's not the same league, but I never get stung by nettles, not since I was a kid anyway.

Kind of adds weight to my theory - I've only ever been stung by nettles in Italy.

PS you should look up 'using gympie leaves as toilet paper'

That sounds horrible. I don't trust anything that starts with gymp.

Happy Invasion Day, peeps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMdbVHPmCW0

Why won't Australia accept refugees who come by boat?
Seems odd to me.

And if the wombat sees his shadow, do you get six more weeks of summer?

It's been a political football since the days of John Howard. Although as few as 2% of refugee arrivals come by boat, the Mudrock press makes a song and dance about stopping them, and our neanderthal LNP govt simply stated that no boat arrivals will be coming directly to Australia. They set up a new "camp" on Manus island of Papua New Guinea, because the other offshore detention camp at Naura in the south Pacific, was full to capacity.

After a series of "events" at Manus, including assaults, rapes, children tortured, etc. PNG closed Manus camp, and gave the govt a deadline for removing the refugees. They also offered settlement (with cash) for people to be assimilated into PNG's population, but hardly anyone wanted that.

To save face, our PM searched for any alternative to bringing them to our shores, at any price. Apparently Obama, in his last week of gracious send-off gifts to the people, made a promise to take them off our hands.

Trump is now rethinking this. It's what our LNP would call a "non-core promise". A line they've used in the past when blatantly going back on their word.

So, a non-core promise is like an alternative fact.

There's not much difference, temperature-wise, between Cairns and Brisbane and Sydney at the moment. We seem to be heading for the two-season conditions of the tropical north, meaning the Wet and Dry season.

Still waiting for the rains, though. When that monsoon trough drops south, likely to be major flood events again. Seems to be getting a little later each year.

Well, more like a complete fabrication, in order to get elected, Roger.

The difference is subtle, but I can see it.

Was listening to the Hack program on our youth radio station, 4 triple J today, and they were discussing the situation of the refugee "swap".

I wasn't aware of the deal struck between prez Obama and PM Turnbull, wherein we took a roughly equal number of refugees from the US camps, some of whom may (or may not) be potentially the worst type of gangsters on the planet, emanating from central south America.

The plot thickens.