THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

@margo,

It's completely messed up. We've had more bushfires in the first week of autumn than we had all summer. They're popping up everywhere and some of them are quite large.

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@cherrie,

I wasn't expecting this headline this morning:
Heatwave warnings for NSW as Sydney expecting hottest day in two years
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/06/heatwave-warnings-for-nsw-as-sydney-expecting-hottest-day-in-two-years

Especially as up in Cairns we had over 100 mm rain overnight and it's still pouring down.

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@hingehead,

Flooding in Far North Queensland cuts roads as some areas receive more than 300mm of rain
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/flooding-in-far-north-queensland-cuts-roads-causes-landslides/102057794

Same country, different planets

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@hingehead,

At almost 6pm it's still 39 degrees in Sydney, or 102 F for the non-Celsius users. And they've got some pretty serious fires burning throughout the state.

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A giant trapdoor spider was discovered in Australia

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@tsarstepan,

Hardly a giant, at 5 cms max, and your photo isn't the right one.

And none of the trapdoor spiders are considered to be a danger to humans.

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source

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@Builder,

I was going to say 'only a non-Australian would consider this news ;-)'

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@hingehead,

Not sure if it's the wet Spring and hot start to Autumn, but the white-tailed spider population has exploded locally. Gotta check anything that's been dropped or stacked on the ground.

Got bit on the arm by something the other day, and it was swollen for five days. Hopefully not a longterm gig.

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@Builder,

Bejeebus - take care, those bastards can be nasty with necrosis.

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@hingehead,

I got bit by a mouse spider on the left calf, when I was in the NT. Must have rolled over on it. Found it in my swag a few days later. Had a strawberry birth mark kind of scar for about seven months. Didn't know if it would ever clear up.

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@hingehead,

After much fanfare, I'm wondering if a wall to wall Labor gig is going to be much different, Hinge.

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@Builder,

You talking Feds or NSW state? If the latter it looks like minority govt, so the cross bench can push for at least decent poker machine reform.

NSW had been a cesspit of corruption for decades, so will be interest to see if ALP has cleaned its house after a deserved 12 years in the wilderness post the Eddie Obeid assholery.

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@hingehead,

I'm not following it that closely, but for Perrottet to offer everyone a bank account for their children, and also to match parent's deposits, was a bit rich. I also heard he was going to drop stamp duty on property purchases, which was supposed to happen anyway, when GST was introduced.

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The current Liberal Party often says they're 'the party of Menzies'

Which actually means Feck All because
a) most people alive have no memory of living under Menzies (left the prime ministership in 1966)
b) They really aren't:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e1/9e/c3/e19ec3e9b86227ad8f17db2d681bca3c.jpg

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@hingehead,

I vaguely remember Menzies. He was considered a borderline socialist by the GOP here in the US.

Unions benefit everyone.

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@bobsal u1553115,

I imagine he was considered a 'new deal' socialist (the Snowy Mountains Hydro Project not being dissimilar to Roosevelt's Hoover Dam).

What's particularly odd is that our other major party is the Labor Party, which is funded partly but significantly by the union movement. I was born in the Menzies era but I don't remember him or Holt as PM - I think I remember Gorton, but definitely McMahon on.

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@bobsal u1553115,

I can't figure out the date of the poster but it's likely just after the Petrov Affair (a Soviet defection in late 1954) with Menzies trying to capitalise on Labor's disarray that led to the formation of the Democratic Labor Party (which was a breakway that denounced communism/socialism - which was driven by the Catholic Right of the ALP, look up Bob Santamaria for more)

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