THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

From the wikipedia article

The Iraq War documents leak is the disclosure to WikiLeaks of 391,832[1] United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 and published on the Internet on 22 October 2010.[2][3][4] The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.[3][4][5][6][7] The leak resulted in the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count, bringing their total to over 150,000, with roughly 80% of those civilians.[8] It is the biggest leak in the military history of the United States,[2][9] surpassing the Afghan War documents leak of 25 July 2010.[10]

The British Lancet org released similar findings, hinge. Surprised you're not pointing to those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties

I think you're kind of missing the point. The military knew and was caught out lying with their own documentary evidence. The Lancet studies were argued against on the grounds of methodology, confidence probabilities and the reliability of sources - wikileaks proved their methodology was sound.

Things that people who come to Australia are afraid of: Spiders, Scorpions, Snakes, Sharks, Crocs, Jellyfish, Blue Ring Octopus, Stone Fish, Feral Pigs, Giant bulls, Emus, and Kangaroos.

Things that Australians are afraid of: Magpies (and those who live near them - nesting Plovers).

Fecking plovers. Idiot birds.

We were terrified of them when we were kids, but it's actually amazing how they've adapted to the urban sprawl we've imposed on their habitat.

I pulled into the Sunnybank hotel for lunch one day, and there was a pair of them nesting on a narrow strip of grass on a traffic island in the carpark.

They also don't physically launch an attack like they used to.

Bluff and bluster, mostly.

Their name is the masked lapwing. Not actually in the plover family.

Yes I always called them Gold Masked Lapwings until other NQites referred to them as Plovers.

Another bird that's adaptability freaks me out is finding Eastern Stone Curlews living in these plant boxes at the bottom of the high rises on Cordelia Street in Brisbane's South Bank

Google Street View

There's a family of those Curlews living in the grounds of the old Museum in Brisbane. Very cheeky buggers.

IYKYK

OH! Yes, please!

An Australian hockey player has been arrested during the Olympic Games in Paris for the suspected purchase of cocaine. The 28-year-old was arrested by the police on Wednesday night following a "cocaine transaction", according to the Paris public prosecutor's office.

France info (in French)
The Guardian

I hope it was a woman (Hockeyroos are out of the tournament, but the Kookaburras still in).

New Zealand food bank unknowingly distributed meth in candy

Wilso posted this on twitter and I laughed:


Kangaroos. Deer that have been to prison

I’ve got a stalker

There was a fair bit of derision, globally and in Oz, about the US media using medal tallies based on the total number of medals rather than the number of gold medals. This pretty much summed it up Oz laconic style

Only 120 days....

I live in Peter's electorate. He recently purchased a property that has a popular swimming hole on the public access road through the property. According to social media, Peter is paying a pair of armed security guards to prevent the locals from swimming there 24/7. Not happy Jan.