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Post by Barney » August 15, 2021, 10:05 am

ON THIS DAY – 15th August

1853 – The term ‘Bunyip aristocracy’ was coined by Daniel Deniehy in a speech attacking the proposal by William Wentworth to create a system of hereditary peerage in Australia.

1904 – Dalgety was named as the site of the future Federal Capital Territory of Australia.

1914 – The First Australian Imperial Force was formed following Britain's declaration of war on Germany.

1945 – Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley announced the end of the war against Japan, on what is now known as VP Day (Victory in the Pacific) in Australia.

1962 – The Red Sales aerobatic team, flying Vampire jets, crashed in practice, killing six people.

1982 – Queensland Government workers, including railway employees, walked out for two days in support of shorter working hours and general strike results.

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A major communication link. The bridge over the snowy River at Dalgety, formerly Buckley's Crossing (Monaro Pioneers) – Top
Front Page, Sun (Sydney), Wednesday 15 August 1945, page 1 (Trove) – Middle
The Roulettes fly over 4 RAAF Phantoms (ExplorOz) – Bottom

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ON THIS DAY – 17th August

1817 – Matthew Flinders wrote to Sir Joseph Banks, outlining his reasons for suggesting New Holland be called Australia after Banks disapproved of the name.

1889 – The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, featuring works by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder, opened in Melbourne.

1895 – The Albert Railway Bridge opened in Brisbane.

1932 – Botanist John McConnell Black was awarded the Mueller Medal by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. John McConnell Black (28 April 1855 – 2 December 1951) was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assisted many botanists and scientists in the decades that followed.

1991 – Strathfield massacre: Seven people, mostly women, were killed in a spree in Strathfield Plaza in Sydney.

1996 – Fitzroy & Brisbane played each other for the last time before merging, at Optus Oval. Brisbane won 29.13.187 to 14.16.100.

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Captain Matthew Flinders RN by Toussaint Antoine de Chazal (Flinders Memorial) – Top Left
Albert Bridge Indooroopilly 1909 (Queensland Places) – Bottom
Portrait of John McConnell Black (SLSA) – Top Right
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Post by Barney » August 18, 2021, 6:06 pm

ON THIS DAY – 18th August

1786 – The decision was made in England to colonise New South Wales with convicts from Britain's overcrowded gaols.

1791 – Richard Bowen entered and named Jervis Bay aboard the Atlantic.

1832 – The Savings Bank of New South Wales was established.

1909 – Disastrous floods hit Victoria.

1934 – Donald Bradman (244) and Ponsford scored 451 in partnership in 316 minutes for Australia against England.

1966 – The Battle of Long Tan occurred in South Vietnam. The Battle of Long Tan was a decisive Australian victory in the Vietnam War. Amid a tropical downpour, 108 men of D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, supported by artillery and a timely resupply by the RAAF, fought off an attack by an enemy force of more than 2,000 in a rubber plantation near the abandoned village of Long Tan. The arrival of Armoured Personnel Carriers carrying reinforcements brought the action to an end. Seventeen Australians were killed, one died of wounds, and 24 were wounded. More than 245 enemy bodies were later counted, but many more had been taken away. The date is commemorated in Australia as Long Tan Day, also known as Vietnam Veterans' Remembrance Day.

1983 – A road train was deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock, killing five people and injuring a further 20. The driver was subsequently convicted of murder.

1984 – The Fine Cotton scam was discovered at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane. Fine Cotton (29 November 1976 – 20 February 2009) was a brown Australian Thoroughbred gelding which was at the centre of a substitution scam (also known as a ring-in) which occurred on 18 August 1984, in the Commerce Novice (2nd division) Handicap over 1,500 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Queensland.

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Floods, Wilson Street, Horsham, 1909 (Victorian Places) – Top

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ON THIS DAY – 19th August

1820 – Joseph Wild became the first European to see the enigmatic Lake George, near Canberra and named the Snowy Mountains.

1907 – The rabbit-proof fence, the longest fence in the world, was completed.

1914 – The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force departed Sydney to capture German wireless transmitting stations in the Pacific.

1930 – The two halves of the Sydney Harbour Bridge were joined.

1944 – A referendum was held concerning Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights. It proposed to grant the government power to legislate over 14 points of law for a five-year period. The referendum, asked in a single question, was not carried.

1961 – ‘Four Corners’ a current affairs program first screened on ABC TV.

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South end of Lake George, New South Wales, 1830 / Robert Hoddle (SLNSW) – Middle Right
Stevenson's wire fence. Cartoon in response to Mr Stevenson's (M.L.A.) suggestion for the erection of a rabbit fence between New South Wales and Queensland to check the invasion of rabbits. "Mr Stevenson, M.L.A., suggested that the Government should erect a wire fence along our New South Wales border in order to check the coming invasion of rabbits. The artist depicts the probable use the bunnies would make of the fence." The Queensland Figaro, 2 August 1884, p. 129. (Trove) – Top
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF;) aboard one of the Sydney ferries that took them to Cockatoo Island before departing for New Guinea (AWM) - Left
Sydney Harbour Bridge August 1930. Photograph albums of Mr L. G. Watt (NSW State Archives and Records) – Bottom Right

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ON THIS DAY – 20th August

1794 – A third attempt to cross the Blue Mountains was made, this time led by Henry Hacking; they returned on 27th unsuccessful.

1836 – Colonel William Light arrived in South Australia to survey a site for the first settlement.

1857 – 121 people died when the ship, the 'Dunbar', ran aground at The Gap, Sydney.

1860 – The Burke and Wills expedition set off from Royal Park, Melbourne at about 4pm watched by around 15,000 spectators.

1908 – America's Great White Fleet arrived in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors deserted to remain in Australia.

1968 – The National Gallery of Victoria was opened in Melbourne.

1985 – Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finished a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle.

1992 – Strictly Ballroom, the movie, premiered.

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Wreck of the Dunbar off Sydney Heads, 20th Sept. 1857 (SLNSW) – Top
Nicholas Chevalier, Memorandum of the Start of the Exploring Expedition, oil on canvas, 1860 (Wiki) – Middle
A 1908 Australian postcard welcoming the American 'Great White Fleet' to Australia (Wiki) – Bottom hi
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ON THIS DAY – 21st August

1842 – Hobart Town, the main settlement in Van Diemen's Land, was proclaimed a city.

1909 – Andrew Wood won the inaugural men's national marathon title, clocking 2:59:15 in Brisbane. Though billed as the Australasian Championships, the Australian Athletic Union did not consider it to be the official championship.

1943 – Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney were the first Australian women elected to the Australian House of Representatives and Senate respectively.

1955 – The Consolidated Zinc Corporation announced it had discovered bauxite at Weipa, Queensland.

1977 – Mail services returned to normal following the end of a national postal dispute.

1984 – The Federal budget was televised for the first time.

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Hobart Town in 1832 by artist John Glover (Dixson Galleries SLNSW) – Top
Autographed photographic portrait of Dame Enid Lyons (NLA) – Bottom Left
Australian senator Dorothy Tangney (NLA) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 22nd August

1770 – James Cook's expedition landed on the east coast of Australia.

1847 – John Forrest, Australian explorer and the first Premier of Western Australia, was born.

1872 – The 3,200km Australian Overland Telegraph Line was completed when two telegraph lines are joined at Frew's Ponds in the Northern Territory (then South Australia).

1872 – Ernest Giles began his first expedition into the Australian desert.

1917 – Stockman Jim Darcy died, causing a chain of events that eventually led to the founding of Australia’s Flying Doctor Service.

1989 – The damaging 2-month airline pilots' strike over a 30% pay rise began in earnest. Prime Minister Bob Hawke made a crusade of resisting the claim.

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John Forrest, first premier of Western Australia. Book: Kimberly, W.B. (compiler) (1897) History of West Australia. A Narrative of her Past. Together With Biographies of Her Leading Men, Melbourne: F.W. Niven – Top Left
Photo in the frontispiece of Giles' Australia Twice Traversed – Top Right
The first aircraft used by the newly established Service was a de Havilland DH-50A, a single-engine, timber and fabric biplane (The Royal Flying Doctor Service Alice Springs) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 23rd August

1807 – The first dry cleaning business was opened in Sydney by Englishman Robert Davidson.

1836 – William Hobson, later the first Governor of New Zealand, arrived in New South Wales, Australia.

1895 – Bushranger James Alpin McPherson, known as The Wild Scotchman, died aged 53.

1989 – All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resigned over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute, following a strike.

2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian Rules footballer, died aged 89.

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Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson of New Zealand [picture] / drawn by Mrs Musgrave (NLA) – Top Left
Photograph of Jack Dyer running with the ball (Wiki) – Top Right
Bushranger James MacPherson, 1866 Known as 'The Wild Scotsman'. He roamed from Bowen in North Queensland as far as New South Wales and was captured in the Wide Bay region, near Gin Gin in March 1866. He was imprisoned on St. Helena Island and eventually pardoned and released in December 1874. He later met and married Elizabeth Ann Hoszfeldt and they had seven children, one of whom died as a baby. They lived most of their married life in Burketown. On 23 July 1895, James died after falling from his horse and was buried in an unmarked grave in Burketown cemetery. (John Oxley Library SLQ) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 24th August

1872 – Queensland's borders were extended to include Thursday Island and the Torres Strait islands.

1879 – Explorer Alexander Forrest's expedition through northwest Australia was threatened with starvation. In 1879 Alexander led an expedition from the DeGrey River, up the coast to Beagle Bay, then inland into the area now known as the Kimberley. He found good country and the Fitzroy River, but when he came across another river in the east, a shortage of food forced the men to keep moving, rather than explore the river more closely. By 24 August 1879, the future of the expedition was threatened by an increasingly desperate shortage of rations. With only 27kg of flour remaining, and most of the horses killed for food, Forrest's only solution was to push 160km east to the Overland Telegraph Line, where they were able to receive necessary food and water.

1915 – The town of Holbrook, New South Wales was renamed from Germanton.

1936 – Australian Antarctic Territory was created.

1977 – Australia's first 7-Eleven convenience store opened in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh.

1981 – The Church of England in Australia was renamed the Anglican Church of Australia.

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ON THIS DAY – 25th August

1853 – Francis Cadell launched the paddle steamer, the 'Lady Augusta', from Goolwa.

1824 – The Legislative Council of New South Wales sat for the first time.

1903 – The Judiciary Act 1903 received Royal Assent, creating the High Court of Australia.

1909 – Long Bay Gaol in Sydney was opened.

1996 – Fitzroy played their last game in Melbourne, against the Richmond Tigers at the MCG. Richmond win, 28.19.187 to 5.6.36. Despite losing by 151 points, the Fitzroy song was played after the game and their fans flooded the field.

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Side view of 'P.S. Lady Augusta' at Mannum, with crew and onlookers and sheds and buildings behind (SLSA) – Top
The Long Bay Women's Reformatory, built in 1909 (Royal Australian Historical Society) – Bottom
Official photograph of the first session of the High Court of Australia in the Banco Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, 6 October 1903. The mounting is autographed by the three foundation justices, from left to right, Edmund Barton, Samuel Griffith and Richard O'Connor (Wiki) – Middle
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ON THIS DAY – 26th August

1835 – Governor Bourke declared John Batman's treaty with Aborigines, which enabled the founding of Melbourne, to be invalid.

1867 – Work resumed on the Burke and Wills memorial project in Ballarat, with the laying of a second foundation stone.

1944 – Newtown beat St. George 55–7 in the most one-sided NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL/NRL final in history.

1950 – 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats the USA in New York (4-1).

1951 – Actress and television presenter Delvene Delaney was born.

2005 – The inaugural A-League national football (soccer) season began.

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Burke and Wills Memorial Fountain by Evelyn Shaw (Historic Urban Landscape Ballarat) – Top
Paul Hogan show stars Paul Hogan, Delvene Delaney and John Cornell in 1975 (ABC) – Bottom

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Post by pipoz4444 » August 26, 2021, 3:59 pm

Sadly, John Cornell (2 March 1941 – 23 July 2021) alias ” Strop”, and the Director/Producer of the Paul Hogan show, passed away last month, at age 80. He was also instrumental in the introduction of World Series Cricket in 1977. A brilliant business Man and kind Individual. =D> =D> :cry:

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ON THIS DAY – 30th August

1835 – The city of Melbourne was founded.

1853 – The last ship to carry convicts directly from Ireland to Australia arrived in Fremantle.

1916 – Twenty-two men were rescued from the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition who remained on Elephant Island.

1941 – St. George won the 1941 NSWRFL season for their first premiership after the club's founding in 1920, defeating Eastern Suburbs 31–14.

1947 – The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration granted workers a 40-hour week.

1947 – Fred Fanning, in his last league match, kicked a VFL/AFL record of eighteen goals against St. Kilda.

1979 – Six died when a Cessna 206 plane crashed at Shepparton, Victoria.

1992 – The Sydney Harbour Tunnel officially opened.

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The Phoebe Dunbar. Volume 15, No.4, December 2004 of the Maritime Heritage Association Journal, edited by Peter Worsley of Mandurah, Western Australia – Top
The Elephant Island party. Photo by Hurley. Not shown: Blackborow. Back row: Greenstreet, McIlroy, Marston, Wordie, James, Holness, Hudson, Stephenson, McLeod, Clark, Orde-Lees, Kerr, Macklin Front row: Green, Wild, How, Cheetham, Hussey, Rickinson, Bakewell (Wiki) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 31st August

1814 – Admiral Arthur Phillip, British naval officer and Governors of New South Wales, died at Bath, England aged 75.

1882 – Cricket's legend of The Ashes was born with the first of two mock obituaries lamenting England's loss to Australia. The legend of the Ashes began after Australia won its first Test cricket match on English soil. The victory was achieved by just seven runs. The English media mourned its loss with a satirical obituary first published on 31 August 1882 in the magazine ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. The obituary read: “SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ENGLAND'S SUPREMACY IN THE CRICKET-FIELD WHICH EXPIRED ON THE 29TH DAY OF AUGUST, AT THE OVAL "ITS END WAS PEATE"” This was followed by another mock obituary in British newspaper ‘The Sporting Times’ on 2 September 1882 and is the basis upon which the Ashes developed. Written by Reginald Shirley Brooks, it read: “In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29 August 1882 Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P. N.B.—The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.” After the Australian cricket team returned to Australia in December 1882, the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ wrote about ‘the revered ashes of English cricket which had been lain on the shelf of the Australian Eleven’. As the next test was to be hosted by Australia, the English media began to report on ‘the quest to regain the Ashes’. Thus was the legend of the Ashes consolidated.

1909 – The first interstate ice hockey competition was held in Melbourne.

1918 – The Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a famous Australian action under the leadership of Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash, began.

1918 – Louise “Louie” Blanche Riggall, artist and WWI Red Cross nurse, died. Louise “Louie” Blanche Riggall was born in Castlemaine, Victoria. In 1914 when war broke out in Europe, Louie joined the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross. First working at the Broadmeadows camp, she was one of three VADs who were sent to Heliopolis in Egypt to assist at the First Australian General Hospital. Once it was established in 1915, the 1st AGH soon had 750 beds to nurse patients from the AIF and soldiers who had served in the Australian Gallipoli expedition. In March 1916 the 1st Australian General Hospital made a hurried departure for Rouen in France where there was an acute need to tend the wounded from the Western Front. They increased their capacity to 1040 beds to cope with the demand. With her fluent French Louie was put in charge of the stores for this huge establishment. She became a vital part of the large hospital and was appointed by the Red Cross to supervise 12 hospitals in the region. It was said she had an “indomitable spirit” and performed the work of 3 women. Only a few months before the end of the war Louie suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died on 31st August 1918. The staff and patients contributed to a huge floral farewell for her. The soldiers marched behind her coffin in honour of her efforts. She was buried in the war cemetery at St Sever, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (Grave Reference: Officers, B.3.1.).

1933 – The township of Stuart in the Northern Territory was renamed, Alice Springs.

1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia was founded by Robert Menzies

1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, OM, AK, KBE, FRS, FAA, FRSNZ (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and was best known for developing the theory of clonal selection.

1995 – The cast bronze statue of the dog Larry La Trobe situated on the northern end of Melbourne's City Square was stolen.

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"Louie B Riggall, VAD, who gave her life for the sick and wounded at Rouen” – Bottom Left
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ON THIS DAY – 1st September

1841 – Port Phillip Savings Bank was established.

1874 – Sydney General Post Office opened.

1906 – Administration of British New Guinea was formally transferred to Australia from Britain.

1912 – The Golden Wattle was declared as Australia's national flower but only declared as Australia's official floral emblem in 1988.

1934 – The body of the "Pyjama Girl" was found in Albury, New South Wales. Florence Linda Agostini (née Platt; 12 September 1905 – 27 August 1934), known posthumously as the "Pyjama Girl", was an English Australian homicide victim found on a stretch of road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934.

1951 – Australia and New Zealand signed the ANZUS mutual defence treaty.

1952 – Qantas Empire Airways commenced the first air service between Australia and South Africa.

1976 – Cigarette and tobacco advertising banned on television and radio.

1981 – Further changes were made to the Medibank health scheme and free treatment of uninsured people in standard hospital wards was abolished.

1988 – The Golden Wattle proclaimed Australia's national floral emblem.

1996 – Fitzroy played their last ever game of Australian rules football as a stand-alone entity, against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval. Fremantle won, 24.13.157 to 10.11.71.

1999 – Jailed Care Australia workers, Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace, were freed from jail in Belgrade after being granted clemency by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

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Martin Place and General Post Office (City of Sydney Archives) – Top Left
1952 postage commemoration, celebrating the first 'regular' linking of two of the Queen's realms, Australia and South Africa (Timetablist) – Bottom
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Post by tamada » September 1, 2021, 8:26 am

We are reading how PM Morrison has had a Covid epiphany and wants to ditch the Zero Covid strategy. I also hear that the governments of WA and NT are not onboard with this notion and will strive to maintain 14-day inter-state travel quarantines. Do they think they can avoid Delta forever? Australia's vaccine rollout is rubbish but WA and NT are blaming this on the federal government sucking up what's available for their never-ending circle of clusters.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Aardvark » September 2, 2021, 5:43 am

We've had no more than four weeks lock down in Perth in 18 months. Pubs, Clubs and Restaurants and all other Businesses are open as usual. It seems many want to come here for the freedom it offers, but resent having to Quarantine for 14 days on arrival. We simply want to control the timing on when we open up so as not to destroy the conditions we have at present. I get the feeling it's more resentment from other states that they haven't been able to accomplish the same standard as us ...

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Post by jackspratt » September 2, 2021, 10:43 am

Everyone I speak to in Perth shares your sentiments, Aardy.

McGowan will open the border early to the Eastern Mexicans at his peril.

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Post by Barney » September 2, 2021, 3:47 pm

ON THIS DAY – 2nd September

1840 – Edward John Eyre named Mt Hopeless in South Australia in despair at the seemingly never-ending salt lakes.

1904 – The first Australian Open golf tournament was held.

1918 – Death of John Forrest, an Australian explorer, the first premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.

1928 – St Mary's Cathedral opened in Sydney after 60 years of construction.

1948 – Australian National Airways (ANA) Flight 331, operated by C-47 VH-ANK Lutana crashed into high terrain near Nundle, NSW, due to navigation equipment errors, killing all 13 onboard.

1980 – Australian cricket batsman Kim Hughes became the third player to bat on all 5 days of a Test match as the rain-affected Centenary Test peters out to a draw at Lord's. BBC's John Arlott called his final match.

1987 – The Australia Telescope Compact Array was opened.

1995 – The Sturt Football Club completed the longest winless season in the history of major Australian football leagues, with a record of 0-22 and a minimum losing margin of 24 points.

2000 – Essendon (19.21.135) defeated Melbourne (11.9.75) to win the 104th VFL/AFL premiership. It was the last occasion until 2010 that the grand final had been an all-Melbourne affair and the last occasion until 2008 that the grand final had been an all-Victorian affair.

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Portrait of Edward John Eyre, c. 1860 (SLSA) – Top Left
A 1909 black and white portrait of John Forrest, MHR for Swan– Top Right
Construction of St. Mary's Cathedral, 1920s. The spires would not be added until the 2000s (SLNSW) – Bottom
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » September 2, 2021, 8:00 pm

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September 2, 2021, 5:43 am
We've had no more than four weeks lock down in Perth in 18 months. Pubs, Clubs and Restaurants and all other Businesses are open as usual. It seems many want to come here for the freedom it offers, but resent having to Quarantine for 14 days on arrival. We simply want to control the timing on when we open up so as not to destroy the conditions we have at present. I get the feeling it's more resentment from other states that they haven't been able to accomplish the same standard as us ...
It does sound almost idyllic but Delta is an inevitability. WA hasn't set any standard. They've been lucky. So has NT. NZ maybe not so much but we will see how their 2-week lock down works against a variant that has defied lock down pretty much everywhere else. The key to finding the right time is having more people fully vaccinated. Unfortunately politics and politicians everywhere will milk that one relentlessly.

A mate of mine recently started his 14-day purgatory in an Adelaide hotel. They have the army on site keeping an eye on things. A couple of days ago, he heard a knock that he thought was on his door. He waited the 3 minutes they require before opening the door to find it was for next door. A little later he got a call from the SA police reminding him about the $1000 fine for not keeping his door closed. Welcome to SA!
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Everyone I speak to in Perth shares your sentiments, Aardy.

McGowan will open the border early to the Eastern Mexicans at his peril.
I didn't know ostriches were indigenous to Perth.
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