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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 2, 2021, 11:21 am

The Australian legal system is a very sad fxck:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/privile ... 58w9o.html

Disgraceful. If I want to punch a woman in the head I should head to Sydney. I have been green-lighted. I don't expect a conviction.


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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » October 2, 2021, 11:49 am

One aberrant decision by a single judge of the NSW District Court is hardly a reflection of the "Australian legal system".

When the bubble re-opens, perhaps you could head to Sydney, and try your luck. Unless you attended a very toffy private school in NZ, and can afford a very expensive Silk, you may experience a rapid deportation back to NZ after your conviction.

As has happened to many of your countrymen already. ;)

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 2, 2021, 1:08 pm

If your contacting your loved ones or legal representative in australia don’t forget the most progressive states move to daylight saving 2am in the morning. Clocks go forward 1 hour in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and a territory called the ACT


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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » October 2, 2021, 1:51 pm

An extra hour of daylight per day to enjoy their various forms of lockdown. :D

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 2, 2021, 2:20 pm

I don’t think changing the clock provides an additional hour of sunlight.
But in your mind you may be right, sand gropers and banana benders thought the curtains would fade faster with the extra hour of sunlight when providing reasons not to change over and enjoy some extra light in the evening.


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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 3, 2021, 6:16 am

On This Day - 3rd October

1853 – The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company was incorporated.

1896 – The Victorian Football League was formed, with competition beginning in 1897.

1914 – The Port Adelaide Football Club defeated Carlton to be crowned Champions of Australia for a record fourth time and becoming the only League club in AFL to go through its entire season undefeated.

1918 – Lieutenant J. Maxwell, 18th Battalion, originally from Sydney, New South Wales, performed the action that resulted in him being awarded the Victoria Cross, on the fortified 'Beaurevoir line', near Estrées, France. Joe Maxwell (1896-1967) was an apprentice boilermaker before enlisting in Sydney in February 1915. He served on Gallipoli and the Western Front. Rough, tough, and exceptionally brave, he was commissioned in late 1917. In little more than a year, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), the Military Cross and Bar, and the Victoria Cross. On 3 October 1918, Maxwell took over when his company commander was wounded and captured a machine gun. He then attacked another post. Later he was briefly taken prisoner. During a barrage, he managed to pull out a concealed revolver, shoot two of the enemy, and escape. Although aged just 22, Maxwell became the second most highly decorated Australian. He later worked in a variety of jobs. His book, Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles (published 1932), became a war classic. Using an alias, he enlisted in the Second World War but was discovered and discharged. Maxwell was awarded the Victoria Cross, the Military Cross and Bar, DCM, service medals for the First World War, and coronation medals for individual George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.

1934 – Qantas de Havilland DH.50 Atalanta, registration VH-UHE, crashed near Winton, Queensland, killing the pilot and 2 passengers.

1935 – The Australian/New Zealand dessert, the pavlova, was named after ballerina Anna Pavlova. The Pavlova is a traditional Australian dessert consisting of a base made of a meringue crust topped with whipped cream and fresh fruits such as kiwi fruit, passionfruit and strawberries. There is some dispute as to whether the Pavlova was actually created in Australia or New Zealand. The Australian legend states that the Pavlova was created by Herbert Sachse, the chef of the Hotel Esplanade in Perth, Western Australia, on 3 October 1935. It is said to have been given the name "Pavlova" by Harry Naire from the Perth hotel, in honour of the visiting Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova. Naire is alleged to have stated that the built-up sides of the dessert reminded him of a tutu. New Zealand may have a greater claim to the Pavlova, however. Recipes for Pavlova appeared in a magazine and a cookery book from 1929 and 1933, whilst extra notes from a biographer state that it was invented in 1926 after Anna Pavlova's visit. What is clear is that, while the dessert may have been invented in New Zealand, it was undisputedly named in Australia.

1952 – The first British nuclear test in Australia, Operation Hurricane, commenced on the Monte Bello Islands with the detonation of an atomic bomb of 25 kilotons yield.

1957 – Australian National Airways (ANA) was merged with Ansett to form Ansett-ANA.

1981 – Port Adelaide (14.11 (95)) defeated Glenelg (6.8 (44)) at Football Park to win their 27th South Australian National Football League (SANFL) premiership. Port Adelaide's Russell Ebert was awarded the inaugural Jack Oatey medal for the best player during the Grand Final.

1987 – Australia finally noted the contribution of the Vietnam War veterans with a Welcome Home parade held in Sydney – 15 years after the last soldiers and national servicemen have returned.

1999 – In the third year of the split in the organisation of the Bathurst 1000, the traditional race was held for the last time and won by Paul Morris as the Bathurst 500 was declared after just 310 of the scheduled 500 kilometres due to unrelenting rain. It was a justification for Morris and the BMW team after being disqualified from victory two years ago.

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » October 3, 2021, 12:19 pm

jackspratt wrote:
October 2, 2021, 11:49 am
One aberrant decision by a single judge of the NSW District Court is hardly a reflection of the "Australian legal system".

When the bubble re-opens, perhaps you could head to Sydney, and try your luck. Unless you attended a very toffy private school in NZ, and can afford a very expensive Silk, you may experience a rapid deportation back to NZ after your conviction.

As has happened to many of your countrymen already. ;)
The point of the story went over my head post of the day award goes to...
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » October 3, 2021, 1:33 pm

The point being what - 93's trolling?

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » October 3, 2021, 1:54 pm

jackspratt wrote:
October 3, 2021, 1:33 pm
The point being what - 93's trolling?
If you need to ask.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 4, 2021, 8:20 am

On This Day - 4th October

1797 – The first flock of Spanish Merinos, upon which Australia's wool industry was founded, arrived in Sydney.

1885 – Third Intercolonial Trades Union Congress held in Sydney.

1888 – Princes Bridge, Melbourne was opened.

1919 – ‘The Sentimental Bloke’ premiered in Melbourne.

1930 – The 1930 NSWRFL season culminated in Western Suburbs' 27–2 victory over St. George in the premiership final, marking Western Suburbs' first premiership since the club was founded in 1908.

1935 – Luna Park in Sydney was officially opened.

1935 – The Hornibrook Highway, Australia's longest road bridge for many decades, was opened, allowing faster access to the Redcliffe Peninsula.

1951 – Francis McEncroe sold the first Chiko Rolls at the Wagga Wagga agricultural show.

1985 – Henry G Perry completed a 157 day, 14,021-mile bicycle tour of Australia.

1996 – The full bench of the Federal Court overturned the earlier decision to ban Super League, meaning the competition could start in 1997.

1998 – Mick Doohan riding a Honda NSR500 won his third and final Australian motorcycle Grand Prix at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. The win secured Doohan's fifth consecutive World Championship victory.

1998 – Jim Richards and Swede Rickard Rydell won the Bathurst 1000 in their TWR prepared Volvo S40, defeating Richards' son Steven Richards and Brit Matt Neal in a Nissan Primera by the smallest competitive margin in the race's history. It was Richards' sixth Bathurst victory.

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The newly constructed Princes Bridge, painted in 1888 by Arthur Streeton of the Heidelberg School art movement (Wiki) – Top
Arthur Tauchert, Gilbert Emery and Lottie Lyell while filming The Sentimental Bloke (Wiki) – Middle
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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On This Day - 5th October

1789 – The first ship built in the colony, Rose Hill Packet, began service as a ferry on the Parramatta River.

1857 – The first leg was opened of what later becomes the Adelaide to Darwin transcontinental railway line.

1889 – Norwood defeated Port Adelaide by 2 goals to win the 1889 SAFA Grand Final, the first Grand Final in Australian Rules Football.

1892 – The Australian Cricket Council announced an intercolonial cricket competition to be known as the Sheffield Shield.

1918 – WWI - The last Australian operation in the Battle of the Hindenburg Line occurred when they took the village of Montbrehain with the line cleared by 10 October.

1980 – Alan Jones became the second Australian driver to win the Formula One World Drivers Championship after winning the final race of the season at Watkins Glen, New York.

1990 – After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days, ‘The Herald’ broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne was published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as ‘The Port Phillip Herald’, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper ‘The Sun News-Pictorial’ and the first issue of the new ‘Herald-Sun’, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "the world's first 24-hour newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, was published on 8 October. On the same day, the 49-year-old afternoon tabloid ‘The Daily Mirror’ in Sydney was published for the last time as a separate newspaper.’ The Daily Mirror’ merged with its morning sister paper ‘The Daily Telegraph’ and the first edition of ‘The Daily Telegraph-Mirror’ also appears on 8 October.

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Gawler Railway Station opened in 1857 and the original platform building was replaced in 1879. A horse-drawn tram serviced Gawler's main street almost a kilometre. c. 1880 (SLSA) – Bottom Left
Cricket match played at Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 Jan 1864, François Cogné [1829–1883], published by Charles Troedel [1835–1906] (University of Melbourne) – Top
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » October 5, 2021, 8:24 pm

Australia currently has a pretty strict ban on private citizens travelling overseas, unless you are in an exempt category.

But apparently it does not apply to failed (ie ridiculed worldwide for re-instituting Knights and Dames; deposed by his own party as PM; chucked out by the voters in his electorate; etc etc) right wing politicians.
Tony Abbott flies to Taiwan for keynote speech as tensions rise with China
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/ ... /100516484
So ex-PM Tony Abbott has been given the OK to (more than likely) further stir up regional tensions by going to Taiwan to give a "keynote speech". Can't have happened without the approval of the Oz government at the highest levels

While few would support the current aggression by China against Taiwan, Tony's usual tone deaf pronouncements are unlikely to improve the situation. And China will easily recognise the intent of his visit.

It is also interesting to see how his junket will be seen in the UK - given his appointment as "an unpaid adviser to the British government’s Board of Trade" in 2020.

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » October 5, 2021, 9:31 pm

jackspratt wrote:
October 5, 2021, 8:24 pm
Australia currently has a pretty strict ban on private citizens travelling overseas, unless you are in an exempt category.

But apparently it does not apply to failed (ie ridiculed worldwide for re-instituting Knights and Dames; deposed by his own party as PM; chucked out by the voters in his electorate; etc etc) right wing politicians.
Tony Abbott flies to Taiwan for keynote speech as tensions rise with China
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/ ... /100516484
So ex-PM Tony Abbott has been given the OK to (more than likely) further stir up regional tensions by going to Taiwan to give a "keynote speech". Can't have happened without the approval of the Oz government at the highest levels

While few would support the current aggression by China against Taiwan, Tony's usual tone deaf pronouncements are unlikely to improve the situation. And China will easily recognise the intent of his visit.

It is also interesting to see how his junket will be seen in the UK - given his appointment as "an unpaid adviser to the British government’s Board of Trade" in 2020.
Ya worried that the Mad Monk's goin' to stir up a hornets nest then?

He's traveling in a private capacity in a diplomatic bubble (whatever that is) so there's sufficient 'insulation' there for Scotty and Bojo.

He's got all the clout of Blair as the UK's Middle East Peace Envoy or Kushner as Trump's 'architect' of his middle east peace plan.

Sometimes you need to send a boy to do a man's job. Or in Australia's case, a thicko.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 6, 2021, 12:28 pm

I couldn't believe it when I saw this. The Chinese will be ballistic and take the view that Morrison green lighted this trip. They're probably right.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 6, 2021, 12:39 pm

jackspratt wrote:
October 2, 2021, 11:49 am
One aberrant decision by a single judge of the NSW District Court is hardly a reflection of the "Australian legal system".

When the bubble re-opens, perhaps you could head to Sydney, and try your luck. Unless you attended a very toffy private school in NZ, and can afford a very expensive Silk, you may experience a rapid deportation back to NZ after your conviction.

As has happened to many of your countrymen already. ;)
Yes, I agree with your first sentence although I'm not sure to the extent it's aberrant. Few perps of violence against women even get punished. Not just in Australia. Also I'm a white fella without gang tatts. They get treated much better in criminal justice systems than non-whites and gangsters. Again not just in Australia. I'd had a few too many refreshments before making that post. :lol:
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On This Day - 6th October

1810 – A town plan of Sydney was published, on which the streets were given new and permanent names, including Market, George, Park and Barrack Streets.

1859 – Thomas Austin brought 24 rabbits and 5 hares to Australia in order to release them there as a game. They would multiply exponentially.

1862 – Australia's first zoo opened in Melbourne.

1898 – Catherine "Kate" Kelly, sister of bushranger Ned Kelly, went missing. Eight days passed before her body was located in a lagoon at Condobolin Road near Forbes. Initial indications were that she died of drowning, but the Magisterial enquiry that was held into her death on 15 October did not indicate how or why this could have occurred. Kate's death certificate stated there was no evidence, but family and friends believed her depression following Maggie's death contributed to her own death.

1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.

1909 – Martha Rendell became the last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.

1911 – Compulsory voting was introduced.

1918 – Australia's first electric train service began, between Newmarket and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.

1930 – Richie Benaud, one of the greatest leg-spinners to have played Test cricket, was born in Penrith, New South Wales.

1972 – Faraday School kidnapping – six pupils and their teacher were kidnapped for $1 million ransom in Victoria.

1990 – Collingwood (13.11.89) defeated Essendon (5.11.41) to win the 94th VFL/AFL premiership. It was the first premiership won under the AFL banner and Collingwood's first premiership since 1958, thereby symbolising the end of the "Colliwobbles".

2011 – Diane Cilento, theatre and film actress died. Diane Cilento (2 April 1933 Mooloolaba, Queensland – 6 October 2011 Cairns, Queensland) was an Australian actress and author. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1963 film Tom Jones.

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Entrance to Melbourne Zoo, date unknown (Twisted History) – Top
Kate Kelly, sister of Ned Kelly, ca. 1873-1874 / photographer E. G. Tims, Australian Photographic Co., Adelaide (SLNSW) – Bottom Left
Diane Cilento with Laurence Harvey in the television play The Small Servant. Both made their US television debuts in this production for The Alcoa Hour [1955] (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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On This Day - 7th October

1798 – George Bass and Matthew Flinders left Sydney to explore Van Diemen's Land on the Norfolk.

1798 – St Philip's Church was founded in Sydney. The building was completed in 1809.

1817 – The first Methodist Church in Australia opened in Castlereagh, New South Wales.

1854 – Scottish gold miner James Scobie died. His death was a catalyst to events that would eventually result in the Eureka Stockade.

1965 – Sir Robert Menzies was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century, when the title was Keeper of the Coast, but maybe older. The Lord Warden was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five (cinque in Norman French) port towns on the southeast coast of England that was formed to collectively supply ships for The Crown in the absence at the time of a formal navy. Today the role is a sinecure and an honorary title, and fourteen towns belong to the Cinque Ports confederation. The title is one of the higher honours bestowed by the Sovereign; it has often been held by members of the Royal Family or prime ministers, especially those who have been influential in defending Britain at times of war.

1979 – The Australia Refugee Advisory Council was established.

1996 – Australian Professor Peter C. Doherty won the Nobel Prize for Medicine jointly with Professor Rolf M. Zinkernagel of Switzerland for showing an important way in which the body targets germs. The research revolutionised the study of immunology and laid the groundwork for designing improved vaccines and researching new therapies against cancer, multiple sclerosis and diabetes.

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Sydney Church and Regimental Mile from the Main Guard c1817 [St Philip's church York Street and the Military Windmill] (SLNSW) – Top
James Scobie's Tombstone, Ballaarat (Sic) Old Cemetery, c1904 (University of Ballarat) – Bottom Left
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On This Day - 8th October

1818 – John Oxley named Port Macquarie.

1897 – The Australasian Athletic Union was established in Sydney.

1899 – The word "wowser" was first used by John Norton, editor of the ‘Melbourne Truth’ newspaper.

1908 – The capital of Australia was chosen, settling a feud between rivals Melbourne and Sydney.

1931 – Sir John Monash, Australian military commander of the First World War, died in Melbourne aged 66.

1939 – Paul Hogan AM, actor, comedian and former rigger, was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.

1977 – The Tasman Bridge in Hobart re-opened after repair to the damage sustained in the Tasman Bridge disaster when the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra on 5 January 1975.

1978 – Australia's Ken Warby set the world water speed record to 510 km/h (317.60 mph) at Blowering Dam, New South Wales.

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View of the entrance of Port Macquarie from the Green Mound, Phillip Parker individual, 1819 (SLNSW) – Top
Lieutenant General John Monash seated in an ornate chair, in France 1918 (AWM) – Bottom Left
Hogan at the Royal Charity Concert in 1980 (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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On This Day - 9th October

1802 – The first book printed in Australia appeared. It was an abridged version of the New South Wales General Standing Orders. Its publication was supervised by the government printer, George Howe.

1803 – Lieutenant-Governor Collins arrived in Port Phillip Bay on Australia's southern coast to establish a new settlement. The settlement was not successful. Hearing of better land and timber in Van Diemen's Land, Collins moved most of the settlement across the Bass Strait. Unimpressed with Lieutenant Bowen's choice of a site at Risdon Cove, Collins established Hobart on the Derwent River early in 1804.

1888 – Launceston, Tasmania was proclaimed a city.

1891 – The ceremonial mace was stolen from Victoria's Parliament House, Melbourne.

1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalised Australian autonomy and effectively ended British dominion.

1980 – The standard-gauge railway from Tarcoola to Alice Springs was opened.

1994 – Four people were killed when their Cessna 337A crashed soon after take-off from Walgett, New South Wales.

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Book of orders. Selected from the General Orders issued by Former Governors, from the 16th of February, 1791, to the 6th of September, 1800: Also, General Orders issued by Governor individual, from the 28th of September, 1800, to the 30th of September, 1802 (SLNSW) – Top Left
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On This Day - 10th October

1817 – Bushranger Michael Howe was caught in Van Diemen's Land, but escaped after killing his captors.

1866 – Dandenong Market opened in South-East Melbourne.

1880 – Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappeared on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.

1891 – Australian bushranger Harry Power, mentor to a young Ned Kelly, died from drowning in the Murray River.

1892 – Jackie Howe sheared a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.

1915 – Twenty-six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route, they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits.

1923 – The telephone link between Sydney and Brisbane was officially opened.

1999 – South Sydney supporters rally through the streets of Sydney to protest against the rationalisation of the NRL to 14 teams for 2000.

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Harry Power, probably in Pentridge, 1870 (SLV) – Top Left
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