A little ray of sunshine from Australia

[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 5th July

1788 – Governor Arthur Phillip sent a despatch to the British Under-Secretary of State, detailing the dire situation with rations in the New South Wales colony.

1851 – James Esmond announced the discovery of gold at Clunes, Victoria leading to the start of the Victorian Gold Rush.

1854 – The Mercury was first published in Hobart.

1876 – The completion of a railway bridge across the Brisbane River links Brisbane and Ipswich, Queensland.

1900 – The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK) was passed.

1905 – Alfred Deakin became Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

1945 – Prime Minister John Curtin died in office from heart problems at The Lodge in Canberra.

1967 – The Seven Network premiered a new situation comedy series “My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?” starring Gordon Chater, John Meillon and Judi Farr, and the Nine Network premiered the spy drama ‘Hunter’, starring Tony Ward.

1980 – Evonne Cawley (née Goolagong) won the Wimbledon singles for the second time, easily beating the popular American champion Chris Evert-Lloyd 6–1, 7–6 in the final. She becomes the first woman to have won the Wimbledon singles nine years apart and is the first mother ever to take tennis' most coveted prize.

1980 – The Australian film 'Breaker' Morant opened in Sydney and Melbourne, having been the toast of the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

Pictured:
James Esmond (Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection) – Top Left
Evonne Goolagong Cawley at the 1971 Dutch Open (Nationaal Archief) – Right
Theatrical release poster for the 1980 film Breaker Morant (Film Fan) – Bottom Left



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[jackspratt]

The NRL has fined St George Illawarra players $305,000 and issued match suspensions for breaching COVID-19 stay-at-home orders after attending a gathering at a home on the weekend.

The league says Dragons prop Paul Vaughan invited 12 teammates to his home on Saturday.

All 13 players players were slapped with sanctions by the NRL, as well as fines of $1,000 each by NSW Police for the breach.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-05/ ... /100269234

I have often wondered if the NRL has a standard IQ test for players wanting to step up to the highest level ie is your IQ <100 ...... you are welcome.

Over 100 - perhaps you should consider AFL, or (shudder) A-league.

[Barney]

Yes one does wonder what goes through the heads of these so called role models and professional footballers.
You do not need a reasonable IQ to just follow the rules. That’s proven in parliament every day.
The trouble is growing further for these blokes as the color of money will determine the final outcome. All footy codes are subservient to the corporate dollar investment and it is they who will not let some dumb ars. player’s taint the product and stop games being played.


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[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 6th July

1813 – The first commercial shipment of wool was sent to Britain by John and Elizabeth Macarthur.

1861 – Robert Palin was hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death. Robert Thomas Palin (c.1835 – 6 July 1861) was a convict transported to Western Australia. His execution in 1861 was the only time in the convict era of Western Australia that Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 was used to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death. Palin was transported to Western Australia on the Nile, arriving in January 1860. His behaviour was good both during and after the voyage. In April 1860, he was appointed a probationary constable and received his ticket of leave in January 1861. At that time he had a house in Fremantle from which he worked as a shoemaker and took in lodgers. On 29 May 1861, Palin was charged with having broken into the home of Samuel and Susan Harding. Susan Harding gave evidence that her husband had been away and that she had woken during the night to find a man standing at the side of her bed. The man seized her by the arm and demanded money. When she said she had none, "he pulled the bedclothes down and felt about the bed... I thought he was going to commit some assault." Harding then gave the man a number of valuables and he left. The following morning, the police followed a set of footprints to Palin's house, where they found some wet boots whose tread matched the prints. They also recovered a number of the valuables that had been stolen. Palin claimed to have been set up by William Cockrane, another ticket-of-leave man whom Palin said had a grudge against him. However, he was not believed and the jury found him guilty of robbery with violence, the violence being the "battery on the person of Mrs. Harding by seizing her by the arm while she was in bed." Chief Justice Archibald Burt passed a sentence of death and Palin was hanged three days later on 6 July 1861.

1863 – Queen Victoria issued Letters Patent annexing to South Australia the part of the colony of New South Wales that would later become the Northern Territory.

1904 – Street lights in Sydney were electrically lit.

1925 – Actress Ruth Cracknell was born in Maitland, New South Wales.

1940 – The Story Bridge was opened in Brisbane.

1942 – Elements of the Australian 9th Division arrived in El Alamein. The Division subsequently took part in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein.

1943 – The last of the heavy Japanese bombing attacks on Darwin occured, though less serious attacks continue.

1945 – Frank Forde was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia, following the death of John Curtin. He served Australia's shortest term as Prime Minister, being replaced by Ben Chifley a week later.

1951 – Actor Geoffrey Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland.

1964 – Warrant Officer Class 2, Kevin Conway of the Australian Army Training Team died; he was Australia's first Vietnam War battle casualty.

Pictured:
The explosion of a ship, filled with TNT and ammunition, hit during the first Japanese air raid on Australia's mainland, at Darwin on 19 February 1942. (AWM) – Bottom
Ruth Cracknell (Theatre Gold) – Top Left
Kevin George CONWAY (Virtual War Memorial Australia) – Top Right



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[pipoz4444]

A sad time, for the future, of the younger Australian's It will take them their whole life to just pay of the loan for their first house purchase, as the prices continue to sky rocket. No longer is a potential first home buyer just competing only against another potential first home buyer. The market is awash with too much Cash (Borrowed and Spare) and people need to park it somewhere. This will be to the determent of the younger Australian first home buyers

Purchasing Power: In 1984 my first home (in an inner city suburb of Adelaide 3kms from the city center) cost me the equivalent of, a Factor 3.75 times my Gross Yearly Income at that time. Today's Purchasing Factor is more like 10-12 times ones Gross Yearly Income (for a similar House), for someone young, (with a similar job). Much harder.

Regrettably in Australia, affording a First Home, for those under 30 years old, has gone backwards over the past 35 Years and will get even harder in the future.

Some things are no longer "Lucky" in Australia


Extract: Australia's First Home Buyers Squeezed out of Property Market

The graph illustrates, we are back to a world where investors borrow a greater share of new home lending than first homeowners. This is usual for Australia – it was only for a short period there at the end of 2020 that investors got nervous enough to disappear for a moment, and the way was made clear for young families to finally buy their own home. We saw a similar brief swap back in the global financial crisis of 2008-09.

House prices have been rising at an extremely rapid rate. The average price of a home in Sydney went up by a staggering 13.5 per cent over the last 12 months according to CoreLogic. That is a staggeringly fast growth rate – if prices rose that fast in a sustained way, prices would double every 5.5 years!
The return of investors to the market is both a cause and an effect of rising house prices. Investors want the capital appreciation – they would love their investment to double every 5.5 years! So they are attracted to markets with rising prices. The more investors are in the market, the more bidders there are at every home auction, the more money people are willing to spend and the more houses sell for.

Why is property investing so popular in Australia?
One answer is negative gearing. If you have an investment property and spend more money on it every year than you receive in rent, (i.e. mortgages, rates, insurance, repairs and maintenance are less than rent), that loss counts as a tax deduction. This is known as “negative gearing” and it is a popular investment approach.
Of course, you haven’t ended up ahead at this point. You can’t make more from a tax deduction than you lose running the property. You still need to make a gain on the value of the home for it to actually work as an investment. Luckily there’s another tax break for investors – the capital gains tax discount. When they sell the property, they need only pay tax on half the profits, (assuming the property has been owned for over a year).

Where is the investor frenzy hottest?
The next graph shows, investors are spending most in New South Wales, where they borrowed almost twice as much as First Home Buyers in May. The only parts of the country where the pattern is reversed are WA and NT.

First home buyers are struggling to keep up. The average loan size for a first homebuyer is now $465,000, up from $355,000 in 2017. How big do the loans have to be to beat out all the property investors?
With interest rates at record lows, loans are easy to service, but the risk for the young first homebuyer is that rising rates in a few years make that loan hard to afford. And unlike a property investor you don’t have rent coming in to help you pay it off. Australia’s young people look set to be stuck renting until something major changes.

LINK: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy ... 81527fedbc

pipoz4444

[jackspratt]

It seems, even when it comes to Covid equality, going to the "right" school will get you a leg up in Oz.

NSW Health has apologised after an "error" saw Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines administered to boarders at a prestigious Sydney Catholic school, despite most students in Australia not being eligible.

St Joseph's College at Hunters Hill in Sydney's lower north shore confirmed the students, aged over 16, received the first dose of the vaccine after NSW Health approved a request by the college.

St Joseph's — better known as Joeys — is one of Australia's largest and most expensive Catholic boys' schools.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-06/ ... /100271390

[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 7th July

1817 – Explorer John Oxley declared the rich pasture land around the Lachlan River as "forever uninhabitable".

1826 – Charles Todd, responsible for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line, was born.

1835 – Escaped convict William Buckley, after whom the phrase "Buckley's Chance" was named, gives himself up.

1850 – Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reached Albany, Western Australia.

1851 – News of the discovery of gold at Clunes, Victoria was published in the Geelong Advertiser.

1907 – The Australian Navy Cadets was established.

1960 – An eight-year-old schoolboy, Graeme Thorne, was kidnapped in Sydney, to extort money from his parents who had recently won the Sydney Opera House lottery. News surrounding the case led to an overwhelming sense of public shock, disbelief, and anger which, alongside later events such as the Wanda Beach Murders and the Beaumont disappearance, "marked an end of innocence in Australian life". Lottery procedures in Australia were changed after the Thorne case, with winners being given the option of remaining anonymous. The case also proved pivotal to the development of forensic science and new kidnapping laws in Australia.

1965 – The Australian Veteran Golfers Association. (A.V.G.A.) was formed on 7 July 1965 by four businessmen, Messrs. A Hall, W.Foulsham J.Barkel and H.Hattersley.

2002 – The British Naval destroyer HMS Nottingham (D91) run aground off Lord Howe Island.

Pictured:
Portrait of Charles Todd (SLSA) – Top Right
William Buckley, date unknown, artist unknown (SLV) – Left
Graeme Thorne, family photo of the victim that was widely distributed by the police and media at the time (Wiki) – Bottom Right



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[stattointhailand]

Seems that a friggin great cloud has blocked the sunshine in OZ after the Thai authorities intercepted 300kg Heroin bound for Australia ........ How the 'ell do they expect them to get through the day now without their escape route from reality

[jackspratt]

C'mon statts ..... exceed everyone's expectations.

Give us a link for that.

[stattointhailand]

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/drugs/m ... -buri-port

your wish ........... (as Jeannie would say)

[jackspratt]

Thanks statts .... you are on the road to internet glory.

Nothing mentioned in the story if a deputy minister in the Thai government had offered first hand knowledge to the investigating authorities.

[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 8th July

1799 – Matthew Flinders left Port Jackson to explore the East coast in sloop Norfolk; he surveyed Moreton Bay between the 15th and 31st and charts Hervey Bay on 2 August. He returned to Sydney on 20 August.

1861 – The Geelong College was established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.

1862 – John McDouall Stuart named the Katherine River.

1904 – Sydney's electricity supply was officially switched on.

1936 – The Federal Government announced an increase in military training strength, in response to the rise of fascism in Europe.

1963 – Margaret Court became the first Australian woman to win the Women's Singles tennis championship at Wimbledon.

1967 – John Newcombe won the men's singles at Wimbledon, defeating Germany's Wilhelm Bungert 6–3 6–1 6–1.

1980 – Lang Park – The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game was won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20 – 10.

Pictured:
John McDouall Stuart (John Oxley Library, SLQ) – Top
Margaret Court (Tennis .com.au) – Bottom Left
John Newcombe Wimbledon 1967 (Tennis Fame) – Bottom Right



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[GT93]

58 years later Margaret Court is no longer a little ray of sunshine.

[stattointhailand]

Thought for the day:-
How crappy a place must the first settlers have thought they had landed to call it New "SOUTH WALES"?

[jackspratt]

Thought for the day:-
How crappy a place must the first settlers have thought they had landed to call it New "SOUTH WALES"?

With an eye to the future, I assume the last thing they wanted to name it was New CASTLE.

[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 9th July

1857 – The Municipality of the Town of Gawler, South Australia, was proclaimed.

1900 – The Commonwealth of Australia was established by the British House of Commons.

1941 – WWII - Australian forces in Lebanon captured Damour, opening the way to Beirut and leading the Vichy French to seek an armistice.

1946 – Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC was born.

1983 – Australia's run of 16 consecutive Rugby League test victories was ended when New Zealand upset Australia 19–12 at Lang Park, Brisbane.

Pictured:
Gawler in around 1869 (Wiki) – Top
Bon Scott and Angus Young (Brave Words) – Bottom



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[GT93]

I probably watched that Lang Park test on the telly. I've not been following rugby league for ages although the off-field antics still attract my attention.

[Barney]

ON THIS DAY - 10th July

1812 – Date of publication of the report of the first detailed inquiry into the convict system in Australia by a Select committee on Transportation. The committee supported Governor Macquarie's liberal policies in general. However, the committee thought that fewer ticket of leave should be issued and opposed the governor having the power to grant pardons. The committee concluded that the colony should be made as prosperous as possible so as to provide work for the convicts and to encourage them to become settlers after being given their freedom.

1842 – Sydney was incorporated as a city.

1851 – A public meeting in Hobart, one of the largest ever held in Tasmania, called for the end of transportation.

1907 – The first telephone call between Sydney and Melbourne was made.

1911 – individual George V granted the title of Royal Australian Navy to Australia's naval forces.

1918 – Writer and journalist, James Aldridge was born. Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide. He was also the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children.

1990 – Bob Hawke became Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister (after Robert Menzies).

Pictured:
St. Phillip's Church, Sydney, ca. 1852-1853 / possibly Rev. Alberto Dias Soares. (Dixson Galleries, SLNSW) – Bottom Left
Group Portrait of Senior Officers of the RAN. 1912 [Naval Historical Collection] (AWM) – Top
James Aldridge (Text Publishing) – Bottom Right



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[tamada]

‘Stuffed’: how Australia’s ‘unconscionable’ gamble on Covid vaccines backfired

‘Stuffed’: how Australia’s ‘unconscionable’ gamble on Covid vaccines backfired

Looks like another failed statesman putting his nation's eggs in the home-grown basket? And some here (myself included) reckon Bojo's a f*ckwit.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -backfired

[jackspratt]

And some here (myself included) reckon Bojo's a f*ckwit.

You missed another cohort - those who believe Scotty from Marketing and Bojo are both faarkwits.