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SimonD
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Blamey, what a dick. Imagine telling your troops that they were cowards for falling back to prepared postions when you are outnumbered and outgunned.
I remember reading a story about Blamey when he went to see a movie that was put on for the wounded troops. When he come in and sat down, all of the wounded men got up and walked out.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Yup, thanks for the details. Been for my share of walkies in the light green.
Cheers,
Dave.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
I've spent about equal thirds of my life in Qld, NSW and Vic (55 years) plus about 3 years in Canberra.
I would have said that Westie definitely originated in Sydney and referred particularly to places like Blacktown, but I had also assumed that it would have adopted a similar meaning in Melbourne for places like Sunshine.
My wife, who was a Victorian, understood this meaning, although we were both in the Army, where the language is a bit of a mongrel dog, so to speak. If I were to use Westies in my local pub though, I doubt that many would understand what I meant, and would think I was referring to Western Australians.
Have to agree with Simon about the differences between country and city speech. The tight-lipped country drawl is part of it, but what amazes me is the speed difference. People from Sydney, especially, always sound like they're going ten-to-the-dozen to my laconic country lugholes.
Cheers,
Dave
FFed
Muse
I was in Australia two years ago and loved it. Can't wait to go back and maybe even buy some property there.
And Puberty Blues is a great movie.
And Puberty Blues is a great movie.
arthwollipot
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Not as good as Storm Boy.
What the thread losing steam? We have hardly touched Australia yet. Some spots in Qld N.T. have their own oil wells, some unkown to the enemy (Gov) The oil is so thin it can be used as deisel straight, just filter. Some years back a bit was sneaking into the system and got sprung. Rumor that motors blow up etc, big checks, fines on ones caught, all because they missed out on tax. Their media mates played it up. Large areas out there to hide a well. My son worked on two leases one 7,000,000. acres, another 5,000,000. We also have a huge array of supposed to be "Over the horizon radar" We have capped wells from Bass Straight to West Australia,think we are floating on oil and gas as we sell (did sell) ship loads to China at about 4c a litre, it's a bit more to us. And we have Zelite with the potencial to make polution free batteries (made a crude one myself with zelite and magnesium) Dave's real good at show and tell detail. Also we have areas suitable for hot rock energy extraction (push water down get high pressure steam back) Birdsville produce elec. power with a mini hot water system.
arthwollipot
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If it's only "supposed to be" that, what do you think it really is?
FFed
Muse
Never heard of it.
Does anyone know what ever happened to Jad Capelja who played Sue Knight in Puberty Blues? I am curious as to whatever happened to her but there is no info available.
"Monkey Grip" came out about the same time, and was a superior film IMO, with a much better sound track.
The Carlton pool, where some of it was shot, was saved from destruction a few years ago, and you can still see the "Aqua Profunda" sign on the wall (or it was there when I last visited), which says a lot about the multi-culturalism of Melbourne.
Speaking of which, don't ignore our great city. The best unknown large city in the world. When I've been overseas and asked people to guess the size of Melbourne, I get 200,000, 500,000, even 1,000,000, but so far nobody has got near the 4 million population.
Haarp, weather control.
arthwollipot
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arthwollipot
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Well, it's not doing a very good job, if I may say so. Floods in the north, bushfires in the south, fifteen years of drought...
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
A great soundtrack by the Divinyls and lead singer Christina Amphlett even scored an AFI best supporting actress award out of it. It’s a shame the band are seen as one hit wonders abroad (I touch Myself) because have produced a lot of good songs over their almost 30 year history.
Oh agreed. One of the best Aussie bands of the 80s. Saw them live once.
arthwollipot
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Australia has approximately the same land area as the continental United States, and about 10% of the population.
Almost all of that population is crowded onto the eastern edge, between the mountains and the sea.
Almost all of that population is crowded onto the eastern edge, between the mountains and the sea.
Damien Evans
Up The Irons
And 90% of the rest are in either Adelaide, Canberra or Perth.
You mean Darwin right? Canberra falls within the area specified by arthwollipot.
MG1962
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I had a huge arguement about this. A recent one hit wonder show had Midnight Oil. I was outraged. A person said, well how do you expect Americans to know about their other music
I pointed out using that critera Led Zep would also be a one hit wonder band
Akhenaten
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I hadn't really noticed it myself until you pointed it out, but when you did I found what you were describing really easily, and I have to agree with you that the hills towards Wang look like debris. I was hoping someone clever at geology and stuff would chip in.
Fruit bats have definitely arrived in Victoria - big time. I've seen the sky at sunset nearly black with them up around Shepparton when the fruit trees are in season. My guess is that they roost along the Murray, as they do along watercourses in the north, and make their way out into the orchards at night. The farmers must hate the damned things.
The biggest ones I've ever seen are in Brisbane. They seem to enjoy the bright city lights and I assume they thrive on all the insects that are about, as well as people's fruit trees.
As Damien says, they look like eagles at first glance.
Common practice in a lot of gold mining areas, like Ballarat and Bendigo. I'll bet a lot of things disappear down those holes, apart from the obvious.
5-legged cows don't surprise me in the least, given that some of the people up there seem to have two heads
I didn't know about the Old Tobacco Shed, but I do Unfortunately, what you say about the Ovens is largely true, but it can still be pretty magic at certain times and places. If there's been good snow over Winter and then some decent Spring rain the river comes back into it's own.
They have to maintain a certain flow in the Ovens because Wangaratta gets its town water from there, and the parks and gardens on the river where it passes through the city are quite beautiful, despite the drought. A few bores help, I think.
Actually, it's not as bad as you might fear. Rivers like the Ovens still have trout in them, and kids catch brown trout in Sunday Creek, in Broadford, when there's been enough Winter rain.
It appears that the fact that streams are losing their perennial flows and connection to the sea isn't the death knell for the trout, and it seems they might be evolviing into new, land-locked species.
Arthwollipot comes from the heart of trout country, so he might have some fishing stories for us.
ETA: Fishing with Alfred is still popular, especially for clearing the carp out of a dam, and the Army thoughtfully used to provide us with lots of expanding bait to help supplement our rations
Cheers,
Dave
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