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First Fleet wreck joins heritage list

The only known shipwreck from the First Fleet has been added to the National Heritage List.

HMS Sirius was the lead ship of the First Fleet during its six month voyage from England to Australia and was shipwrecked on another journey to Norfolk Island in 1790.​


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Siriusly​



The Minister for Environment, Tony Burke, added the ship to the list in a ceremony at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney yesterday (25 October 2011), the 225th anniversary of the ship's commissioning.

"It is a critical part of the colony of New South Wales," Mr Bourke said. "It's a critical part of Norfolk Island and put together, it's a part of the heritage of the nation we all call home."​


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A documentary on the life of Rowland S Howard opens in Melbourne today. Anyone going to catch it?

Two years after Howard's death, Autoluminescent offers a fascinating insight into a flawed but brilliant artist.

His passing brought dozens of musicians from around the world to pay tribute to a man who refused to compromise or sell out.

"Rowland's imaginations and aspirations provided a compelling mix to build a film on," Milburn explains.

"His early music offered a window into what he was searching for and he experimented in ways to create a sound verging on the cathartic.

"He also had a gift with words and an innate longing and curiosity about the world beyond us."

Lowenstein and Milburn were well fitted to tackle a documentary on Howard's life given they frequented the same circles of Melbourne's punk scene of the late '70s.

They were teenage fans of his first band The Boys Next Door, before it became The Birthday Party, and admit the making of Autoluminescent brought a fair share of nostalgia and tears.

Determined to create a balanced tribute, the pair set to work unearthing every aspect of Howard's life.
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The trailer
 
Ooh. It's on at the Nova in Carlton, a mere hop, skip and a jump from the tram stop outside the Astor in Lygon Street. I'm all over it.

Thanks for the heads-up, cobber.
 
I wish I was there to join you. I have never been to the Nova but it looks to be an ideal place to watch it. Carlton seems the right place to watch this. Keep an eye out and you might spot some Melbourne musos.
 
Sideroxylon said:
Lygon St, Carlton?
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It's got that look about it but I didn't recognise anything. Not even the pub that flashed by at one stage, which is unusual.



ETA: The reason I didn't recognise it as being a pub in Lygon Street is that it's the Exford, on the corner of Russell Sreet and Little Bourke Street.
 
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Akhenaten said:
It's got that look about it but I didn't recognise anything. Not even the pub that flashed by at one stage, which is unusual.



ETA: The reason I didn't recognise it as being a pub in Lygon Street is that it's the Exford, on the corner of Russell Street and Little Bourke Street.
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Correct, it was filmed on Little Bourke Street.
 
Akhenaten said:
It's got that look about it but I didn't recognise anything. Not even the pub that flashed by at one stage, which is unusual.



ETA: The reason I didn't recognise it as being a pub in Lygon Street is that it's the Exford, on the corner of Russell Sreet and Little Bourke Street.
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Ah the Exford. Another haunt when I worked around the corner in Lonsdale St.
 
Y & J's.

I was walking along Swanston St last week, and among the many, many weird sights was a goth girl with a ferret in her arms.
 
I have a question for our Australian friends. I am sure you are familiar with the waratah; a type of native plant from Australia.

In New Zealand "waratah" better known as the name of a temporary fencing post, specifically a steel post with a three-point star cross-section, with holes in it for fencing wire to pass.

I am curious as to the origin of this name, and whether this type of post is known by this name in Australia as well. Is it a brand? Are the stems of the waratah plant very strong, and traditionally used for fencing?

Inquiring minds want to know.
 
lionking said:
Y & J's.

I was walking along Swanston St last week, and among the many, many weird sights was a goth girl with a ferret in her arms.
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I saw a girl with a break in her arm. Does that count?

I was in town for the day with my daughter, Rachel, and after negotiatiing the ferret-carrying rabble in Swanston Street we decided to have our own protest, which we called 'Occupy Chloe's Bar'.


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Our aim was to divest teh evil publican overlords of a few pints of Young & Jackson's Naked Ale




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She'll be down again in a couple of weeks and we're planning for 'Occupy The Espy'. That'll learn 'em.


Vive la révolution!​
 
gumboot said:
I have a question for our Australian friends. I am sure you are familiar with the waratah; a type of native plant from Australia.
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I most certainly am. Telopea speciosissima is the state floral emblem of New South Wales and where I grew up in Sutherland Shire they are very common. They love the sandy soils that predominate in areas where the Hawkesbury Sandstone is exposed.


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Waratah (Telopea Speciosissima)​



gumboot said:
In New Zealand "waratah" better known as the name of a temporary fencing post, specifically a steel post with a three-point star cross-section, with holes in it for fencing wire to pass.

I am curious as to the origin of this name, and whether this type of post is known by this name in Australia as well. Is it a brand?
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Those are what we call 'star pickets'. One of the largest manufacturers of these and other fencing products is Waratah®, a subsidiary of OneSteel Ltd.


gumboot said:
Are the stems of the waratah plant very strong, and traditionally used for fencing?
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No. A Waratah is a fairly typical looking shrub and the flower 'stems' are more in the nature of thin, knobbly-looking branches. I wonder if you might be thinking of the Gymea Lily (Doryanthes excelsa)?

These have lovely stems but they are far too fragile for structural purposes. I believe they were used to make light-duty spears for the Eora people who occupied the Shire before the whitefella came, but that's about it.


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Gymea Lily (Doryanthes excelsa)​



gumboot said:
Inquiring minds want to know.
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As is only right and proper.

:)
 
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Akhenaten said:
I saw a girl with a break in her arm. Does that count?

I was in town for the day with my daughter, Rachel, and after negotiatiing the ferret-carrying rabble in Swanston Street we decided to have our own protest, which we called 'Occupy Chloe's Bar'.


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Our aim was to divest teh evil publican overlords of a few pints of Young & Jackson's Naked Ale




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She'll be down again in a couple of weeks and we're planning for 'Occupy The Espy'. That'll learn 'em.


Vive la révolution!​
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The ruling class oligarchs evicted me from a similar establishment once (or twice, or....) when exercising my natural right to get pissed. To the barricades brothers.
 
I have never been to Chloe's but remembered it as the place with the painting that has an interesting history.
The pub is well known for the nude painting Chloé, painted by French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875. The painting is oil on canvas measuring a life size 260 x 139 cm. It was purchased for 850 guineas by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald of Lonsdale Street in Melbourne. After being hung in the National Gallery of Victoria for three weeks in 1883, it was withdrawn from exhibition because of the uproar created especially by the Presbyterian Assembly. It was bought for the Young and Jackson Hotel in 1908 for 800 pounds,[1] and was damaged in 1943 by an American serviceman who threw a glass of beer at it.
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A young Parisian artist’s model named Marie was immortalised as Chloe. Little is known of her, except she was approximately 19 years of age at the time of painting. About two years later, Marie, after throwing a party for friends, boiled a soup of poisonous matches, drank the concoction and died. The reason for her suicide is thought to be unrequited love.
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Akhenaten said:
I've many times been tempted to post Chloe's picture here, but I'm not sure if it would be a breach of Rule 2 (the 'no naughty bits' rule).

I might run it past a friendly moderator.
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I would hope it gets past the mods. As a nude, it's on the mild/demure/inoffensive end.
 
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