I have a confession to make. I may be a secret New Zealander. I was born in Melbourne and my father was a fifth generation Australian. However, my mother was born and raised in the world’s most southern city, Invercargill. I know this because when I was at primary school, I had a pencil case purchased from Invercargill which boasted this important fact.
Just quietly I think Invercargillers or whatever they call themselves might have a challenger from Punta Arenas in Chile but let’s not get bogged down on the finer points of geography.
Invercargill isn’t the arsehole of the world but if you clamber out to Bluff at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island, you can see it from there. Just up the road is a town called Gore, a place so windswept and uninteresting that even the locals look embarrassed. I guess Gore would be the perineum of the world.
My mother arrived in Australia in 1954 and became an Australian citizen a decade later. She claims that process required her to renounce her NZ citizenship so she could vote in Australian elections. Her memory is based on the fact that her mother, who was visiting Australia at the time, took serious umbrage.
Full column here.
Just proves they really couldn’t give a damn.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/senate-votes-down-removing-gst-from-electricity-prices-amid-warnings-australians-will-die-this-summer/news-story/cf999a330901b5e2e145e99ba4977e03
That right wing zealot Richo nails it!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/graham-richardson/blackout-bill-shorten-could-give-turnbull-the-energy-boost-he-needs/news-story/609e7c4bc5a0a95044eae37c1072b9a4
Richo Richo he’s our man
He would be no Dismal fan
He came from the left
And now speaks real flash
He’s just debunked that Dismal trash!
Cricket good. Footy good.
Nathan Lyon – look at his stats.
Well done Aussies. JTI your pick is looking a little shaky the Crows have a jump on the Giants. Long way to go though.
Just why TF are we playing footy finals on a Thursday night? Does the AFL recall we have weekends?
No footy finals on Sunday. God’s day.
Ablett complained?
Two Michelles in the match for Nathan Lyon for 12 for the match and 21 for the series. He and Dave Warner have kept us in the match, along with Peter Handscomb suffering through the heat and humidity.
Otherwise, just over the other side of the border, the situation in Burma looks to continue to be utterly horrendous, going from Apartheid to verging on ethnic cleansing as the Burmese military turn on the Rohingya Muslims this time around (backed by ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs), following on from their long history of massive violence against ethnic groups in most of their border states.
Also looking like one of the worst hurricane seasons in the Atlantic for years. Irma looks to have already flattened Barbuda and some of the French and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean and it looks like Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Cuba are in its path next (and another natural disaster is likely to be the last thing Haïti needs not so many years after the last disasters).
The whole postal survey thing, now the High Court has permitted, could get very interesting to say the least. I might share some thoughts later, so as not to drag this post out any longer.
Good idea, Rhys i’ll catch you on the next thread. I think it’s about homo’s being legally allowed to wed one another. I’ll read your thoughts on this on the other side mate.
Another fascinating Test in Bangladesh JTI. Cummins is really bowling his guts out as the only quick, and drawing a bit of blood.
Lyon now has a record eleven wickets, with the the chance of a couple more. The oft flayed Wade has six match dismissals including three very good stumpings. A decent lead will get the Aussies nervous.
Now where’s that armchair critic? Must have slipped through his child restraint.