What if you lived in Australia?

[palo5]

... it's true you would nearly be in the 'sweaty season' right now. Summer. Deadly spiders could nibble you in your sleep, and you could wake up with a cuddly snake in your bed. Or a kanguru licking your feet

But at least you have an honest leader!

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...#ixzz2DASd3wvb

Julia Gillard's former boyfriend and one time Australian Workers Union boss Bruce Wilson has broken his silence on the 17-year-old union slush fund saga declaring the Prime Minister has "absolutely nothing to answer for" and "did no wrong"

So please pray for this beautiful, integritiful lady - she will save you!

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by palo5

... it's true you would nearly be in the 'sweaty season' right now. Summer. Deadly spiders could nibble you in your sleep, and you could wake up with a cuddly snake in your bed.

Originally Posted by palo5

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...#ixzz2DASd3wvb
Julia Gillard's former boyfriend and one time Australian Workers Union boss Bruce Wilson has broken his silence on the 17-year-old union slush fund saga declaring the Prime Minister has "absolutely nothing to answer for" and "did no wrong"

Why does it take 17, yes 17 years too come out and tell the truth and declare her innocent That's typical union buddies behavior here. If she was innocent, he'd have come out a long time ago and said it

Originally Posted by palo5

beautiful, integritiful lady

palo, palo, palo......maaate

get some of these

Originally Posted by palo5

So please pray for this lady

Never, not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow or next millenium...... You couldn't pay me enough to even think of doing that

[Estreeter]

palo..mate...buddy

Summer's here Time for fun

We've just had a week of summer weather and too welcome it, it felt like the whole country was thunderstorm after thunderstorm day after day.





I'd just spent a week in Darwin
, the humidity there is something too be experienced.... shirt is wet almost constantly

I'd heard of a condition , 'Mango Madness', where people go a bit silly because of the humidity up there

A new study has confirmed what people in the Top End have long known - soaring temperatures and overcast skies make tempers fray.

Surgeons at Royal Darwin Hospital who analyzed fracture rates found that so-called "mango madness", - a period of extreme weather tension that triggers violence as the wet season hits - is not just a myth.

An analysis presented at a medical conference in Hong Kong today showed fracture hospitalizations were 40 per cent higher in October and November when the Northern Territory had high temperatures with constant cloud cover and no rain.

After being there I can understand why

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

palo..mate...buddy

Summer's here Time for fun

We've just had a week of summer weather and too welcome it, it felt like the whole country was thunderstorm after thunderstorm day after day...

Beautiful pics

Thunderstorms like that are rare here. We get about one a year, I think. At the moment, snow is dumping on us, and it's -14C, so if you want to chill out...

I'd just spent a week in Darwin
, the humidity there is something too be experienced.... shirt is wet almost constantly

I'd heard of a condition , 'Mango Madness', where people go a bit silly because of the humidity up there



After being there I can understand why

I don't understand why anyone lives in Darwin, except for work. Every time I read about it, the difficult climate is mentioned - do we have any Darwiners who can explain it?

Mango madness: the news.au article is hard to understand. I mean, I understand all the words and sentences, but why do they say that facial injuries are numerous in Darwin because of heat and lack of rain, 'and only Greenland is worse'?

Ok, maybe I didn't understand it and am just too dumb; but does it seem scientific to compare NT with Greenland?

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by palo5

I don't understand why anyone lives in Darwin, except for work.

Tourism Industry

Originally Posted by palo5

Mango madness: the news.au article is hard to understand. I mean, I understand all the words and sentences, but why do they say that facial injuries are numerous in Darwin because of heat and lack of rain, 'and only Greenland is worse'?

I saw zero violence, so I can't vouch for it.

Originally Posted by palo5

Ok, maybe I didn't understand it and am just too dumb

We'll call it under informed mate

[haldane4]

I've been reading some Australian novelists: Kenneth Cook. His book Wake in Fright portrays some parts of Australia and its culture as pretty brutal - the schoolteacher in a remote town ends up losing all his money in a gambling game; his punishment is to drive around the outback with a bunch of drunks assassinating kangaroos.

And Nevil Shute. Though technically Shute was English, but he emigrated to Australia in the late 40s when Clement Atlee had the cheek to ask him to pay tax on his earnings. Some of his Australian-set novels are stunning; On the Beach is deservedly famous, but Requiem for a Wren is heartbreakingly good.

I think I'm reading about Australia because I've realised I'm never going to get there.

[haldane4]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

Saw a very cool, recently re-discovered film called "Wake in Fright" about a schoolteacher in an Outback town. Its a wild picture of very drunk people, not exactly flattering to Australia, but with some really amazing scenes of pub life, including the old gambling game "two up" (which I've heard about, but never seen played).

Oooh. Thanks for alerting me to this film, I just read the book. Ta, very much.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by haldane4

I think I'm reading about Australia because I've realised I'm never going to get there.

haldane, mate, Never Know If You Never Go

[FatesWarning]

I live in Australia, its a great place, But the cost of living has got out of hand, especially, food, petrol, utilities, at least beer is still relatively inexpensive.

And we do get some good storms here, check this picture I took from 2010.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by FatesWarning

I live in Australia, its a great place, But the cost of living has got out of hand, especially, food, petrol, utilities, at least beer is still relatively inexpensive.

Well, the mining tax would have helped.

The problem that Australia is facing is somewhat like Norway -- huge wealth from extractive industries (oil in Norway, coal and ore in Oz, mostly) distorts everything else.

You can see the impact of the mining wealth on overall price levels in a comparison of cost of living between NZ and Oz. NZ is much cheaper, and its still a very productive economy, but there's no river of money from one commodity warping everything else.

Natural resources wealth really is a "mixed blessing" -- because it kills competitiveness in every other sector.

The mining tax would have addressed that somewhat, but Rinehart and her cronies managed to sink it . . . too bad.