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I think they are way classier than that. Bali has never been a go to place for inner city types. Somewhere local and chilled, bogan free is more their style. He certainly won't be getting Gina's jet to fly around in like Barnaby or Scummo did.

Two feet is enough for a tiger shark, they happily chase large fish through the waves to grab a bite. The most common way to catch a big shark is from the beach, because thats where the fish are. Thats a big hint for survival, change of tide plus dawn and dusk are the big beach fishing times, also prime shark times. But rgmwa, your on point , if your not in the water you are normally safe. The more people in a area increases the risk. Surfers are particularly at risk as from below the look like a large Tuna, Mulloway etc or dolphin alone or a seal. Been killed fishing from a boat is also a nasty surprise- recently a game fisherman hunting Marlin in the big Port Stephens competition caught a large Bull shark? On his line and was dragged into the water never to be seen again. I assume the beast turned the tables and lunched on him. I expect that this may be the cause of many a lost fisherman out solo, boat found perfect and sometimes trolling along, no one on board. A freak accident? No, surprised it doesn't happen more. I have seen guys in a 12' tinny come in with a 2.5 metre shark onboard and they videoed getting it aboard still alive and thrashing- life may be short for those young fools. Instagram fame can have a very short life. We call sharks the taxman, they deserve their fair share and essential for a well run ecosystem. Many a big fish comes up from the deep just a head on the line minus 20 kg of body. Mother nature does not care how big your game boat is, nor your harbour address. Doesn't give a shit about YouTubers, holiday heroes or even salties like me. Once you enter the salt water, you are at her total mercy. Beware of entering the liquid jungle, there's Tigers below.

I know of one person some would think should exit to the USA.

Latest Breaking News . God has yet to successfully arrange a meeting with TRUMP. Trump Claims He's too busy RUNNING THE world. Nev

I think it's a Storm in a teacup, Old Chap. We don't have to fear an Exodus TO the USA. Nev

GON, that is just so wrong it's not even worth commenting anymore.

It has been said that most shark attacks occur in waist deep water in places like Sydney Harbour, until someone pointed out that that's where most of the people are.

I only like swimming where there's shark patrols. There's just too many of the buggers close inshore today - all a result of the Chinese stripping the oceans of fish. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/china-super-trawlers-overfishing-world-oceans/10317394

Well done to the happy couple. Note how low key, private and billionaire free it was. Special wedding beer cans and a local honeymoon. Also a civil servant and all paid by himself not a conga line of donor suckholes ala LNP style. A genuine down to earth couple, we are lucky to have them. Completely unaffected by his status. Naturally DJ Albo did the music selection. Notable celebrity was the ring holder- his 🐕.

Only swim in water clear enough to see them and have shark spotting facilities. I did a seasons shark spotting at Newcastle. Caves Beach to Stockton. After that I stopped swimming in Most places I used to.. You are a sitting duck on the surface. Nev

A bloke taken by a shark at City Beach in Perth on 6 November 2000 (Ken Crew) was chewed up in waist deep water, not long after sunrise on a dull, overcast morning - a typical "high shark hazard" day.

A PERFECT end to a PERFECT week. . Nev

There's real quality TV coming from European countries. Money Heist, Wrong Side of the Tracks, and now Billionaires Bunker, all great shows from Spain. Yes you have to read the subtitles (well some of you multi-lingual geniuses probably don't) but the quality is high

Are we talking in general, or simply the continued infusion of what has been a dominant global culture over many decades? If in general, the current "lot" seem to be heel bent in providing far more hope across the population than the previous. In terms of infusion of culture - well you could argue they have started to apply some of the brakes with the under 16 social media laws - albeit unintentionally as they are more intended to stop harmful content reaching the under 16s. In addition, the current lot recently passed the Communications Legislation Amendment (Australian Content Requirement for Subscription Video On Demand (Streaming) Services) Bill 2025, into law, requiring streaming services in Australia to invest at least 10% of their Aussie revenue into local content productions. What looks like to be your favoured party, One Nation doesn't appear to consider a media policy and imporant issue according to its own website: https://qld.onenation.org.au/issues. Their education policy mentioned nothing on it - in fact it worries me.. At a time when we are realising that the original Victorian times teaching curricula is not quite fit for purpose anymore, they seem to want to go back to it.. Hmm... Er.. yes.,. force fed US TV inb Australia is a problem.. but that is the free market working for you. Australiam, as an English speaking nation with not much real investment in the media and arts have leveraged a lot of international English speaking content. In the old days, as I recall, it was pedominantly English, with lots of great comedies, dramas, and the like. It transitioned to American TV thaks to its lower price point. It is not the roles of the government to interfere with private market decisions, except to set broad standards. This lot has taken the first step to do that.. it has notbeen on the policy agenda of any other lot that I can see nor remember. But, even when local content is provided, is it local content? A lot of Aussie game shows are actually licensed from either the US or the UK. Remember Sale of the Century, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Big Brother, and a whole lot more. All foreign shows, produced locally. Lots of royalties flow back to their foreign conceivers. I suppose, though, at least they are produced with a distinctive Aussie flavour. The term "Lock it in".. used in who wants to be a millionaire in Australia was not a feature used in the original UK production. Another example, was something like Late Night with Steve Vizard. He openly admitted be copied the David Letterman show format, but abruptly quit when I think it was channel 9 decided to syndicate the David Letterman show. Why, FFS! Yeah - we know the context of what was on the Letterman show, but I would have far preferred to watch Vizard (before his contraversies became public), as it was local - stuff you will never see in the Letterman show. The UK has very similar laws to us.. the difference is by the time the US went global with its productions, the UK was already well advanced of Australia in its media landscape, particularly with content production. In addition, the UK tastes are not the bland pin up model acrtors/actresses with preedicatable plots, comedy that has to be explained to its audience as part of the show, and has a edginess and intelligence that US productions lack to this day. Something like CSI Miami would never survive here.. when I first saw it when I returned to Aus way back in 2003, my response was, "huh" The same over dramatic acting in the same plot every errk, and people watch this.???" We mainly watched ABC and got Foxtel to watch the UK channels. The rest of Europe are not native English speaking, and except for movies and the odd show dubbed in their local tongue, it sort of makes sense for them to make their own productions in their own language. But. likle Australia, many of their local productions are licensed from the UK or mainly the US. Or, like the Vizard show, they copy the forrmat. A firend of mine who lives in Brisbane calls Australia, Ausmerica. When people ask me what Australia is like, I say think of America, with better health and education, but no guns. But, I think both are unfair. We seem to have picked a lot of the advantages, but ny and large pased up most of the more extreme disadvantages. We have picked up many of the disadvantages, but I think that os more from the way the Aussie government works than what has been imported from America. Its just both the Aussie and American systems derive largely (except for Louisianna) commonwealth system. And there are forces in society that seek to manipulate it to their advantage. And I am sorry to say, none of the major and only one of the minor parties are willing to proffer real policy changes to address that. And One Nation is not that one minor party. But good luck getting Pauline to take up your cause.. You may well get some hot air on it, but policy? I doubt it.

Dear Newcomer, Members of this forum have personalities that others recognise after having been on the forum for several years. In my case, I often post items about the etymology of words that pop up in posts. Those items could be classed as trivia, but exposure to them increases the general knowledge of members, thereby diminishing cluelessness. Also, since the proliferation of AI generated stuff being posted on forums like ours, we have become pretty adept at spotting it. I am happy to say that your posts show all the indicators of posts generated by a human. That's why you have been welcomed. Just sit back for a while and observe the personalities of other members before making comments about a member's post that could be taken as not nice.

Ha, l can not believe people take this guy seriously, he's like some parrot with verbal diarrhea just spews out all his so called facts and dates and dribble from over 100yrs as if he has some kind of intelligence. Soon as some caller disagrees they just disappear . Ha, they prob pay hm a mill a yr.

I bleieve, under international law, that is tantamount to a foreign act of, and declaration of war.

I caught myself using the word "guy" recently, and chatised myself for using an Americanism. However, I soon recalled the Gunpowder Plot in which Guy Fawkes was a key figure in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5, 1605). His capture and eventual execution is celebrated every year on the 5th of November. Effigies were paraded through the streets by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy. I don't know if the fireworks are still used in Britain, but I recall that kids used to go about asking "a penny for the Guy?". The American use of the word meaning "fellow" appears from 1847.

Not only 3AW. When working, I spent long hours driving in regional and remote places. Sadly, too often the only commercial radio available was the infamous John Laws or Alan Jones. These chaps invariably irritated and annoyed me. I feel their long term (divisive, biased shock jock) influence remains, and might still influence voters.

The big problem that I see is lack of timely pumped storage. Queensland put in 600MW of pumped storage way back when the state gov't owned all generators. But since then none of subsequent governments want to spend on big social essential infrastructure. There has not been any more such projects. Hence we have a nationwide lack of energy storage. Rising prices are mostly a result of lack of proper planning and commitment by governments. Had they planned over the years, there would already be storage in place that would minimise the power generation gas bills. I give up. I am costing up a private solar plus battery. For me, it's an investment. Even if I die (or move) before it pays for itself, the resale value of the house will be higher. Meantime, I am insulating myself from the problem.

Gave up long time e ago

There was some sarcasm to my post about him on the moped

Trump has just declared the airspace above Venezuela closed to all airlines, pilots, drug dealers and human traffickers. I suppose that means he has just annexed Venezuela as the 51st State (they have lots of oil and Trump doesn't like Maduro or their boats, so why not?). Bad luck Canada, you had your chance.

Language evolves. It's evolution depends on the source and viability of the mutations that cause the evolution. Take a look at the words I used in my post above. A lot of them have mutated.

IF We ever ban words for Being Un Australian I would have Long Gone somewhere else. THIS IS/Was the Land of the "fair go" By and Large. People coming Here Like our Laid Back approach and sense of freedom. Nev.

Stay ON the Medication.. Nev

Brave NEW World. It's not keeping ME awake at Night. Nev

I have seen only one movie in a theatre in 25 years, I said the trailer on TV looked interesting, so my daughter dragged my along to a 5:30 showing. It was the latest sequel to Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson as Frank Drebbin. An occasional grin, but pretty gringy. The funny scene in the trailer did not appear in the movie. I'm not into movies, in theatre or on TV. My son gave me access to his Netflix, buy I've never watched it.

When was the last time an Australian or British movie was promoted in picture shows? (I refuse to use "cinema".) I haven't been to the fleas and itches for years. If I pass by a picture theatre, all I seem to see are posters for American flicks whose stories revolve around a dystopian America.

That's VERY SAD. CH 32 has some good movies. Nev

As @octave mentione, the wholesale prices are down, and a lot of what is being paid is infrastructre. Remeber, SA is what, the third largest state/terriroty in Australia, and has 1.8m people scattered over it, far less than the other states, and bigger than the NT and ACT. That requires a decent amount of infrastructure to maintain, which will reduce with a full transition to renewables with batteries. France exports a lot of its energy to the UK. Why? Because, since before I was involved in the UK electricity industry, way back in 1996, the government was paralysed 2with its energy policy,. Then some bright sparkdaid gas is cheap.. Let's build a bunch of gass fired generation plants with a 15 year life span, and not have to maintain them in that time (largely not maintain, anyway). At the same time, the same bright spark said let's privatise Nuclear Electric (client of the company I worked for) and Scottish Nuclear (not a client of ours) and form British Energy and float it on the stock exchange. No prizes for guessing what was going to, and did happen to British Energy. It virtuallywent bust because the gas plants could churn out electricity at next to nothing.. At the same time, there were something like 8 operating plantes for British Energy - all due to decommission within the then next 15 - 20 years. At the time, with renewables technology where it was, nuclear was still the best technology. Some plants of other companies were tconverted to biomass burners, but they have their own problems. And, in reality, they are anly renewable after a 20 year cycle or thereabouts. However, renewable technology has come leaps and bounds, but the problem in the UK is planning laws are archaic, dreadfully painful and slow. This didn't impact the gas plants as these were built on existing decomiossioned sites. But, if you want to build capacity in a new site, the planning process can take years. Hinkley Point C, the new build at an existing generation site for the now decomissioned Hinkley Point A and B took over 15 months. Greenfield bew build planning permissions can take years.. The Sizewell C plant had been locked up in planning 26 months.. again at an existing plant. Renewablesin the UK has been deployed - a mix of solar and wind. Plannign takes forever, even for offshore stuff. Coal plants have been decomissioned as have been the expired gas plants. Nothing new has been built, so the UK for many years has been importing from France. However, since renewables have come online, remebering not a single new nuclear or fossil fuel plant has been built in the UK since 2012 (fossil, I think nuclear was 1996). But since renewables have been being installed, on an annualised basis, the UK was a net exporter of Electricity to France in 2022. This may seem o blip, but there are a lot of factors in electricity demand. And the UK has been reducing its reliance on imports over the last 5 or so years, since the UK has been bringing online more and more renewable generation capacity.

And ZORRO was from there ALSO. Nev

Oh, I give up!! (Well done, @Marty_d - has Mi5 or Mi6 called you for a job, yet?)

But it is not the Law according to trump, so it's OK. (He said with a soupcon of irony.)

Yeah for sure, it's like what hope do our young and country have now with the blind twats we have running this place. Force fed Yank tv from birth, music , ways, and now the net just icing the cake. They're a bit protective of all this through Europe and UK and other parts too but with our useless lot, just scary. Nice to hear your kids are a little alternative, my d is too thk God.

Whoops! I forgot to say that the meanig of "guy" as the effigy of Guy Fawkes, dates from 1806 and in 1836 had the meaning "grotesquely or poorly dressed person", which could descibe an effigy made of old clothes.

Same with my work , many a time hrs and hrs driving across state. Could usually get abc or tripple j though so that often saved the day

He's just declared the airspace of Venezuela closed. Since when did the USA control the World's airspace?

I thought it was witty.

Cat Stevens.

Toni Lamond, the Australian actress, cabaret and TV star, has died aged 93. She was famous for starring in Annie Get Your Gun, My Fair Lady, and Oliver. Her TV appearances were in Number 96, The Unisexers and The Last Frontier. She was often a guest on variety and talk shows such as the Graham Kennedy Show, The Mike Walsh Show, The Bert Newton Show, and Good Morning Australia. Her sister was Helen Reddy. Toni's husband died suddenly in 1966 by committing suicide, an event that left her heartbroken for many years. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/australian-performer-toni-lamond-has-died-aged-93/106082102

Even if he did go to Bali, it isn't exaclty going to the French Riviera or some fancy Caribbean island. I can see him now in a singlet and stubbies shorts, with a stubbie in hand on a rented moped, resplendent with the chin straps dangling from his helmet

I intend to not become shark ship, so that is advice I tend to take in waters where sharks are likely. My partner has called me the most un-Aussie Aussie she has met..

Yep, but most folks esp tourists think the sign is just being over cautious or part of the " Aussies scaring tourists lark". Sadly most signs get ignored. People on holidays seem to ignore the risk of all the dangerous stuff they would normally never do, but do, to fit in the holiday experience and get the footage for Instagram etc. Most tourists seem to leave their brain at home and dose up on ego pills. It's not just foreign tourists but Sydney people that cause a lot of grief. Fuckwits on jetskis are a particular problem.

Sharks only attack when you are wet. Stay dry. As well, that spot was signed with Shark and No Swimming signs.

The European theatre in WWII was won by the incredible manufacturing and agricultural production possible in the USA due to the USA being out of range of effective attack by the European Axis powers. That's not to deny the contribution of the British. The Axis powers (really only Germany) suffered the direct opposite and so lost. I reckon it was a bit different in the war against Japan since the problem there was to dig out the Japanese from their defensive positions. You could say that the Yanks in their land operatoins were working in spaces where there was not room to swing a cat. I think that one of the greatest manufactured item leading to the Allied victory in the Pacific was the very humble Marston matting which enable the Allies to establish air superiority very rapidly, and to be able to repair any bomb damage to runways very quickly. Have you ever given thought to who started the war in the Asia/Pacific? Most people who don't know the histrory of the first 40 years of the 20th Century will blame Japan, but American corporate interests were very much involved in preventing Japanese economic development. The Asian/Pacific war was a trade war, not an ideological one like the Europena war.

Neither do I think there is a terrorism Gene. HATE is a learned/ Indoctrination thing. Anyone different. TRUMP uses IT to divide America.. Nev

Yeah. There's a "Terrorism" Gene GON. and red, How does upping the total Numbers Increase your Percentage? Meanwhile the Libs continue to destroy THEMSELVES. They get PHON Preferences anyhow. Paulene Plays the racist Card effectively, just changing WHICH race this time and Loves TRUMP and GUNS. Gets enough money from first preference votes to stay in Business. She's a Queensland phenomenon, like BIG Clive. Nev

I checked. He's OK with it. Nev