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He obviously didn't even trust his own government.

For many years there was a magpie in our neighbourhood that I recognised by his/her distinctive early morning song. Never saw it but every year it was back. Sometimes very close by and other times further away but always obviously the same bird. It had two variations on the melody and the complexity evolved over time. Sadly, I haven’t heard it for the last couple of years. The last time it was sounding rather weak compared to previous fifteen or more years, so age must have been finally catching up.

Eva Cassidy.too.

What a waste of timber!

My parents came to Australia from Holland when I was about 15 months old, and I'm still a permanent resident after all these years. I kept my Dutch nationality mainly because it allowed my kids to have dual nationality later on. It makes no difference to anything except that I can't join the police force, the armed services, parliament or vote in any State or Federal elections. (Luckily getting Morrison tossed out didn't depend on my vote). What I did find a bit ludicrous was that although I couldn't volunteer to join the army, I still had to register for the Vietnam call-up, which I did. My number didn't come up so I didn't go, but they got me a couple of years later when I went to Holland for a visit and promptly got called up for the Dutch army as part of NATO. Leaving Holland to go to England, the police picked me up as an IRA suspect and eighteen months later I got questioned by Special Branch for being a suspected people smuggler (after being traced by Interpol since I was driving a Dutch registered car). I'm probably lucky to be here at all!

It gets even worse, Red. By starting your post with ‘Why me Lord?’, you also inadvertently identified yourself as not only not a Muslim’ but clearly also a one-eyed religious exclusivist.

Finally! A practical long distance pilot’s seat.

I don’t have a problem with the idea of a Voice to Parliament, but I can’t see how it will achieve anything useful if Parliament only has to listen but not necessarily take any notice of what is said.

Dutton, for example.

This is pretty extraordinary, coming from the recently departed leader of the government, although he didn't take much responsibility for anything then anyway, so maybe it isn't that surprising: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-19/scott-morrison-says-put-faith-in-god-not-governments/101250118 Good riddance.

Too small. No room for the airstrip.

But your description fails to account for the variation in tangential force as you approach the poles, OME.

Like he said...`promises made, promises kept!'

True, but I thought it was a good question and deserved more than one answer.

Pollution.

Thanks! Found it!

You've got mine already. Might even get to Tooraweenah one day, although it's a long way from WA. Good luck with the project.

... as well as ignorance and incompetence.

... and using a welder from Bunnings to put it together.

So a junior costs about $1,100 per hour for an 8 hour day! That's highway robbery! Makes our junior engineers relatively cheap at about $170 per hour, and even that's expensive when you're the one paying. Hope the lawyers aren't charging for the time they spend making coffee and discussing the weekend sport.

It would only work if the Ukrainians also agreed to call it a day. If they don't, which seems likely as long as they keep getting weapons and are willing to keep fighting, then Putin won't be able to stop either, even if he decided he'd won round one on points. Hard to see any outcome other than a long and bitter fight.

It looks like Putin will soon get the Donbas region, or what's left of it. The question is will that be enough for him to claim victory for his Special Military Operation and stop there, or will he keep going with the war? If so, what's his end game? If he pushes on to try and get the rest of Ukraine, at which point does NATO step in or finally step away?

Their facial recognition system doesn't seem to be working very well in the chainsaw aisle then?

Accruing frequent flyer points also comes in handy at times. Two years worth of credit card purchases and.no air travel adds up to a tidy amount.

That’s appalling! What a sad place the US is these days.