Bruce Tuncks

Yesterday we saw an echidna around the house, a meaty looking slow thing with very short legs. I'm angry that blackfellows are allowed to shoot them . Personally, I reckon the use of rifles should go with whitefeller rules, and "traditional hunting rights" should mean that traditional weapons should be used. So I would restrict blackfellows to spears, and not ones with steel heads either. A pipedream? Yes, but the legislation I would like to see will be more likely to follow a "no" vote.

They tested the screw cap at the Adelaide wine show, with identical wines in both types ( stelvin screw-caps and corks). They got identical scores at first, which I always thought was a good test of the judges. Then the screw caps edged ahead and were never caught. So nev is right, as usual. Screw caps are better. Personally, I am so old that I remember when good wine was always in corked bottles. Yaldara was the first to change away from corks, and it turned out to be a big mistake as their sales fell sharply. So they returned to corks, and much later, they were among the last to go to screw-caps.

You are right as usual Nev, but I'm still cross about the stopping of the road to Melbourne stuff around here. Can you give me an example where abos have used their political clout to achieve anything useful? I only see examples like "stop climbing rocks in the Grampians and Mt Arapiles" while in WA, they repealed some legislation which went much too far. A good thing, thought I, that this was not locked up in the constitution and so could be repealed when it was found to be ineffective. I've said it before, but I reckon "tough love" is what is needed here. For example, I could eradicate trachoma almost immediately if whole families had to come with washed faces to collect their siddown money. Yes, this would be argued against by white politically-correct ladies.

Disinformation? What about calling a scrub-tree a "birthing tree" when it is not old enough for real tribal aborigines to have so used? And just who is going to carry the legal responsibility for those killed on the road that would have been duplicated if not for the birthing tree nonsense? I hereby accuse the "yes" campaign of disinformation. ( trees get old too... on the farm here, we have lots of trees planted by the previous owner of the place, and they are starting to show signs of getting old at just 50 or so years)

I got the last bit ( abos being protected ) from the proclamation of SA in the buffalo replica ship. The proclamation stated that the aborigines were subjects of the monarch like anyone else and entitled to the same protections as anybody else.

the best thing abos ever did was to paddle up the thames and discover england. They claimed it for the aboriginal nation of Australia, and after meeting some indigenous poms, they declared the country to be "terra nullius" PS No convicts ever in SA, and the local abos were protected too at least in legal theory.

Jerry, do you think that the level of regulation is excessive? I reckon it is excessive here in Australia, and that the UK is where some of the stuff came from. I would be pleased to be wrong about all this.

I hated how he treated australians as fools over the pro-monarchy campaign. There were some good arguments but Tony lied. The lie I hated worst was how he said that we would finish up with a "politicians" head of state, when the requirement of 2/3 of the house would ensure a bi-partisan head of state. That these lies went unanswered by the republican lot led ( or misled ) by Turnbull made me wonder if he was just there to sabotage the republican's case.

We had a strategy planned against the guy who lived near us in Alice Springs. He often tailgated you on the main road into the town, so we were looking at ways to make the tail( brake) lights look like they had worked till they were slammed into, where of course we were planning that they didn't work at all and that was how we were planning to get the guy. Just disconnecting them is not enough because the globes, even broken, would show if they were working till they were hit or not. In the event, we did nothing and I reckon the tailgating guy was lucky.

I'd like willedoo's reaction to the dog idea. After seeing "Private Benjamin" as a movie, I read that in reality half the US platoons had dogs. The dogs would range ahead and easily sniff out germans among the treelines. Next, those germans would be targeted by artillery or airstrikes. The story said that the platoons with dogs had half the casualties of the rest. ( I dunno if the dog's lives were counted or not) I have always reckoned that my uncle Jack, who was nearly killed fighting Japanese near Milne Bay in WW2, suffered from a lack of dogs. Imagine the plight of a would be Japanese sniper left in a tree with a bloody dog barking up at him... l

They are only there by winning the vote.... so I say, be very careful who you vote for. Personally, I vote independent ( Sustainable Australia ) these days, not that I have a say in the safest Nationals seat in the country. Mind you, the previous guy achieved the pipelining of the Wimmera water scheme, which cost millions but has saved huge amounts of water from evaporation and seepage from earthen channels. So even party hacks can have a hidden good side. And, spacy, I suggest writing to the council, keeping a copy, if you again find hazards around the place. I reckon the complaint in writing would help with suing them for injuries received.

I agree with nomad, there is more complexity in a cooling system than there is in an EV motor and transmission. They can and will get a lot cheaper soon. I reckon I have bought my last IC car. With model planes, electric has taken over without any subsidies at all, electric is so much cheaper and cleaner than IC stuff. And just look at drones....

Thanks guys! Well the pics are shocking for sure, I am more sure than ever about the pic I am seeking being real, but maybe it no longer exists. If I were that white policeman's family, I would destroy the pic. Gosh it was terrible times huh.... the old mission places like Hermannsburg, existed because it was a safe refuge for the Abos and I agree with them. The whitefeller's hired guns would not shoot them in front of the missionaries.

Octave, that picture is similar to the one I have been seeking. The blacks look the same, but the one I remember was taken just south of the gap at Alice Springs, and it has the old stone police station in the background, with a mounted white cop near the blacks. The caption read how "cattle thieves" were about to be marched to court in Port Augusta. I wonder what happened.... The blacks, like in your pic, were whip-thin and clearly calorie-deprived, which explains their taboo on climbing hills. I reckon the big problem is when you use your "culture" to justify sharing whitefeller things. Like cars and houses and grog. These are whitefeller things and should be treated by whitefeller rules, which means that they are not to be shared with good-for-nothing layabouts.

I never met an english "war bride " either..can you tell me more spacy?

I hate how they say that the "remuneration tribunal" is independent.... who hires and fires them I wonder. But I do agree that the WA thing is a step in the right direction.

I reckon you should not use the word "day" if you mean " a period of time which may be millions of years". It is confusing and gives me the impression that you are trying to weasel out of the truth, which is that they got it wrong. I mean the whole god bit.

What I am learning is that there is nowhere to go unless you are rich or have a desired profession.

Humans have not been as migratory as it seems... the longest migration, to the southern tip of South america, can be explained as a few meters a year. There was lots of geological time.

One of the problems we face today is that the oldies have memories of "homes" being dreadful places and they sure don't want to go into one.

I will reluctantly accept that there were some "stolen " kids. But the idea of "assimilation" was not wicked, it was preceded by the assimilation of negro slaves in England. They actually did disappear at least from common knowledge. When I was at school, assimilation was preached as the aim but I never thought that the numbers added up. More than half the class was black or partly-so. How could inter-marriage get rid of them, I doubted from the start. If there were stolen generation kids around Alice Springs in the 1950's, they were unknown to me and Walter for sure. I sure don't want to pay reparations to false claimants, and I would need convincing that their story actually happened. With respect to the stolen pommy kids, I never met one of them either and I certainly never profited from them. I believe that it happened though, and those "homes" where dreadful things happened were known about and greatly feared.

Unfortunately, spenaroo, South Africa was possibly on a list somewhere about wanting non-white immigrants. I agree its not a "nice" country.

Nomad, there were periods in our evolutionary history when moving was the best option. This surely favoured brains and it helps explain why we carry such a big thing around as our brain. And, nev, it would take a great many generations for your thing ( about smarter people having fewer kids) to manifest itself. I agree about this by the way. We sure should limit child support to just 3 kids at the most. Unfortunately, this would give the woke lot yet another weapon to hit the govt with.

What I subsequently looked up is that the ancients found 7 sky objects which moved against the backdrop of stars. Uranus is too far out to see with a naked eye.

In thinking about the voice vote, I tried ( and failed) to find a good country that was non-white and wanted non-white immigrants. Chile just maybe? Anyway, I sure would like some help here. What I reckon is that such countries are thin on the ground and hard to find.