Bruce Tuncks

I reckon that sticking up for Assange was the best thing that Barnaby has ever done.

In spent most of my life repeating the story about the local abos being the second wave and that they killed off the first wave except for tasmania. Alas, I no longer think this is accurate, but I still have hopes.

Often, the phone rings and when you answer, there is nobody there. I have been told that scammers use machines to ring many numbers at once, and only the first real answer gets the scammer. Is this true? and, if so, what should you say? remember that lotsa calls are not scammers.

I quite agree with you guys especially pmc. Space, the treaty of Waitangi was a sort of settlement between equal parties. The whites were only too well aware that the loss of an ammunition-ship could lead to them all going into the cooking-pot. So they agreed and then did a double-cross when the ships got through ok. Now they are being held to what they agreed to at the treaty table. Personally, I never met an aborigine who was part of any stolen generation and I doubt that there were any in the Alice Springs area in the 1950's. They sure did lose their lands though, but that has long since been rectified. Gosh, they have Uluru etc these days.

I don't remember if he ( old K ) was pro or anti the voice referendum. Personally, I was pleased at the outcome. I'll go further and state that I reckon the abos need tough love treatment. Sure, they need to have decent jobs offered to those who do the right thing and work and study hard, and this will cost lots. Right now, I despair for them. Even the footballers... you would have to be crazy to employ one at the moment.

I've told my personal story about the trinity ever since I helped start Trinity College way back when.... Apparently it is not explainable to anybody except a believer, and the idea has been a real impediment to selling christianity. I always thought it was a way to step around the mono vs poly-god idea to have the best of both worlds.

Nev is usually correct but I disagree about "looking after" the poor and ungrateful. I reckon that they need to be kept warm and dry on the cold winter nights. My reward is sleeping better myself knowing that there is nobody real cold out there. But I would draw the line at providing them a great deal more than basic needs. I would provide decent food but not "fast food" etc. This is NOT being "woke " at all. Personally, I reckon the "woke" lot are mainly trying to sabotage society from within, for example by demanding that the poor only have unaffordable housing. Apparently this places me near the middle-ground of politics ... I am certainly in favour of some right-wing ideas such as the need to have less immigration and less molly-coddling of young offenders, and as well, I voted "no" to the voice referendum. Does this make me a liberal voter? I never have voted for them in the past, so I reckon that on a 2 party-preferred, me and marty still vote labor, but without enthusiasm on my part these days.

My mother knew how to fix the problem of hearing aids.... She refused to wear one ! She wouldn't fight over it, but as soon as you went , off it would come. I just wish we had not got her top-price ones.

I'd like to know the real statistics on suicide: Aerobatics at 90? May well have been an intentional accident. But suicide of a young person? a different thing entirely... Here's how to get lots of people at your funeral... you die first!

well Alice Springs was different to melbourne,perhaps because it was a part of sa at the time, but hate of anybody was in short supply, Maybe the blacks provided a target, but if so i was not aware of it. Personally, I would use "repatriation" far more than it is used to rid us of those "immigrants" 'who lack respect and gratitude. Thinking back, i was supposed to be anti-catholic but it never worked on my generation.

Well I don't want them {IMMIGRANTS} here on account of them being moslems who want to boss me around with sharia law etc. So I reluctantly have to agree with OME. While on the subject, How can it be that people who should know better are openly anti jew nowadays? I would have hoped that all that stuff died along with hitler etc. There was a great refutation of the anti-israel stuff by this moslem woman who said that her quality of life was far better under the jews of israel than under some lot like the taliban. She gave lots of examples which have not been refuted.

I understand that forcing palestinians to go might be considered a war crime. But what about keeping them in? I'm proposing that israel just no longer does this, and leaves it to the egyptians to stop them coming in.

I heard about a crow which walked around a spiral circuit and wound up the dog so it could no longer protect its food.Wow.

Do you mean that indonesia is willing to accept refugees from gaza? If so, I reckon its good news and we should be helping to move them there.

Yep pmc, and I understand why not. But Egypt is still a moslem country, and I reckon the Israelis should risk upsetting them by opening up their ( Israeli ) side to let refugees escape.

I agree nev to the extent that I reckon netanyahu was negligent at the helm. But that doesn't effect the idea much. There must be a big reason I don't know about as to why it hasn't happened.

Years ago, I well knew an ambulance dispatcher in Darwin. The bane of his life was indigenous who would use the ambulances as taxis... for example, they would all get out of the ambulance when it was nowhere near the destination but close to a grog shop. Maybe a bit of payment would lessen this?

My take was that they needed some way of culling out people at emergency services and chose the ambulance method of doing this. It would have cost $3000 to get to horsham from edenhope by ambulance at full tote odds. Of course, since ambulance ramping was invented, even this no longer works.... I like Space's idea of lying on the floor.

I agree with nev that the ambulance is the better option. My experience is that you will get a lot faster by private car, but they won't let you in when you get there! Yes, the ambulance is very expensive, so I reckon that yo need to think things through beforehand.

Thanks for the comments about the mri. My latest specialist was amazed that I had not been given one already.

Why are the israelis not pushing the refugees into egypt there? It wouldn't make that much difference to the refugees just who shot them, but it would make a big difference in who got the blame. I would order the guards to immediately remove obstacles in the way of the refugees entering egypt.

Why celebrate pm? I personally think that a growing population means the end of civilization. Some of the younger of us might find out , i'm way too old. But I do agree that in the really short-term, a growing population helps. The treasurer was recently recorded as jeering at the libs ideas to cut back on growth, saying how the implementation of these ideas would " cost the economy billions".

I like the idea of slave wages, ever since I became a farmer. We have 78 y/olds working in the fields because they can't afford the price of labor to help them.

I like the Sustainable approach... perpetual growth is lunacy, but we are wedded to the idea. In the meantime, I reckon that the worse things are, the sooner that things might get improved. As an example, right now it sure pays to be black in Australia, so much so that Sudanese immigrants are literally getting away with crimes because some people mis-identify them with indigenous. This will continue until the country wakes up a bit and I reckon that things will have to get real bad first. It is a worry that , for an example, people might get things wrong and blame the farmers for an increasing price of food, but personally I don't think they will, I think they will blame the supermarkets ,nearly but not quite so unfairly. One day they might see that perpetual growth is a lunatic idea and the pursuit of this lunacy is at the heart of our problems.

Nope nev, they clearly don't think its bad enough. I did ask them about a pacemaker, and they said " maybe one day..." They didn't even want to use the defibrillator, just gave me drugs for a few days and then they sent me home. With respect to the cpap machine, they ( a pharmacy in Naracoorte) had the woman in charge of it not show up the last time, ( I want to try one out by renting first ) so I looked up the internet instead and that is where I found the stuff about drugs. The drugs work about 70% of the time, about the same as the cpap machine. At Horsham, they told me that the risk from AF is the agitation at the top of the heart can lead to a stroke.