Straya!

[Brian Peacock]

Wrap them in clingfilm at the airport and put them in the fridge for a week. Should be fine, and if they survive they're probably witches anyway - then you just burn them.

[Brian Peacock]

I see the Morrison govt want to roll back hard won support for disabled people and create a climate that encourages people to disengage from the system. Very Iain Duncan-Smith of them. Next theyll be talking about how they just want to promote individual responsibility and do away with a something-for-nothing disability culture, while supposedly encouraging workers not shirkers, strivers not skivers.

[JimC]

That would be in their DNA, for sure...

[Brian Peacock]

They could look to Britain for evidence of how devastating those kinds of attitudes, expressed through those kinds of powers, were to the lives of disabled people and their families. It was basically a winnowing of the sick and disabled into the deserving poor, who are now called The Vulnerable, and the rest.

[NineBerry]

A Western Australian man has been jailed for at least two months for booking tradespeople to work on his house while he was supposed to be quarantining after returning from interstate.

The 53-year-old man arrived in Perth from Brisbane on 27 June. He was ordered to quarantine for 14 days and said he would quarantine at his home in Scarborough.

In addition to tradespeople, the man also invited members of the public to his home to buy items he had been selling on an online platform.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ine-orders

[JimC]

They do things differently in Western Australia...

[Scot Dutchy]

We used to have a member from Perth.

[Scot Dutchy]

They do things differently in Western Australia...

Does that not apply to every state?

[JimC]

They do things differently in Western Australia...

Does that not apply to every state?

Well let's see...

Obviously, Victoria dominates in terms of culture, intellectual and sporting achievements, and just about everything, really, with Melbourne as its pinnacle.

In Tasmania, one hears the sounds of banjos drifting down from the hills, and they struggle to realise that a world exists outside their shores.

NSW is brash, pretentious and underachieving, with a deep resentment of the obvious superiority of all things Victorian.

I believe you have your own opinion of Queensland, Scot?

The Northern Territory is just strange...

And as for South Australia, well the best thing you can say about it is that there are a few people there who are not bogans...

[Scot Dutchy]

I was told that Northern Territory is full of criminals escaping from the law. Nobody bothers to go there.
I have an uncle living (well I really dont know if he is still alive) in Adelaide he says it was never based on criminals. He was on the council there. He built his own house which apparently quite normal there.

[JimC]

Speaking seriously, we have been to the Northern Territory several times. We enjoyed Darwin, but absolutely loved the various National Parks we visited and stayed at. The natural scenery, the wildlife and the Aboriginal rock art were all breathtaking. So, you are wrong about "Nobody bothers to go there"...

[Scot Dutchy]

You did not meet the criminals? In Queensland they said that is where they go to. Also north Western Australia where nobody goes only gas companies who sell to the Chinese which is what everyone does.

[JimC]

In Oz, the successful criminals wear tailored suits and attends board meetings...

[Scot Dutchy]

You mean politicians.

[JimC]

...them too...