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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:07 pm

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.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:48 pm

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.
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Post by JimC » Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:28 am

That would be in their DNA, for sure...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:32 am

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.
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Post by NineBerry » Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:54 am

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.
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Post by JimC » Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:10 pm

They do things differently in Western Australia...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:49 am

We used to have a member from Perth.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:50 am

JimC wrote:
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They do things differently in Western Australia...
Does that not apply to every state?
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Post by JimC » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:03 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:
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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? :tea:

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...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:10 pm

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.
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Post by JimC » Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:14 pm

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"...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:20 pm

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.
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Post by JimC » Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:22 pm

In Oz, the successful criminals wear tailored suits and attends board meetings...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:24 pm

You mean politicians.
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Re: Straya!

Post by JimC » Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:39 am

...them too...
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