Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons’ “Shape I’m In” single came out on (or, okay, about) November 27, 1979. Here’s the original promo video. I can see why Elvis Costello liked this band.
Some classic Oz rock.
Shocking pictures have emerged of a stark naked couple having sex on clock tower in the middle of a busy shopping centre. The Australian couple were snapped after startled onlookers noticed them clinching in the precarious, and extremely public, position on the edge of the balcony. (via: k & mirror)
Activists hold a anti-nuclear protest outside BHP Billiton’s annual general meeting in Brisbane, Australia. Picture: REUTERS. via telegraph uk
Wild camels terrorise NT community
The Northern Territory Government says residents of a remote Central Australian community are too scared to leave their houses because it has been overrun by thousands of wild camels.
Local Government Minister, Rob Knight, says the situation is critical.
“The community of Docker River is under siege by 6000 marauding, wild camels,” he said.
He says in the past few weeks, camels have invaded the town in seach of water. [continued at ABC Australia]
Balance is the key in Australia.
Left: The Conrad Treasury Casino, middle: a giant Christmas tree, right: The Albert Street Uniting Church.
The world’s oldest sheep has died in western Victoria.
A rogue kangaroo has gone on the rampage in the southern Australian state of Victoria, trying to drown a dog in a dam before turning on the dog’s owner.
I hold a doctorate in pepper.
Dr Pepper was once in abundance in Australia, it sat right alongside your Cokes and your Pepsis. But then the fickle tastebuds of Australians banished it to boutique soda territory and now you can only get it at specialty stores that sells gimmicky food from the USA. :(
It wasn’t widely available in Australia for all that long.. maybe 5 years in the 90’s. They gave it their best shot, but Aussies just don’t go for the cherry cola type flavours.. Flavoured coke hasn’t done well here either. Mostly because it’s disgusting.
—lacontessa
Perth Zoo invites you to take action in a new advocacy campaign called Don’t Palm Us Off that seeks to change food-labelling legislation in Australia and New Zealand, mandating the labelling of palm oil on all food products. So why is this so urgently necessary?
Approximately 6,000 orangutans are killed per year and the United Nations warns that orangutans could become extinct within a generation. The primary reason for the orangutans’ habitat being destroyed is the increasing demand for oil palm plantations which results in large-scale clearing of rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Over 85% of the world’s palm oil comes from these two countries.
Don’t Palm Us Off is part of a national campaign urging visitors to sign a petition – via postcards, an interactive touch-screen at Bukit Station or [here] – to mandate the labelling of products containing palm oil. (via Perth Zoo)
Attention Aussies and Kiwis
This is the first outing for Perth Zoo’s latest arrival: a baby Sumatran Orangutan born to 39-year-old mother, Puteri.The infant weighed just under two kilograms at birth. Picture: AP. via telegraph uk
This little girl was born October 20 and is the face of the Palm Oil campaign.
Some background info via Perth Zoo:
- The infant will start eating solids, such as tropical fruit, at about five months of age but will continue to feed from her mother for the next five to six years.
- The father of the infant is 34-year-old Hsing Hsing, who has been at Perth Zoo since 1983. He has fathered three other offspring at the Zoo.
- The infant celebrates the same birthday as the youngest male at the Zoo, Nyaru, who was born in 2007.
- The Zoo’s colony currently comprises nine females and four males.
- Perth Zoo is part of an Australasian captive breeding program for the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan.
- Sumatran Orangutans are the slowest reproducing species in the world. Adult females only give birth to an infant every eight or nine years. The gestation period of orangutans is 260 days (or 8.5 months) – almost identical to that of humans. The oestrous cycle of orangutans is 30 days – once again, almost identical to humans.
- Females usually have their first offspring between 12 and 16 years of age.
- One of our closest biological relatives, orangutans have around 97% human genetic make-up and have an intelligence level equivalent to that of a five or six-year-old child.
- Orangutan means person of the forest in Indonesian.
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Captain
Jack HarknessDominic James ran out of options as his plane - carrying a critically ill woman and four others - was running out of fuel near Norfolk Island.In the dark and facing a 1.5-metre swell, he brought the Westwind jet down and ditched in the sea.
As the jet sank, the passengers - the patient, her husband, two medical crew and the two pilots - clung to each other for 90 minutes in the water before they were rescued by a boat.
ABC gardening guru Peter Cundall who is 82 was arrested yesterday for protesting against a planned pulp mill in Tasmania.
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