We Come From A Sunburnt Country

Nov 27 2009

newwavetimewarp:

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.

Nov 26 2009
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dementes:

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)
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Activists hold a anti-nuclear protest outside BHP Billiton’s annual general meeting in Brisbane, Australia. Picture: REUTERS. via telegraph uk

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Joe Cool, Australian Guy (via glen.h)

Nov 25 2009
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mabelmoments:

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]

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isay:

lanipauli:

Today’s inspirational (and ocker Australian) speech. Note, high level of offensive language. If you don’t want to find yourself offended don’t listen. Simple.

There is always someone having a worse day than you…

This is hilarious.

Nov 24 2009
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inothernews:

fuzzyrush:

Balance is the key in Australia.

Left: The Conrad Treasury Casino, middle: a giant Christmas tree, right: The Albert Street Uniting Church.

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Nov 23 2009
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dementes:

Over 100 dancers surprised Bondi Beach with a Flash Mob on Sat Nov 14th 2009, organised by DJ Dan Murphy and starring one of Australia’s most famous & delicious drag queens - Joyce Maynge. (via: k who found it on buzzfeed)

Nov 22 2009

eyesturnedskyward:

toosweet4rnr:

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

Nov 21 2009
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mabelmoments:

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

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allcreatures:

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.
Nov 20 2009
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isay:

Captain Jack Harkness Dominic 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.

via images.theage.com.au

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ABC gardening guru Peter Cundall who is 82 was arrested yesterday for protesting against a planned pulp mill in Tasmania.

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