Straya!

[pErvinalia]

Dictator Dan.... Suckit Murdoch!

[Brian Peacock]

Revolution, or cappuccino!

[pErvinalia]

Gun violence hits Australia. 2 cops and a bystander shot dead. Cops killed the shooters (3 of them). One of them was a primary school principal up till March.

[Brian Peacock]

You gotta watch your back when dealing with education mafia gangs like the Chalkdusters and Exam696.

[Sean Hayden]

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[Tero]

[JimC]

Australian dogs are getting high on cane toads!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /101718494

I've got a confession to make. My dog's name is Billie, and Billie's an addict.

She's a fiend for the old Rhinella marina, the hopping golf ball — cane toads.

I first heard about this behaviour from friends. Their dog, a basenji-cattle-dog-cross called Kazi, would mouth toads for the milky-white poison they produce in the glands behind their head.

Kazi's human parents could tell when she'd been on the toads, as they'd often find her on her back, legs in the air, lying in their queen-sized bed, eyeing off the ceiling.

But I'd assumed theirs was an isolated, or at least rare, case.

Then I noticed Billie, our border-collie-cattle-dog-cross, making herself scarce of an evening.

She'd come back in, looking sheepish, and with all the symptoms of a '90s raver at sunrise — pinned pupils, drooling, sloppy grin.

It didn't take long to find out where she was going. Like Kazi, she was on the amphibians. Where had I gone wrong?

It turns out it's pretty common.

"It's definitely a thing," says animal pathologist and toxicologist Rachel Allavena from the University of Queensland.

[pErvinalia]

[pErvinalia]

Not Florida. (Actually on the highway next to me)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3985103 ... 220280351/

[Brian Peacock]

How do you Ozzie taxpayers feel about spending c.$300bn on supporting the American and UK ship-building industry?

Australia is to embark on one of its most significant, expensive and geopolitically consequential military tasks in a century: the push to acquire, operate – and eventually build – nuclear-powered submarines.

The program is forecast to cost $268bn to $368bn between now and the mid 2050s, most of it beyond the first four-year budget period, and will depend on help from the US and the UK...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... g-capacity

[JimC]

Fatalistic about such things these days...

[pErvinalia]

Incredible how much money we can all of a sudden find when it involves defence.

[JimC]

And it's bipartisan...

[pErvinalia]

Yep. Colossal waste of money. All so we can pretend we are tough like our big bro America.

[Svartalf]

How do you Ozzie taxpayers feel about spending c.$300bn on supporting the American and UK ship-building industry?

Australia is to embark on one of its most significant, expensive and geopolitically consequential military tasks in a century: the push to acquire, operate – and eventually build – nuclear-powered submarines.

The program is forecast to cost $268bn to $368bn between now and the mid 2050s, most of it beyond the first four-year budget period, and will depend on help from the US and the UK...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... g-capacity

They must be very happy, they just escaped paying much less to support French shipbuilders.