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11 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:
possibly never saw it
It is a point of conjecture among historians whether James Cook, the famous navigator, ever lived in the house, but almost certainly he visited his parents at the house.
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It's a pity it looks like Capt Cooks Cottage will be pulled down and returned to England due to constant graffiti about "the invasion" defacing it. It was a gift to Australia by the UK. It's like the US returning the Statue of Liberty to France.
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I bought a NEW Truck a couple of months ago, but took it back to the dealer the next day because I couldn’t get the radio to work.
The technician kindly explained to me that this was a “SMART TRUCK” and the radio was “VOICE-ACTIVATED”.
He turned the radio on and said, “Nelson” to the radio.
The radio replied, “Ricky or Willy?”“Willy” he continued and ‘On the road again’ came on the speakers.
Then he said “AC/DC”, and in an instant, ‘Highway to hell’ took the place of Willy Nelson.
I drove away happy and for the next few days every time I said “Beethoven”
I would get beautiful classical music or if I said “Beatles” I would get one of their greatest hits.
Well, yesterday, a fella ran a red light and nearly smashed into my new truck but luckily I swerved in time to avoid it.
I yelled out “YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT!”And the radio said, “Peter Dutton or Barnaby Joyce?”
I love my new truck!
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And if you missed the first announcement,
https://michaelwest.com.au/victoria-to-build-next-generation-of-military-vehicles/
https://geelongindy.com.au/news/14-12-2021/geelong-focus-for-1-billion-defence-contract/
And this comes on top of the contract to build nuclear powered submarines in SA.
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Regularly mispronounced as Warnerbool by news reporters, etc.
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A large contract for military vehicles to be built next to Avalon Airport, now Australia to start building missiles, to be exported to the US.
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How many would know what I was referring to, without Googling it, if I said I was barracking for Narrm.
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Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles and singer of 'Take It to the Limit,' dies at 77.
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ABC News ditches English name of famous city in favour of description in indigenous language
- ABC uses local Maori name for Wellington in New Zealand
- Has been ABC policy in Australia for over two years
The ABC has been praised for using a local indigenous place name during the coverage of the Women's World Cup.
Coverage of the 1-1 draw in Wellington, New Zealand, between the United States and the Netherlands on Thursday afternoon was accompanied by the place name 'Te Whanganui-a-Tara', in the Indigenous Maori language.
The phrase, which is what Wellington was originally called, literally translates as the 'great harbour of Tara'.
Tara was the son of a famous Maori navigator called Whatonga sent down from the Mahia Peninsula by his father to explore southern lands for their people to settle.
'Love seeing the ABC using te reo Māori for the placenames in their FIFA coverage!', tweeted Andrew Macfarlane, Australia Correspondent for Television New Zealand's 1NewsNZ.
It is not clear if this is an ABC policy for all foreign locations.
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Foxtel are playing Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers playing three roles. The Doomsday Machine.
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And Tony Bennett.
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Sanctions against Russia
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US: No more military aid for Ukraine - Z-LIVE NEWS AU
Donald Trump, the former U.S. President, has called on Republican members of Congress to focus their investigation on U.S. President Joe Biden.
The demand is to suspend military aid to Ukraine until the White House cooperates in the investigation of Biden and his family. Trump is facing charges over his handling of classified documents and hush money payments. A special prosecutor is investigating Trump’s role in storming the Capitol in Washington in January 2021 and his efforts to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election as the German news website tagesschau.de reported.
Moreover, the affair surrounding the Russia contacts of Donald Trump’s confidants continues to put pressure on the U.S. administration, as the German news website tagesschau.de reported. Trump reacted angrily to corresponding media reports and rejected the accusations. In a Twitter post, he called the reporting by the “false news media” conspiracy theories and blind hatred. He stressed that any possible connection to Russia should be dismissed as “nonsense” and was merely an attempt to explain the election defeat of his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
Trump accused both the “New York Times” and the “Washington Post” of illegally obtaining information. He stressed that the real scandal was that confidential information was carelessly shared by intelligence agencies, which he called un-American. The Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, also firmly rejected the reports. He stressed to journalists in Moscow that anonymous information should not be believed because the newspaper report was not based on facts.