Old Koreelah

Sorry, can’t resist adding an illustration to Nev’s post:

A Holden Ute with LS Diff was all most remote roads needed.

Exploiting males’ insecureties is big business, especially in America, where it sells everything from trucks to guns and penis enlargers.

Those ugly big American utes seem to be the flavour in Oz at the moment. Appalling monstrosities that block your view of traffic when trying to get out of angle parks. Bet their owners will soon be blaming the Guvmint for high fuel prices.

Michael Leunig saw human nature like this:

The disastrously stupid excesses of Trump and his Republican backers has triggered lots of young people into standing for office. There is some hope for America.

Let’s hope they go after his criminal kids as well. The last thing America needs is a crime family in the White House.

A Better Way - a speech by Kerry White I am a Narungga leader and Native Title holder. The Aboriginal elder quoted by Onetrack sure deserves to be heard; her opinions are based on valid experiences in the Indig community. But- others who spent their working lives in the same environment have different ideas. She seems to belong to that group of people who have “pulled themselves up by their bootstraps” - shaken off their disadvantages by sheer hard work. I know several people in this category; some are family members, others friends. One thing they tend to lack is empathy for those who could not rise above the same humble beginnings. Like stereotypical right wingers, their mantra seems to be: “if I could do it, they should be able to!”

I first saw him in Robbery Under Arms, which I consider a memorable movie- the first one I ever saw. Although criticised for its complex plot and rushed production, it contained some great cinematography and a spectacular final battle scene- with sound effects never surpassed.

Those are Aussie Eucalypts, one of our most popular (not poplar) exports. Glad I’m not in a passing aircraft.

We can blame the Howard government for this effort to put The Voice in the Constitution. They want to stop a future PM from doing what he did: getting rid of an Aboriginal consultative body. Me too. We received a cardboard list of misinformation and straight-out fibs with a photo of Barnaby Joice on it. Probably paid for out of his electoral allowance- that is, you and me, the taxpayers.

So that’s why good bubbly gets up your nose!

Red that’s a valid point and I agree plenty of politicians are paid more than they’re worth. Given the constant ridicule and abuse many of our leaders endure, maybe a more useful comparison is with high-risk occupations like water bombers and deep sea divers.

That’s the sort of money paid to lots of middle managers with far less responsibility. A pittance compared to the millions raked in by some captains of industry. The bloke led a state of 6 million people through some of our most challenging times. If we pay peanuts, we get monkeys.

OT that is not so. The Voice was a result of a nation-wide movement of Indig people that culminated in the Uluru Statement. Many of us followed these developments for years, even if the mainstream media did not.

A lesson in marketing: it often requires costly advertising campaigns to overcome the conservatism of the consumer. I fear the same will apply to the forthcoming Referendum, after which the public will gradually come to realisation that, once again, we were misled.

Crittofer Reeves.

Has anyone got a good word for a bloke who served in an incredibly difficult job for many years?

Crickey, NP, have you found a foreign corporation that actually pays tax?

Good point, Nev. Some modern cars are almost unsteerable at slow speed without power steering. I’ve twice had that rude awakening. A broken belt will do it.

They’re not held on by much. A recent prang we attended resulted in a new Hilux being separated from its trayback by 70+ metres.

Well done, OME. Science doesn’t lie: our vehicles are safer without bullbars, but it would take a brave government to phase them out in Australia. Plenty of people I know seem to plough into roos on a regular basis; a bit less speed might be the answer, but they have greater time pressures than I do. In fifty-odd years of using rural roads, I’ve hit only two roos- one each on bike and car. These days I drive to the conditions and do without bullbars, even though it seems there are heaps more roos about. Interestingly, I saw no bullbars on cars or even big trucks in our trip down through the Canadian Rockies. Fishing rod holders should be banned outright- the common ones are a dumb design, very likely to disembowel a pedestrian.