Bruce Tuncks

The lame old woman just couldn't keep up with the more able-bodied tribesmen.

I personally will be really hostile to the idea of giving billions to the abos to " buy" Australia. I reckon I own it as much or more than a younger black.

My understanding was that the first whites were seen by the blacks as a resource to help them fight their real enemies, that is the other tribes. There could have easily been a "treaty" formed between the first fleeters and any local abos they could find, in fact there was between John Batman in what is now Melbourne. They could only catch up with a lame old woman, but instead of killing her, they gave her mirrors and blankets and a bit of paper asking her to sell them Victoria. She signed ok, and the batman lot were sorely upset when the govt, then based in Sydney, refused to honour the sale.

Electric bikes are wonderful things! I really recommend you try one out onetrack. You can exercise as much or as little as you like as long as you don't go so far as to flatten the battery.

My understanding is that the 2 places were deliberately mis-named from the start, in what may be the world's first real-estate scam.

But you can't get around land tax, without saying that you didn't own it. So the roomful of tax books would be replaced with a single A4 sheet. This would alone put thousands of tax accountants in search of an honest living.

Could they find a way around your tax, onetrack? There was a party which once got a few seats in NZ which pointed out that the ONLY thing you needed to tax was land. You could not deny owning the stuff and you can pass on most costs to the productive user . It never got a try.

I liked the way that the negro was arrested.

According to the "fatal shore" book the local aborigines didn't even look up from their oyster-gathering as the fleet went by. This was noted by more than one of the passengers. Some invasion, thinks I. Well not up there with d-day huh.

Does anybody remember what the seven taxes were? I think that land tax was one.

Well it sure sucked me in..... I guess I'm a sucker huh? I actually believed it when they said that the GST would reduce my tax bill! Hewson was there saying GST stood for "Goodbye Seven Taxes ". A guy I knew was more realistic.... "nahhh", said he, "it will turn out to be just another tax"

Thx Ome etc. I always thought that the supermarkets were bound by legislation to display the price on the shelf. This is not so huh?

I hasten to add that the kids were told that ladies with shopping etc always had the right-of-way on the footpath.

Apparently elite cyclists go to Europe to practice cos the european motorists have some respect for cyclists. In Australia and the US, I reckon the odd 4wd driver gets road rage on seeing a cyclist. We always insisted that our kids ride their bikes on the footpath. Even before it was legal.

At last I ( sort of) understand the soldier who wrapped his falcon round a power pole 20 feet up, and it was a flat suburb just like yours!

good onyer guys. I am getting old ( 78) but my health is ok and I have a j230 at the local airfield. So no personal gripes, but I still worry about trump and putin and global warming and a list of other things which will effect my offspring. Yep I am a worrier.

Why can't they take the "administration fee" out of the main payment? Haveing said this, when I collected my paper today, I paid with a card and was told that there was a 50 cent fee on all sub-$20 transactions. Now I have to tell the paper that I am giving them up. Surely this is evidence that cash will not be phased out? Mind you, I am so old that I remember the promise that this would never happen when they introduced the bankcard of yesteryear.

Yep, the Iowa result reinforced to me that the republicans are in big trouble. To get onto the ticket, you need to support Trump. But supporting Trump will cost you 5 percent of the real vote. Gosh, I hope that this is correct.

Getting back to the real subject, the issue is not about giving your life for your offspring, but giving it up for somebody else's offspring.

Nope, no collection of my own stethoscopes. But I once borrowed one and heard nothing come through it. They sure do look convincing tho, the doctors I mean.

How do they turn a promise to give you money into a request that you send them some?

I want to listen to hearts. Just like they pretend to do with a real stethoscope.

The presentation of a fake email as genuine is the skill of the scammer. They have got pretty good lately.

Good onyer red. There can't be a penalty for treating a genuine communication as a scam, can there? Not that I am implying that the email was genuine.

On the show about border guards, none of the smugglers of diseased fruit etc had Google Translate in their purses. They all used the excuse that " they didn't understand" , even though they were given the written stuff in their own language. I reckon it is possible that women, in particular, are illiterate in some countries. One of the few good things Howard did was to put the question " where is your spouse learning english?" into some sort of questionnaire related to immigration. I can imagine the horror that question would be viewed with by a typical Taliban. Why people should be brought in without housing is a mystery to me.