Bruce Tuncks

Ever had dinner on the "Buffalo" replica? One of the wall-hangings was a copy of the proclamation which started South Australia. It plainly says how the abos were subjects of the king just like the rest of us, and how they were not to be despoiled. I'm quite proud of being South Australian.

Thx for that, OME. I do not have the faith in oral traditions that you may have, but I still like the idea that the local aborigines we see around today were not really the first to colonise Australia. Why should it matter at all? Well for one thing, it would expose the "first nations " crap for what it is, which is a lie. Not that we should need any more evidence than we have already... the whites were first seen as potential allies against the real enemy, which was the tribe that lived next door. Invasion day!! What nonsense... we have first-hand documents showing how the abos collecting oysters didn't even look up to see the first fleet arriving... some invasion huh.

I saw a documentary about small nuclear power stations in shipping containers. The hypocrisy against nuclear is never-ending though, and I doubt that such a cost-effective method would be permitted in Australia. Personally. I reckon that the only good argument against nuclear power is the cost one. As long as the cost-comparison is honestly done. It would be very easy to magnify the nuclear costs and minimise the other's costs. Not long ago, there was a story about Hiroshima, where we looked in vain for all the extra cancer cases we had been led to believe were out there. Doing energy correctly would sure change my vote.

I reckon that sticking up for Assange was the best thing that Barnaby has ever done.

In spent most of my life repeating the story about the local abos being the second wave and that they killed off the first wave except for tasmania. Alas, I no longer think this is accurate, but I still have hopes.

Often, the phone rings and when you answer, there is nobody there. I have been told that scammers use machines to ring many numbers at once, and only the first real answer gets the scammer. Is this true? and, if so, what should you say? remember that lotsa calls are not scammers.

I quite agree with you guys especially pmc. Space, the treaty of Waitangi was a sort of settlement between equal parties. The whites were only too well aware that the loss of an ammunition-ship could lead to them all going into the cooking-pot. So they agreed and then did a double-cross when the ships got through ok. Now they are being held to what they agreed to at the treaty table. Personally, I never met an aborigine who was part of any stolen generation and I doubt that there were any in the Alice Springs area in the 1950's. They sure did lose their lands though, but that has long since been rectified. Gosh, they have Uluru etc these days.

I don't remember if he ( old K ) was pro or anti the voice referendum. Personally, I was pleased at the outcome. I'll go further and state that I reckon the abos need tough love treatment. Sure, they need to have decent jobs offered to those who do the right thing and work and study hard, and this will cost lots. Right now, I despair for them. Even the footballers... you would have to be crazy to employ one at the moment.

I've told my personal story about the trinity ever since I helped start Trinity College way back when.... Apparently it is not explainable to anybody except a believer, and the idea has been a real impediment to selling christianity. I always thought it was a way to step around the mono vs poly-god idea to have the best of both worlds.

Nev is usually correct but I disagree about "looking after" the poor and ungrateful. I reckon that they need to be kept warm and dry on the cold winter nights. My reward is sleeping better myself knowing that there is nobody real cold out there. But I would draw the line at providing them a great deal more than basic needs. I would provide decent food but not "fast food" etc. This is NOT being "woke " at all. Personally, I reckon the "woke" lot are mainly trying to sabotage society from within, for example by demanding that the poor only have unaffordable housing. Apparently this places me near the middle-ground of politics ... I am certainly in favour of some right-wing ideas such as the need to have less immigration and less molly-coddling of young offenders, and as well, I voted "no" to the voice referendum. Does this make me a liberal voter? I never have voted for them in the past, so I reckon that on a 2 party-preferred, me and marty still vote labor, but without enthusiasm on my part these days.

My mother knew how to fix the problem of hearing aids.... She refused to wear one ! She wouldn't fight over it, but as soon as you went , off it would come. I just wish we had not got her top-price ones.

I'd like to know the real statistics on suicide: Aerobatics at 90? May well have been an intentional accident. But suicide of a young person? a different thing entirely... Here's how to get lots of people at your funeral... you die first!

well Alice Springs was different to melbourne,perhaps because it was a part of sa at the time, but hate of anybody was in short supply, Maybe the blacks provided a target, but if so i was not aware of it. Personally, I would use "repatriation" far more than it is used to rid us of those "immigrants" 'who lack respect and gratitude. Thinking back, i was supposed to be anti-catholic but it never worked on my generation.

Well I don't want them {IMMIGRANTS} here on account of them being moslems who want to boss me around with sharia law etc. So I reluctantly have to agree with OME. While on the subject, How can it be that people who should know better are openly anti jew nowadays? I would have hoped that all that stuff died along with hitler etc. There was a great refutation of the anti-israel stuff by this moslem woman who said that her quality of life was far better under the jews of israel than under some lot like the taliban. She gave lots of examples which have not been refuted.

I understand that forcing palestinians to go might be considered a war crime. But what about keeping them in? I'm proposing that israel just no longer does this, and leaves it to the egyptians to stop them coming in.

I heard about a crow which walked around a spiral circuit and wound up the dog so it could no longer protect its food.Wow.

Do you mean that indonesia is willing to accept refugees from gaza? If so, I reckon its good news and we should be helping to move them there.

Yep pmc, and I understand why not. But Egypt is still a moslem country, and I reckon the Israelis should risk upsetting them by opening up their ( Israeli ) side to let refugees escape.

I agree nev to the extent that I reckon netanyahu was negligent at the helm. But that doesn't effect the idea much. There must be a big reason I don't know about as to why it hasn't happened.

Years ago, I well knew an ambulance dispatcher in Darwin. The bane of his life was indigenous who would use the ambulances as taxis... for example, they would all get out of the ambulance when it was nowhere near the destination but close to a grog shop. Maybe a bit of payment would lessen this?

My take was that they needed some way of culling out people at emergency services and chose the ambulance method of doing this. It would have cost $3000 to get to horsham from edenhope by ambulance at full tote odds. Of course, since ambulance ramping was invented, even this no longer works.... I like Space's idea of lying on the floor.

I agree with nev that the ambulance is the better option. My experience is that you will get a lot faster by private car, but they won't let you in when you get there! Yes, the ambulance is very expensive, so I reckon that yo need to think things through beforehand.

Thanks for the comments about the mri. My latest specialist was amazed that I had not been given one already.

Why are the israelis not pushing the refugees into egypt there? It wouldn't make that much difference to the refugees just who shot them, but it would make a big difference in who got the blame. I would order the guards to immediately remove obstacles in the way of the refugees entering egypt.

Why celebrate pm? I personally think that a growing population means the end of civilization. Some of the younger of us might find out , i'm way too old. But I do agree that in the really short-term, a growing population helps. The treasurer was recently recorded as jeering at the libs ideas to cut back on growth, saying how the implementation of these ideas would " cost the economy billions".