Yenn Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 We should be more self sufficient. there is no reason that we can't have Australian experts at all sorts of jobs. We have worked ourselves int a corner in the last 4 or so years and we produce very little, plus we train even less. Just this week it has been in the news that poor quality aluminium from China has caused in our naval replacements. Why are we getting Aluminium from China, when it is mined, refined and smelted here in Australia. It seems we ship the raw materials or maybe even basic aluminium to China, so they can alloy it and roll it,then sell it back to us. Latest is that we have nobody to pick the citrus crop at Mundubbera and Gayndah, so it will be more expensive in the shops and we may have to import citrus from overseas, all because we have no bakkpackers. They are talking about 20000 neeeded, but I don't know where that number comes from as there has never been accomodation for that many that I can see. The total population of those two towns would not be 20000 I reckon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 6 hours ago, Yenn said: ...Latest is that we have nobody to pick the citrus crop at Mundubbera and Gayndah, so it will be more expensive in the shops and we may have to import citrus from overseas, all because we have no bakkpackers... We’re told that many businesses cannot get staff, because too many unemployed prefer the Covid supplements to actual useful work. I can’t wait to finish my camper so we can get on the road and perhaps get productive exercise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Last week saw a bit if a surge of jobs in Melbourne and Brisbane for what I do, so once mt daughter, whio has been banned form her computer (where she snuck a couple of games on under my radar) gets off yootoob on my computer, I have a few applications to submit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 You've been played! Your daughter just beat you at family politics! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Wrapped around her little finger, I am 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said: Wrapped around her little finger, I am It's good to be so supple at your age! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 That comes from never having a "hard body" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said: That comes from never having a "hard body" How'd you beget the daughter? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 minute ago, old man emu said: How'd you beget the daughter? Careful, OME, he might give details. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) Well... I was duck hunting... and accidentally shot a stork that was carrying a begotten girl.. Since this girl didn't have a name tag and no-one responded to my ad in the Beetootah Advocate, after 3 months the begotten girl became mine. True story! Edited March 28, 2021 by Jerry_Atrick 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 And you got 14 ducks with 2 rounds on that day, too, didn't you! I reckon you just got lucky, that day! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Being one not prone to exaggeration, it was three rounds that day. Bloody unlucky, I thought to myself, as the stork scared one of the ducks out of formation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 What have storks and ducks got to do with Covid-19? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 COVID is a SARS virus and ducks and Stoke can carry them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 hour ago, red750 said: What have storks and ducks got to do with Covid-19? About as much as they have to do with human conception, but that's Jerry's story and he's sticking to it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 18 hours ago, onetrack said: And you got 14 ducks with 2 rounds on that day, too, didn't you! I reckon you just got lucky, that day! I wonder if he was lucky enough to have his better half draw and pluck them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 What's that old song? "I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's wife - and when we pluck together, it's a pheasant pluckin' life..." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Back to COVID.... England relaxes its restrictions a little today.. As far as I can tell, it means we can meet outside in groups of up to 6 (why not 4 or 8, I am not sure)... And we can travel in the country, but that's about it.. I have a receding hairline, and this is the first time in my life I have had a style of hair that approximates a mullet.. Partner is not willing to cut it... so I have to wait for the barbers to open - about mid April, I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 And Brisbane has gone backwards, with a large spike in cases, and a 3 day lockdown. I reckon someone will wake up soon, that this COVID-19 virus lives and multiplies in large building air-conditioning systems, similar to Legionnaires disease. Every time there's another outbreak, it always seems to have been thriving in a quarantine hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Large outbreak !. Is it double figures yet ?. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 It's hard to figure out the reasoning behind some of the rules. Mask wearing is now required across all of Queensland. You have to wear a mask in all public venues including shopping centres, malls, supermarkets, restaurants, at weddings and funerals. But not at the footy or church if you are sitting in your allocated seat. At the football, you have to wear one going into the stadium, but then you are allowed to sit down with thousands of people and not wear a mask. If you get up out of your seat, you have to put it on. Maybe it's the new Coronavirus preventative; everyone buy a football stadium seat and you're immune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I, we never stopped wearing our masks when out shopping or visiting the doctors. Why take a chance. I don,t know who has been where, or with who. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 To be honest, I have got used to wearing a mask and when outside in public areas, feel a bit naked without it (yes, I checked, my trousers and shirt were on).. There is no requirement here to wear masks outside; only inn indoor public areas.. the reason has been that, accoridng to the guvmint, that the risk of transmission outside is much less if people are socially distancing. Maybe that's why in allocated seats at the footy, there's no requirement to wear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 We're lucky to be in Australia. I received an email from a friend in Belarus saying that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine rollout has started, but that a lot of people don't want to be vaccinated. Mainly concerns about being guinea pigs. Sounds like the promotion of the vaccine is lacking detail. Case figures are currently averaging 1,000 per day and 8 deaths. At least here, we've had better media coverage and health official updates on vaccines, and generally good public acceptance of vaccination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, willedoo said: We're lucky to be in Australia... My son in law has daily contact with overseas counterparts who express amazement (and envy) at how little our lifestyle has been affected. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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