Chased by chickens? 🐔🐔

Get a dog up ya.

Trump: I’m not happy with Australia.

Australia:

#FridayFeeling

Definitely the former. The banter in the "Swedish" accents is silly. But the musicianship and the vocals are dead-on.

Björn Again - Stop! YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan44

Same vibes youtu.be/bGTJoHHDEOw?... #abba #erasure #bjornagain

This may be the only time the word "carking" has been used in TV advertising.

Sham Ayres

Prince Harry meets an echidna, Sydney, 2003

Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars YouTube video by Oz Kitsch

youtu.be/iRlTx33rYhs

pronouncing vegemite like yosemite (i learned this from australian bluesky)

2019: On a visit to Washington, PM Scott Morrison admires the Gold Logie awarded to the crew of Apollo 11 for TV coverage of their trip to the moon

2019: On a visit to Washington, PM Scott Morrison admires the Gold Logie awarded to the crew of Apollo 11 for TV coverage of their trip to the moon

Yuri Gagarin’s boomerang: the tale of the first person to return from space, and his brief encounter with Aussie culture It’s 60 years since Gagarin’s world-first return from space. The cosmonaut never did make it to Australia, but his huge feat was celebrated here by many, despite tensions with the USSR.

How did Yuri Gagarin get a boomerang?
#YurisNight 🧪 #Straya

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) (@drspacejunk.bsky.social) Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-j...

The esteemed @drspacejunk.bsky.social is the Gagarin-boomerang authority. @ozkitsch.bsky.social is the Gagarin-Australian zither girl authority. We take this demarcation deadly seriously.

1998: It's all kicking off in Mildura

What could possibly go wrong?

It’s at this point we must praise the foresight and vision of then WA Premier Sir Charles Court, who vehemently opposed the plan. The idea of dropping H-bombs on the Pilbara to blast iron ore out of the ground was the stupidest idea he had ever heard.

Joh jumped to his feet at one stage and confirmed that he had discussed uranium mining with the Shar of Iran during his recent middle East trip. He said that the Shar had agreed with him that if we failed to mine uranium and export it, others would take it by force. Blast the Great Divide There was one particularly intelligent question from the parliamentar-ians. This came from Bob Katter junior, who asked whether the Great Dividing RAnge could be blown up with A-bombs to allow water to flow inland to his electorate of Flinders.

Bob Katter AND Shah of Iran jumpscare in as many paragraphs, truly a rich text

What could possibly go wrong?

1977: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, addresses the Queensland Parliament. His visit was sponsored by Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, who wanted to use nuclear explosives to extract iron ore and create a new Pilbara harbour to accommodate massive ore ships

Happy Easter

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Liftoff.

We used to be a proper country

I worked briefly for a bank back in the day, & I recall there was firearm training.

I think it was mandatory, but it was only for the blokes. Apparently we girly types were considered much too delicate to handle nasty killy things.

I remember one of the women wanted to attend, but wasn't allowed.

I worked with someone that was a bank teller a long time ago and did this firearm training. He told me that one day they came in to work and discovered the bank manager had committed suicide with the bank issued pistol so maybe it wasn't a great idea.

Yep I had one in 1979. Got to fire 6 bullets once a year at a human shaped target as my "training"🤪