May-14-2010, 04:24 PM (UTC)
maulkin, '"Con-Dem Nation" hah! 'Feeling of impending doom' - the funny thing is we are so damn apathetic a good portion of us just mentally shrugged when we temporarily had no 'real' government. In fact of course there was a lot of muttering about things actually getting done for a change now the politicians were out of it. Things have just got even weirder now that the new parliament has started session.
I wonder if there's any global trends of significance or is this just a weird coincedence (two hung parliaments). On the face of it ours can be explained by the way the system currently works in Tasmania (err I won't bore you with it unless you desperately want me to). On an (possibly!) unrelated note, I think Australia is fairly unique in that voting is compulsory (anyone else got that system here?)
The Worshipful Guild of Fishmongers!!!!! To my Australian ears that sounds like something out of a Terry Pratchett novel .....WHY don't we have cool names like that in Australia! The shellfish situation sounds like an interesting project. It's weird how strange situations come about like exporting most of your shellfish AND importing most of the shellfish you consume..... Is that because they are different types of shellfish and people only want to eat the tropical ones? Or is it just a case of buying them cheap from one country and selling yours at a higher price to another country? OR just one of those things! Or is this all sort of irrelevant to you seeing you are after all going to be studying population genetics!
And regarding Australia's size and amazing sights - you'd be staggered at how some Australians haven't been more than 50km's from their home city! (then again, a lot do move around too). I have never been to the Northern Territory or far north of WA..... and I have seen little of the interior of Australia.
Farseer do you fly when you travel or drive?
Weather = still no proper rain!!!! Teased us with a little bit - tank holding at about 1/3 full. Dreary and overcast today - blah!
BUT mild tonight - I don't even have the heater on. Hmmm or maybe I'm just acclimatising - I just looked at thermometer and it's in fact 6.7 C outside.
This must be a GOOD jumper!
I wonder if there's any global trends of significance or is this just a weird coincedence (two hung parliaments). On the face of it ours can be explained by the way the system currently works in Tasmania (err I won't bore you with it unless you desperately want me to). On an (possibly!) unrelated note, I think Australia is fairly unique in that voting is compulsory (anyone else got that system here?)
The Worshipful Guild of Fishmongers!!!!! To my Australian ears that sounds like something out of a Terry Pratchett novel .....WHY don't we have cool names like that in Australia! The shellfish situation sounds like an interesting project. It's weird how strange situations come about like exporting most of your shellfish AND importing most of the shellfish you consume..... Is that because they are different types of shellfish and people only want to eat the tropical ones? Or is it just a case of buying them cheap from one country and selling yours at a higher price to another country? OR just one of those things! Or is this all sort of irrelevant to you seeing you are after all going to be studying population genetics!
And regarding Australia's size and amazing sights - you'd be staggered at how some Australians haven't been more than 50km's from their home city! (then again, a lot do move around too). I have never been to the Northern Territory or far north of WA..... and I have seen little of the interior of Australia.
Farseer do you fly when you travel or drive?
Weather = still no proper rain!!!! Teased us with a little bit - tank holding at about 1/3 full. Dreary and overcast today - blah!
BUT mild tonight - I don't even have the heater on. Hmmm or maybe I'm just acclimatising - I just looked at thermometer and it's in fact 6.7 C outside.
This must be a GOOD jumper!
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