The Little Aussie Soapbox

This video from our cousins across the ditch perfectly captures what Christmas is like down under...

If anyone ever doubted the sheer stupidity of section 18C of the Radical Discrimination Act then surely they can doubt no more after what has recently transpired in Sydney. In NSW's capital a Japanese advocacy group is demanding the removal of a monument commemorating the suffering of women forced into sexual slavery during World War II. They claim that the memorial is offensive to Japanese people and promotes hatred towards those from Japan.

The memorial remembers more than 200,000 women and girls who were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army into prostitution.

Under section 18C, it is illegal to “offend, insult, humiliate or ­intimidate” based on a person’s “race, colour, or national or ­ethnic origin”. And of course it is the hypocritical left wing Australian Human Rights Commission who decides whether something is offensive, insulting, humiliating or intimidating!

If the Japanese advocacy group are successful (and with the AHRC they could be) then we may as well not bother to teach history. Mind you, the way history has been bastardised by the liberal left to fit a pc narrative of their choosing, and then force fed down the throats of students from primary school to university, we probably shouldnt bother teaching 'history' anyway.

Sad day in Melbourne with 4 people killed and more than 20 injured after an offender ploughed through people in the Burke Street Mall.

So far all we know about the offender is that he has a history of mental illness and drug use, that he has a history of violence, and that he is "well known" to police. The latter normally means he has a string of priors.

You Know It's Hot In Australia When!

1) The best parking spot is determined by shade not distance
2) Hot water comes out of both taps
3) You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron
4) The temperature drops below 32c and you feel chilly
5) You discover that in January and February it only takes two fingers to steer a car
6) You discover you can get sunburnt through your windscreen
7) You develop a fear of metal door handles
8) You break a sweat the instance you step outside at 7am
9) Your biggest bicycle accident fear is "What if i get knocked out and end up lying on the road and getting cooked"
10) You realise asphalt has a liquid state
11) Farmers are feeding there chickens crushed ice to prevent them from laying hard boiled eggs
12) The trees are whistling for dogs
13) While walking back barefoot to your car from any event, you do a tightrope act on the white lines in the carpark
14) You catch a cold from having the aircon on full blast all night long
15) You learn that Westfield Shopping Centre's aren't just Shopping Centre's, they are temples to worship Air-Conditioning
16) Sticking your head in the freezer and taking deep breaths is considered normal
17) A cup full of ice is considered a great snack
18) A black out is life threatening because your aircon and your fans no longer work.
19) No one cares if you walk around with no shoes on
20) You keep anything in the fridge, including potatoes, bread and clothing
21) People have enough left over beer cans to make a boat and compete in a regatta.
22) The effort of towelling yourself off after a shower means you need another shower right away.
23) You will wait patiently until the day it starts raining to go on a run.
24) You worry your ceiling fan is spinning so fast it will fly off and Kill You
25) You Laugh because this list is so accurate

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly

Looking forward to firing up the barbie in around an hour and blowing the froth of a couple of amber nectars.

Bit of trivia...21 of the world's 25 deadliest snakes are native to Australia. The top 11 deadliest snakes are all native to Australia.