We’ve always known it. We are miles ahead of the New Zealanders.
Last night in tortured reminiscence of our own political events post the 2010 election, NZ king/queen maker, Winston Peters announced he would support Labour and the Greens in loose coalition and allow Labour to form minority government. Thus Jacinda Ardern became NZ’s fourth prime minister in the last 18 years.
We have proven we can manage that feat in the space of about 18 months.
Bill Shorten got so excited he forgot how to spell or at least forgot how to spell the name of the freshly anointed political big wig of New Zealand, omitting the second ‘r’ from Ardern.
A correctly spelled missive was quickly dispatched but it did make me wonder. For the last 50 years the Americans have been having fun with our prime ministers’ names. From the simple misunderstanding over Malcolm Fraser’s preference for using his middle name as the more familiar to his first, all the way to our current PM who is known in Washington DC as Marlon Tumblington at last check.
Full column here.
that bloody Mitch marsh lose 7 tosses in a row/??….gotta do better than that
Training?
my word
Making some runs finally though.
POTUS Trump has said he does not plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never publicly seen government documents related to the assassination of US president John F Kennedy in 1963, Mr Insider. I was 12yo at the time and despite a very limited Media compared to today it sent shock waves around the world. Conspiracy Theories abound.
http://tinyurl.com/yarcploo
good to see Wizz and TBLS back
Indeed.
Thank-you, gentlemen. It’s good to be back. One is more or less in one piece except for a torn left supraspinatus from my latest overseas foray. It was the smallest of falls that caused it, but by jingoes it’s an annoying injury! Probably a surgery job.
I hope your own health issues are well in hand.
Bow!
Hey, mate!
Its great go see U again M8
thanks the Jacks. still holed up with persistent infection, but winning slwoly. may get home on tues if improvement continues. pa hosp is worst in aust for post op infections. staff wonderful n pain mngmnt 1st class. heart ticking over without pacemaker and surgeon pleased with progress.
looking forward to 22 nov but still no clue who will make the team. keen to see kawaja back at#3. some interesting trades in afl. abblett back at the cattery was a welcome surprise. gibbs to crows was a bit of a shock. downside missed the caulfield cup. can’t go fishing for a few months. can’t watch nfl on hosp telly.
Child care payment changes by this coalition government soon to come into effect. Just to prove how ridiculous this government is the changes mean those on the lowest incomes get the least assistance. Ideological driven madness by this government seems to want to entrench lower socio economic families to stop them from breaking the cycle. those kids from poor families get less than those from wealthy families. this policy highlights just how ideologically driven and mean spirited this government is. Worst in Nations history. No surprises.
Thieves targeting cans of Spam in Hawaii
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/thieves-targeting-cans-of-spam-in-hawaii/news-story/41a7b9773e45d9fd4a17c2edda06ed22
Cans of Spam are being stolen from Honolulu stores to be sold on the streets for quick cash.
Hawaiians eat millions of cans of Spam a year, the nation’s highest per-capita consumption of the processed meat, which is cobbled together from a mixture of pork shoulder, ham, sugar and salt.
I hear the Pythons warming up.
OMG Dwight, Spam you say, what a revolting eat, poor Hawaiians what possess them to eat that muck? Cheers
Spam in Hawaii, Corned Beef (5 kilo tins) and Lamb Flap in Tonga. All about taking the worst of our diet as well as keeping the worst of theirs…
Having lived in Tonga for a couple of years and visited there this year I can confirm that corned beef in coconut milk, along with lamb flaps are staples.
They’d be controlled wastes under the Basel Convention anywhere else in the world.
Have those Vikings started travelling through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean now?
“Bloody Vikings!”
Well I’ve decided not to buy a super yacht. Have been toying with the idea for a while – perhaps a mid-life crisis type thing. However, after reading the society (heh) section in the smh yesterday (what else does one do on a rainy Saturday) I discovered it costs old mate JP 10 million a year to run his tinnie, I’ve decided to buy an island instead. Just have to decide now whether to go the north or south…
ps. A little saddened to read the reclusive Fitzsimons has been harassed by the paparazzi. I rang an offered to don a red hanky and act as decoy.
The Hun has a photo of Fat Tony. Looks like the prison diet has been good for him.
As it has for Cocaine Cassie
If Jack beats me in the epl tips i’m hanging up my boots!
Oh stop whinging, good round for a newbie.
I’m sensing you tipped Liverpool….ouch!
I heard the drinking age in NZ is 21. Probably a good idea to introduce here (now that i’m well past that).
In the late 80’s I had a second job at grand old picture palace in Auckland called the Civic. There was a night club underneath. In those days the drinking age was 21, yet each night we would see girls well underage but dressed up to the nines being let in. The reason was that being more mature than the boys they would not muck up and their standard of dress would make their age a moot point.
The drinking age is 18 in New Zealand
http://www.police.govt.nz/advice/drugs-and-alcohol/alcohol-laws-and-penalties
Penny, I was going to refrain from further comment on the subject after my Oct 21, 4.30pm reply to Jack, but your
Oct 21, at 4:47 pm to me – “…….. you should be careful about calling the authorities murderers …..” requires a response.
I did not refer to the Vic government as you claim. You have obviously (and perhaps deliberately) incorrectly conflated the meaning of my use of the term “homicide” as being murder. There is a noteworthy difference, in that homicide in the context in which I used it includes euthanasia.
CotC.
Looks like the bill may be in trouble anyway in the Victorian upper house.
But I’m with Phillip Nietscke on this.
Many cancer patients end their days in agony and are finally put into a morphine-induced state of unconsciousness which inevitably ends in morphine overdose by an empathetic doctor = death.
How much better would it be for all if able to have a dignified farewell with loved ones and spare the patient and family weeks of distress for no reason?
But, but, splutter, snort harummph! Theres huge money to be made in palliative care! Enough of these unholy bolshie ideas, about relieving suffering! God put his son on the cross to show us that suffering is good!
We at The Devout Christian Doctors Association believe life is sacred and should be sustained till the last drop is wrung.
Not for me thanks, JB. I hope to exit when it suits me – not the church the medics or the govt! It’s my life.
Very selfish of you Boady. There could be a Ferrari or a Maxi yacht in you for some deserving Doctor if you would just linger on. Or weakened and desperately vulnerable in constant unbearable pain you might be inspired to bequeath your estate to the church. Like how noble is that!
Even when your lifes going nowhere………………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGqylNFsUg
I intend to spend it before I get to that stage JB 🙂 – happy to donate my bed to a more deserving sufferer.
Good old Bee Gees. Blast from the past. The 60’s were the best