50 things you probably didn't know about Australia

Pretty good list
I didnt know they grew poppies in OZ

They are grown in Tasmania for producing half the worlds opioids since. 1970. Their cultivation has also been licensed in Northern Territory’s . Mainly used for the manufacture of Codeine.

Wow didnt know that and they would grow in both places either.
I knew we grew marijuana buts thats mainly for NSW police and politicians

A little geography lesson about Australia for those for whom Australia is “Terra Incognita”:

Now if someone would just explain why they have to add ie or y on to every damn word. :wink:

Fair dinkum question matey. No drama, here is a prezzy that make sure you don’t get sprung when in Oz:

Reviving this thread with more facts about Australia:

Sadly, we are now governed by communists determined to destroy everything we’ve built by complying with the globalist’s mantras of denigrating our once-dirt-cheap coal fired power in favour of moonbeams and fairy farts (which, as you know, power sweet f-all).

We still export coal, gas and uranium, but can’t build new coal-fired power stations and nuclear power is illegal (despite a large nuclear reactor safely nestled in the suburbs of Sydney for many decades), and one state, Victoria, which sits atop endless supplies of easily accessible gas, now building import facilities to ship gas from overseas. Their government declared a huge national park where the gas is to stop its development.

Mariners will be noting the entire lack of Australian shipping to carry our record exports of coal, gas, minerals, grain and agricultural produce. Australian shipping has been destroyed by Australian maritime unions. A local brick-maker with excess capacity in Western Australia found it was cheaper to land a container of bricks in Sydney by importing from Latvia than sending his own bricks by sea from west to east.

A proposed gold mine was cancelled despite passing all environmental requirements when some hitherto unknown sacred blue banded bees or some such was claimed by local Aborigines. They won and we lost. We call this black tape which added to normal bureaucratic red tape and the incessant environmental green tape and now the ever increasing UN-inspired blue tape as we surrender to every idiotic international NGO’s dictates.

We have international bodies listing the Great Barrier Reef as endangered whereas it has actually massively increase coral growth so we vomit truckloads of cash to the so-called protection of the reef. Actually, the “scientists” simply spend their days diving and swimming around on paid holidays. Farmers along a thousand miles of coast are told their fertilisers are impossibly destroying a reef hundreds of miles from the coast.

I could go on, but it’s Sunday and a time of calm reflection. I’ll calm myself with a cold beer. It’s a beautiful winter’s day to sit shirtless in the sun and maintain the tan.

Just to back up my previous statements.

How predictable. Sour grapes from the Jughead.

Please keep on calming yourself , Sunday or any other day.
Have another “stubby”.
Calm reflections are much appreciated, though rear from you.

Nothing we can’t fix. All we need is our own Trump. The real one is killing climate alarmism right now so Australian politicians might just follow the leader.