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Post by Yossarian on Nov 21, 2007 18:36:07 GMT -4
No, all the ex-model types live in Summer Bay ... where every other week a psycho ex rolls into town to alternatively kidnap/blow up/shoot/rape/re-marry/stalk them!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2007 6:26:15 GMT -4
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Post by canuckcutie on Dec 4, 2007 20:33:00 GMT -4
I was wandering down the biscuit aisle at the Real Canadian Superstore today and I happened to spot packages of tim-tams so I immediately grabbed one as I have read so much about them in this thread. From the pic on the package they kinda remind me of Penguin bars that we have in the UK. I will have to do a taste test to be sure.
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Post by Yossarian on Dec 4, 2007 20:43:28 GMT -4
I was wandering down the biscuit aisle at the Real Canadian Superstore today and I happened to spot packages of tim-tams so I immediately grabbed one as I have read so much about them in this thread. From the pic on the package they kinda remind me of Penguin bars that we have in the UK. I will have to do a taste test to be sure. People here go nuts for Tim Tams. Dunking them in coffee and sucking out the filling is practically a national pastime! I'm kind of meh on them though. They're nice and all but there's lots more sweet things that I'd eat before them.
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Post by incognito on Dec 14, 2007 16:09:19 GMT -4
Um, should I be ashamed if I've gotten addicted to those cheesy Australian children's shows? I managed to snag a few episodes of Silversun and now I want to see more! You know, I checked out Wikipedia and it looks like Australia has some sort of thing for futuristic sci-fi kiddie TV. Anybody know if there's a reason for this? I don't remember a whole lot of American shows that were likewise. Yeah, we had sci-fi shows like So Weird and Power Rangers and Space Cases, but only the latter really dealt with the future.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2007 18:56:11 GMT -4
When I was a kid in NZ I used to watch "The Magic Boomerang." When the kid threw it, time stood still for everyone except the boy (Tom? and his sidekick Wombat) for as long as the boomerang was in the air. I used to calculate how many boobies I could uncover Iif I heaved it real hard.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2007 19:39:28 GMT -4
When I was a kid in NZ I used to watch "The Magic Boomerang." When the kid threw it, time stood still for everyone except the boy (Tom? and his sidekick Wombat) for as long as the boomerang was in the air. I used to calculate how many boobies I could uncover Iif I heaved it real hard. That's hilarious, I've never heard of it. I'll have to ask my mum if she has. Maybe it was an NZ-production. incognito, don't be ashamed, there's lots of quality Australian childrens' productions, and it seems as if producers/writers etc have a lot more leeway than the producers of American childrens' shows. Maybe because they have less to lose if the show's not a success, (ie there's a lot more money to be made on the kids market in the US). On a not so funny note, Channel 9 has dropped Stephanie Brantz from their cricket commentating/reporting team. I hope this bit: isn't true. As a cricket fan, I would be very disappointed if that was the case. Nine has a long history of treating its female high profile 'TV personalities' badly. I remember Stephanie as a sports reporter and soccer commentator on SBS, she was awesome, and just because someone's never played a sport at representative level does not mean they're not qualified to commentate on that sport. I'm almost motivated to write to channel 9 and Cricket Australia to complain.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2008 11:11:39 GMT -4
What's the general reaction in Aussie to the government's apology to Aborigines? Will the government take any action beyond speechifying? (Not that a formal apology isn't a big step.)
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Post by Yossarian on Feb 13, 2008 20:09:18 GMT -4
What's the general reaction in Aussie to the government's apology to Aborigines? Will the government take any action beyond speechifying? (Not that a formal apology isn't a big step.) The reaction is mixed. A lot of people think the apology was well overdue and will help pave the way to racial reconciliation. A lot of other people think that the policies of the past can't be judged by today's standards and that those policies were well intentioned so there is little to be sorry for. As for beyond speechifying, the Howard govt started a policy called the "Northern Territory Intervention"* last year which has been maintained by the Rudd govt. Basically, it provides special powers for the authorities to go into remote communities and do compulsory health checks on indigenous people. It also provides for extra social workers and police etc in an effort to deal with the chronic health problems of indigenous Australians. The health stats are shocking: people have "third world diseases" in one of the richest nation's on earth - syphillis, scabies, infected rat bites, worms, diabetes, malnutrition, life expectancy for Aboriginal Australians is 17 years lower than the median life expectancy here etc etc. Some people think this is heavy handed - esp. the fact that children are examined for signs of sexual abuse - but personally I support it because I think only heavy handed measures can deal with these appalling problems. Anyway, after yesterday the PM is going to initiate a bipartisan "war cabinet" to help indigenous Australia with a special focus on life expectancy, housing and infant mortality. I hope this helps. I also think now we need to move beyond symbolic acts (however emotive they may be) and concentrate all efforts on the concrete realities of life and solutions for them. * federal govt only has powers to enact this program within a territory, not a state due to the separation of state and federal power.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 0:29:23 GMT -4
I'm for the apology, it's a good step to start healing of people who were affected by something terrible. My maternal grandmother's a member of the stolen generation and the apology meant a lot to her. She never said much but it was hard for her not ever having known her mother.
On another, possibly more unpopular note, I don't believe there should be financial compensation. The government has put tens of billions of dollars into funding for Aboriginal communities, to be used for health, housing, education, the creation of jobs and the like, and there's been no real solutions. Some communities are healthier than others, but still far from ideal. Like Yoss, I support the intervention, and having worked in country areas I know that sexual abuse, violence, alcohol abuse, nepotism, corruption and petrol sniffing are very real problems and not exagerated by the Howard government for their own ends. It was probably the only thing the Howard government did that I applaud them for.
On a more shallow note, is anyone else not annoyed that Megan Gale is playing Wonder Woman? I know I mentioned it before, I just don't think a model with no acting experience should be playing such an iconic character.
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