Congrats Ozzies!
 

I am very pleased, although I suspect this wasn't what Old Cec Rhodes had in mind!

Kind of funny though, Rebecca is already based in Canberra, and is going to Oxford to do a PhD in philosophy. Funny, because the philosophy program at the Australian National Univeristy (in Canberra) is consistently ranked in the top 5 or 10 in the world, certainly on a par with Oxford. Still, good on her, it'll do her good, and set an example for more to follow.

Not bad for a stockman's daughter! (and a school principle's daughter too, I supose).

I'm not sure it's the whole of the population that needs to be congratulated. Most of us had nothing to do with this young lady's excellent effort. Good on her, no matter what her racial heritage is. :)

Meh, I'd be willing to accept congrats on any English achievement.
The Ashes for example...

Yet black folks still complain?

I was gonna say, your country has come a long way from "Rabbit Proof Fences"

Yes well, the Australian Cricket team is (putting it as deliately as possible) fucked.

Black folks? I wonder why.

Not that far foot. The fence is still there both metaphorically and literally.

Ahem.. Your mob (a) lost the one-dayers 6-1 and (b) just lost to Ireland. :stickpoke:

Yeah...our whole household was woken up by Daryl going on about that this morning. He had to knock on every door and tell us all individually. Personally I'd have preferred another 15minutes sleep and then living without the knowledge, but I guess he was excited.

Didn't have time to read the rest of the thread before posting (so apologies if I've written and posted this half-baked) but seeing on the news that some politicians have kicked up a fuss about the cost of transporting asylum seekers to the funeral of their relatives and questioned whether it was a valid use of money mostly as a political stunt makes me wonder if Australia really has come a long way at all. I think that the asylum seeker detention camps of the last 10-15 years will be regarded as an Stolen Generation equivalent not too far in the future. Now, must sign off and go and do what they pay me for.

And I'm sticking with that even if John Saffran would say that I'm the same as every other "white lefto-pinkie". (I miss the ease of being able to turn on the radio and listen to John Saffran and Father Bob on a Sunday night-Zen and Ali would understand).

Casi, didn't you know you can stream JJJ live over the internet?

And the other good news is that some of the independents in parliament are actually calling out the closet (and lately blatant) race politics especially by the coalition.

ETA: If only we could build an Abbott-proof fence.

OK, well I just thought it was neat that that gal won that award.

Great movie with that name.

Any advancement of this kind is a good thing in any country. We have Obama and they have a dark skinned guy with a scholarship. Baby steps.

I've got that movie in my netflix queue.

RE: the name rabbits. According to my keyboarding script, there used to be a rabbit problem in Australia. I didn't know that!:3_eyes:

sky, the movie was great. A bit slow at times and a little on the artsy side but I really enjoyed it.

As long as there is enough of a plot, slow and arsty is ok. :) I think the uniqueness of the story will carry me through.

:)

Yeah it was. :)

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The little buggers are such a problem that the technical term is "bloodyrabbits". Eat, breed, overeat, desertification.

We released mxyamotosis (1950s) and calice virus (1990s) which helped but of course the resistant rabbits survived to produce the future population, and also the viruses mutated to be less deadly. It is a constant struggle.

It was and in some areas there's no doubt about how far things have come. Still a long way to go-as Merc says, baby steps (or in some cases, slightly larger ones).

As far as Rabbit Proof Fence goes, my thoughts are that there is good movie making and there's true stories that need to be told. Rabbit Proof Fence is in the latter category-not that it's a bad movie and the more times I see it (about 8 times at last count), the more I appreciate it but as art it's not at the top of its genre. I'd say see it because it needs to be known what happened to Aboriginal people last century so that if anything can be put in place to stop this kind of thing happening again or these kinds of attitudes (A.O. Neville's) being perpetrated, then this perhaps is a tool in that particular battle.

CAN WE????????? PLEASE.

Will check out streaming JJJ on the weekend. I'd forgotten about that. My internet connection is paid for, so no worries about running up horrendous bills. :)