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The first 100 days

So far, so relatively good https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-04/charting-100-days-of-the-coronavirus-crisis-in-australia/12197884?nw=0

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Resolved! 4 Day Music Challenge: theme is - Isolation

4 Day Music Challenge: theme is - ISOLATION Ends 3rd May (Evening) TRIALLING EMBEDDED VIDEOS!!(Tune thread loads alright!) The poster of the video that receives the most kudos at the end of the challenge shall win that round. The winner then chooses ...

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Victoria Police suspends second police officer

Victoria Police suspends second police officer over unauthorised sharing of Dean Laidley photos https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-05/second-police-officer-suspended-over-dean-laidley-photos/12217676 not so funny now is it?

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Residents protest to save unburnt forest from developer

Residents of a South Coast community are resorting to roadside yoga and other lockdown-appropriate protests in a bid to save their last patch of unburnt bushland from being flattened for a housing estate. Planning compliance officials were due to ins...

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Resolved! NBN & 5G Wifi - Telstra.

They always told us there was not going to be an alternative. But there is - NOW. BUT. Firstly a bit of background - Telstra Business - with - Internet - Landline - 4 Mobiles (now). Received a call from a sweet young Telstra bloke - explaining to me ...

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Now returning to national calamity #2

Report of distribution of donated monies to worthy bushfire victims via some charities is being hampered by a multitude of fraudulent claims by the shameless and also online scamming - seems time to not only employ anti-online scam investigators but ...

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Aged care and green bottles

As published some aged care facilities are experiencing ongoing and ever growing fatalities involving covid-19 , is observable that once certain living conditions are ongoing, and the virus gets established , a critical mass is developed and so very ...

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Children and COVID19

At first we were told “kids do not get it”, then we were told kids are carriers = keep them away from grandparents, then came kids can go to school. OK kids can get it, but it is not serious, only very few die!!! But some can get something looking li...

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Resolved! Seeking expressions of interest in a fantasy footy comp on CS

good afternoon all. I have worked out a way that I can run a fantasy footy competition on CS while we have no ‘real’ footy at the moment. Before starting a fantasy footy thread I just wanted to see if there would be 5 other members who would be inter...

Mitigation ? why bother ?

Look no further than Brazil as a lesser-action control group , whereby our local national mitigation measures can be evaluated in contrast with https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/presidents-so-what-as-5000-die-sparks-fury-in-brazil/ar-BB13uAQ...

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Captain Cook's coastal tour

Seems was 250 years since the Englishman Captain Cook & crew toured the eastern coast of Australia on the good ship Endevour You can read his take on events here in his own words http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17700101.html

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Polly Waffle is coming back

The popular chocolate bar was invented in 1947 by Hoadleys Chocolates in Melbourne, before it was sold to Rowntree, then Nestlé.Australians were shocked when the iconic treat was pulled from shelves by Nestlé in 2009, before it was eventually acquire...

Buying back the farm...

An auspicious Australian family concern has bought back some of the national farm literally with the purchase of 2 large cattle stations with cattle for AU$53 million , with the previous owner nought to complain , realising a tidy capital gain of AU$...

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