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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    No...what they do is hold the dog (or person) and disembowel them with a good kick or two. They are well-known for this. Their claws are quite sharp and the back legs very strong. That one was just waiting for a break and to get the angles right.
    It's instinctive behaviour, same as drowning the dogs.
    Wrong. He had the dog headlocked from above. From that position it was never going to be able to kick the dog.
    And they DON"T hold and kick, they jump and kick. ('kangas' that is, in case you were wondering.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Thommo has the worst almost-mullet . . .



    And the XXXX tagline

    That's the little ditty I was refering to.

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    Tony Higgins looks like a goner. They found his wallet and backpack washed ashore too. The rest of him is probably in a sharks alimentary canal.

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    I walk round the lake for a bit of exercise.
    Haven't seen any yet - though a few bandicoots and bobtails. If they are any about they'll be tigers - swampy etc.
    From the 'Only in Australia' File #001-img_20201004_091332_1-jpg

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    Crikey...tiger snakes can be aggressive.

    Tiger snakes accounted for 17% of identified snakebite victims in Australia between 2005 and 2015, with four deaths recorded from 119 confirmed envenomations.[10]
    Tiger snake venoms possess potent neurotoxins, coagulants, haemolysins, and myotoxins. Symptoms of a bite include localized pain in the foot and neck region, tingling, numbness, and sweating, followed by a fairly rapid onset of breathing difficulties and paralysis. In a study, the mortality rate from untreated bites is reported to be between 40 and 60%. Among the number of deaths caused by snakebite in Australia, those from tiger snakes are exceeded only by the brown snake.[13]

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    ^The first recorded snakebite fatality in Australia was a Tiger snake

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    Tiger Snake William Drummond, police magistrate
    Melbourne, Victoria; A showman named Shires performed an act in which he allowed himself to be bitten by a deadly tiger snake. Drummond, convinced that Shires was a fraud, demanded to be bitten by the snake himself. Shires complied – and Drummond died. Shires was acquitted of manslaughter on the grounds that he had been denied the opportunity to treat Drummond using a home-made antivenom

    List of fatal snake bites in Australia - Wikipedia

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    I fuckin love Australia, snakes and all.

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    Only a third of Indigenous children attend school on most days, NT data shows

    From the 'Only in Australia' File #001-11564766-16x9-xlarge-jpg


    The latest data on school attendance in the Northern Territory reveals only a third of Indigenous children are attending school on most days — a figure that has not improved in five years.

    Key points:


    • Indigenous student attendance rates for the NT have not improved in five years
    • The Education Minister says the figures are "not acceptable"
    • One Yolngu politician is pleading for more collaboration on policy-making


    The NT Education Department's annual report shows 32 per cent of Indigenous children enrolled at government schools attended school four or more days a week in the last financial year.

    That figure is the worst recorded in five years for primary, middle and senior students — it was 36 per cent in 2015 and then slipped to 33 per cent in the years following.


    By comparison, 84 per cent of non-Indigenous children attended school four or more days a week.


    Only a third of Indigenous children attend school on most days, NT data shows - ABC News
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Originally Posted by Latindancer (From the 'Only in Australia' File #001)
    No...what they do is hold the dog (or person) and disembowel them with a good kick or two. They are well-known for this. Their claws are quite sharp and the back legs very strong. That one was just waiting for a break and to get the angles right.
    It's instinctive behaviour, same as drowning the dogs.




    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Wrong. He had the dog headlocked from above. From that position it was never going to be able to kick the dog.
    And they DON"T hold and kick, they jump and kick. ('kangas' that is, in case you were wondering.)


    As someone who has hunted kangaroos with dogs quite a bit (mind you it was 40 years ago), I disagree with Cujo here.
    Kangaroos don't jump and kick at all, they lean back onto their tail and kick so it is possible for them to hold and kick.

    My ex BIL, who owned the roo dogs and hunted all the time with dogs only no gun, was once held and kicked by a big roo.
    Luckily for him it was cold that morning and he had an old army great coat on which prevented him being hurt.

    When the dogs bayed up a roo and if they couldn't get in to knock it down we had to run in and hit it to knock it over so the dogs could grab it.
    Very politically incorrect these days but great fun back then.

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    I think Cujo believes that after holding the dog in a headlock, the kangaroo was going to give it a double eye poke like in The Three Stooges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Only a third of Indigenous children attend school on most days, NT data shows

    From the 'Only in Australia' File #001-11564766-16x9-xlarge-jpg


    The latest data on school attendance in the Northern Territory reveals only a third of Indigenous children are attending school on most days — a figure that has not improved in five years.

    Key points:


    • Indigenous student attendance rates for the NT have not improved in five years
    • The Education Minister says the figures are "not acceptable"
    • One Yolngu politician is pleading for more collaboration on policy-making


    The NT Education Department's annual report shows 32 per cent of Indigenous children enrolled at government schools attended school four or more days a week in the last financial year.

    That figure is the worst recorded in five years for primary, middle and senior students — it was 36 per cent in 2015 and then slipped to 33 per cent in the years following.
    By comparison, 84 per cent of non-Indigenous children attended school four or more days a week.


    Only a third of Indigenous children attend school on most days, NT data shows - ABC News
    This is really interesting, David. I work with Indigenous children myself, and at my school attendence has been shown to be a big problem as well.
    Do you know why this may be for children in NT? In my case, the children often have lack of parental support, and come from broken homes. There is also a history of drug and alchohol abuse in some homes.

    Our school actually gives awards mid and end of year for children that have good attendance.

    I know that in Canada we have many Native reserves and attendance is also a big problem in these communities.
    It is a different way of life for these students. They are very community/family based and have their own cultural and family problems to deal with.

    Also, if NT is remote they may have lack of educators and resources which could influence things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    How did I skip this? lol.. nice!

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    Kangaroo rescued from post office box on Gold Coast

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    A baby kangaroo has been rescued after it was found inside a Gold Coast post office box this morning.


    Key points:

    • The RSPCA is appealing for information as it investigates the suspected act of animal cruelty
    • The baby eastern grey kangaroo has returned encouraging test results after its ordeal
    • The animal will be placed into foster care


    Queensland Fire and Emergency Service crews and Australia Post were called out to Stapylton Jacobs Well Road at Woongoolba just before 7:00am.

    Michael Beatty from RSPCA Queensland said a complaint of cruelty was being investigated.
    "Our inspectorate will be looking into the incident," he said.


    "I mean, what on Earth possesses someone to pick up a very young joey and shove it into a letterbox?

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    following on from the previous snake warning pic
    From the 'Only in Australia' File #001-snakey-jpg

    So yesterday I'm powering thru the 4km mark - walking head down, podcast on - for some reason looked up and there was a 1.5m (ish) nope rope sitting in the middle of the path. Head flared cobra stylee and bright yellow underbelly, about 10m in front of me. Stopped me in my tracks and backed off slowly - it hung about for a couple of mins and slithered off into the paperbark swamp. A nice sized tiger!
    I was a bit taken aback and by the time I thought - take a pic for the only in Oz thread - it had gone.
    Kept my eyes on the sides of the footpath for the rest of the walk and raised my eyes up to 10-20m ahead ... so I learned something!

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    I had similar once
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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    How did I skip this? lol.. nice!
    Hugh Jackman is class.


    This was previously posted by one of the Antipodepodepodepodeans on here before.

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    Turning up the Oven DownUnder ...




    Need to plant some more trees

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Hugh Jackman is class.



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    Need to plant some more trees
    yes without them the fire wouldn't spread

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    Australian Woman Suspects Sarah Jessica Parker's Perfume Caused Her Kangaroo Attack
    An Australian woman was brutally attacked and stalked by a kangaroo while going out for a run Saturday, and it is believed that the animal was drawn to her perfume, Sarah Jessica Parker's "Stash."

    Read in Complex: Australian Woman Suspects Sarah Jessica Parker'''s Perfume Caused Her Kangaroo Attack
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    This happened a few km's from where I live-

    ‘Only in Australia’: Koala moves into woman’s Christmas tree

    In a scene that could only happen in Australia, a woman discovered a cheeky koala had broken into her home and nestled itself in her Christmas tree.


    As Christmas fast approaches, one animal was a little too keen to get into the festive spirit.

    In a scene that could only happen in Australia, an adorable koala made its way into the home of Adelaide woman Amanda McCormick.

    It then climbed into her Christmas tree and nestled itself among the ornaments.

    Koala charity organisation 1300Koalaz said when they first took the call on their rescue hotline they thought they were being pranked.

    “But no, a koala desperate to get in the Christmas spirit had wandered into Amanda McCormick’s house and decided it wanted to be the fairy on the Christmas tree,” the organisation wrote on Facebook.
    “Amanda was not so sure and rang 1300Koalaz for help.”

    The organisation told news.com.au they retrieved the koala from the tree, and released it “back into the wild, near the rescue in Coromandel Valley”.






    ‘Only in Australia’: Koala moves into woman’s Christmas tree (news.com.au)


    The cutest things.

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    Google has threatened to pull out of the Australian market if a new law governing its relationship with news publishers goes ahead.


    So what's the row all about?


    Why would Google pull out of Australia?

    The government is introducing a law to address a long-bubbling row over whether tech giants should pay for news that appears in search or is shared on their platforms.


    The proposed law would mandate that Google has commercial agreements with every news organisation - or enter forced arbitration, something Google says is "unworkable".


    "If this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia," the regional director, Mel Silva, said.


    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Google: "We don't respond to threats".


    What alternatives are there?

    Google has about 90-95% of the search engine market share in Australia - similar to the rest of the world.


    But other options for search exist - mainly Microsoft's Bing, and Yahoo, but also privacy-focused ones like DuckDuckGo.


    But while site analysis firm Alexa ranks Google as the most-visited site on the internet, Yahoo lies at 11th, and Bing at a distant 33rd.


    Would Google disappearing really affect people?

    In 2018 a writer for Wired magazine spent three months using Bing exclusively - and concluded that it worked fine almost all the time.


    But in very specific cases - such as finding old articles - he struggled, because the techniques he learned for search using Google didn't deliver the expected results.


    And Google is not just a search engine - its search technology also powers services such as Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube, among others.


    It's unclear at this stage if Google's threat - if carried out - would affect those other apps.


    Alternatives to these do exist, but are little-used and the Google apps are seen as essential by many consumers.


    When Huawei phones lost access to Google services amid a row with US regulators, they found it much more difficult to sell phones in the West.


    Could this set a global precedent?

    Australian Senator Rex Patrick told Google: "It's going to go worldwide. Are you going to pull out of every market, are you?"


    But Google and other companies affected - like Facebook - are based in the US.


    And the US government - at least the previous administration - has urged Australia not to "rush" the new law, warning that it is "extraordinary" and may have "long-lasting negative consequences".


    While there is no exact match for this scenario, Google has left a country before due to local laws.


    Google has been largely unavailable in mainland China since a row in 2010 over alleged Chinese hacking, during which it stopped censoring search results for Chinese users.


    There's also a different - but similar - row happening in Europe.


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    image captionGoogle's Australian HQ launch in 2006 was celebrated with cake - but newspapers want a bite of its revenue
    A controversial new EU rule on copyright says that search engines and news aggregators should pay news sites for links.


    In France, publishers this week agreed a deal with Google on how that should work.


    But only a handful of such deals have been signed, with notable French newspapers - making it a very different thing than the wide-ranging, much stricter Australian plans.


    How much money is Australia worth to Google?

    Compared to China, Australia is a much smaller potential market.


    Google Australia made A$4.8bn ($3.7bn; £2.7bn) in revenue in 2019. Advertising revenue made up most of that, at A$4.3bn. But factor in all the expenses, and Google Australia made A$134m in profit for the year.


    To put that in context, Google's parent Alphabet has an estimated US$100bn or more of cash on hand to cover any revenue gaps.


    But it's about more than money.


    The wider concern is whether Google wants a modern Western democracy to showcase how using its competitors can be perfectly viable.


    Can't Australians just use US Google instead?

    It's possible that Google could redirect Australian Google users to the US (or another) country's version of Google. That would likely strip out localised search results, but keep the service accessible.


    But it may also be that Google would block Australian users based on their geographic location as determined by an IP (internet) address.


    One simple way around that is using a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, which makes your computer look like it's somewhere else - a trick often used by the tech-savvy to access streaming services in other countries.





    media captionEXPLAINED: What is a VPN service?
    But it is slower, and reputable providers require a subscription - a hassle many people would rather avoid for simple search results.


    What does Australia want Google to pay?

    Exactly how much money is at issue is undecided.


    The proposed law involves bargaining and arbitration, leaving the matter open - if Google can't reach agreement with a news outlet, a judge would decide what is "fair".


    But the government has said it wants "fair" payments to news organisations, which have seen print advertising revenue fall by three-quarters over the past 15 years.


    In contrast, digital advertising on major platforms like Google and Facebook has risen dramatically over the same time.


    Would it really help publishers?

    Australia has a vibrant news industry - media titan Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp, was born there.


    His outlets would benefit, as would public broadcasters such as ABC News in Australia.


    ABC's funding has been cut by hundreds of millions of dollars since 2014, resulting in cuts to services.


    Local newspapers have also been hurt in the demise of advertising - with more than 125 News Corp-owned regional newspapers going online-only earlier this year, resulting in hundreds of job losses.
    Shalom

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    The row is about money, obviously. Should we favour the Dirty Digger (Murdoch), or some Tech billionaires. Do we actually care?

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