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 Post subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN CULTURE & FAQ'S -2009
PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:15 am 
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Thanks for the tip to watch the slide show - I had missed that ;)

Yes indeed - he/she is stunning!

I'll try to keep an ear out for how the opening of the game goes, I think it was for today sometime.

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Can't wait to hear if Auzzie chooses to show them "who's the boss" today. :D


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Just did a bit of a scout around the news sites to see if there were any reports of the opening of the Eagles game - nothing about Auzzie but the Eagles did win the game :!: :mrgreen:

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Just read this on my aussie internet news - I live at the source of the Murray River & they are talking about it's mouth, about 1,500 miles away. However, as the largest Dam in the whole of Australia that feeds the Murray from where I live, is experiencing lower & lower water levels every year for the past 12 years, I do notice that bird numbers such as migrating egrets, are getting less & less too - we live on the top of one of the highest hills around Albury & a few years ago you could just about feel the breeze from those egrets wing flaps, you sure could hear them pounding the air & honking, as they flew in formation straight over your head - huge "V" formations that really lifted yr heart - but I haven't seen that for the past 2 years - just very small & scarce formations now.

They will have a massive fight on their hands to be able to buy water to replenish the lakes as even city councils are being restricted in how much water they can buy for resident use.


Bird numbers plummet on Murray-Darling Basin
ABC September 13, 2009, 12:00 pm

Environmental experts say the only way to save waterbirds in the Murray-Darling Basin is to buy fresh water to replenish the system.

A national aerial survey has revealed the number of birds in the region fell by almost half in just one year.

According to the survey, 135,000 water birds were found in the Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray mouth last year. In 2007, the figure stood at 250,000.

The report's author, ecologist Richard Kingsford, says the loss of fresh water is to blame.

"It's hard to see any other explanation for their numbers dropping because there isn't another Coorong and Lower Lakes close by," Professor Kingsford said.

Professor Kingsford predicts the situation will only worsen.

"I would imagine all of a sudden it'll fall off the cliff, and you'll suddenly get precipitous drop in numbers as a whole system starts to dry out completely," he said.

"That's assuming we don't get some fresh water flows down through the Murray and out into the lakes and then out into the Coorong."

Peter Owen from the Wilderness Society says even more dire results can be expected in future.

"The fresh water influx triggers the water bird breeding cycle, they are no longer going to breed in the Lower Lakes and Coorong until we get fresh water into those systems," he said.

"This will continue until there are no birds in these important wetland areas. We have to buy water, that is the only solution."

Mr Owen and Professor Kingsford both say building weirs is not the answer.

"Even if it's a temporary weir, it just means you can't get any migration up and down the river," Professor Kingsford said.

After a tour of the wetlands this past week, Professor Kingsford and a group of international ecologists are recommending the removal of weirs and levees.

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That is such a sad situation. Hopefully the action recommended by the Professor will help.


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That is a sad situation, Pru. I hope this Spring will give you sufficient rains to start the replenishment process! Hopefully, just gradually, not flooding rains.

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Thank you for yr thoughts SusanE & Nancy :D - and yes, I did just hear that a "long range" weather forecaster has perdicted a VERY wet Spring but then a VERY dry early Summer - so let's hope we get enough water now, Spring, to flush right through to those lakes at the mouth - yes! ;)

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Oh goodness Pru...
We need to do a rain dance...Image

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Oh Beth - thanks so much for that smilie - he made me smile & of course, I'm going to have catch him & "put him in my pocket, save him for a rainy day" ;)

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OK beth...I just may have to steal that smilie for us!!!


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I am very ashamed,
Will never complain about the rainfall here Image


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OK beth...I just may have to steal that smilie for us!!!


Please go ahead...
WE need it for Pru!!

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Here is a stupid question, Pru: With your weather being the opposite of ours in North America, I was wondering about how your seasons are identified. Is your season now called Spring or Fall? Is your warm weather in the Summer or Winter?


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Hi SusanE,

Well, we say "Spring" not "Fall" & I guess that makes sense as Australia does not have many deciduous native trees at all, so we don't see a lot of leaves "falling" (with the exception of imported garden trees) :lol:

And as to when we experience "warm" weather - well, the temperatures have been rising so noticeably in the past 12 years that both seasons are really "warmer" now. When I was a child we definitely experienced colder, wetter winters as evidenced by having to wear gumboots & raincoats to school, etc, than we do now - in fact, my 18 yr old son has hardly ever seen a week of consistenly cold, wet weather in his whole life! :o And I NEVER had to buy wet weather gear for him!

And our Summers are so incredibly hot & dry now, i.e. 44.5 C (112 F) one day in January this year that broke the local record, that Summer is definitely the HOTTEST season & getting HOTTER!


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Thank you, Pru, for answering my stupid question. So Spring is the season of rebirth no matter which hemisphere you are in. :D


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Oh pooh - I totally did not answer yr "not-so-stupid" question SusanE - We are currently in "Spring" :mrgreen:

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I thought you answered quite well, Pru. :mrgreen:


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Its great that we now have 3 to view here now so in honor of our new eyeasses as they
have had us on our toes in anxiously awaiting thier impending arrival, a brief stanza from a song from the land down under

..Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".


:lol: great to see that song here - and here's a little spot quiz - do you know what a "billy" is?

Plus the next lyrics are:

"Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".

Do you know what a "jumbuk" is? And a "billabong"?



OK - I give in, I'll give the answers now ...

A "billy" is short for "billy can" & a "billy can" is a tin pot with a lid & a wire handle across the top that was used to boil water on a campfire for a cup of tea - they would put in the tea leaves & then swing it around & around vertically so as to make the tea leaves settle to the bottom of the pot before pouring out - I have actually watched my uncle do this very thing (he was a cattle farmer with a 1000 acre property!).

Now a "billabong" is a small pond formed to the side of a small river or creek flow - so Peggy-Sus & KF were sort of right on that :P

As for "jumbuk" - well, that's a sheep! :mrgreen:


Here's a pic of a good old billy can on a fire:

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Thanks Pru, I love learning about this "stuff" !
Very interesting and fun
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