In respect of the Worst Victorian (Australia) Bushfires [Call 1800 811 700 to Donate]

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That's awesome.
 
Keef
That's awesome.
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Indeed. The Koala in the photo is a female who has been adopted as 'Sam' and is being taken around the world to promote the 'hope' that still exists during these times. She is considered now the most famous Koala in the world, and framed versions of that picture are now being sold at various places in Victoria for $20 to contribute to the restoration of the fire victim's lives. I know if I see one for sale I'll be there instantly to secure it. 👍
 
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$400, I would say a fortnight shop for Mafs maybe?
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Believe it or not, the food will only last one week. :lol: I've got 5 locusts disguised as kids (1 mine, 4 foster). :p I love them all, they're funny as. :D Right now the 4 older ones are all tickling and jumping on eachother singing to Playhouse Disney!!

P.S. My missus was hassling me to go back and get more P&N 12 pack soft drinks. $2 each.........hmmm. Maybe. :D
 
Our family sent some money to the Red Cross, my thoughts and prayers with those that died and those that lost everything. :(

Turbo Lag
That has absolutely nothing to do with it. You're just finding every chance to pick on Rudd,
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I absolutely hate Rudd. :grumpy:

Casio
None of these immigrants go out and live in the rural bush either. I'd like to see this logic.
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True, i live in a rural area and i barely know anyone that wasn't born in Australia, on the other hand there's almost more aboriginals at our school than white people.
 
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Thiele
i live in a rural area and i barely know anyone that wasn't born in Australia, on the other hand there's almost more aboriginals at our school than white people.
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Wow, I've yet to ever meet an aboriginal in my life. And I just live in a rural area too.
 
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Wow, I've yet to ever meet an aboriginal in my life. And I just live in a rural area too.
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Don't you live in Melbourne??? :confused: But yeah, i live 15km from an aboriginal town, most of us are too scared to even drive near there.
 
Thiele
Don't you live in Melbourne??? :confused: But yeah, i live 15km from an aboriginal town, most of us are too scared to even drive near there.
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That doesn't surprise me. Yes, I live there but I live in an area of substantial privately-owned land; it isn't a metropolis like in the heart of the city. 👍
 
hi all you aussy guys
why are you spending so much cash in Coles? does some of that money go to the effected people or have they got some deal on or something?
i'm devasted i can't get "Kanga Bangas" back here in Scotland... they tasted alright on the BBQ :D
Aldo
 
Aldo001
hi all you aussy guys
why are you spending so much cash in Coles? does some of that money go to the effected people or have they got some deal on or something?
i'm devasted i can't get "Kanga Bangas" back here in Scotland... they tasted alright on the BBQ :D
Aldo
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Seeing as it's currently somewhere around 4am in VIC, Australia, I'll answer! All the money Coles made on Friday goes towards aid relief, I believe.
 
i cannot refrain from saying lol
thats good that they're doing that
long live Coles I say!
 
As said on previous pages, all profits from yesterday's sales at Coles went to the bushfire victims in partnership with Red Cross. 👍 They also have tins to allow you to donate directly, have been since Day 1 of the firestorm.

This is from their website, just with the tins, not including yesterday's profits:

Thankyou for your donations. So far together we have raised $1,582,222.88. With your help we can raise even more.
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Not bad people, not bad at all. 👍

*added bit* Aldo, it's now long live Wesfarmers, they bought the Coles Group. ;)
 
aaah, I see
that was not made clear to me when i was on holiday :D
 
Coles is giving the profits from their sales from Friday. Not the entire money they make ;)
 
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Consider this: PM Rudd widened the gates of immigration last year to let in a tank-bursting record-high of 330,000 people. Each of these people will use, on average, 450l of water per day, or 164,250l per year - and that is just for one person. In order for Australia to support this rate of immigrant intake we will need to find an extra 54,202,500,000l each year (and that isn't including the demands of the offspring they will come to bear). At this rate of excessive growth (1.6% p/y) we're likely to have an additional half as many people in Australia by 2050 and one hell of a lot of demand for water that we fail miserably to retain even in the present day.

The bottom line is that we've added more than a million immigrants to our population since the building of Melbourne's last dam (a whole 20 years ago) with no sign of their intake dropping any time soon. But wait, we are struggling as it is here now with throat-ossifying stage 5 water restrictions abound and you're adamant these people aren't going to have any negative effect on our water supplies?

Now please, I am quite eager to hear about this logic of yours.
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First, the 330,000 people aren't all coming to Melbourne. In 2008 Victoria's population had an increase of 78,800, of which, only 48,000 were overseas immigrants. Second, the rest of the Country doesn't nearly have the same Water issue as Victoria does, especially Queensland and WA which are the boom states at this point in time.

Also, the majority of water use in this state and country is agricultural use, which uses 75% of the 24,000 GL of water used each year by Australia. In Victoria, it's 78%, and Urban (residential and industrial) use only a further 17%, of that 17% only 47% is residential use. Based on that, and my unwillingness to get out a calculator, only about 9% of water use in Victoria is used directly by the general populous. So 48,000 immigrants, or 1.x growth in Victoria's population, is mearly a drop in the ocean when it comes to extra water usage, especially when you consider the economic benefit of a greater population.

But I guess it's still the PM's fault?
 
half of queensland is like flooded at the moment isn't it?
plenty of water ;)
 
Aldo001
half of queensland is like flooded at the moment isn't it?
plenty of water ;)
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Yeah it's Kevin Rudd's fault for letting the immigrants in.

It's really smoky down here today, the wind has changed and appears to have sent the smoke this way. It was a thick fog this morning, now it's not so bad.
 
Casio
Yeah it's Kevin Rudd's fault for letting the immigrants in.

It's really smoky down here today, the wind has changed and appears to have sent the smoke this way. It was a thick fog this morning, now it's not so bad.
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yeah, my mum said the moon was all orange cause of the dusty ashy stuff. Like in a desert the moon is always orange cause of the dust
she said it was pretty eerie :nervous:
 
Yeah, it's full of smoke at the moment. Last night, the sun was literally shining a bright orange. It was so covered, you could look right into the sun with ease. Still smells like pure smoke outside.
 
Turbo Lag
Yeah, it's full of smoke at the moment. Last night, the sun was literally shining a bright orange. It was so covered, you could look right into the sun with ease. Still smells like pure smoke outside.
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Same here 40k's SW of Melbourne (Lara)
 
I reckon I'm used to the smoke now.

Having played a good long match of cricket, in 'overcast' conditions.

But yeah, the sun was freaky. I should post a couple photos.
 
Keef
That's awesome.
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Those photos literally brought a tear to my eye :nervous:

46 degrees, I couldn't even imagine temperatures like that. The warmest day I have ever had was around 33-35 degrees Celcius, and I was running away from the burning sun already then :ouch:

Man, while I'm typing this here and looking out of my window seeing the meter of snow laying here, I realize how the sun will be burning at the other side of the Earth very soon, burning up lives, houses and property :guilty:
 
Unfortunately there's no Coles within 250km of where i live. :(

waggles
I reckon I'm used to the smoke now.

Having played a good long match of cricket, in 'overcast' conditions.

But yeah, the sun was freaky. I should post a couple photos.
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Reminds me of the story mum told me of Ash Wednesday, the sky was filled with smoke in Victor Harbour. (about 100km away from the fires) Also the Eyre Peninsula fires i could clearly see the smoke across the Gulf here from the Yorke Peninsula.
 
Thiele
Unfortunately there's no Coles within 250km of where i live. :(
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Where in SA do you live Thiele, Coober Pedy?? :eek::p Seriously though, got a Woolies or IGA or anything there?? :)

Thank goodness the predicted warming up next week for Victoria's not taking place, according to the weather bureau, they can knock these fires over once and for all. 👍
 
After reading this thread I've gotten really intrigued by all the city names you guys have down there. They all sound like names originally spoken in gibberish, and then badly interpreted, and then spelled wrong on the incorporation documents.

I LMAO'd to the "more aboriginals at our school than white people" comment. Wanna trade problems? :lol:
 
near melbourne there is a place called "Earnst (or Ernst) Wanke" :D
 
Keef
After reading this thread I've gotten really intrigued by all the city names you guys have down there. They all sound like names originally spoken in gibberish, and then badly interpreted, and then spelled wrong on the incorporation documents.

I LMAO'd to the "more aboriginals at our school than white people" comment. Wanna trade problems? :lol:
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We generally have two types of town/city names, either an english ripoff or Aboriginal name. Larger citys all generally use english names and country towns go for the Aboriginal names.
 
Hence, "Queens"land. Kinda English putting the Queen in one of our states names.
 
Same with Victoria & New South Wales, both based on British things. Tasmania used to be called Van Diemen's Land back in colonial times too. :)

So, no they aren't gibberish Keef. :sly: Since you put it that way that our town names are gibberish.....I went and checked why was your town called Dayton, because I thought that was a 2500 year old native american saying for dangleberry. :O

For the non-US viewers at home, it's named after one of the signatorys of the constitution, a Capt. Johnathon Dayton. :)
 
Miniature Australia history lesson:

What we currently know as Victoria (named after Queen Victoria of England) was called the Port Phillip District (of NSW) prior to the establishment of its independence in 1851. Its capital, which we now know as Melbourne was established in 1835 by John Batman (an English capitalist from Launceston) and was named temporarily 'BearBrass' until Sir Richard Bourke (the NSW governor of the time) came down to inspect and name it 'Melbourne' (after British PM Lord Melbourne). Bourke at the time also named Williamstown after the then King William, and many of the main streets of Melbourne we use today were named after several of Melbourne's original surveryors such as Lonsdale and Robert Russell.

Other names also connected to British icons are Tasmania and Sydney. Tasmania was originally called Van Dieman's Land (I cannot remember when it was officialy changed) by Abel Tasman who discovered it in 1642 and who named it after the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who commissioned his voyage. NSW's capital as it is now was named after British Home Secretary Lord Sydney (in what year I cannot rememeber).

Just my understanding of it anyway.👍
 
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