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Jun 8^th, 2025 at 4:42pm

So, we are back, again. TIB and I freezing our arses off, but this is what I wanted to experience. A Canberra Winter.

So here I am typing away, inside a very well appointed and geared up house.

It is drizzling.

I am wearing five layers and the air con heat is on. Comfy.

The fifth layer is my Clint Eastwood Pale Rider poncho.

We are here for maybe some months as Brother/SIL go caravansarai.

Looking forward to a dry day so I can fire up the outdoor, on balcony, fire pit.

Lovely.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #1 - Jun 8^th, 2025 at 4:57pm This..... Nah....can't get a copy up.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #2 - Jun 8^th, 2025 at 5:06pm Try again.... Nah.
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 53147 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #3 - Jun 8^th, 2025 at 6:36pm This should be in Travel Board
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #4 - Jul 1^st, 2025 at 4:42pm The bastard who decided to put "Canberra" here needs to be dragged from their grave and permanently pilloried. That is all.
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Reply #5 - Jul 1^st, 2025 at 6:18pm

Aussie wrote on Jul 1^st, 2025 at 4:42pm:

The bastard who decided to put "Canberra" here needs to be dragged from their grave and permanently pilloried.

That is all.

You know that the site was deliberately chosen by Parkes, Barton etc. because it was a well known fact that British people and Europeans in general functioned better in cold climates, maintaining their drive and moral character, whereas the tropics quickly reduced Europeans to idleness and depravity.

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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 53147 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #6 - Jul 1^st, 2025 at 6:49pm Chill out Aussie. It's not like you'll be there for years. You probably will realise that wearing QLD thongs doesn't help.
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Reply #7 - Jul 1^st, 2025 at 7:11pm

Belgarion wrote on Jul 1^st, 2025 at 6:18pm:

Aussie wrote on Jul 1^st, 2025 at 4:42pm:

The bastard who decided to put "Canberra" here needs to be dragged from their grave and permanently pilloried.

That is all.

You know that the site was deliberately chosen by Parkes, Barton etc. because it was a well known fact that British people and Europeans in general functioned better in cold climates, maintaining their drive and moral character, whereas the tropics quickly reduced Europeans to idleness and depravity.

Please tell me that bastard is buried here somewhere, so I can gave the prick dug up for that permanent pillory at the steps of Parliament House, as well!

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #8 - Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:44pm Got mugged yesterday at Parliament House. Bloke had a gun in his right hand!
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #9 - Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:46pm Yes, heavily edited to keep the doxxers at bay.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 146673 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #10 - Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:58pm Aussie wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:44pm: Got mugged yesterday at Parliament House. Bloke had a gun in his right hand! Jesus, what happened to Abbott's head?
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Reply #11 - Aug 1^st, 2025 at 4:02pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:58pm:

Aussie wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 3:44pm:

Got mugged yesterday at Parliament House. Bloke had a gun in his right hand!

Jesus, what happened to Abbott's head? Shocked

Prick looks very fit. I was surprised at that.

It was quite bizarre. On the floor below are the portraits of PMs and I had just guffawed at Abbott's only to be ambushed by the prick one floor immediately above just a few minutes later!

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Reply #12 - Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 12:47pm

We always can later think of someone better we should have said at a particular time.

When Abbott turned up in the same spot I was in at PH, he first said, generally, to the almost empty room, "The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime." I came straight out with, "Yeah, but I see no manacles."

Wish I had said, "Only the dopey ones," but..........next time.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #13 - Sep 3^rd, 2025 at 4:48pm So....here I was today.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39492 Gender:	Re: Canberra Reply #14 - Sep 3^rd, 2025 at 4:51pm While it was fine to see in real life and watch all the children send little notes to each other, you get a better 'view' on TV. Like him or not, one thing you have to concede with Chris Bowen. He is across his Brief, and speaks without notes, with data at his fingertips.
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