ewe2 posted:

Write an onion piece instead.

Birb Katter posted:

We have another one who is known as "The Brick with Eyes"

Orkin Mang posted:

hot bewbs, economic asylum barons getting ther jsut deserts, some choice shroten zingers

Anidav posted:

Milky Moor posted:

because australian cinema is a loving cultural wasteland

Milky Moor posted:

six movies in however many years?

yeah sure

ScreamingLlama posted:

Iron Sky (Finnish/German/Australian endeavour)

Kegslayer posted:

z for Zachariah?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Children of the Dust?

hawaiian_robot posted:

When the Wind Blows?

white mans burping posted:

Tomorrow when the war began?

Cleretic posted:

You might be thinking of Tomorrow When The War Began, which isn't actually a nuclear apocalypse, but probably had similar notes getting hit. It's possible you misremembered the 'nuclear' part.

I wanted to point the finger at a prolific author I remember reading a lot of in the curriculum around that age, but I don't actually remember who that was; I thought it was Paul Jennings, but I just checked and that's a different guy. I remember one of their books was a sci-fi retelling of the First Fleet, is that ringing bells for anyone else?

EDIT: Beaten on Tomorrow, oh well.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

We definitely did Children of the Dust in year 7 or 8 but since I haven't read it in 20 years anything I could tell you could be read on Wikipedia.

Inge posted:

It's not On the Beach by Nevil Shute is it?

cpaf posted:

australian netflix will never have any good shows b/c of the Iron Fist of Murdoch and our draconian licensing laws *gets a million good shows*

Anidav posted:

Someday, Aliens will find the signal which contains Abbott eating an Onion, then decide the fate of the Earth.

Kommando posted:

72 hour days sounds awful.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

This is definitely the thread for Mafia talk, yessiree.

Pickled Tink posted:

Today First Dog sums up the NSW election:

Kat Delacour posted:

Has this been posted yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWa0WmMo-1Y

Murodese posted:

Literally the only good thing about these laws is that they're so obnoxiously easy to evade that they may as well not exist.

Murodese posted:

No, but if a government is going to introduce draconian surveillance laws, I'd rather they be completely incompetent at it.

Avshalom posted:

I don't use adblock because it steals money from webcomic artists and other online content creators, which for most of them is the only income they'll ever make off their hours upon hours of hard work.














You heartless fucks.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Tasmanian man to walk from Launceston to Hobart to 'prove' the need for footpaths on every road



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-26/tasmanian-man-to-walk-from-launceston-to-hobart/6349048

Serrath posted:

Shouldn't be a concern if you're not a terrorist

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Hahaha we're trying to convince China that our [cane]toad juice is better than their toad juice at fighting cancer:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/26/cane-toad-venom-cancer-chinese-remedies

Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered that cane toad venom is effective in fighting cancer, with the potency rivalling that of toads found in Asia that are used in Chinese traditional medicine.

The discovery opens up the possibility of sending millions of toads to China, where they would be systematically squeezed for their juices, which would then be mixed with herbs and consumed as medicine.

Harendra Parekh, from the university’s school of pharmacy, said Chinese companies were “queuing up” to get their hands on Australia’s cane toads.

“We don’t have any of the environmental pollution, such as heavy metal poisoning, that you see in China,” he told Guardian Australia. “So the Chinese see cane toads as living in a clean environment that doesn’t impact upon their venom.

------------------------------------------

Given how good "traditional" Chinese medicine is at decimating local wildlife populations, this might actually be a good thing.