@kels_316 @benjialpha The seppo who invented the segway (Dean Kamen) is unfortunately alive and well.
The pom who bought the company (Jim Heselden) is the man who died.
Heselden was a decent man and a philanthropist who made his fortune from his invention of flatpack revetments. (Hesco bastion)
@LaurenRosewarne Your teacher said "berko" not "birko"
The word is derived from "berserk"
It has been around a lot longer than that jug ๐
https://t.co/HFdkf687s4
@TonyOmara @DrAMVRostrumAO @Debceecee Guilfoyle wasn't a cabinet minister till 1975
She was also the second woman appointed to cabinet and the second woman to hold a ministerial portfolio
(But your point is still valid) โ
@kels_316 @horriblelizard @maximum_sincere @AusSyndicalist @WilburUncle John Kirkpatrick was an "illegal immigrant" who jumped ship in NSW and, after working his way to Fremantle, signed up for the army (under a false name) as a way to get home to pommyland.
He's always been my hero.
He would have hated Connolly
Poor ignorant Alex doen't seem to realise that the vast majority of people in The Commonwealth live in nations that do not have Betty Windsor as their head of state and yet are democratic and successful
#Barbados will very likely be the same as the others
@KristenClarkeJD Check back in 20 years to find it crumbled into a failed dictatorship like most of the other nations who choose to be a republic over a constitutional monarchy.
I actually feel sorry for @richardmcolbeck
Yes, he's incompetent and has to resign, but the real blame for the age care scandal should fall on @KenWyattMP
How does #TeflonKenWyatt manage to escape scrutiny?
Is there no journalist who cares enough to explain this to us?
Morrison and the rest of the spivs had set Australia on a path to recession
They must be thanking their lucky stars that the pandemic has provided a smokescreen
Annual wages growth is 2.1%
CPI 2.2%
Real wages -0.1%
And this was for the March qtr, before COVID-19 hit the economy and the labour market.
The economy was in trouble before the virus popped up
@Latte_Bogan "It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, crap, originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories...The word crap is actually of Middle English origin..."
https://t.co/zkm3soSydx
John Curtin did it too, even though he didn't have to
Curtin was a wartime PM elected *by the voters* unlike Churchill who never won a GE until 1951
Anyway Morrison's "cabinet" is just more flimflam, so who cares?