Some don’t even learn why Australia was first called New South Wales.

Something new for Poms to capture that was (to them) a new land south of Wales from pommy land

Yep. An SOS/MAYDAY/PAN PAN PAN MUST BE TAKEN under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

That could be hand-signals, waving a flag, or turning a torch on and off. Three dits, three dahs, three dits or the fateful words "MAYDAY" mean you need to take action NOW and take the call. Anytime, anywhere, anyhow.

Exactly what happened on Black Saturday in Kinglake. The forest releases moisture from the forest into the atmosphere, then, with extreme heat as well, it creates its own weather.

I'm not a scientist or meteorologist, but I watched the same thing occur in Kinglake on 7/2/09.

There won't be a "bus out of town" you can catch. There won't be a train. You need to pack up tonight, including any medication and you need to leave tonight.

This is extra important for the elderly and those with medical conditions that mean they can not drive, as public transport (including replacement buses on rail lines) will not be running tomorrow in many parts of Victoria.

You need to leave tonight.

There may not be an ambulance tomorrow.

With all forms of public transport to be suspended in these areas, and ambulances also being moved away from Catastrophic-rated areas, you may need to leave tonight.

It is advised that you pack up now and leave.

Prepare. Act. Survive.

You Yanks have all those guns ya mow down school kids with every day, yell and scream about 'rights to open carry' yet, when you Yanks should actually pull out those guns and blow ya government to bits?

NBah, too busy killing school kids to do that. Fucking Yanks.

An editorial cartoonist with a spine and a backbone. The late Jeff Hook and WEG would say g'day I'm sure.

The world needs journalists and editorial cartoonists with a backbone more than I can think of since the Vietnam War.

Shout Fiona a cold one.

G'day.

1930s maps and callbooks. Got Palestine listed. No such place as Israel in either of them.

Yeah, funny how on a very old world map I have there's no such place as Israel on it.

Also, the first two letters of international callsigns on radio were issued following the Titanic disaster. No such place as Israel in those callsign documents existed. Palestine is in those callbooks though.

Australia Day is just the day the Poms arrived here after America told 'em to go and get f'ed.

January 1, 1901 or ANZAC Day are, in my opinion, the real Australia Days.

Jan 26 is just the day Cook arrived 'cause the Yanks told the Poms to f off.

Yep. I mean, the Poms only showed up here in 1788 after Trumplandia kicked them out, so the Poms needed somewhere else to send the Irish and destitute Poms who stole a slice of bread.

Those Poms found a place, it's called Australia.

Thx for the chat. As Cronkite would say on ham radio: "I'll catch ya down the logbook."

Clicks, hits, likes, etc don't count for nothing. What counts is when people in positions of power get pissed off at you, because that's when you know you've done journalism properly.

Powerful folk get very upset when ya call 'em out.
They will use their wealth and power to come after you. Been there, done that.

But that's what journalism is all about. Reporting facts that powerful folks don't want reported. The rest is just PR and spin.