Oh! Some trivia about Australian politics. We currently have in the Senate one Glenn Lazarus. He is a former professional rugby league player, with the remarkable record of winning six premierships with three different teams (the first two with my beloved Canberra Raiders). His nickname was "the brick with eyes", just what you look for in a Senator. He is not a member of either major party, having won office on the ticket of a local mining magnate, who once accused Greenpeace of receiving funding from the CIA. (He's since decided that's maybe not the smartest alliance.)
But the trivia I really wanted to share is: Ryan and I have been reading a book about all Australia's former Prime Ministers. Our second PM, Alfred Deakin, was a lawyer before he became PM, in which role he very possibly acted as defence lawyer for Jack the Ripper. So there you go.
Your thoughts on the price? She keeps saying obo
$400 seems on the high side for a piece like that in this market. Bob says check out the website krrb to see listings for vintage stores by area. You might be able to get a price comparison.
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This is an unusual election, being a double dissolution election. Normally, as with the US system, our elections typically involve voting for all the seats in the House, and a proportion of the seats in the Senate (a half rather than a third). A double dissolution election (which involves certain conditions to be met, basically around the Senate blocking government legislation) sees every seat in the Senate up for grabs.
Wow. Aussie rules are always something else, as far as I can tell.
Just the vanity & stool, asking $400, and they'd deliver this weekend for free.
I love it! Couldn't resist.
I'm really sad to see that bar go
I hope they find a new place. Easier said than done for sure.
Oh fun, meara! Yes, having your playlist ready to go would be great.
Vote! May sanity prevail.
Wow. Aussie rules are always something else, as far as I can tell.
We do try. (Our other winter sport, incidentally, is called Aussie Rules.) I tend to be pretty enthusiastic about the Australian system - preferential voting, compulsory voting (which kills voter suppression as an issue), proportional Senate representation, independently drawn electoral boundaries, standardised ballot design over the whole country. But since 2007, we've had five changes of Prime Minister, three of which were leadership spills rather than election results. Oh, and we knighted Prince Phillip. We do our best to inject a bit of texture into it all.
I tend to be pretty enthusiastic about the Australian system - preferential voting, compulsory voting (which kills voter suppression as an issue), proportional Senate representation, independently drawn electoral boundaries, standardised ballot design over the whole country.
Oh we do need to get us some of that! Not that I think this is ever going to happen, but it sounds nice.
Yeah, we could use some Aussie rules in the USA.
Used the CPAP machine for the first time last night. Plus a nap yesterday. The machine tells me I got total 10 hours of sleep. I feel better. Not all bouncy full of energy, but I guess I have years of sleep debt to catch up on.
That is wonderful, Zenkitty! Sleep is indeed a glorious thing.
landlord decided to give the lease to a relative to open their own place, even though the existing place has been there for 25 years
That seems like a recipe for failure of the new place. Won't most of the locals who frequented the previous establishment be ticked off?
