Oh. My. Goooddddddd. This animal is called a Quokka and it is the happiest thing on the planet.
Quokkas live on Rottnest Island, just off the coast of Perth, Western Australia.
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World’s richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
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Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it. Her family iron ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion makes her Australia’s wealthiest person and the richest woman on the planet.
“Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it.”
“made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it.”
“the old-fashioned way: She inherited it.”
“She inherited it.”
Oh, okay…
Another so-called person who was borne on 3rd base but believes they hit a homerun.
the-humble-magnificent:americawakiewakie:talldarkbishoujo:
I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.
Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.
Beautiful information here.
Yeah the Australian guy is Peter Norman.
Guys, there’s a documentary called ‘Salute’ about this, it’s really great. Trailer is on YouTube.
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1920’s Australian Mug Shots
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Wearing top hats and waistcoats and staring fixedly back at the camera, these men could have been posing for a family snapshot.But these amazing images from the 1910s to 1930s are actually police mugshots taken of convicted criminals arrested in Australia.The collection of black and white pictures are from a series of around 2,500 ‘special photographs’ taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers.
1920’s Australian Mug Shots
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Wearing top hats and waistcoats and staring fixedly back at the camera, these men could have been posing for a family snapshot.But these amazing images from the 1910s to 1930s are actually police mugshots taken of convicted criminals arrested in Australia.The collection of black and white pictures are from a series of around 2,500 ‘special photographs’ taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers.
This morning at 8:45am a peaceful Occupy Melbourne Protester was violently stripped of her protest costume and disgarded on the ground in her bra and panties. The individual in question was part of the Occupy Melbourne protest and was dressed in a protest costume made from a converted tent. The significance of the costume was to hightlight restrictions placed on protesters staging a 24/7 protest in Flagstaff Gardens.
The protester was surrounded by at least 4 Melbourne City Council officers and 8 Victorian police officers.Her movement was restricted by the formation of officers surrounding her and she was subsequently restrained as officers proceeded with aggressively removing her costume. At each stage she declared that she did not consent or feel comfortable with the actions of the council and police officers, stating that this was a sexual assault.”This is not consensual’.
Her requests and declarations were ignored as officers continued to rip and jossle her costume and person. A knife was requested and used by MCC Officers as the Protest Costume was cut from her body. The remaining severed costume was violently torn from her body while the protester herself was disgarded, semi-naked and crying on the ground as Vic police and MCC officers walked away with the costume.NO EFFORT was made to assess her health or welling after the incident.
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Paul French walked down a road Friday in Perth, Australia, on day five of his over 4,000-kilometer (2,500 miles) journey from Perth to Sydney. He aims to walk 35-40 kilometers a day, five days a week, in full Storm Trooper costume to raise money for the Starlight Foundation, which helps ill and hospitalized children in Australia.
I just discovered today that Australia honored Russell Crowe with his very own postage stamps.
Too bad I’m so many months behind the Australian Postal Service is no longer selling them.
They also had Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, and Cate Blanchett.
Jay-Z hugging Oprah on stage at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
Thousands of shrieking, jubilant fans flocked to the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday to watch TV talk show queen Oprah Winfrey tape two star-studded shows for her final series.
There were celebrities, giveaways and screams-a-plenty as 6,000 Oprah devotees jammed the steps of the landmark arts center in Australia’s biggest city for the filming. The production marked the finale of her weeklong trip, accompanied by 302 U.S. audience members who took part in “Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Adventure.”
