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Posted: 4/14/2006 1:19:24 PM | | Hello from the Gold Coast! Have been asking around this site if there is an Aussie forum, and voila! Here it is! | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 4:08:36 AM | l didnt even know this thread was here ,,,,,hello ,and welcome to the jungle  | |
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Posted: 5/22/2006 10:27:49 PM | Hello to you all from Toowoomba.QLD. It's a beautiful day. I feel great. Cum and stay.  | |
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Posted: 6/7/2006 4:44:10 AM | Hello from Nanango,and it's a god damn cold tonight. Regards Shell | |
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Posted: 6/7/2006 5:34:17 AM | Hi from the City of Churches and pensioners.  | |
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Posted: 6/7/2006 8:17:52 AM | Hello from Townsville Queensland...Home of the mighty North Queensland Cowboys - 2006 NRL Premiers!!!  | |
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Posted: 6/7/2006 9:26:53 AM | howdy all from big o'le Brisbane!!!!!!!!!!!
go the knights!
and chad reed!
and all the aussie mx riders competing overseas!
{only took me about 3 months to do this!} | |
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Posted: 12/15/2006 8:14:58 PM | | hello all I'm from the beautiful hunter valley(wine country),,only just joined,,love the forums.. | |
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Posted: 12/15/2006 8:29:51 PM | Welcome sungold to the Pof Forums..
I have not seen this thread and admin started it just in February 2006. For some reason I thought the aussie forums has been around for years.
Hello from Melbourne the Garden State.
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Posted: 12/15/2006 8:39:20 PM | hello from Mount Gambier SA,
the city of sleepy volcanoes and beautiful blue water that resides inside them, well one of them | |
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Posted: 12/15/2006 9:51:04 PM | Yayyyyy 
I LOVE having an Aussie forum - you guys here are awesome.
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Posted: 12/15/2006 10:29:58 PM | gday from Adelaide, and may the saints bless you all | |
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Posted: 12/15/2006 10:34:28 PM | g'day and a big salute to all from up here in the kimberley, WA.
altho am missing the old stomping grounds down in melb and nsw. | |
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Posted: 12/21/2006 8:17:32 PM | Big Hello and Merry XMas from the Riverina, nsw.
Wish more ppl from around here would post...get to know each other so much better that way.
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Posted: 12/27/2006 2:41:44 AM | Hello everyone
Its good to see other Australian in here as I am still new to this and would like to get to know you ,awwwwwww lost for words
Anyway its good to be here
happy reading everyone | |
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Posted: 12/27/2006 5:57:40 AM | Hi all from Darwin.
Well pluck me, this has just got to be the most awesome thread - I just saw Plucka Duck posted here.
Signed
MrBean'sTeddy | |
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Posted: 12/30/2006 12:29:34 AM | | hi every one sungold back,,thought I'd wish everyone a great 2007,hope you are all gearing up for a fun night out,,,,,,me,out with my best friend and her partner,,o well maybe next year. | |
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Posted: 2/2/2007 8:09:36 PM | G'day All!!
Am back from an awesome trip to ireland and scotland with a couple days in dubai thrown in on the way home. Absolutely loved it. What have i missed while being away?
Uppdate - am moving back to melb end of March.
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Posted: 2/3/2007 2:49:23 PM | Hi all, On Monday the 5th of February I fly from England (been here 15 years) to a new job in Bundaberg, Queensland. I am a New Zealander but I just can't wait to start the rest of my life. I have been in Blighty too long, my husband passed away 2 years ago (he was English) so there is nothing to keep me here.
Hi Aussies, I just can't wait to get there. Love to you all xxxxxx | |
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Posted: 3/16/2007 3:14:09 AM | [qiote] Australia forum
Posted: 2/26/2006 2 07 PM
I think australia is big enough for its own forum!
PoF Aussie Forums is one year old.. and we just missed the anniversay date... we could have a PoF Aussie Forum Internet party... better late than never..
Havvy anniversary PoF Aussies.. Oi Oi Oi
Maybe next year..    | |
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Joined: 12/27/2006
Msg: 122 | |
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Posted: 3/16/2007 3:55:32 AM | WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEre, happy little Vegemites, as happy as can beeee!
wait,,,, should that be , We all like aeroplane jelly
Weetbix Kids? | |
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Posted: 3/16/2007 4:49:19 AM | Or what about the classic........................
Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars?????????????  | |
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Posted: 3/16/2007 4:57:53 AM | Yeaaaaa... well lets celebrate..... yea... playing Great Southern Land... by Icehouse..
and here comes Waltzing Maltida...
Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
Down come a jumbuck to drink at the water hole
Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him in glee
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'".
Up rode the Squatter a riding his thoroughbred
Up rode the Trooper - one, two, three
"Where's that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?",
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me".
But the swagman he up and jumped in the water hole
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree,
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong,
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
A.B. (Banjo) Paterson
Explanation of Australian slang in the song
Billabong A waterhole.
Billy A can or small kettle used to boil water for tea.
Coolabah tree A type of native tree in Australia
Jumbuck A sheep. There are 20 times as many sheep as there are people in Australia.
Squatter At one time, squatters claimed (seized) land for themselves in addition to land that they had been granted. Eventually through the continuous occupation of the land, their claims were legitimised in the eyes of the law.
Swagman Someone who lives on the open road. A hobo. The term came from the canvas bag that they would carry their bedroll and/or belongings in.
Trooper In Australia's early days, there was no police force. The colony was protected by and policed by soldiers and even when a police force was eventually formed, they were still referred to as 'troopers'.
Tucker bag A bag for storing food in the bush. | |
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ebgdae
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| Australia forum
Posted: 3/16/2007 5:58:44 AM | Just after the turn of the century, a very talented young Australian girl thought that the next step to furthering her literary career was to make it big in England, just as many artists and writers do today.
She got a very cold reception from the women of society in England. She got the convict/colonial treatment. This was understandible at the time because even most Australian's thought of England as home, she didn't. The English countryside was considered beautiful compared to the far flung ragged bush of Australia.
Before she returned, in an act of sort of nastiness, lol,, she went to a meeting of an English Literary Society and gave them a little goodbye present. She tactfully talked about the beauty of the English countryside in the begginning, a tactic, most probably, to put the English Society women in the audience off guard.
Sometimes, the first paragraph is omitted but really it should stay there, it gives a terrific idea as to why the poem was written in the first place.
If it wasn't for a reporter from the Bulletin in the audience, who liked the ring of it and sent a copy back which was published in the Bulletin, we mightn't have ever heard anything about it again.
Back home the poem captured the hearts of the Australian people and the young girl arrived home a very surprised celebrity.
Here's the poem:
.....................................My Country..................................
...............................................................by Dorothea MacKellar
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where the lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze...
The opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly. | |
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