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I read in my newspaper that Australians have banned the Easter Bunny and replaced him with the Easter Bilby. I was wondering how much of this is true... You really can't trust journalists these days, now can you? ;)
 
It is not true :lol: but we don't do the easter bunny to the same extent America does (no idea how much of a thing he is in the UK). I don't think I've known any families where the easter bunny was a thing like santa, more a mascot of the chocolate egg eating day.

We can buy easter bilbies though from several companies, but they aren't ubiquitous. We are more eggs than rabbits anyway.
 
I read in my newspaper that Australians have banned the Easter Bunny and replaced him with the Easter Bilby. I was wondering how much of this is true... You really can't trust journalists these days, now can you? ;)

the notion of the easter bilby has been around in Australian for years - it's a national trait that we sometimes put our one spin on things - bit like how Santa use to hitch six huge kangaroos to his sleigh (well before rolf harris fell from grace anyway).

and if it's a story that has it's origins in a new paper owned by rupert murdoch take it with enough salt to dry a side of beef. They're just as much gutter trash as his U.K ones.
 
the notion of the easter bilby has been around in Australian for years - it's a national trait that we sometimes put our one spin on things - bit like how Santa use to hitch six huge kangaroos to his sleigh (well before rolf harris fell from grace anyway).

and if it's a story that has it's origins in a new paper owned by rupert murdoch take it with enough salt to dry a side of beef. They're just as much gutter trash as his U.K ones.


Ah, yes the same Rupert that tries to change elections in countries.
 
Oh so they want amazon, ebay and others to collect GST.
But most of the online retailers they have asked have basically said "get stuffed" to the federal govt.

And why are 457 visa holders suddenly an issue?
 
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Oh that.........

And tougher questions on the citizenship test now too......
 
FLASHBACK!!

Well, for those of you of a certain age (most of you probably too young, but there is an updated video of this song, it's good too). From 1978

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Margaret Court is such a massive hypocrite. She has been using her fame to bully people for years and when people oppose she states she is the one being bullied.
 
Margaret Court is such a massive hypocrite. She has been using her fame to bully people for years and when people oppose she states she is the one being bullied.

She's just another who can take dish it but can't take it.

Billie Jean King overlooked court's bigotry in supporting the stadium being named after her. Pity the court can't reciprocate in any way.
 
She's a minister now, the shit would totally hit her in the face if she relaxed her super special Godly views about teh gays. She's basically being paid to be a bigot.
 
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