Australians Only Thread

[Toinho]

11 hours ago, Spike said:

Funny how we always get the piss taken out of us for being 'conservative' and 'australian rednecks' (especially in the papers) but here we are with two Labor states and no delta strain. Meanwhile, Devil Dick Willie is probably dead right now.

I think Anastacia would be open to a having an open border with WA but I don't think McGowan would take it, WA likes the closed border too much

I agree with all of the above but glad to hear @Devil-Dick Willie is still knocking about tearing up vaginas.

[CaaC (John)+]

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First ancient human DNA from the gateway between Asia and Australia

Genomic clues from the grave of an ancient ‘princess’ reveal a vanished people.

When Griffith University archaeologist Adam Brumm heard from local villagers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi about a vast cave used to house local games of badminton, his scientific spidey-senses started to tingle.

Brumm, from Griffith’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, specialises in the archaeology of the region known as Wallacea, the cluster of islands between Borneo and New Guinea which are the seafaring gateway between Asia and Australia. He intuited that a cave of that size would have been attractive to ancient humans living on the island, and could potentially unravel the secrets of one of the region’s most mysterious peoples.

He visited the cave, known as Leang Panninge (“bat cave”) in 2013, but was unable to carry out extensive investigations. Then, in 2015, his colleagues from Indonesia’s University of Hasanuddin went back and made a startling discovery.

An unprecedented find

FULL REPORT

 

[CaaC (John)+]

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Lack of marine policies place submerged Aboriginal heritage sites at risk

Discovery of intertidal quarry and rock-art site casts light on submerged cultural landscapes.

Submerged Indigenous heritage sites – called Sea Country by many First Nations peoples – are at risk of being lost because of blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, according to two new studies published in Australian Archaeology.

The first study, led by John McCarthy of Flinders University, highlighted that the waters north of Northern Territory and New Guinea, which were once part of a single landmass known as Sahul, were of special significance in the settlement of Australia, and contain some of the oldest dated archaeological evidence about how people came to Australia.

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[Beelzebub]

Pakistan India bromance in YouTube comments section when they are beating Australia is true brotherhood

[CaaC (John)+]

A right fair dinkum quack  

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“You bloody fool!” The musk duck that learnt to swear

Listen to recordings of a duck that picked up some choice phrases from its keepers.

A small number of animals, particularly birds, can learn to mimic other animals – including humans. The Australian musk duck can now be added to these ranks: a paper in Philosophical Transactions B has shown that the ducks can imitate other bird sounds and human sounds – like doors slamming, and one truly Australian phrase uttered by their keepers.

“You bloody fool,” agreed Ripper, musk duck and subject of the paper.

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[Beelzebub]

What's the public reaction towards this AUKUS ? US has like many fronts to counter China but this seems purely military.

Edited September 27, 2021 by Khan of TF365

[Tommy]

I have to get this game to understand what it feels like to be Australian. 

 

[Spike]

Fuck ya game tommy,  Binchicken resigned

 

@Devil-Dick Willie your acting premier is suing a comedian 

[CaaC (John)+]

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How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist

Connecting to culture can change the way we view science.

By Steven Tingay

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what it all means? You are not alone. Billions of people before you have done the same. Looking at the stars to make sense of the universe, and our lives on Earth, extends back many tens of thousands of years, across all cultures.

A new 360 degree immersive film, Star Dreaming, set to screen around Australia and internationally, draws on our common wonder about the universe, exploring ancient culture and astrophysics, side by side.

In Australia, the world’s longest continuous culture can also claim to provide some of the first astronomers. Indigenous Australians attach rich meaning to the night sky, and its connection to the land and our environment.

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[Devil-Dick Willie]

On 28/09/2021 at 00:36, Khan of TF365 said:

What's the public reaction towards this AUKUS ? US has like many fronts to counter China but this seems purely military.

Right wingers think it's great. 

Everyone with a brain is wondering...

Why we needed to piss off the French, could we not have entered without the submarines? 
Why we need to piss off China? They're our largest trading partner. Why are we entering agreements that sour relations with our biggest partner?
If the French sub deal was so bad, how come the Liberals agreed to it?
Why couldn't we have told the French in advance, rather than them finding out in a press conference? 
Why are we preparing for war with a nation that literally owns (99 year agreement) the majority of at least 3 major ports (Darwin, Newcastle, Melbourne.

[Spike]

16 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Right wingers think it's great. 

Everyone with a brain is wondering...

Why we needed to piss off the French, could we not have entered without the submarines? 
Why we need to piss off China? They're our largest trading partner. Why are we entering agreements that sour relations with our biggest partner?
If the French sub deal was so bad, how come the Liberals agreed to it?
Why couldn't we have told the French in advance, rather than them finding out in a press conference? 
Why are we preparing for war with a nation that literally owns (99 year agreement) the majority of at least 3 major ports (Darwin, Newcastle, Melbourne.

What do the right wingers you know think about it? I bet they are the same people that say things like 'WHY THE FUCK DO WE HELP OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN AUSSIES NEED HELP AT HOME?' lacking the critical thinking skills to realise that helping other countries isn't humanitarian pity, it's investment.

Also
why do we need submarines?
why do we need nuclear submarines?
why are we so hostile to the most powerful country in terms of raw man power and manufacturing in the world?
why do we tell china to fuck themselves when Australia is constantly selling land and mineral resources to China?
why does china own large quantities of water in the murray darling basin when most of the land around the basin is in perma-drought?

[Spike]

Barilaro resigned

[Devil-Dick Willie]

3 hours ago, Spike said:

Barilaro resigned

Adios Bruz. He's totally doing a Nixon. Get his court case out of the public eye. 

[Spike]

5 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Adios Bruz. He's totally doing a Nixon. Get his court case out of the public eye. 

That's literally what he said, 'I want to sue Jordan privately'

[Bluewolf]

Where's @Toinho at??? not been on for a while?

[Tommy]

4 minutes ago, Bluewolf said:

Where's @Toinho at??? not been on for a while?

He's been gone since he had a go at me and a bit of a meltdown in the SingleLifeNoKids topic. Hope he's okay. 

[Beelzebub]

Probably busy with two young kids and a family

[Spike]

@Devil-Dick Willie do you have a home yet

[Devil-Dick Willie]

4 hours ago, Spike said:

@Devil-Dick Willie do you have a home yet

I'm renting. 

[Beelzebub]

Send me bobs and vagana

[CaaC (John)+]

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Rare non-returning boomerangs analysed for new clues

Find underlines the threat of climate change to ancient artefacts. 

Four summers ago, Katheryn Litherland, a Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka woman from north-eastern South Australia, and Jason Litherland, a National Parks and Wildlife Service worker, discovered something remarkable as they explored the unseasonably dry creek bed of Kinipapa (Cooper Creek). It was a time of drought, and as they cleared rubbish left by visitors among the river red gums and coolibahs lining the dry banks, the pair found an assemblage of four extraordinarily rare non-returning boomerangs buried in the creek bed, hinting at the region’s rich, pre-European past.

Now, an analysis of the boomerangs led by the Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Traditional Landowners Corporation, in collaboration with Australian Heritage Services, Flinders University and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), has dated the artefacts. It has found that the boomerangs span AD 1650 to AD 1830, being used in the centuries leading up to European incursions into the region by Sturt, Burke and Wills.

The boomerang is an iconic tool used by Traditional Owners across Australia since time immemorial – the oldest discovered boomerang is at least 10,000 years old, and boomerangs are depicted in cave art in the Kimberley painted around 20,000 years ago.

But since they’re made from perishable wood, finding them preserved in the soil is rare.

“Such assemblages are rarely found, and even less are published,” says Amy Roberts, co-author of the new study in Australian Archaeology and a researcher at Flinders University. The four Kinipapa boomerangs, one of just six known boomerang assemblages across Australia, thus offer an exceedingly rare window into the past.

“The assemblage reveals a variety of form and function representative of the diverse cultural activities and daily lives of the Aboriginal people who lived near significant waterholes in the Cooper Creek region during this period,” says Roberts.

Beyond use as projectiles, the analysis of the boomerangs found that they were likely used for fighting, hunting, digging, fire management and potentially in ceremonies, too – but figuring out what these degraded wooden tools were used for required expert sleuthing.

“We did some microscopic imaging and inspected them at a macro level,” says Roberts. “We look for cracks from impact, manufacturing traces, we look for things like charring, and also the shape – some are flatter, some are curved, some have a different cross section.”

Study co-author Daryl Wesley from Flinders University notes that “this range of activities goes well beyond the stereotype of the returning boomerang known to most Australians.”

But the authors warn that as the climate changes, the unique conditions of the region, which preserved these artefacts, are also changing, making discoveries of this type increasingly unusual.

“The area where they were found is a near-permanent waterhole within the creek itself,” says Roberts. “In extreme drought, some of those places will dry out, and with predictions of climate change that increase aridity, it’s going to increase the drying of those places, and for wooden objects that’s not ideal preservation.”

For Roberts, educating people about the variety and diversity of ancient material culture in the region is of paramount importance as these rare glimpses of ancient life look set to become even rarer.

“Part of the reason we do this is about educating people about how diverse Aboriginal material culture was in the past, to give people a greater awareness to protect that heritage,” she says.

For the local Traditional Owners, the find is an opportunity to learn about their ancestors from their own landscape.

“For Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka people, the finds provide another example of how their Country continues to tell the stories of their ancestors, as well as affording a tangible connection to the knowledge passed down from their families,” says Joshua Haynes, a Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka traditional owner and co-author.

Katheryn Litherland, the boomerangs’ original discoverer and co-author of the study, says that “when you see them old people in whirly winds you know they are here watching and protecting our Country. We will continue to protect and preserve our artefacts on Country; that’s what our ancestors would want us to do.” 

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/rare-historical-non-returning-boomerangs-analysed/

 

 

 

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by CaaC (John)
Spacing correction

[Spike]

On 01/11/2021 at 16:01, Devil-Dick Willie said:

I'm renting. 

Can I visit

[Devil-Dick Willie]

if my dog likes you

[Spike]

8 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

if my dog likes you

all dogs like me, i'm a fucking dog magnet

[Beelzebub]

bitches attract dogs