RObert yes guilty and I know it.
I too, think, and believe it.
DP in my view, and others you have in the past mentioned betray the ALP.
Yes fair dinkum, blind support , blind to fault and the need for constant improvement and above every thing accountability, harm my party.
I never claimed a halo, but judge too Shadow Minister, Hasbeen Rechtub Individual, not a hairs breath between them and DP, AND A LIST QUITE LONG ON MY SIDE.

Hi Belly,

Yes, and I'm thrilled to point out that President Obama is one of us, a leftie :)

Not only that but he's married to Michelle Obama, lucky man.

And my father was on the railways - during the War, he was on the munitions train between Sydney and Brisbane. I rang my mum up in 1992, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese submarine attack on Sydney Harbour (yes, children, it did happen) and she started laughing.

I asked her why, and she said that my dad had to drive the munitions train to Brisbane that night, and when he heard the news on the wireless, he went white as a sheet, she said. She made his lunch like it was the last meal of a condemned man, because everyone knew that there were supposed to be submarine nets across the entrance to Sydney Harbour but not across Broken Bay, leading up to the Hawkesbury River bridge, the only railway bridge between Sydney and Brisbane. Still is, I think.

He still drove the train, for the rest of the war. Of course, he took to the drink pretty soon afterwards, poor bugger. The last time i saw him would have been in about 1949.

If the Japanese had done their geography homework, who knows ? Almost all of Australia's industry was to the south of that bridge, and all the troops were in the north, mostly in north Queensland in fact. So the destruction of that bridge, rather than that stupid attack on Sydney harbour could have taken Australia out of the war.

And what might have been the consequences of that ? For the world ?

Thanks, Belly.

Cheers,

Joe

Interesting Loudmouth, I liked it very much.
Gee spot on about Obarma, hope he wins.
My dad was a fettler worked on the Syd to Melbourne line and we moved a lot.
He hit the grog but put us first every time.
Gave the grog away died of very hard work aged only 54.
He instilled work ethic in us all.
Wish I could have a last beer with him.