They're not bad eating and great fun to shoot!
Good for you, Jessica Mauboy. You just earned a huge amount of respect from our entire household. You go girl and tell the bleeding hearts to GFT's!

It gets worse Belly.

The geese & your "favorite" people, the greenies destroyed a whole industry in the Burdekin. They had developed a paddy rice using some of the huge volume of water they had. A mill was established & a lot of long term investment went in.

Then the geese found them. There had never been geese breading in the area before, but they loved the paddies, with water & hood. With our usual stupidity we allowed the greenies to dictate, & farmers were not allowed to control the geese. The industry collapsed, the mill lies abandoned.

I guess you could say the farmers won in a backhanded way. When they gave up rice farming, & stopped flooding rice paddies, the geese lost & disappeared.

I wonder what happened to people's cultural right to farm their land, & make a living?

foxy,
All I can say is that if you come upon a track of her doing the national anthem live at some event, do not listen as you will cringe.

After hearing Julie Anthony SING the anthem I do not know why most others would bother trying.

Banjo, she sang one song in the movie with no musical accompaniment, and sounded lovely. She's sold many albums, so she is certainly doing something right!

I don't have a problem with her hunting magpie geese, although I did eat some wild magpie geese kebabs when I was living in Darwin, and I didn't like it...too gamey tasting for me.

Hasbeen, I don't think ranting about 'city folk' , as opposed to farming folk is very bright.
City and farming folk need each other.

The farmers grow the food and the city folk buy it.
It's not rocket science...

'Advance Australia Fair' is not a fair test of a singer. Julie Anthony did it passably, but it was a strain. They would have had to pay her well, because that nauseating and irritating dirge is impossible to sing and could limit a singer's career. It is a shocker.

Unfortunately no change is possible because the prevailing political correctness would decree that the replacement would be a blend of romanticised 'First People' didgeridoo and sticks, and multicultural sensitive acknowledgements, and could only be performed on the approval of the 'local owners' (at the local pub carpark picking a stink with Islanders), and would require payment of white fullah $$ of course.

>>It is a shocker.<<

It's certainly no La Marseillaise. I think they should make this our national anthem and everybody I've shown it to agrees - including, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear onthebeach, all my aboriginal mates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiEycVMKoJo

Cheers,

Tony