o sung wu you would have loved it. Much better than crawling through the jungle waiting for someone to shoot at you. Cars should be fun, or their not worth having. However if your fun is leisurely, that's fine too. I'm still waiting for you to come for a run through the border ranges with me in my old classic sports car. I've still got Foxy in my sights too.

We didn't have any two seat formula 1s in Oz, so it would have been a bit hard to take you. It is hard to believe I did have a mechanic, an amateur in fact, who wanted to be strapped down on the bonnet of that Brabham, so he could watch the front suspension under brakes. We were having trouble with a bad vibration under brakes, & he wanted see it up close. He is dead now, of course, but it was actually age & the effects of serving in PNG in 43 that got him, & not racing.

Today we would just aim a camera at it, & it would be sorted. So much of the fun has gone out of things today.

Actually perhaps we should build a 2 seat F1 car. WE could make it mandatory that all politicians had to do 10 laps of Bathurst with me, before they could take their seat. That should deter the milksops.

Actually it should be mandatory that all representatives spend a year in a war zone or on a peacekeeping tour, with our troops, before taking up their seats. That way we would know they had some experience of the real world. Should get rid of most of the shonks too. They would never do anything like that.

You should be in bed Nhoj, it's much too late for you to be up.

You have you done your homework I hope.

You should be in bed Hasbeen. It's much too late for you to be up.

You have you done your homework I hope.

Dear Hasbeen,

<<Yuyutsu if you don't like our laws & taxation, you are quite welcome to find somewhere more to your liking.>>

In the big picture, Australian laws are usually better than in other places, but I don't know even one Australian who likes them all. From some of your comments on this forum, I can actually tell that you don't either.

It's not a personal matter of mine: In a democracy, when laws are being immoral, it's one duty to expose this fact and strive to change them.

Specifically, I even think that we have a relatively good taxation system and personally I have no serious complaints about it, but this matter has nothing to do with my personal convenience - it is morally wrong to impose this system on those who do not wish to have anything to do with the Australian economy. Only a few laws need to be fixed in order to make the Australian tax system morally acceptable.

<<Hell I'll even help load your luggage.>>

Take care of your back, Sir - you are not that young any more and I've been here for many years, so there would be lots to carry!

... and don't cry that you miss my tax-money if I leave.

the solutions are very narrow and draconian.
Producer,
think about it, the reason we are in such a conundrum is that ever since academia infiltrated & sabotaged the pragmatic world of managing Government is because they perverted a straight forward & logical system & turned it into an artificially complex mess.
There's nothing narrow about the following of basic guidelines & nothing whatsoever draconian about discipline & responsibility. Animals can do but we apparently have difficulty with such a plain a simple concept. Australians in particular are very hasty in blaming Governments when it actually is the populace that is the cause. You can have the best captain but if the crews is incompetent & disinterested there's no way the team can win. Australia is such a team now.

Hi there HASBEEN...

If truth be known, I'd really enjoy accompanying you for a spin in your sports car ! However, you may well be astonished to witness a seventy five year old, disgrace himself as your tacho 'red lines', while we accelerate with great haste, as we hurtle gratuitously and wantonly through the byways of the beautiful Border Ranges !

Should FOXY be brave enough to join us, she would indeed be dismayed and nauseated at the sight of my display of dread and lack of manliness, all the while she thoroughly enjoys her hair being swept about as a result of the immense slipstream.

On another matter, I've developed this embarrassing irritation deep within the groin area, and after seeking medical advice it was determined I was afflicted with this annoying, but easily treated, parasitic mite arachnid. More often referred to as a 'NHOJ' mite ? Best treated curatively, by ignoring it. Though it should not be scratched, it only encourages it ?

HASBEEN, could you imagine for a minute, any politician putting on a set of greens ? Though I have heard the PM himself is well known for many of his outdoor pursuits. There was a Labour politician who had lost both his legs in Vietnam but I think he lost his seat in the last election. I do agree with you absolutely, if more of a our politicians, both State and Federally, had some form of military service, they would be far better equipped, both emotionally and practically, to embrace their jobs, then they are now ? Still it's only my opinion.