Dick Smith's proposed changes to Civil Aviation Act

[turboplanner]

I think the Darling is bone dry now, saw a photo of a Land Cruiser driving along the bottom.

 

SA would be thirsty trying to tap the Darling.

 

Doesn’t SA tap off the Murray at Morgan. Great drinking water; seven hundred thousand cattle can’t be wrong!

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

Nope turbs, SA begins before Renmark. Morgan is well downstream and not a big user.

 

What I disagree with is the "environmental" flows which are supposed to keep the lower lakes freshwater.

 

These lower lakes should be tidal and therefore sea-water at times of low river flows. They were before white-fellows changed the system.

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

This area is my flying backyard.

 

 

[turboplanner]

You could land on the Darling now.

 

 

[Norm39]

I know of this farm north of Adelaide where the railway embankment made a dam and they lost their crops. It is hard to fight a government which makes the rules and appoints the judges. No compensation has been paid or admitted to, but the aerial photo says it all.Not a big percentage of total flooding, but governments using their vast powers to be nasty to ordinary people makes me angry.

That is why our American cousins have the second amendment! never underestimate the evil side of government

 

 

[coljones]

That is why our American cousins have the second amendment! never underestimate the evil side of government

And then there are those, in the past, who were not permitted or couldn't afford guns who were dispossessed by those wielding their precious guns and swords and strychnine and rope. Perhaps that is the greater fear, the dispossessed coming to take back what is theirs - think to victims of the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings, the Normans and their latter day fellow travellers.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Yep, bad things sure happened in the past. It makes me grumpy when they apologize to aborigines for past misdeeds when in fact governments were even more awful to lots of other groups of people. Like mental cases, disabled, abandoned women, Irish etc.

 

 

[coljones]

Yep, bad things sure happened in the past. It makes me grumpy when they apologize to aborigines for past misdeeds when in fact governments were even more awful to lots of other groups of people. Like mental cases, disabled, abandoned women, Irish etc.

And of course those regularly done over by non government action. Financial gurus are causing a lot more damage than governments ever have. They are the modern version of the squatters.

[Jaba-who]

Generally I get very annoyed when do-gooders compare past events with today’s morals and mores and when they refuse to consider past events in the context of what was the norm at the time.

 

Inevitably they consider only events perpetrated by our ancestors and inevitably consider them only as if they were enacted in current times.

 

The fact that life was tough for everyone, that even the average family in white society (even in Sydney and Melbourne) lived in conditions that would be today considered unfit for habitation. The fact that even in the 1800s it was considered normal and acceptable for countries to invade others and that the concept of sovereignty of borders etc did not exist then.

 

It was considered acceptable for single mothers (white) to be banished by their families to a life of poverty and for the poor (whites) to be thrown in jail for “crimes” such as not paying debts.

 

All of that (whether right or wrong) was how it was then and to single out only the burdens enacted on particular sub-groups of the population to bolster modern consciences and to act as if they were the only sufferers is a perversion of history.

 

 

[coljones]

59 messages on this discussion and no-one has bagged Jabirus.

 

 

[Downunder]

59 messages on this discussion and no-one has bagged Jabirus.

It's not allowed....

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

It would be regarded as crap. As a happy Jabiru owner I can say with authority.

 

 

[turboplanner]

It would be regarded as crap. As a happy Jabiru owner I can say with authority.

Since the rebuild?

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