Australia and New Zealand >>>>>>Our Journey through 2012 and beyond.....................

UPDATE:- Haven't found him yet. Hoping he will give himself up.

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NT hunt for suspected killer continues

A suspected killer with military training continues to elude a massive manhunt in dense bushland near Darwin.
NORTHERN Territory police on Wednesday urged Jonathon Andrew Stenberg, 46, to give himself up as they scoured the Berry Springs area for the former Australian Defence Force member suspected of beheading Edward "Ned" Kelly, 54, last week.
Mr Kelly's decapitated body was found at his home at Broadwater, on the NSW north coast, on June 21. NSW police, who are investigating the murder, have not yet found his head.
More than 100 NT police have been hunting for Stenberg in the rural area on Darwin's outskirts since they found his abandoned vehicle there on Tuesday, acting on information from NSW police.

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[link to www.news.com.au]

And WOW! If anyone has the energy this one might deserve a thread of it's own. I'll bump it for ya.

SA signs co-operation deal with China


South Australia and China have signed an agreement on trade and economic co-operation that the state government says is the first of its kind in Australia.
PREMIER Jay Weatherill said the memorandum of understanding established a forum for regular consultation with the Chinese embassy in Australia to discuss bilateral trade and economic co-operation, major trade projects and investment opportunities.
"This is a landmark next step in deepening the relationship between South Australia and China," Mr Weatherill said in a statement.
"It is crucial that we have a strong relationship with China because it is already our largest export destination and it will soon become the largest economy in the world.
"China's growing middle class will be a strong source of demand for our premium food and professional services and its growing urbanisation will continue the demand for our natural resources."
The first meeting under the terms of the agreement took place after the signing in Adelaide on Wednesday and involved the premier, Chinese Ambassador Chen Yuming and senior government and embassy officials.
The South Australian opposition said the agreement with China was just to continue meeting and could not be described as a trade deal.
Trade spokesman Steven Marshall said the state government had dropped the ball on trade with China and should reopen its office in Hong Kong which was closed in 2005.
"Hong Kong is one of the busiest import and export markets in China; it seems extraordinary not to have a dedicated presence there," Mr Marshall said in a statement.
SA Minister for Manufacturing, Innovation and Trade Tom Koutsantonis told AAP that Mr Marshall needed to check his facts about the state's overseas trade representation in China.
"South Australia operates commercial offices in Shanghai and Jinan and we also continue to have a commercial representative in Hong Kong," Mr Koutsantonis said.
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[link to www.news.com.au]

REVEALED: The most trusted politician in Australia is....

HINT: It's a he. Another hint: He likes biscuits. And sauce. Final hint: He often refers to himself by his nickname.

It Kevin Rudd.


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Thread: Ice Age - New Zealand - Antarctic

Native title granted for 30,000sq km in NT

During his 87 years Aboriginal man Stephen Roberts has had to endure seeing much of his ancestral lands under control of other people.
BUT on Wednesday he shook the hands of Federal Court judge Bruce Lander, as he was told one of Australia's largest native title land claims had been determined in favour of his people.
"I think it is a historic day - I am happy," Mr Roberts said.
It has been a long process. His people began the native title action in 2000.
"The land to me is important It is where my dreamtime stories are," he said.
The local Mudburra and Jingili people now have rights to access the land, conduct ceremonies and hunt on it.
Existing pastoralists will be able to continue their operations but will have to consult the traditional owners on some matters.
Several parcels of land were included in the determination, totalling nearly 30,000 sq km in an area north of Tennant Creek and south of Katherine.
Chief executive of the Northern Land Council, Kim Hill, said the Native Title Act contained a number of road blocks which made negotiations a drawn-out process.
But now a determination has been made in favour of the traditional owners, they will have a right to have a say over things including natural resources that may be buried beneath the area's red soils.
"There is a petroleum interest, particularly gas and oil," Mr Hill said.
"So if those are viable no doubt these traditional owners will be at the table," he added.
In all, 10 cattle stations are affected by Wednesday's court ruling, which was made at a special ceremonial sitting of the Federal Court in Newcastle Waters, about 700 km south of Darwin.
Indigenous people were also granted some native title rights over the entire town of Daly Waters.
Gregory Jackson expressed his delight that the next generation of his family will have rights to land that he hasn't enjoyed.
"It took us years and years to fight for the place," Mr Jackson said.
"Today is a special day for us - the old people and the young fellas," he said.
Val Dyer, who has helped run Hayfield Station since 1974, said the native title process went smoothly.
"We are accustomed to them (Aboriginal people)," she said.
"We have worked with them for a very long period of time and we haven't had too many issues," Ms Dyer said.
Justice Lander said he was grateful and privileged to make the native title determination at a court sitting in Aboriginal land.
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[link to www.news.com.au]

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Guy see ufo's and aliens all the time. Sunrise show.

Thread: Aussie man talks on UFO'S AND ALIENS>>>>>VIDEO>>>>>VERY COOL.....................

2012-06-27 21:20:58 5.0 15.14°S 173.08°W 10 C Tonga Islands
2012-06-27 21:14:00 4.8 15.38°S 173.21°W 10 M Tonga Islands
2012-06-27 20:48:55 4.7 15.09°S 173.37°W 10 M Tonga Islands
2012-06-27 20:39:18 5.2 15.09°S 172.76°W 10 C Samoa Islands Region
2012-06-27 20:35:21 5.3 21.45°N 126.72°E 10 A Philippine Sea
2012-06-27 20:28:35 4.7 21.65°S 168.86°E 10 M Loyalty Islands

[link to geofon.gfz-potsdam.de]

'Nuckin Futs' gets the green light from Australians
THE controversial snack food "Nuckin Futs" is set to go ahead after no Australians lodged any official complaint with the trademarks office.
The "scandalous" brand name – a spoonerism of “f…in nuts” – attracted widespread publicity earlier this year after news.com.au revealed the trademark examiner had accepted it for the register pending a three-month “opposition period”.

Jamie White, solicitor director of law firm Pod Legal, who submitted the application on behalf of his Gold Coast client, said while he had received a number of emails personally no one had officially opposed it.

“Nobody took five minutes out of their day to actually oppose it after all the [abusive] emails we received," Mr White said. “So really do people think it’s that scandalous and really does it impact them at all?”


“People may have been shocked by the trademark but not offended enough to put a stop to it.”

Mr White is set to lodge the trademark officially today after successfully arguing his case that "Nuckin Futs" was not offensive because it was commonplace in everyday Australian language.

Until now it could have been opposed by any member of the public who wanted to send a complaint to IP Australia.

The company behind Nucking Futs is now clear to start production of the nutty snack. It has also lodged the trademark for consideration in the UK.

Other similar registered trademarks in Australia:
F…ERWARE
FAR KEW
FARKEN AWESOME
Other cases in the US and UK
FUKU: This was declined by the United States TM Office. It relates to a Japanese restaurant. It is currently under appeal.

LMFAO: This was declined by the United States TM Office as the TM Examiner was of the view that it was an acronym for “Laughing My F…ing Ass Off”. However, the applicant for LMFAO (the music band) has recently filed further applications for LMFAO as another party was successful in doing so as they advised the Examiner that it was in fact an acronym for “Laughing My Freaking Ass Off”.

KNUCKINGFACKERED: Was accepted and registered as a trademark in the UK.

I-FUK-U: This is a new application in the UK and relates to clothing and accessories. Not yet examined by the TM Examiner.

MINDF…: This is a new application in the UK. Not yet examined by the TM Examiner

[link to www.news.com.au]


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Thread: Australians against the CARBON TAX, please read, help is here... We can stop it now.

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2.2 27 June 2012 @ 23:37:53 28 June 2012 @ 09:37:53 -34.132 148.738 0 AUST Near Boorowa, NSW.
2.2 26 June 2012 @ 20:07:02 27 June 2012 @ 06:07:02 -33.331 136.980 15 AUST SW of Whyalla, SA.
2.5 26 June 2012 @ 13:40:36 26 June 2012 @ 23:40:36 -31.651 138.529 15 AUST NE of Hawker, SA.


[link to www.ga.gov.au]

Hey there AwakeInTassy!

My folks live in Swansea, beautiful necks of the woods.

Great idea for a thread.

I'd like to take folks towards Pine Gap, the US sovereign territory, smack bang in the middle of OZ. Not because of the controversial nature of the place, but for what is around the area, and known to the ancient Aborigine.

It is a place of power, and many tribes believe the birthplace of all life.

If you have google Earth, paste these co-ordinates in to the search bar, otherwise, just paste them in a google search bar and you will see a flat map.

23°50'38.90"S 133°54'26.46"E

23°49'16.97"S 133°53'23.20"E

23°48'22.22"S 133°52'8.72"E

23°46'16.60"S 133°52'33.50"E

- just a few, there are hundreds of these in the region.
What are they? well, they are giant spirals drawn in the desert, many over a hundred metres across, and all anti clockwise. Most quite perfect. All very old.

Usually, a small spiral will signify 'water'. i.e. dig here and you'll find water.

But these giants are clustered in one region. No visible water or rivers where they are ... but 100% there is a massive aquifer below.

The water down there is rumoured to create life.

After discussing this with some locals, the most interesting thing they said, was that what they were digging (drilling) for at Lake Vostok was the same stuff. Pure, Earth energised water. Nothing more, nothing less. Just pure water. With the ability to create life.

I've looked for more symbols of this nature, and many exist about the planet, and curiously, have water sources or aquifers below. Despite being drawn by different cultures.

I hang out on the bezerk thread, and the ramifications of this are amazing, in relation to that thread.

Anyhow, just thought I would share some interesting co-ords. Plenty of other 'interesting' things in that region too, including 'why' Pine Gap was built where it was.

These spirals have a direct correlation to events occuring this year and beyond too BTW!

** A tip, in the 'view' tag on google Earth there is a function called 'time-slide'. It allows you to see earlier sattelite photos of what you are looking at. Some times there is more greenery, sometimes a different time of day, and these things stand out even more amazingly! Have fun.

Hi Badhairday.

I would love to visit there. What a wonderful place. Another website called (I think?) Mysterious Australia.I will try to find the link. Spots like easter island statues in queensland.
Swansea is a lovely place too, but not in summer when it is filled with tourist, (we call them terrorists).

Haha, technically I'm one of 'em!

The fishing off the jetty around Christmas time is just amazing.

Mysterious OZ is Rex Gilroy's site I think. What a treasure he is. Not sure if all he claims is correct, but just love that he puts it out there. Some good books too, that you can follow in his tracks on.

Eight days, seven boats, 656 arrivals
Seven boats carrying 656 asylum-seekers and crew have arrived on Christmas Island in the past eight days, according to Department of Immigration and Citizenship figures.

The island's five detention centres are now at surge capacity, with more than 12-hundred so-called irregular maritime arrivals.

This figure does not include an estimated 230 people rescued from two boats, including one that sank north of Christmas Island yesterday.

The facility 16-hundred kilometres off Western Australia's northwest coast, can normally house 950 detainees and has a temporary maximum capacity of two-thousand.

[link to bigpondnews.com]

Man pulls fisherman from croc's jaws
A tranquil afternoon's fishing in far north Queensland last year ended with Kevin Beven pulling a man from a crocodile's jaws.

The man was screaming for help from the Weipa creek while the Rio Tinto maintenance officer scoured the area for him.

Mr Beven could hear him, but couldn't see him, so he started yelling back.

'I asked him if he was on the pub or the caravan side (of the creek) and then I drove to him,' Mr Beven said.

He found the man, who had been fishing nearby, clinging to mangrove roots after the three-metre croc clenched its jaws around his legs.

Mr Beven pulled him out of the croc's mouth and he and the local indigenous men, the Nappa people, carried him to an ambulance.

'I didn't even think about it, I just did what I had to do,' Mr Beven said.

[link to bigpondnews.com]

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Thread: Aussie man talks on UFO'S AND ALIENS>>>>>VIDEO>>>>>VERY COOL.....................

5.4 28 June 2012 @ 15:57:24 29 June 2012 @ 01:57:24 -6.981 129.537 200 AUST Banda Sea, Sunda Arc.
5.8 28 June 2012 @ 15:52:05 29 June 2012 @ 01:52:05 -13.458 166.434 30 AUST Vanuatu Islands.
5.1 28 June 2012 @ 12:23:15 28 June 2012 @ 22:23:15 -17.385 -178.706 544 AUST Fiji Islands Region.

5.3 27 June 2012 @ 12:56:59 27 June 2012 @ 22:56:59 -8.362 119.922 33 AUST Flores Region, Indonesia.
5.0 27 June 2012 @ 06:56:45 27 June 2012 @ 16:56:45 -15.649 -173.611 44 AUST Tonga Islands.

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Thread: BABY TURTLES TRAPPED BY RUBBISH ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND******AUSTRALIA*********************

Thread: STAR TRAILS**************PHOTOGRAPHED IN AUSTRALIA*****************

hiya tas x

lots of oz threads lately..

Morning T.

Alot happening. Got some terrible weather today but at least it is not as cold.
Tonga area a bit shakey. NZ hasn't got anything for awhile??????

don't you beileve it, check these out;
[link to beta.geonet.org.nz]
[link to quakemap.co.nz]

the weather seems to be clearing up here, i think it might not rain and be windy today, yay!

i am exceedingly fucked off that another signal i spotted was removed from the seismo yesterday, straight after i posted about it

ONE WONDERS WHAT IS BEING HIDDEN FROM US

it was a very unusual, nasty signal on a south island seismo

when this sort of behaviour is going on, obviously there is something 'they' do not want us to know

it sucks, big time!

Hiya Tauranga. Did you Kiwis recover ALL those shipping containers that fell off the Rena? Wonder where they floated...

or were taken.

My best guess is down, to Macquarie Island. That's one to watch as well. Relatively stable, remote, governed by Tassy, and really unusual geologically. And close to Antarctica.

hiya BadHairDay

it is a bit hard to find updates lately, but here is a new thread i started because i am concerned mainly now about the corexit in my neighbourhood..
Thread: COREXIT IN NEW ZEALAND!! Oil Spill Updates..RENA CAPTAIN and NAVIGATION OFFICER'S COVER-UP, 7 MONTHS JAIL

i was wondering about the containers a couple of days ago too..

i will have another look for updates..

here is the old rena thread
Thread: TAURANGA,NEW ZEALAND, HAS BEEN POISONED WITH COREXIT... RENA -GROUNDING and OIL SPILL TAURANGA,NEW ZEALAND

about the middle of this thread, there are discussions about the various chemicals in some of the containers

there was also controversy over some containers of 'yellow cake' (radioactive stuff?) and maybe other things that weren't declared. very bad.

containers wen't up and down the coast from here (Tauranga)

Hi A.I.T,

Good to see this thread is going as strong as ever, I appaud your strength and hope your doing o.k.

Really nice to see you here.

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