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Reply #30 - Apr 23^rd, 2024 at 6:37am

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:27pm:

Better than working in the filthy factories and sucking in the solid air particles that lead to early death and widows... women oppressed - what a hoot - men fought to have them removed to safety away from the filthy and dangerous factories ... and look at the thanks men get today.

Women's breasts got in the way of machinery and were covered in particles. It was terror and photos were banned. You see it today in Breast Screening which crushes them, blamed on Barnaby Joyce (LNP) after the Tony Abbott/ Julia Gillard punch-up. But women never thank you for dragging them by the tits.

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Reply #31 - Apr 23^rd, 2024 at 8:55am

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 2:39pm:

... the winged keel?

It was a real winner.

It did win fame and fortune for some.

Wikipedia: "On 26 September 1983, the yacht Australia II made history when the oldest sporting trophy in the world, the America's Cup, was wrested from the Americans after 132 years."

https://i0.wp.com/www.australiangeographic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Aus...

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2010/06/australia...

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9. Winged keel

The winged keel on Australia II. Image credit: CTBOLT via Wikimedia Commons
Ben Lexcen, an Australian yachtsman and marine architect, invented the winged keel – a nearly horizontal foil, or wing, at the base of a sailing boat keel. They are typically found on high-performance sail boats. The winged keel made its debut in 1983 in America’s Cup on Australia II.

No ...... it came in at no.9

Only useful to those with enough money to engage in the snobby sport of sailing.

By far & away the best were the advancements of medical invention regarding penicillin, spray on skin and cochlear implants & pacemaker.

Even the black box recorder is better but I don't believe a No.1.

After all its use is limited into gathering information about mechanical/electronic failures to work out why people have died/been killed in an accident. Usually aircraft.

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Reply #33 - Apr 23^rd, 2024 at 8:58am

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:29pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:17pm:

Overlooked:

Didgeridoo
Boomerang
Woomera

Ah, yes.

Good point.

And, thermoplastic resins.

Aboriginal people made a powerful thermoplastic resin from porcupine grass and grass trees. They beat the resin out of the grass, then cleaned it and heated it over fire to create a sticky black substance. The resulting resin hardened as it cooled and was strong enough to bind rock to wood. This resin was used to create tools such as spears, woomeras and axes.

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Reply #34 - Apr 23^rd, 2024 at 8:59am

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:29pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:17pm:

Overlooked:

Didgeridoo
Boomerang
Woomera

Ah, yes.

Good point.

And, thermoplastic resins.

Aboriginal people made a powerful thermoplastic resin from porcupine grass and grass trees. They beat the resin out of the grass, then cleaned it and heated it over fire to create a sticky black substance. The resulting resin hardened as it cooled and was strong enough to bind rock to wood. This resin was used to create tools such as spears, woomeras and axes.

And ...

Weirs and fish traps

Aboriginal people demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of engineering, physics and aquaculture in the design of elaborate stone fish traps in NSW, and the 100 sq.km eel farm at Lake Condah in Victoria. They made these fish farms by creating complex systems of canals, linked weirs and ponds out of river stones. Lake Condah shows evidence of a very large, settled community that harvested and smoked eels to trade. Some of Australia’s Aboriginal fish traps are thought to be up to 40,000 years old. They may be some of the oldest surviving human-made structures in the world.

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Reply #35 - Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:35pm

aquascoot wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 4:46pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 4:28pm:

aquascoot wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 3:58pm:

philperth2010 wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 3:32pm:

I never realized Australia had so many inovative inventions, especially in the field of medicine and health???

Smiley

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2010/06/australia...

australian innovations? Grin

we are the gold medalists at leaning

Additional Child Care Subsidy
Child Care Subsidy
Dad and Partner Pay
Double Orphan Pension
Family Tax Benefit
Newborn Supplement and Newborn Upfront Payment
Paid Parental Leave Scheme
Parental Leave Pay
Parenting Payment
Single Income Family Supplement
Stillborn Baby Payment.
Age Pension
Home Equity Access Scheme.

Disability Support Pension
Essential Medical Equipment Payment
Mobility Allowance
Youth Disability Supplement.

Carer Allowance
Carer Payment
Carer Supplement
Child Disability Assistance Payment.

ABSTUDY
Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
Austudy
Pensioner Education Supplement
Tertiary Access Payment
Youth Allowance for students and apprentices.

JobSeeker Payment
Youth Allowance for job seekers.

Energy Supplement
Pension Supplement
Pharmaceutical Allowance
Remote Area Allowance
Rent Assistance
Telephone Allowance
Utilities Allowance.

Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
Health Care Card
Pensioner Concession Card.

And all or almost all are some of the reasons behind our low crime rates.

true

zoned out , brain dead, welfare numpties arent even motivated enough to commit a crime

I know. What's wrong with a bit of crime? It keeps the chodes on their toes, no?

Mass shootings, gangland killings, insurrection. Australia's so boring.

Why can't we be more like the Americans?

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Reply #36 - Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:39pm

Setanta wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:25pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 6:17pm:

Overlooked:

Didgeridoo
Boomerang
Woomera

Not much into musical instrument history but for boomerang(throwing stick) and woomera(projectile launcher) the only thing they invented was their names for them.

Whitey too, Setanta.

Banjo, Ukelele, guitar.

Good thing your Arab invented the stringed instrument, no?

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 82942 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #37 - Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:41pm The politician's excuse for a travel rort...................
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Mattyfisk Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 94561 Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #38 - Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:42pm greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 5:28pm: https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2017/04/hoists.jpg Hill was a dirty Septic, Greggery. Same as Kraft, who patented Vegemite. And don't get me started on the Black Box. Oh, whatever happened to our once proud country?
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Mattyfisk Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 94561 Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #39 - Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:45pm Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 24^th, 2024 at 11:41pm: The politician's excuse for a travel rort................... Stop whining. You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our wonderful inventions. There you go, leftards, the wine cask. Put it down.
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Reply #40 - Apr 25^th, 2024 at 2:59pm

The Study .................... Research .................. Academic Standing .................... KUDOS.............. The Emasculated Ph.D .............

.... and now in startling news, new research has discovered that .....................

https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/medical/it-requires-more-effort-to-move-as-you-...

.... to the committee phase, men! This one will take a lot of careful consideration....

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Reply #41 - Apr 25^th, 2024 at 3:20pm

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:53pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:29pm:

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:11pm:

The polymer bank notes…. our most colourful money…
When in China, a shop assistant wanted to do an exchange of their money for my Aussie notes.
Then in Canada the same thing… an exchange happened.
And….in California while sharing a Uber van with a couple black Americans… we swapped money… their money is all the same grey colour. Have to look twice if it’s $1 or $100

But show your colourful Aussie bank notes to anyone overseas and they love it! It gives me such delight!

I will be bringing heaps of $5, $10 and $20 to do more swapping when I go to UK and Europe later in year.

We export polymer notes to about 25 different countries

Hence the trend now for those countries to have more colourful money. USA still have boring grey notes.

But everywhere I’ve been people love our Aussie money.
I collect overseas money as keepsakes too.
I’ve got some old Italian lire money from 2001 before they changed over to EU.

Not sure why they're singled out as special these days.

Maybe the Australian 1988 $10 note - the world's first polymer note - deserves to be a standout, but many countries now have colourful polymer banknotes.

The International Banknote Society's Banknote of the Year has been awarded to polymer notes from the Philippines (2022), Mexico (2021 and 2020), Canada (2018), New Zealand (2015) Trinidad & Tobago (2014) and Samoa (2008).

Australia, the birthplace of the polymer note, has never won.

And nevermind that typo that was picked up on our new polymer $50 note - 'responsiblty'.

https://www.theibns.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138&...

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 11253 Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #42 - Apr 25^th, 2024 at 3:25pm Winged keels and Hills hoists aside... Then there's the greatest invention in aviation safety advancement - the black box flight recorder, invented by David Warren. Not to mention wifi - John O'Sullivan and his colleagues at CSIRO are credited with inventing WiFi.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45744 Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #43 - Apr 25^th, 2024 at 3:44pm LOL, one somewhat anti-Australian yank homebrewer didn’t want to admit an Australian had invented the black box recorder Ah well, he is dead now—regular 2 packets a day smoker.
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