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    The Rover company (ancestor of Landrover) supplied motorcycles to the Russian army during WW1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    The Rover company (ancestor of Landrover) supplied motorcycles to the Russian army during WW1.
    hows that going for them?

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    There are 140 known species of grain crops which were grown across Australia by Aboriginal people before whites came in and ruined the place with their hard-hoofed animals which ripped the crops out by the roots, so they died out. Most of the native grain crops were perennials and gluten-free, meaning they only needed to be planted once and could be repeatedly harvested. Harvested grains were ground into flour and used to make cakes and other foods, which could be stored for long periods.
    King, the survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition, reported seeing an estimated four tons of flour in one native house alone on Cooper Creek. Meanwhile, Burke and Wills were starving because they refused to learn how the Aborigines were thriving with bumper crops while they were dying.
    Unfortunately, modern farmers have not adopted native grain crops, which are suited to the landscape, and continue to focus on imported crops, which require large quantities of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides. Not a clever country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    There are 140 known species of grain crops which were grown across Australia by Aboriginal people before whites came in and ruined the place with their hard-hoofed animals which ripped the crops out by the roots, so they died out. Most of the native grain crops were perennials and gluten-free, meaning they only needed to be planted once and could be repeatedly harvested. Harvested grains were ground into flour and used to make cakes and other foods, which could be stored for long periods.
    King, the survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition, reported seeing an estimated four tons of flour in one native house alone on Cooper Creek. Meanwhile, Burke and Wills were starving because they refused to learn how the Aborigines were thriving with bumper crops while they were dying.
    Unfortunately, modern farmers have not adopted native grain crops, which are suited to the landscape, and continue to focus on imported crops, which require large quantities of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides. Not a clever country.
    And then some bureaucrats made the hare-brained decision to make rice a major crop on a semi-desert in the driest continent on earth.
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    Except that the Aborigines used to farm varieties of native brown rice in a band across northern Australia by digging trenches and making mounds to catch runoff on sloping land, aided by wells they dug, so it can be done.

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    The Flinders River is the longest river in Qld.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    I've been bitten by a bat, which was like having a needle jammed into the finger. Trivia and other useless but interesting items
    Fortunately I've been vaccinated, although only 1% of bats carry lyssavirus.
    I mate of mine had a pet Greyhound that caught one a year or so ago,and it died from lyssavirus.

    Funny thing was the vet said 'there is so much paperwork reporting this,i can't be bothered'.
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    Sorry about the greyhound. The real danger from the 1% infected is not bites so much as licking bat faeces which has fallen under trees where horses graze.

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    From Qld Health.
    Bat
    or other animal blood, urine, and
    faeces are
    not considered to
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    Department of Health | Rabies Virus and Other Lyssavirus (Including Australian Bat Lyssavirus) Exposures and Infections




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