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Arrival of the dingo The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but its history has been uncertain until recently. While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia. Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, 2011: I have heard the dingoes singing across the cliffs and gorges, across plains and deserts, and I cannot really comprehend that no matter how bright the night, or how sweet the air, there may come a day when we’ll never hear them sing like that, ever. Not to their Sisters in the Sky country, or to the hunter in the Sky and on Earth, or for the love of their own kind, or in celebration of their own way of being in the world. Walter Beilby, The Dog in Australasia, 1897: It will be a blessing for the squatters when the brutes are extinct. Introduced species The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but until recently its history has been uncertain. The fact that there are no dingo fossils in Tasmania indicates that dingoes must have arrived after rising waters separated the island from the Australian mainland about 12,000 years ago. The 1969 discovery of archaeological evidence in caves on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura, Western Australia, has led to general agreement that the dingo was on the Australian mainland at least 3,500 years ago. Since the mid-2000s, technological advances have supported new research into the origin of dingoes. A 2011 study utilising DNA testing and sequencing shows that the Australian dingo is closely related to East Asian domestic dogs, and arrived via South-East Asia between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago. A study published in 2012 has narrowed the introduction of the dingo to a few instances in which a small number of individual animals arrived, most probably through New Guinea. The evidence indicates that dingoes have been isolated on the Australian mainland since. While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia. Research published in 2011, however, suggests that increased competition and predation from growing human populations, combined with climate change, were also contributing factors to the thylacine’s extinction. Dingo in First Nations cultures Academic and author Deborah Bird Rose observes that: Dingoes provided a companionship that had never before existed in Australia. These creatures were the first non humans who answered back, came when called, helped in the hunt, slept with people and learned to understand some of the vocabulary of human languages ... People gave them names, fitted them into the wider kinship structure and took care of dead dingoes in the same way they took care of dead people. Dingoes have been fitted into the sacred geography as extremely powerful Dreamings, and they now figure prominently in ritual, songlines and stories. Dingo burials discovered at archaeological sites speak of the length of this ongoing relationship between Indigenous communities and the dingo. Dingoes are depicted in rock art at a number of sites, including the Wollemi wilderness area and the Burrup Peninsula. Dingoes continue to be considered important to many First Nations peoples. Like other creatures, they feature in many First Nations peoples’ kinship systems. They are hunting dogs, companions and pets, and they guard the camp at night, keeping away malevolent spirits. Dingoes and Europeans The first recorded European sighting of a dingo was by a Portuguese sailor who shot and killed one on Thursday Island in 1601. Other explorers, including William Dampier and James Cook, recorded hearing dingoes or seeing their tracks. Joseph Banks commissioned George Stubbs to paint ‘A portrait of a large dog from New Holland’ from the skin of a ‘native dog’ that Banks brought with him on the voyage home from Australia. Violent first encounters in 1788 between dingoes and the sheep that came to Australia with the First Fleet established the ongoing character of British sentiment towards dingoes. Settlers shot dingoes on sight and, from the 1840s, used strychnine to poison them. The eventual near elimination of dingoes in south-eastern Australia led to the adaptation of the rabbit-proof fence to keep out dingoes from the north. While the fence had failed to keep out rabbits, it successfully excluded dingoes and is still maintained today. With their main predator excluded, kangaroo numbers exploded in south-eastern Australia in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers responded by holding kangaroo battues, which involved rounding up large numbers of the animals and slaughtering them, often with clubs. The Australian News for Home Readers reported more than a thousand kangaroos were killed in one day at a battue held at Joseph Ware’s station on Murton Creek, near Geelong, on 20 February 1867. Recent research comparing sites in New South Wales with differing degrees of dingo control confirms the relationship between kangaroo numbers and dingo predation. A reduction in the dingo population has a range of impacts on other species too, and the study concludes that culling dingoes is counterproductive in biodiversity terms. Modern concern The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain from an Uluru camping ground on 17 August 1980 brought debate about the nature of the dingo into the public sphere. Few Australians have direct contact with dingoes, and many found it hard to believe that a dingo was capable of taking a baby. First Nations peoples knowledge that dingoes could attack humans, and the supporting tracking evidence they provided, was downplayed during the early investigations into Azaria’s death. Subsequent attacks by dingoes on children in popular camping areas elsewhere demonstrated that dingoes’ familiarity with humans increased the likelihood of an attack. Around the same time that the Chamberlain tragedy unfolded, community concern about the longevity of the species also increased. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the dingo as a vulnerable species, and a number of voluntary associations are dedicated to saving them from extinction. Notes from National Museum Australia Image; Two litters of wild dingoes caught by dingo hunters

Knickers, a Holstein Friesian cow from Australia

Yep what a rooster head.

A soldier and his dog: Horrie the WW2 dog https://tracesmagazine.com.au/2013/11/a-soldier-and-his-dog-horrie-the-world-war-ii-dog/

We don't have rabies and some other diseases here because of our isolation......they could have just isolated the poor dog until it had a clean bill of health

Motor Cycle - Indian Scout, 600 cc V-Twin, Hendee Manufacturing Co, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1923 Photographer: Benjamin Healley Source: Museums Victoria. The Museum's Indian motor cycle is a 1923 Scout bought new in Adelaide. This machine had only one owner before being acquired for restoration. It was purchased by the Museum in 1986. With a 600cc side-valve V-twin engine and three-speed gearbox, it was capable of a top speed of 69 m.p.h (110 km/h). Physical Description Red motor cycle with yellow lettering and detail on tank. Red front and rear fenders. Single round headlight and taillight. Brown leather seat. 600cc side-valve V-twin engine and three-speed gearbox. Metal tag on front fender.

The dog of the desert - Australian Geographic Horrie, a male terrier puppy, was found starving in a Libyan desert in 1941 by Private Jim Moody. He soon became the mascot of the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, providing companionship and relief to thousands of Aussie Diggers. When the soldiers rescued Horrie, they were unaware of his extraordinary capabilities. During the war, Horrie saved hundreds of Australian soldiers with his sharp sense of sound – he could detect the sound of Nazi aircrafts flying overhead well before they were seen by the troops. The dog would sit and face the sky, and let out his distinct, guttural growl to warn the troops to hurry to the trenches. Horrie survived a bomb splinter injury in his leg, and he even endured through Syria’s cold winter, wrapped up in a cloth cut from a soldier’s tunic. Horrie was successfully smuggled back into Australia despite the strict quarantine regulations stating all animals on board returning to Australia must be destroyed. Horrie and Private Moody lived a peaceful life together after the war finished, but not for long. Horrie gained publicity around Australia as a famous war hero, which caught the attention of Ron Wardle, Commonwealth Director of Veterinary Hygiene. Wardle eventually euthanised Horrie with a dose of cyanide on 12 March 1945. However, some rumours claim Moody handed over a Horrie-look-a-like instead. After news spread of Horrie’s death, protests around Australia erupted, and Wardle received death threats from the public.

Ballad Of The Drover Across the stony ridges, Across the rolling plain, Young Harry Dale, the drover, Comes riding home again. And well his stock-horse bears him, And light of heart is he, And stoutly his old pack-horse Is trotting by his knee. Up Queensland way with cattle He's travelled regions vast, And many months have vanished Since home-folk saw him last. He hums a song of someone He hopes to marry soon; And hobble-chains and camp-ware Keep jingling to the tune. Beyond the hazy dado Against the lower skies And yon blue line of ranges The station homestead lies. And thitherward the drover Jogs through the lazy noon, While hobble-chains and camp-ware Are jingling to a tune. An hour has filled the heavens With storm-clouds inky black; At times the lightning trickles Around the drover's track; But Harry pushes onward, His horses' strength he tries, In hope to reach the river Before the flood shall rise. The thunder, pealing o'er him, Goes rumbling down the plain; And sweet on thirsty pastures Beats fast the plashing rain. And every creek and gully Sends forth its tribute flood — The river runs a banker, All stained with yellow mud. Now Harry speaks to Rover, The best dog on the plains, And to his hardy horses, And strokes their shaggy manes; "We've breasted bigger rivers When floods were at their height Nor shall this gutter stop us From getting home to-night!" The thunder growls a warning, The blue, forked lightnings gleam; The drover turns his horses To swim the fatal stream. But, oh! the flood runs stronger Than e'er it ran before; The saddle-horse is failing, And only half-way o'er! When flashes next the lightning, The flood's grey breast is blank, And a cattle-dog and packhorse Are struggling up the bank. But in the lonely homestead The girl shall wait in vain — He'll never pass the stations In charge of stock again. The faithful dog a moment Lies panting on the bank, Then plunges through the current To where his master sank. And round and round in circles He fights with failing strength, Till, gripped by wilder waters, He fails and sinks at length. Across the flooded lowlands And slopes of sodden loam The packhorse struggles bravely, To take dumb tidings home. And mud-stained, wet, and weary, He goes by rock and tree; With clanging chains and tinware All sounding eerily.

Gotta' pay that one.....its a beauty!

A classic photo depicting five hard-working indigenous stockman at night camp at Newcastle Waters station Northern Territory. Newcastle Waters is a large cattle station in the Barkly Tableands about 290km north of Tennant Creek ( Date unknown)

Lightburn's washing machine factory in Camden Park turns out Adelaide's own instant-oddity Zeta car, 1963-65 The Zeta, made from 1963 to 1965 by Lightburn and Co at its factory in the Adelaide suburb of Camden Park, became an instant car collector’s item because of its odd features and rarity. Car enthusiast Harold Lightburn, the company's owner and founder, was convinced that many Australians wanted the convenience of a small second car. Lightburn, who normally made cement mixers and washing machines, introduced the Zeta in 1963, priced £595, but sold fewer than 400. Zeta models were a sedan, sedan deluxe, utility and sports model. Lightburn also produced an electric “mobility-scooteresque” runabout vehicle capable of carrying two adults and available in two models. The Zeta Sedan (or Runabout) and utility were powered by a 324cc Villiers engine and were front wheel drive with independent rear trailing arms. The sedan had no rear hatch so the front seats had to be removed to access the cargo area. The chassis was steel, with a fibreglass body enclosing a large but sparse interior. Windows were perspex except for the front laminated glass windscreen. The doors were steel with sliding perspex windows. The four-speed, dog clutch Villiers gearbox had no reverse so the engine had to be switched off and started backwards to provide four reverse gears. Fuel came by gravity feed from a tank behind the dashboard. The fuel gauge was a plastic pipe running from top to bottom of the tank with a graduated glass tube section on the dashboard. The utility was the rarest Zeta with only eight produced. Some were bought by Sydney City Council for its Hyde Park fleet. The two-seater Zeta Sports was introduced in 1964. Like the Goggomobil Dart, it lacked doors and bumper bars. Only 28 w. Image: From an advertisement for the Zeta sedan, "Australia's 'second' car", made in Adelaide's Lightburn suburban factory in the 1960s.

A: Ibis I like that Deacon !!!!