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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.
 
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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.
 
 

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5 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
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.
 
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It wouldn't have been a threat.:ph34r::angry:

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1 minute ago, Eyesa Horg said:

It wouldn't have been a threat.:ph34r::angry:

 

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 :( 

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2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:
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.
 
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Bastard would have been dead himself by March 13th!!

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19 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:


Thanks for sharing this, BUT IT DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING!!

 

They should have euthanized that bastard bureaucrat!!

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What BW said. ^^^^

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Euthanizing a power drunk like that is useless.

Better to have used a stockman's whip on his bare ass.

Much longer to think about what they have done and it would serve as warning to others, to stop and think.

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We had a pretty rough couple of days with our power and lights being out across half the house. Some extremely dillgent electricians essentially pulled apart our 70s house wiring trying to find the cause. On the second day we started pulling down lights in our outdoor area. Eventually we pulled one and what seemed like confetti fell out with it. It turned out that a Crimson rosella parrot had found its way into our outdoor ceiling and had been dillgently shredding the insulation to the copper shorting everything out. The electricians bill makes me value said birdies life somewhat less but I am glad he's not a cooked polly.

 

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Australia...where even the parrots are actively trying to kill you.

 

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

... but I am glad he's not a cooked polly.

I'll agree only to the extent he would have probably stank as his cooked carcass rotted. Otherwise I would want to see him smoking!

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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
 
 

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On 10/2/2024 at 3:30 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

 

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 :( 

Sounds like a government decision.  It doesn't have to take anything into consideration except what THEY think.

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A mustering party
'A mustering party, Undoolya Station.
Bob Laver at left, man on piebald horse, George Balingal and native cowhands'.
Circa - 1922
 
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On August 16th 1966 Aussie icon Little Patti became the youngest and shortest person (4'10"》 to entertain troops during the Vietnam War. Born Patricia Amphlett in Paddington Sydney in 1949, Little Patti along with Col Joye and the Joy Boys she performed three concerts each day at Nui Dat Patti has won several awards for her great contribution to Australian music and entertainment including the Medal Of Australia ( 2003) and recently was inducted onto the AWMA Honour Roll (2024)

 

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11 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

On August 16th 1966 Aussie icon Little Patti became the youngest and shortest person (4'10"》 to entertain troops during the Vietnam War. Born Patricia Amphlett in Paddington Sydney in 1949, Little Patti along with Col Joye and the Joy Boys she performed three concerts each day at Nui Dat Patti has won several awards for her great contribution to Australian music and entertainment including the Medal Of Australia ( 2003) and recently was inducted onto the AWMA Honour Roll (2024)

 

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Any relation to Christina Amphlett from the Divinyls?

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