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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 7, 2012 at 7:46pm

I meant to thank you Bob for the e-mails addresses of the two Green Senators in Tasmania. I will get in contact with them in due course.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 7, 2012 at 8:52pm

The addresses came from Bev Prescott ,Caroline.

Green Senators? Yep, they surely are and in need of constant reminders that they are first and foremost custodians of the Nation. Something that Sarah Hanson Young weeping for the 15 year old Afghani boy has no idea and Christine Milne has yet to indicate that she knows what that is. My young Army mates who have died protecting Afghanistan from itself, have known. My niece who eventually died from heroin overdose at 24 knew but could not help herself. 75%-80% of the world supply is from Afghanistan. Tablets laced with brown impure Aghani heroin could be bought in Adelaide 11 years ago 10 for $150 and one is close to the mark to suggest that the huge profits are funding the arms for the insurgency and the death of our own.

I'll say it again Caroline, forgive me. Would Sarah Hanson Young know if that boy would stand by while his 12 year old sister is killed for "family honor" if she ran away after being bought for marriage"? Would he stand by and do nothing if his sister who is married set herself alight after being scolded by her husbands relatives? ( 86 cases 2008 ,NY Times) or had her nose and ears cut off for being seen in public free of her burkha and unaccompanied by a brother or member of her family? 

"Oh! The poor Dears" is not the issue. Lest We Forget males over 16 with plenty of money are in the majority. Are they escaping an ideology of Life and Death? Or bringing it with them.

Cheers from Bob

Dr Caroline Wright said:

I meant to thank you Bob for the e-mails addresses of the two Green Senators in Tasmania. I will get in contact with them in due course.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 8, 2012 at 2:34pm

Bob I was wondering if you have a Scotish accent or were you born and bred in Australia?

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on July 8, 2012 at 2:52pm

And Bob,  d' ye eat nepes, tatties and haggis ?

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob I was wondering if you have a Scotish accent or were you born and bred in Australia?

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 8, 2012 at 2:55pm

I could put one on  for you Caroline having "larned the need to a'ken ever' one else in Lossiemouth". It was here at the Navy base that my flying skills were sorely tested before the carrier Sydney was assigned to the UN Fleet in Korea. The remains of the Stewarts of Appin were well pleased to have the bairn from Down Under. I was born here and I am related to Gordon of Khartoum through his sister Charlotte. My forebear Edward, a Magistrate in Scotland was appointed as Governor of Wentworth Gaol by the Colonial Office and landed with Emily on the beach at Glenelg to take up his post and from there overland north of the River to Morgan and there by steamer....but you don't want me to fill the page do you? 

But  thanks for your interest Caroline. I do not fly anymore although I have met some old pilots and bold pilots but no old, bold pilots.

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob I was wondering if you have a Scotish accent or were you born and bred in Australia?

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 8, 2012 at 3:06pm

Aye ardoo, but ashen o the haggis or jus a wee bit to be sociable but the glass ha' better be close.

Jan Courtney said:

And Bob,  d' ye eat nepes, tatties and haggis ?

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob I was wondering if you have a Scotish accent or were you born and bred in Australia?

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 8, 2012 at 3:27pm

J just love your sense of humour Bob and would love to hear more when you have the inclination or the 'lubricant'.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 8, 2012 at 4:09pm

For a few years now Caroline, I have been researching material for a historical novel around the actual loss of the brig "Marie" out of Hobart bound for South Australia(1840) in the Coorong during a storm that ran her aground. All the crew and the few passengers, the Captain's wife and two children got ashore and were then after several days on the beach guided by a few aborigines North to the mouth of the Murray. Along the way as always seems to happen ,two of the crew took a fancy to young females in the aborigine group and lost their lives with all of the others except for one of the little girls, the Captains daughter.

The whalers crew from Kangaroo island spotted aborigines in European dress along the beach when they were coming ashore for water at Policemans Point with human arms and legs over their shoulder. They turned about to reach the whale station on the hill at Victor Harbour to raise the alarm and from there a ride took the message to Adelaide. Governor Gawler ordered Commissioner O'Halloran to mount a punitive foray. It took 2 weeks to find the aborigines on the beach and locate the torso's that had been stuffed in wombat holes in the sandhills for reburial after having hung two on the beach who appeared to be ringleaders. After making his report Governor Gawler was recalled to London and stripped of his Commission for his treatment of the aborigines. But the fascination is a box of 4000 gold sovereigns drawn from the Bank of England by one of the 5 passengers to purchase land in SA that had been advertised in the London Gazette for settlement. Do you think it was hidden in one of the wombat holes and remains there today? Because it has never been found. What is more fascinating is the two coins found in the big mulloway caught by the Greek fishermen 12 years ago. The box was too heavy for one man and quite difficult for 2. Did a few coins spill getting it overboard and taking it ashore when the "Marie" settled after the storm? Hence the finding in the fish?

Dr Caroline Wright said:

J just love your sense of humour Bob and would love to hear more when you have the inclination or the 'lubricant'.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 8, 2012 at 8:29pm

More Bob please. I cant wait to hear some more of your stories. Not too much of the 'lubricant' in the glass beforehand though ... just a wee drop only.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on July 9, 2012 at 5:53am

Aye, Bob ye'd need more than a wee dram to down the haggis.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 9, 2012 at 6:55am

When I was a younger Caroline, mad keen on engines and mechanical gadgets, my older brother and  I took our old Ford A  ute across the sandhills to the 90 mile beach. For those not otherways initiated into boys and mechanical devices the normal side valve 4 cyl engine had been fitted with new OHV one ported and relieved and overhead gear fitted that  had been imported from the US about 1939, and it was possible it would exceed 150 mph but where to try it? On the salt flats or on the beach? We chose the beach, it is a 50 mile long clear run!  But I digress.......

At low tide,  the rotting embers of the "Marie" were visible as a stark reminder of the tragedy all too common "for those who venture on the sea" and find themselves in greater peril having landed onshore. The remains have disappeared now. But come forward with me to a time when the bridge over the lower Murray to Hindmarsh Island became a hot issue with the local aborigine chapter. Modernistas in Government had great difficulty in finding out what was causing objections only to be told nothing, for "it was secret womens business" . But a great too doo surrounded compensation for some obscure reason paid to one, Trevorrow, a direct descendant of the Coorong tribe and who knew a great deal of the event from stories handed down. 

Bob Stewart said:

For a few years now Caroline, I have been researching material for a historical novel around the actual loss of the brig "Marie" out of Hobart bound for South Australia(1840) in the Coorong during a storm that ran her aground. All the crew and the few passengers, the Captain's wife and two children got ashore and were then after several days on the beach guided by a few aborigines North to the mouth of the Murray. Along the way as always seems to happen ,two of the crew took a fancy to young females in the aborigine group and lost their lives with all of the others except for one of the little girls, the Captains daughter.

The whalers crew from Kangaroo island spotted aborigines in European dress along the beach when they were coming ashore for water at Policemans Point with human arms and legs over their shoulder. They turned about to reach the whale station on the hill at Victor Harbour to raise the alarm and from there a ride took the message to Adelaide. Governor Gawler ordered Commissioner O'Halloran to mount a punitive foray. It took 2 weeks to find the aborigines on the beach and locate the torso's that had been stuffed in wombat holes in the sandhills for reburial after having hung two on the beach who appeared to be ringleaders. After making his report Governor Gawler was recalled to London and stripped of his Commission for his treatment of the aborigines. But the fascination is a box of 4000 gold sovereigns drawn from the Bank of England by one of the 5 passengers to purchase land in SA that had been advertised in the London Gazette for settlement. Do you think it was hidden in one of the wombat holes and remains there today? Because it has never been found. What is more fascinating is the two coins found in the big mulloway caught by the Greek fishermen 12 years ago. The box was too heavy for one man and quite difficult for 2. Did a few coins spill getting it overboard and taking it ashore when the "Marie" settled after the storm? Hence the finding in the fish?

Dr Caroline Wright said:

J just love your sense of humour Bob and would love to hear more when you have the inclination or the 'lubricant'.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 9, 2012 at 7:02am

The word is drap. Only an Irishman would use the word dram and that is how we has all'ayes known the dif'rence.

Jan Courtney said:

Aye, Bob ye'd need more than a wee dram to down the haggis.

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