{"id":103,"date":"2008-05-14T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T10:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-05-14T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T10:14:52","slug":"quok-happens-in-rottnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2008\/05\/14\/quok-happens-in-rottnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Quok happens in Rottnest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=Rottnest+Island+WA,+Australia&amp;ll=-31.995265,115.539093&amp;spn=0.619606,1.266174&amp;z=10&amp;iwloc=addr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rottnestisland.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/11315ECE-A931-4D1F-9DB1-E6803557D629\/4190\/Quokka1.jpg\" alt=\"quokkas\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d have to go quite a way to find a nation (excepting the Islamic ones, natch) as misogynist and racist <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and fond of bestiality<\/span> as Australia.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Perth at least things might be changing*.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a particular weasel (and that&#8217;s slightly unfair; some of my best friends are weasels) who happens to be the West Australian Opposition leader, and who is by all accounts a slimy bastard.  As he won&#8217;t do the honourable thing with the pistol and a single round, or even step down, some scurrilous scallywags appear to have started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,,23697633-2702,00.html\">smear campaign<\/a>.  While the methods might be suspect, this sort of accusation is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/11\/26\/2101905.htm\">new<\/a>, and we can but hope it has the desired outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Rough justice, outback style.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* Not much hope for Queensland of course.  As the old joke has it,<\/p>\n<address>Q. How do you get to Queensland from Sydney?<\/address>\n<address>A. Drive North 600 miles then stop and turn back a hundred years.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have to go quite a way to find a nation (excepting the Islamic ones, natch) as misogynist and racist and fond of bestiality as Australia. However, in Perth at least things might be changing*. There&#8217;s a particular weasel (and that&#8217;s slightly unfair; some of my best friends are weasels) who happens to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about-in-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}