There might be more than one Maldivian in Australia before too long.
Reported today, the Republic of The Maldives has created a fund with which to purchase "a new homeland" in a foreign country for the relocation of its people in the event that rising water levels, as a result of climate change, submerge all or most of the archipelago. It is made up of 1,192 coral islets of which 193 are inhabited by about 300,000 people.
India and Sri Lanka are mentioned as possibilities, favoured because of cultural and climatic similarities, with the vast, empty, warm land of Australia next on the list.
The Maldives is the lowest-lying country above sea level on the planet with a maximum natural ground level of only 2.3 metres.
Have we seen the future?
Bike? Check. Glasses? Check.
Tilly, super cool biker chick.
Melbourne Underbelly?
Looks like it, but actually the Main Man at 'Orange' ... if great coffee, fine food, sumptuous wines, funky atmosphere and fab service are your go, 'Orange' at the Windsor end of Chapel St, Melbourne, is the place. Ask for Anthony and tell him his old man sent you.
SOME RECENT PURCHASES and RECOMMENDATIONS
Thousand Guineas Prelude winner Ortensia, trainer Tony Noonan. Love those nostrils and ears (the filly's).
Fastnet Rock/Rare Insight 2YO colt. Tr J O'Shea
Danzero/Global Dance 2YO colt. Tr G Waterhouse
Canadian 2YO stakeswinner and young broodmare Chelsey's Image (Holy Bull-Lucky Chelsey), in foal to Dylan Thomas (Ire)
Golan/Double Owe 2YO colt, named Double Whisky. Tr C Waller
Redoute's Choice/Volted In 2YO filly. Tr G Waterhouse
Hussonet/Portrayal 2YO filly, named Bolocco Miss. Tr C Waller
Anabaa/Regal Fun 2YO colt. Tr C Waller.
High Chaparral, sire of the Kaapentyne 2YO colt. Tr C Little.
More Than Ready/Rachael's Pride 2YO colt, named Our Corsa. Tr C Waller
Charge Forward/Zerlina 2YO filly, named Passing By. Tr Robert Price
A P Indy's successful sire son Malibu Moon, sire of USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Grant's Moon, booked to Show A Heart.
USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Les Ry Leigh (Broken Vow-Azusa), in foal to Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire)
Hussonet's G1 winning 2YO champion filly La Chiflota
Group winner Rockwood (Rock Of Gibraltar-Foxwood, by Centaine). Tr G Waterhouse
Gr 1 winning mare Absolut Glam (Snowland-Pine Away, by Pine Bluff). Tr D O'Brien.
2 comments:
Surely you're a smart enough human being to have worked out that "Golbal Warming" (now dubbed "Climate Change" because the Earth's been cooling down for the past decade LOL) is a gigantic falsity, Steve?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html
Very good article, and explains a lot.
Don't stop your articles now, keep them coming.
The quote in my snippet used the words 'climate change' which is not the same as 'global warming'. The latter is something we are made to feel guilty about because many of us believe we cause it, the former is something which has been going on outside man's control since the dawn of time. I'm a believer in the latter, i.e. the relentless march of the forces of nature, but at the same time it can't be a bad thing to clean up our act on a planet of finite resources. Especially encouraging all the horses, sheep, cattle and pigs to stop farting. Unless your name was Cummings it was impossible to figure out the winner of this year's Melbourne Cup so how are simple people meant to understand the sciences of the cosmos?
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