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Talk:Boxing kangaroo

message: I believe I've seen a Boxing Kangaroo version of Rockem Sockem Robots. Could somebody verify this? 67.188.172.165 21:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Variant of Rockem Sockem Robots

message: It's pretty suspicious that this article makes absolutely no mention of actual boxing kangaroos - is in, kangaroos put in a ring and made to fight each other, or humans. Comes off feeling like national pride in the symbol is getting in the way of providing an honest account.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SlickVicar (talk • contribs) 14:45, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honestly? 
Talk:Kelly Price

message: "The 'Friend of Mine' LP version and the remix both charted as No. 1 hits on the U.S. R&B chart and made history by doing so with no music video to support the song."
"Made history" despite that every No. 1 hit on the R&B Chart from 1945 until the advent of music videos didn't have music videos to support them? It is notable that in 1998 that "Friend of Mine" went as far as it did without a video, but it is not a milestone and it did not "make history."Pinikadia 10:35, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a Milestone
Talk:Cage Rage Championships

message: The tone of this article is not acceptable. ⟳ausa کui × 15:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 
Talk:Electronic Frontiers Australia

message: I've added an image here to this article:
with this caption: Usage of the Children's interest style of rhetoric as form of protest in Australia by supporter of Electronic Frontiers Australia. — Cirt (talk) 16:38, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to change it as you wish. — Cirt (talk) 17:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added an image 

message: I have today added references to all the statements in this article. As the founder of EFA I have a potential conflict of interest in this matter. However as I read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Non-controversial edits I can add reliable sources as they have been requested by another editor. 
I could provide many more references for a much expanded article on EFA. If you would like them please leave me a note on my Talk page. Tango Mike Bravo (talk) 09:01, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:Southern Cross Austereo

message: I once read an article about Delta Airlines, and I recognised none of this. I checked out the talkpage, and someone opiniated it looked like an advert. Does this page look like an advert? --Stat-ist-ikk (talk) 19:26, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this an advert? 

message: Regarding these edits  by myself and , removing and re-applying bold formatting to the names of the digital radio stations...
As I pointed out in the summary for my most recent edit, we have a fairly clear Manual of Style guideline, MOS:BOLD that says that direct bold formatting is not appropriate here. The station names do not need to be in bold "to know they are names" - that is self-evident from the context. They are not "titles" and they do not "need differentiation". There might be a case for re-formatting the list as a description list, as described in MOS:DEFLIST. However, looking at the text in the list, several of the items need to change, because they are:
* Copied directly from somewhere else, contrary to WP:COPYVIO (eg BUDDHA Hits)
* Blatantly promotional, contrary to WP:PROMO (eg several references to "best", "favourites")
I suspect that after fixing for copyvio and promo, there won't be enough left to justify a description list.
I will edit the descriptions to satisfy WP:COPYVIO and WP:PROMO, and once that's done we can decide whether the remainder justifies a description list. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:31, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've cleaned up the COPYVIO and PROMO. Does anyone still think it justifies formatting as a description/definition list? Mitch Ames (talk) 12:56, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

text: In the absence of any other comments, I have again removed the unnecessary bold formatting, per MOS:BOLD and my comments above. Mitch Ames (talk) 22:54, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital radio list and bold formatting
Talk:Antipodeans

message: Moved to "Antipodeans" per NGA. Ty 02:09, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Sir/Madam, Karl Pilkington reckons Antipodean means "old".  188.29.164.228 (talk) 20:42, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Karl Pilkington]] reckons it means "old"
Talk:Toktogul Satylganov

message: So a whole lot of Soviet luminaries were killed by Stalin and his fellow devils in the 1930s.  Millions murdered between the 30s and Stalin's (natural?) death in 1953.  1937 was the most notable year, but 1933 is in the ballpark.   Query, could they have killed this guy?  A reason might be that his famous song was about Lenin, and what the heck would he have been doing writing songs about Lenin when he could have followed the righteous path and instead written songs about the great Stalin, like any decent musician would have done? Mare Nostrum 14:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Query
Talk:The Foundation of Perth 1829

message: Some records claim Milligan arrived with his family on 30 January 1830, more than five months after the foundation ceremony. If true, he could not have been present, making this painting less authentic than currently claimed. Betterkeks (talk) 05:45, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Stated this uncertainty in article. If ever resolved, article may be updated to state this too. Betterkeks (talk) 03:46, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milligan may have arrived more than five months after foundation ceremony
Talk:Australian literature

message: I've asked the author of the new hoax note to provide a reference that can be checked.--Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a number of hoaxes or  cases of mistaken ethnic identity that need to be included - Ern Malley, Demidenko, Colin Johnson. Needs a section Evadeluge (talk) 01:41, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary hoaxes 

message: Joanne Watson wrote a poem once that is now considered a classic of Australian literature. It was called Poem.. 49.197.238.161 (talk) 10:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classic literature 

message: Hi, I’m a writer/biographer, my specialty is Australian Women's Literature where I have published and lectured a good deal. 
Currently the organisation of this article is quite haphazard. I'm proposing to run it past a number of colleagues in the field - but my first reaction is 
- Three generations from 1900 to 1995 are virtually omitted
- The whole Left, which was more than half of Australian literature until 1980, is barely there
There are many important omissions and a lot of almost unknown authors are included
As a first cut, I'm suggesting an organisation something along the lines of 
A. Chronological
 - colonial post colonial 1789-1900
 - pre-war 1900-1945
 - post-war 1945- 1995
 - millennial 1995-present
B. Genre
 - Novels
 - Poetry
 - Plays 
 - Memoir (Facey, Hewett etc)
 - History (Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, history wars  etc)
 - Popular (MCCullough, Morrissey, Kathy Lette, romantic etc)
 - SF/Fantasy/Crime etc
C. Identity
- Forging an Australian identity
- Left and Conservative literature
- Women writers
- Indigenous writers
- Ethnic identity
- Hoaxes forgeries and misunderstanding
I'm willing to make a start if there are no objections. I don’t anticipate changing existing text much, it’s more a case of reorganisation and a couple of new sections, which I will do one at a time to allow for edits etc Evadeluge (talk) 03:41, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds excellent. Do include children's lit too. Robina Fox (talk) 06:46, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed reorganisation 

message: Should not the communities been mentioned, eg. the Seven Writers? Xx236 (talk) 07:34, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, Peter Kirkpatrick, Professor Robert Dixon 

message: https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/wrestling-with-holocaust-literature-20190321-h1cmky.html Xx236 (talk) 07:39, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Holocaust 

message: The redirect Auslit has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 19:35, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Auslit]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

message: Nah - needs a bit more thinking that one - you do not delete valid articles to create a new disambig - you create new disambigs - specially if you are creating a whole range of red links as you have at the disambig - nah not a good way to go - and the disambig does not look like one - it looks like a wish list.  Disambigs
link to valid blue links.
Please realise that you are gonna get speedy deletes and a few annoyed eds wondering what on earth you are up to when you do that what you have done.  Try to think to one side - you do not delete valid articles at a whim either - it should have been addressed at a talk page - at least three no no's on mothers day!  SatuSuro 12:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: User:AppleMac1234 I disagree. This is a major topic that has not been accepted as one by cynical people. There are many books under this name, characters, musicals, plays and movies. Also the page should be set out as the Harry Potter page is set out.  —Preceding comment was added at 11:24, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of article to create disambig
Talk:List of drive-in theatres in Australia

message: This is essentially a page that is really needless. The facts will still function on the other page. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:34, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Any suggestion to merge an Australian article into a US oriented list is incorrect - there are australian aspects that do not fit into a US -centric list - considering the time the merge has been there - I am removing it as there is no sign of adequate support or follow up for the merge 18 months, and 5 months and thats all there is - closed SatuSuro 08:48, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

text: I agree with Satu Suro in that the article on Drive-in theatres is extremely US centric and just incorporating into a list does not do the Australian history of drive-in theatres justice. Dan arndt (talk) 09:26, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Australian Film Institute

message: Ok, I've tidied up the style and am removing the ad warning.  This still needs work though.
Elomis 06:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No longer an advertising campaign targeted at actors 
Talk:List of Banksia species

message: Am I right in thinking (nearly) all the common names in this list should be lower case as per WP:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Common_names? I'm happy to make the changes if a "Banksia Person" will confirm that is the case. Gderrin (talk) 23:13, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. It is indeed the case....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common names 

message: I propose to make the following changes to this list:
* list the species according to the Australian Plant Census with the six fossil species included;
* include subspecies and varieties from the APC, wikilinking only those that already have articles (such as Banksia armata var. ignicida);
* list the full binomial with the author(s) and the common names, reflected and referenced in the article;
* wikilink each author's name the first time it appears in the list;
* remove the numbers and the repeated linking of the states
... so that, for example the first three entries would appear as -
* Banksia acanthopoda (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
* Banksia aculeata A.S.George - prickly banksia
* Banksia acuminata A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele.
Gderrin (talk) 21:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks good idea, I have reduced it to two columns because it looked a little too cluttered as 3 columns Gnangarra 05:58, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  A proposal
Talk:J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge

message: I'm not sure what part if any of the following should be included in the article:
The only vehicle accessible road is 4.5 miles long.  It is one way.  Once you enter, you cannot turn around and leave.  You MUST go all the way through the park in order to exit.   This may not be a big deal for vehicles but this also applies to bicycles.  This is NOT a family friendly park when it comes to bicycles.  If you're one mile into the trail, you can't turn around and go back to the visitor center to use the rest rooms.  If you do and get caught you can get a ticket and pay a fine and have your bicycles confiscated.   This isn't really a pedestrian friendly park either.  While you could turn around and go back as a pedestrian, it is a very long hike for young families or the average person.  A motor scooter is probably the best way to get around as you can pass traffic.  There are few if any public restrooms available other than at the visitor center.  If you are elderly, disabled, have small children (under 12) or are not in generally good health, this may not be the park for you.  The most interesting part of this park for most people is the visitor center.  There are few access points to Pine Island Sound.  The two most interesting things to see is the shell Indian mound and the vast array of birds to photograph.  If you are a wildlife photographer and don't mind a lot of walking then this may be a good place for you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.190.183.221 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Accessibility
Talk:Banksia 'Giant Candles'

message: Should get a photo pretty soon as they are in bud all over the place in streets near my house.....cheers,  Casliber | talk  |  contribs 10:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Taxonomy of Banksia

message: I looked up the Olde paper, but it contains no reference to Banksia being a conserved name whatsoever. Could his statement be re-sourced? Circeus 00:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that is definitely not the right reference for that. My information on this originally came from George 1981. But I suggest it would be better to reference the list of Nomina generica conservanda et rejicienda in Appendix III of the ICBN Code. Ideally we would cite the Vienna code but it's not online yet; the entry for Banksia in the Saint Louis code can be seen here. That reference doesn't attribute Sprague, but George 1981 does. In the longer term, I would like to look at and cite the discussion on its conservations in Rehder et al., Kew Bull. (1935) 368–369, and the final decision in Bull. Misc. Inform. 98 (1940). Hesperian 01:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For reference, it seems to be record #2068 in the list (JSTOR page link). Circeus 19:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That link doesn't work for me :-( Hesperian 12:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: it will only work if you have JSTOR account. I was at Uni when I recovered it.Circeus 17:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Banksia nom. cons.'' ? 

message: Hey when looking up Cryptostomata I was redirected here. This is a problem because Cryptostomata is an Order of Bryozoa. I was expecting to go there. No page exists. This should be changed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.11.27.149 (talk) 13:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that. I've created a placeholder article for the Bryozoan order. Hesperian 14:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cryptostomata

message: This article states that the genus has 80 species. But the Banksia article says 170. Could that be clarified? Dick Bos (talk) 20:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of species
Talk:Coat of arms of Victoria (state)

message: Hello Wikipedians,
I am writing a university assignment on this stub, which must be 2000 words.
I have just added more information onto Coat of arms of Victoria (Australia). Please let me know if you have any suggestions or criticisms!Onegspls (talk) 10:19, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Information
Talk:Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford

message: I seem to recall that when he commented to eing in favor of the abolition of the house, another lord say a something along the lines of "If the House of Lords didn't exists, the comunist party wouldn't have any voices in the government." Can somebody look that up? Circeus 02:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Coat of arms of Queensland

message: It has improved a lot.  However the referenced need to be converted to wikipedia standard using:  Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Coat of arms of South Australia

message: The article mentions the "coat of arms granted to the State in 1936 by King Edward VIII" but there is no description or image of this coat of arms. If anyone has these resources, please add them to the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.0.15.181 (talk) 07:26, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 1936 coat of arms
Talk:St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge

message: The first sentence uses the word ‘primitive’; “Annual primitive hunts help keep the population…” Why is this word used? I think it should be deleted if it is an opinionated adjective. I left it in case there is something about controlled hunts that I’m not understanding.
Is this reference dead:  "St Vincent Sambar Deer". Florida Fish And Wildlife Conservation Commission. Crazyloop NY (talk) 20:16, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible dead link in Hunting section
Talk:Coat of arms of Melbourne

message: The description of the history of the Coat of Arms of the City of Melbourne is manifestly inaccurate.
We suggest you conduct some research - His Majesty King James The Second. King of Australia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.153.134 (talk) 01:12, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

message: There's been some recent updates to the coat of arms's SVG rendering, but it's still quite different from the rendering on the city of Melbourne page - it's missing the fleece, and the kangaroo isn't facing properly, amoung other things. I'm attaching a reference Here's a link to a high-quality version of the image on the city council page 121.200.4.221 (talk) 10:36, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVG Coat of Arms accuracy
Talk:Strine

message: This stub article adds very little beyond the subject's section in the article on Australian English. I propose that the sources and extra information in this article should be moved over and this article deleted. I won;t do this myself as I'm not very good with Wikipedia yet. Bishopgraeme (talk) 10:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into [[Australian English]]? 

message: I have lived in Australia for all of my nearly 50 years. I have never heard anyone talk "strine". Australia has many regional accents but none of them approach this fictional accent. The times I have heard anyone deliberately talking strine (like when some idiot tries to demonstrate it on television) I can't understand a word they are saying.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.31.215.66 (talk) 10:51, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't exist 

message: There's definitely nothing liaison-like in the word "Strine" itself. Liaison = joining words or syllables together by *adding* sounds (sort of "bridge sounds" in between words that aren't strictly necessary but sound better). I wouldn't claim that liaison doesn't happen in Strine, but I think elision (i.e. *omitting* some sounds that you can get by without) is the more common situation there. Please correct me if I'm wrong. TooManyFingers (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liaison? 

message: Is this a foreign take on the Australian dialect (ie, English or American), or is this spoken in an East Coast hamlet somewhere or part of an accent specific to a particular time period or generation (ie, post-war Aust English, pre-80s/post-90s Aust English, etc)? I ask because this is known universally in Oz as 'Strayan' (or at least it is in every state (inc Tasmania)and territory West of the Blue Mountains). Strine is about as universal as the South Australian usage of Fritz, Victorian usage of 'grouse' or Queensland's usage and spelling of 'eh?' (aye?), which is to say that it's not. Strine is a very niche term.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.2.114.87 (talk) 10:20, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't exist. I've lived in Australia 47 of my 53 years, all up and down the east coast and never heard one Australian person pronounce "Australian" as strine. In fast speech, it is pronounced as "Strayan" by a few people, probably including myself. I don't think it's a foreign take - without searching for it, the name "Harold Scruby" comes to mind and I'm certain he's an Australian. I'm glad this article calls the term "exaggerated" because that at least hints at the possibility it's non-existent - which I think it is. Peter Greenwell (talk) 04:10, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strine?? You mean Strayan, right?
Talk:Aussie salute

message: I think this should either be deleted or moved to wiktionary. When I do some research on how to nominate as scuh, I'll do it myself. --Iorek85 01:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested deletion

message: Nothing Vivian9876 (talk) 23:59, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I dunno man 

message: Can't quite make out what's happening here. Someone take a new pic? Morganfitzp (talk) 04:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's a movement, we need a gif. 147.226.192.138 (talk) 02:41, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Better photo needed
Talk:True Blue (John Williamson song)

message: I have a vision of 4 small countries uniting in one voice to sing true blue.
an i love you to australia saying lets be mates on a national scale. this vision
was so strong i almost missed it and thought that it really happened already. or did it?
email me at paul.lochlan@gmail.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.7.152 (talk) 03:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 1. There's a bit of slang, but it's hardly used 'heavily'.
2. 'Irwin's ute' would be better in the context - no one in  Australia would call it a truck.
HuwG 203.208.123.81 (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian slang / Irwin's truck 
Talk:Nimbin Rocks

message: "The three most prominent were named by early white settlers as the Thimble, Cathedral and Needle." Not true. Not sure which over enthusiastic scribe decided those were the names used by early settlers.
Past issues of "The Northern Star", local newpaper since 1876, cites a range of names used over the years since settlement, and those three are the current popularly recognised ones. In a 1925 article, ('THE NIMBIN ROCKS', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 5 September, p. 13. , http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93604477) , they are referred to as Sentinel, Needle and Castle.
In a 1935 article ('Nimbin Rock', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 4 July, p. 6. , viewed 31 May 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225384498) the smaller rock is referred to as Pinnacle Rock
In a 1946 article ('THE NIMBIN ROCKS', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 25 May, p. 7., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99117133)they are cited as Cathedral, Lady Cunningham's Needle, and the Monastery.
In 1949 ('Trio Makes First Ascent of Monastery Rock', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 29 April, p. 4. , http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99051155) we have Monk, Monastery and Cathedral.
So a more apt sentence would be "The three most prominent are currently known as the Thimble, Cathedral and Needle." Seasalt (talk) 11:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC)