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Sydney dispatch
The alternative Australian year
Part One: January to June. Patrick Barkham rounds up some of the
year's weird and wonderful stories from down under
Patrick Barkham
Monday December 24, 2001
The Guardian
January
>From Crowded House to Russell Crowe, famous New Zealanders have long
been stolen by Australia and rebranded fair dinkum Aussies.
But in the biggest blow yet to New Zealand's nation pride, research
revealed that their national emblem and icon, the kiwi bird, was
actually Australian.
British scientists said genetic research showed that the kiwi was more closely related
to Australia's emu and cassowary than New Zealand's extinct flightless moa bird.
February
A hungry expat's curry craving got the better of her after a late-night drinking
session in Sydney.
Rachel Kerr logged onto madaboutcurry.com and ordered a biryani from her favourite
Newcastle curry house.
It turned up, complete with naan and samosa, three days later. Ms Kerr ate the cold
curry on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Australia's notoriously strict customs officers
did not comment.
March
Heavy rain and flooding only increased the thirst of irate drinkers in Burketown,
Queensland, when the pub ran out of beer.
The remote outback village was cut off by floods in December and by March drinkers had
drunk Burketown Pub out of its supplies of popular Australian beer VB.
The pub landlady revealed she had 20 cartons of light beer leftover but the
hard-drinking bushmen weren't that desperate: the tavern was forced to beg a
neighbouring hostelry - 60 miles away - for some more VBs.
April
A Melbourne man startled inventors across the country by registering a patent for a
"circular transportation facilitation device".
John Keogh claimed that this reinvention of the wheel was simply designed to highlight
the flaws in Australia's new patent system.
May
A US military training exercise in north Queensland went horribly wrong when troops
shot dead an emu that wandered onto a rifle range.
American forces signaled that any marine found to have deliberately killed the
flightless Australian bird would face a full military investigation.
Conservationists alleged that US servicemen shot several wallabies on a previous
training exercise and took the skins home as trophies.
June
Faced with a sedentary retirement mowing lawns and drinking beer, dozens of
disgruntled Vietnam veterans seized a wildlife sanctuary in northern Australia and
declared it a retreat for ex-soldiers craving wholesome outdoo
r pursuits.
"What we're hoping to do is give vets a bit more in life than sitting
around an RSL [veterans club] with a can of beer in their hand," said
Les Hiddins, a former army major and outback survival expert who led
"Project Pandanus's" unarmed seizure of the disused cattle farm near
Cairns.
But the Queensland government and wildlife groups ordered the
squatting war heroes to leave Kalpowar Station, which was recently
purchased by the state to create a national park.
Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
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