Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

It has taken a hundred years {to the day...}
for those of you  who choose to live North of the Murray, to regain your
composure, and try to regain your standing in this great Country of ours!
After all, it did not take the "New Immigrants" long to desert Botony Bay,
and spread all over this continent.

Those of us in Victoria still remember where that first Parliament in 1901
[despite the fact that most of the Ceremonies today completely ignored the
fact]
was held, and stayed for many years.[in Melbourne, the only place that had a
suitable building]
All the power of the money was in Melbourne, where all the Industrial
strength of this Country still lies.
All Head Offices were built in Melbourne, and the Capital of Australia was
almost Melbourne, because Sydney,
with a Pub on every corner was just too frivolous a place to make our
Capital. Finally after some hard bargaining,
Canberra was set up, to stop all the Power of Government from staying South