Reminder: Caution
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Morsie, can you have a rifle just in case you get into a bad spot with one of those big crocs. Can you own a gun to use for hunting. What are your regulations. As I recall a man went on a shooting spree with a high powered rifle and your government really tightened up the regulations. Just curious!
You a tennis fan? I wish I was in Australia I could catch some of the Australian Open. When I was growing up many of the great Aussie players were my idols! Hoad, Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe. I lived to play the game like them!
Our days of tennis domination are well over. Raz Reid (Sage rep for the south east) is a former tennis pro and is a good friend of mine – he’s married to former Aussie open champ Kerry Melville – their daughter Kati works at Sage and was on the cover of FF in SW a few issues ago with a big permit…. I’m not a tennis fan.
We are allowed to own firearms, theres a strict examination by the police, a long cooling off period, you need to be a member of a shooting club and if you want to hunt you need letters from farm owners giving you permission. All firearms must be stored in heavy duty lockable metal containers that can’t be moved (gun safes) or stored in club armouries. They (the police) do inspect as well – I heard a story about a guy who stored his drug stash in his gun safe figuring no one would steal them from there and the police came round to do an inspection………..You need your license to purchase ammunition as well and to justify in writing each new purchase.
Commercial operators such as fishing guides in the tropical north can carry weapons for crocodile protection but crocodiles are completely protected in Australia – just about all of our native wildlife is completely protected but we have 5 species of deer, pigs, goats, foxes, rabbits, hares, cats, any amount of “game”.
Not sure what the law is in side arms – haven’t even bothered to go there.
Morsie
I remember seeing Raz play when he was in college. He and I are close to the same age and I have seen him at our local fly shop here in Tennessee a few times. Man its a small world!
Our days of tennis domination are well over.
Morsie
I wouldnt quite say they are over…maybe just in a lull.
We don’t have much in the way of youth coming up in the tennis world. When Rosewall etc dominated, tennis was huge in rural Australia – every country town had courts and it was enormously social – out of that you’re going to get stars rising – Evonne Goolagong/Cawley is a classic example of that as is Rod Laver.
We’ve won one World FF championships and always seem to place pretty well. Australians are very competetive, its our national psyche that you don’t go into any competetive sport to come second, silver medals are for the others. Our national sport is cricket, some say boring, but its actually an incredibly ferociously competed sport, its a miracle it hasn’t broken out into on field violence – its filled with psychological mind games and tactics that would leave chess masters bewildered – we have completely dominated the world of cricket for last 20 years and the No 2 team in the world – India are here at the moment. A cricket test match lasts 5 days and we won the most recent one with 7 minutes to spare – all kinds of dramas. Australian verbal mind games and jousting (which we do a good deal of is called sledging ( from sledge hammer) – if you can psyche your opponent out with a well paced verbal barb and put them off their game, well all’s fair in love and war and cricket. Here’s a classic – Australian batsmen walks in to bat and opposing English player says ‘ Geez Booney, you’ve put on a bit of weight since I last saw you” (pretty pathetic attempt to upset him) Australian player David Boon responds, “Yeah, every time I make love to your wife she gets me another beer” – who wins that round – and then there’s the game itself.
We love our sport. Golf is looking good at the moment but its not my game.
Raz is a great guy. It sure is a small world.
Morsie
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