noddy wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_(pastoral)
The term ‘squatter’ derives from its English usage as a term of contempt for a person who had taken up residence at a place without having legal claim. The use of ‘squatter’ in the early years of European settlement of Australia had a similar connotation, referring primarily to a person who had ‘squatted’ on unoccupied land for pastoral or other purposes. In its early derogatory context the term was often applied to the illegitimate occupation of land by ticket-of-leave convicts or ex-convicts (emancipists).
From the mid-1820s, however, the occupation of Crown land without legal title became more widespread, often carried out by those from the upper echelons of colonial society. As wool began to be exported to England and the colonial population increased the occupation of pastoral land for raising cattle and sheep progressively became a more lucrative enterprise. ‘Squatting’ had become so widespread by the mid-1830s that Government policy in New South Wales towards the practice shifted from opposition to regulation and control. By that stage the term ‘squatter’ was applied to those who occupied Crown land under a lease or license, without the negative connotation of earlier times.
The term soon developed a class association, suggesting an elevated socio-economic status and entrepreneurial attitude. By 1840 squatters were recognized as being amongst the wealthiest men in the colony of New South Wales, many of them from upper and middle-class English and Scottish families. As unoccupied land with frontage to permanent water became more scarce, the acquisition of runs increasingly required larger capital outlays.
Eventually the term ‘squatter’ came to refer to a person of high social prestige who grazes livestock on a large scale (whether the station was held by leasehold or freehold title). In Australia the term is still used to describe large landowners, especially in rural areas with a history of pastoral occupation. Hence the term, Squattocracy, a play on Aristocracy
The power of the squatters, including their affinity with the police, is alluded to in "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's archetypal folksong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
The title is Australian slang for travelling by foot with one's goods in a "Matilda" (bag) slung over one's back.[2] The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of tea at a bush camp and capturing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker for the theft, the worker commits suicide by drowning himself in the nearby watering hole and then goes on to haunt the site.
some australians push for this to be the national anthem.. which is quite amusing, its certainly more appropriate than the crap we have currently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair
Thank you Very Much for your post, Noddy.
Many years ago when I was in Elemental
School with all the gnomes, sylphs, undines and salamanders, our music book had 2 songs from Oz which for some reason were the ones I voluntarily memorized and still remember: "Waltzing Matilda" and "Kookaburra" (thought it had just one verse..........).
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this )
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree!
Merry, Merry King of the Bush is he!
Laugh! Kookaburra!
Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay* your life must be.
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The real deal........
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Given the gloomy nature of Waltzing Matilda if one really understands the original meaning (Passive aggressive suicide/Not about a forbidden romance), I was going to suggest Kookaburra as an Oz anthem..... Fortunately I checked with the Wiki Tiki
YIKES! WoW!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra ... ght_status
I presume this is what you mean by "rent seeking" ..........
Copyright lawsuit
The flute part of the recording of the song is allegedly based on the children's rhyme "Kookaburra", written by Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides competition in 1935. Sinclair died in 1988[2] and the rights to the Kookaburra song were deemed to have been transferred to publisher Larrikin Music on 21 March 1990.[18] In the United States, the rights are administered by Music Sales Corporation in New York City.
In June 2009, 28 years after the release of the recording, Larrikin Music sued Men At Work for copyright infringement, alleging that part of the flute riff of "Down Under" was copied from "Kookaburra". The counsel for the band's record label and publishing company (Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia) claimed that, based on the agreement under which the song was written, the copyright was actually held by the Girl Guides Association.[19][20] On 30 July, Justice Peter Jacobson of the Federal Court of Australia made a preliminary ruling that Larrikin did own copyright on the song, but the issue of whether or not Hay and Strykert had plagiarised the riff was set aside to be determined at a later date.[21]
On 4 February 2010, Justice Jacobson ruled that Larrikin's copyright had been infringed because "Down Under" reproduced "a substantial part of Kookaburra".[22]
When asked how much Larrikin would be seeking in damages, Larrikin's lawyer Adam Simpson replied: "anything from what we've claimed, which is between 40 and 60 per cent, and what they suggest, which is considerably less."[23][24][25] In court, Larrikin's principal Norman Lurie gave the opinion that, had the parties negotiated a licence at the outset as willing parties, the royalties would have been between 25 and 50 per cent.[26] On 6 July 2010, Justice Jacobson handed down a decision that Larrikin receive 5% of royalties from 2002.[26][27] In October, 2011 the band lost its final court bid when the high court of Australia refused to hear an appeal.[28]
Until this high-profile case, "Kookaburra"'s standing as a traditional song combined with the lack of visible policing of the song's rights by its composer had led to the general public perception that the song was within the public domain.[29][30]
The revelation of "Kookaburra"'s copyright status, and more-so the pursuit of royalties from it, has generated a negative response among sections of the Australian public.[31][32][33][34] In response to unsourced speculation of a Welsh connection, Dr Rhidian Griffiths pointed out that the Welsh words to the tune were published in 1989 and musicologist Phyllis Kinney stated neither the song's metre nor its lines were typical Welsh.[30]
Since the verdict, Colin Hay has continued to insist that any plagiarism was wholly unintentional. He says that when the song was originally written in 1978, it did not have the musical passage in question, and that it was not until two years later, during a jam rehearsal session, that flautist Greg Ham improvised the riff, perhaps subconsciously recalling "Kookaburra". Hay has also added that Ham and the other members of the band were under the influence of marijuana during that particular rehearsal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under ... ht_lawsuit
That flute riff is what the litigation trickster is suing over?????...........
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Didn't recognize it as even POSSIBLY "Kookaburra" related till I read the above.......
Advance_Australia_Fair
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Hmmmmmmmmmnnnn the Wiki Tiki sez the lyrics are booooorrrinnnnngggggg.........
Given my Weird Al outlook, I think that can be fixed.............
Channeling
Chandler (A. Bertram) one of my favorite SF authors from Oz and quite the naturist/nudist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Bertram_Chandler
and famous Oz Artist Norman Lindsay painter of nudes that Uz could not tolerate in the 40's
...........
Think this one is SFW
Amazing how doing it 3D instead of 2D often makes a nude less problematic at least here in Uz.... The opposite in the ME...........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lindsay
Why not "Advance Australia Bare!"
...............
Could help the tourist trade............
Take off that hot heavy Steely
suit, Ned & Dan
, and relax.........
No need to go to Phuket
Beach in Tie the Knot/Thigh Land
Come
to Oz
Suspect Weird Al might be willing to do his Ozsume
work on the anthem for less than Litigation Larkin wants to suck out of Men at Work........ **
Here's a sample........... What Al can do to Gangsta/Rap
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic
Original Gangsta/rap version......
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Hmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnn.................
Need to do a Public Service Announcement after that........... Always did one after the end of an adventure with He-Man
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Chris is one of the smarter/funnier people on the 3rd Rock
from the Sun..........
Lots of GOOD advice.................
Obey the law
Be polite..........
Know what who you're ridin' with has done/has on him/her.....
Get a "white" friend........ For US/Uz rednecks, could mean getting a friend in a suit......... Maybe a Mormon
Don't ride with yo' wumman when she's angry..........
*Or
"Fun" rather than "Gay"............. The Flinstones theme song has the same problem: "We'll have a Gay old time"
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as does a certain Christmas Carol........ "Don we now our gay apparel"
** Maybe I can have a go at it if Al's not interested........
In the interest of fairness here are a few "modified anthems from Uz...........
The Star Mangled Spanner......... oops I mean Star Spangle Banner
Oh José,
Can you see
Any bedbugs on me
If you do
Pick a few
For the Red White and Blue
Oh, say does that Star Mangled Spanner
Still wave.....
O'er the land of the fee
And the home of the knave.......
The little salamanders
(including Newt
) in Elemental School loved and were all fired
up over this mod of the "
The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We/Uz have tortured every teacher
We have broken every rule
We are marching down the hall to hang the principal
And the Janitor is swimming in a can of paint
Glory Glory Halleluljah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Hit her on the bean
With a rotten tangerine
And boy did she turn green
(less happily:
Shot her through the door
With a loaded '44
And she's teaching her no more)
My Country Tis of Thee......
My country didn't like me
So I went to Germany
To see the King
He looks like Donald Duck
He drives a garbage Truck
And the streets are never clean
Because he's King.........
Presumably the King makes deliveries rather than pickups
There's a military/Navy version a Marid
mentioned to me once
"My CO didn't like me
He gave me a BCD
(BCD = Bad Conduct Discharge)
Unfortunately I don't remember the rest at the moment.......
Found a link:
My Country's Tired Of Me
-collected by Joe Bethancourt
Tune: "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"
My country's tired of me, I'm going to Germany
To see the King
His name is Donald Duck, he drives a garbage truck
From every mountain side, let garbage fling!
From Margaret Middleton
..I'm going to Germany, to serve the king.
I'll serve him sauerkraut, with weenies sticking out,
And we will all rejoice and shout: HOTSY-TOTSY, HE'S A NAZI!
http://www.kayshapero.net/child2.htm
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