{"id":25124,"date":"2022-02-15T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=25124"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:30:02","slug":"drain-the-billabong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/drain-the-billabong\/","title":{"rendered":"Drain the Billabong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Drain the Billabong<\/h1>\n<p>The ghost of the jolly swag-man says it is time to drain the Billabong before the troopers come 1,2 and 3 and take you Waltzing Matilda with them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FqtttbbYfSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Even the troopers are unhappy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udea8 The police union in South Australia has called for the end of jab mandates\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LShFXlozYc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is wrong with that bloke down in WA?<\/strong> \u00a0 He needs Crock Dundee to stare him down like he did Charlie the water buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dundee The Wraith\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjPWOhpgtng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"dark\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Australia and the world is moving on from COVID-19, but WA is stuck in a 2020 time machine. \u201cAustralians on the east are not afraid of COVID anymore.\u201d Read my full column in today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/westaustralian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@westaustralian<\/a> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2x3LT297xn\">https:\/\/t.co\/2x3LT297xn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1yXaJ3Hit0\">pic.twitter.com\/1yXaJ3Hit0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kimberley Caines (@KimberleyCaines) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimberleyCaines\/status\/1493438830623424512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not looking good<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"dark\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Indeed it is Mike \ud83d\ude2a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e8y5HFzHmv\">https:\/\/t.co\/e8y5HFzHmv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susan Ogden (@SusanOgden2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SusanOgden2\/status\/1493455581172363265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The Billabong runs deep&#8230;very deep<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"dark\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Oh, mem Sahib. That swamp gas is dangerous.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4UafftJ2SE\">https:\/\/t.co\/4UafftJ2SE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Apu San (@SanApu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanApu\/status\/1493516001232646146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drain the Billabong The ghost of the jolly swag-man says it is time to drain the Billabong before the troopers come 1,2 and 3 and take you Waltzing Matilda with them. Even the troopers are unhappy: What is wrong with that bloke down in WA? \u00a0 He needs Crock Dundee to stare him down like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5809],"tags":[7106,786,2382,7107,4671],"class_list":["post-25124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-billabong","tag-corruption","tag-police","tag-sa","tag-wa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25124"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25134,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124\/revisions\/25134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}