Happy Australia Day 2010

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Brisbane Fishing Online would like to wish all our members and visitors a very Happy Australia Day!

We hope everyone has a moment to relax and enjoy the brilliant country within which we live and gets an opportunity to spend Australia Day out in the summer sun, enjoying our wonderful Australian outdoors. We look forward to many reports on fishing, camping, boating and holidaying and wish everyone tight lines and a safe day out on the water.

[becky]

Have a great day tomorrow everyone!!

[kriso]

have great one everyone!!! make sure ya tuck into some good aussie lamb!

[John]

looking forward to an early morning session. have a top day everyone :aussie: :aussie:

[ellicat]

Hope everyone is able to make good use of this great place

............before the bastards lock a bit more of it away.

It's a harsh dry land, it breaks your back and scars and gnarls your hands

Now carcasses rot in the sun and dust silts up the dams

Sacked two men when the postie poked those blueys through the flyscreen doors

The welfare state dried up ten years before

It's Hobsons' choice, they run this plain and the flocks melt into bone

You can drove the stock routes for a year and cripple life at home

I still look forward to every day but every day's the same

Awake in a sweat, a dream of the smell of rain

But a river runs silent, runs deep, I work this land, it grips me by my feet

Staying 'til my blood runs cold, spark of the heart, iron in the soul

My great grandfather pushed his luck beyond the goyder line

Now all that's left are mute ploughshares and a gravestone caulked with lime

In tribute, I still use his Swiss barometer in vain

Fate be damned, the weather hasn't changed

Fifty miles by riverland, there's pasture fenced and sprayed

Profit margins chinagraphed on boardrooms in L.A.

Absenting landlords meet to match their smiles and fake suntans

In three years they'll have leached the soil to sand

But a river runs silent, runs deep, I work this land, it grips me by my feet

Staying 'til my blood runs cold, spark of the heart, iron in the soul

Josie searches saltbush, where rain once ran its course

It's a shock to see a child of twelve grow old upon a horse

The glory box lies locked with memories silent as the phone

But even in the shadows, it's our home

Government relief just might keep breeding stock alive

The agents jumped the cost of feed and the export market's dived

And if it breaks, I'm still in debt until I'm ninety eight

Will the last one out please shut the bloody gate !

On the news it seems unreal

Droughts a cancer cities just can't feel

Survivals a story untold

Spark of the heart, iron in the soul

But a river runs silent, runs deep, I love this land, it grips me by my feet

Staying 'til my blood runs cold, spark of the heart, iron in the soul

Redgum - Spark of the Heart

[Do$tylz]

Happy Australia Day all

Drink plenty, have a great time with family and mates. Be safe and don't drink and drive.

[James W]

im at work!

[Brian D]

How Aussie is this? Council clean up so I spent the morning taking rubbish from the back yard and shed to the footpath. After that had a swim in the pool. Now it looks like I'll be practicing my gamefishing plates today while drinking beer watching the cricket. Gotta love Australia Day. (Hope my wife responds tonight just to make it a perfect day)

Have a good day everyone

[Keen-as-fisho]

I think the fish have taken the day off too No lamb for me today, or any day (hate the stuff) but some nice Aussie beef insted and some fair dinkum xxxx gold Cheers everyone.

[MoparKevUk]

Happy Australia Day to you all!

Thanks for having me, and can't wait for the day I get Citizenship and can hoist me Aussie Flag on the Val! (Now where is the Southern Cross?? )

Loving the patriotism of Australians, wouldn't be allowed in the UK.....