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"A Beenleigh Bagsnatcher Production"

Beenleigh is a suburb of Brisbane, about 15K from me!

Thanks, Glu. In my home town of Brisbane, which is divided by the Brisbane River, only white soldiers were allowed to go to the north side of the city, which included the CBD, Parliament House and other important buildings, Cloudland(the main dance and music hall of the time)and the main shopping districts.

It's just one of many shameful racist acts made by us. I still think Australia is largely a racist country, even with our cultural diversity.

My neighbour recently admitted to me, that when we first moved in, she was a bit worried about our colouring, that we might be Aboriginal. Nice, huh!

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Brisbane, Australia Thurday - Sunday
Sydney, Australia Monday - Wednesday

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Poor man's baseball really ...


just kidding. I have to admit I've been in Oz for 7 years and still don't fully understand it. I think you have to grow up with it. The pubs here in Brisbane are crawling with Barmy's Army.

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It's quite surreal for me to see all this Queensland coverage on the Sift. I'm on the Gold Coast, 80km South of Brisbane. His zoo is on the Sunshine Coast, 80km North of Brisbane.

THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said.
He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas where he had been filming an underwater documentary when it occurred.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.

Mr Irwin, 44, was killed just after 11am, Eastern Australian time.

His American wife Terri learned for the tragedy from police in Tasmania, where she had been trekking in Cradle Mountain National Park.

His friend and manager John Stainton said Mr Irwin was filming some segment for daughter Bindi's show on the reef between sessions filiming the main documentary.

It is understood Mr Irwin was killed instantly.

A source said Mr Irwin was already dead when his body was brought onto the Isle.

A source said Mr Irwin's body was being airlifted to Cairns Hospital in North Queensland for formal identification.

An Emergency Services Response Management spokeswoman said they received a call about the tragedy at 11.11 am, Australian Eastern Standard Time.

The response unit left in a helicopter for the Batt Reef at 11.18am and arrived shortly after.

Mr Irwin was pronounced dead at the scene immediately, the spokeswoman said.

Steve Irwin's activities went far beyond his universally-known roles as an international TV star and owner of Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane.

They includes assisting Australian Quarantine Inspection service with advertising campaigns warning travellers not to bring foreign matter into the country, and he was becoming a vocal critic of the slaughter of Australian wildlife.

The federal government recently dropped plans to allow crocodile safaris for wealty tourists in the Northern Territority after Irwin intervened, taking Environment Minister Ian Campbell on a tour of croc infested Cape York.

At the time, Irwin told Australian TV program A Current Affair that: ``Killing one of our beautiful animals in the name of trophy hunting will have a very negative impact on tourism, which scares the living daylights out of me.''

The Prime Minister John Howard considered Irwin a friend, inviting him to a barbecue at The Lodge for US President George W. Bush in 2003.

Irwin was a devoted father to his two children Bindi, 8, and Bob, 3.

"Bindi is the reason I was put on this earth. All I want to do is be with her and all she wants to do is be with me. We have such a great time together and it's not just a father and daughter relationship, it's also like I'm a big brother and she's my little sister,'' he told New Idea magazine in 2005.

However the previous year Irwin had created a furore when he took 'Baby Bob' into Australia Zoo's crocodile enclosure while feeding a four-metre salt water crocodile.

Irwin burst onto the media scene with his documentary The Crocodile Hunter in 1992, and his over-the-top persona soon made him a star. In 2002 he burst on to the big screen on Crocodile Hunter: The Collision Course, soon achieving A-list fame.

His celebrity friends include Russell Crowe.

Despite his worldwide popularity, closer to home Irwin got bad press after he was controversially paid $175,000 for a quarantine ad.

Irwin was named Queenslander of the Year in 2003.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349534-952,00.html

I suppose we could divulge a little information. I am based out of Clemson SC, a rural university town, near Greenville SC. Oddly enough I'm actually a French and International Trade major, but I will no doubt be doing work somewhere in the computer industry, most likely working on web sites as you might have guessed. Dag is located in the Gold Coast in Australia, about 100 km south of Brisbane, with his wife and two beautiful children. He is a web developer by trade and started this project up as a bit of an exercise in coding as well as a great way to replace his television with quality clips from the Internet.

The site was Dag's brainchild and I through the grace of god came across it on its first day of activity via http://del.icio.us/popular . I then realized that it was actually the project of a fellow Metafilter member, dag, and posted it to Mefi. This led to a dialog via email between me and Dag, and through the course of that dialog I was lucky enough to get involved with this project.

Despite having never met each other face to face we have since branched out into working together on various other web projects as well as the increasingly time consuming job of administering VideoSift. Fortunately our vastly different time zones pretty much allow us to monitor this burgeoning community 24/7. We spend a lot of time talking to each other about possible improvements to the site, as well as deciding how to deal fairly with the occasional miscreant.

In terms of other random info I'm definitely the younger team member with only a paltry 22 years under my belt, however I have been on the Internet since I was 8 years old and actively involved in programming and web development since about 14. Dag just turned 37 yesterday and has been developing web sites for the Interweb since 1995, when he started developing them in Osaka, Japan.

If you have any other questions I can do my best to fill in some information for you, but I hope this at least gives you some sense of whom your lowly proprietors are and perhaps humanizes us in some small way.