Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 3

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The Perth Thread - Part 4

Did you see that article in the local paper (not The West Aus) about a forum on the 15th to discuss ways to make crossing Charles st safer/better? I personally don't and have never (even as a child) had an issue with crossing it. Don’t even get me started. Yes it’s difficult to cross and I’m...
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Doesn't get much more Western-Australian-complaing-about-t'othersiders than this:

"I got on a plane, went across to Sydney. Nobody to meet me," Rutherford says. "Fortunately I'd made a note of where the fellas were staying. I got a taxi. There were no cricketers there. They had a practice on down at the SCG. It was the first I heard of it. I got my pads and bat and jumped in another taxi and went down to the SCG.

"When it was time for me to have a hit, all the other fellas just walked off. So I put my pads on and got my bat and went and stood at the crease. Lenny Maddocks was the last one going into the change rooms. He looked over his shoulder and saw me out there. He came out to me and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?'

"I said, 'We've got some funny ideas over in Western Australia. We find if you have your name on the list, you get a hit, but obviously you've got some rule over here that the last one gets wiped off. Piss-poor idea but I guess I'll get used to it.' He said, 'You haven't had a hit? I'll bowl some to you.' So my look at Ray Lindwall bowling the first ball to me the next day was to have the second Australian wicketkeeper throwing me donkey lobs. I tell you what, I was bloody annoyed."

That was just a taste of what was to come. Rutherford made 113 in that game and was chosen for the tour, but it was assumed that being from Perth, the end of the earth in the minds of cricket administrators, he could wait until the ship arrived in Fremantle before joining the rest of the team. Never mind that the squad was to play two games in Tasmania before even getting to Perth.

Rutherford put his case to join the tour from the start. The Victorian secretary of the Australian Board of Control told Rutherford there were 40 openers in Victoria who were better than him and that "nothing you say is worth anything until you've been in the side, god help us, for five years, and until then you eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table".

Rutherford was unimpressed, and unintimidated. "I said 'Are you finished? I'm going to go over your head.'"

He did. He appealed to the captain, Ian Johnson, and selector Don Bradman, and his wish was granted. Of course, nobody had thought to book him into the team hotel in Tasmania, so he relied on the generosity of room-mates Neil Harvey and Maddocks to have a third mattress brought into their room.

Life wasn't easy as the sole Western Australian on a long tour. One day, someone started complaining about the Perth umpires, and said you had to get Rutherford out three times before the local umpires would give him out. Rutherford, a self-confessed "smart-arse", couldn't help himself from biting back.

"I said, 'Let me tell you something. The weight of cricket in Australia is changing. It's coming over to Western Australia. And before we've played many more Tests half the side will be from Western Australia, so you'd better get used to the way we talk.'"
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crafty_bernardo said:
Holy **** cyclists going 5kmph in front of cars and buses around the city in this heat .. why..


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Because * you that's why would be my guess. Their reason for everything.
 
Scotland said:
El Caballo is still there but they stopped doing the horse shows years ago.

Not really sure about Pioneer World. I think it's mostly shops and restaurants and part of the primary school.
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I remember the huge water slide at el caballo. And the toboggans.
 

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wal said:
You what? The quota system made them all accidental millionaires again.
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The introduction of quotas was needed and acknowledged that it was good for the industry.

Those that were in a position to hold (the original families) have done very well but some of those that came late to the industry had to sell their licences and pots because of the levels of debt - many had pots they couldn’t even put in the water. Those who were leasing from the old timers realised that they couldn’t pay the lease and make a living based on their initial outlay

I see they now face government interference all over again. I can’t imagine the uproar from Gina and Twiggy if the government placed restrictions on mining in the manner they have fishermen over the years
 
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