Here you go Jimmy, get your head out of your arse for a minute and get some education up ya, ha ha! Your mate, Terry.
Australian Firsts and Inventions
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Democratic Firsts
First place in the world to have a secret ballot in elections (1856)
First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)
First Place in the world to tell Britain to officially "Get a Mullet up ya!" (2005)
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Legal Firsts
Torrens Title. An Australian invented the worlds first method of land registration. Now in use by many countries around the world.
"Poofter bashing" outlawed after Terry, wearing a ballet "tu-tu", fishnet stockings and stilletto's, and riding a borrowed CB750K8 is mistaken for a gay man and set upon by an angry mob.
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Sporting Firsts
First country in the world to beat America in it America's cup.
Only country to have attended every modern Olympic games.
The first country to employ skiing as a sport. (1863)
The Australian crawl. Until the 1890's competetive freestyle was done with the head out of the water. (Remember how Tarzan used to swim in the movies?) Australian Dick Cavill popularised it and enabled it to be accepted in world class meetings.
The "Running from Cop's in thongs while pissed" event was considered as a possible olympic track and field sport, after an olympics committee member witnessed the spectacle of a drunken Terry running away from police while urinating on his own rubber sandals. (1981)
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Inventions
The bionic ear, a device that enables some deaf children to hear.
Flexible wine casks... the bag in the box.
The boomerang. Ancient weapon of the aboriginies. Other cultures have throwing sticks but none came back to the thrower if it missed the target.
The Notepad. In the whole history of paper, it had been sold and used in single sheets until in 1902 JA Birchall thought it would be a good idea to stack a pile of half sheets together, back it with cardboard and glue one end.
Making the world's first notepad.
The Electric Drill was the invention of Arthur James Arnot, who patented it in 1889.
Postage stamps. The world's first pre paid postage system was introduced at Sydney in 1838.
The world's first refrigeration plant was an Australian invention of 1858.
The worlds first bathing beauty contest was held in Australia in 1920.
The famous "black box" flight recorder for recording aeroplane movements was invented in Australia in 1958.
Also in 1958 the worlds first regular 'round the world' airline service was begun.
The inflatable aircraft escape slide, which becomes a raft if the aeroplane ditches in water was an Australian invention of 1965.
The Automatic letter sorting machine - 1930
Two stroke lawn mower.
The rotary hoist washing line.
Lithium as a treatment for manic depression.
Latex gloves 1945
Terry's oil cooler adapters in 2005 were so lauded by the SOHC-4 community, that Pope John Paul II considered him for a sainthood, but sadly, his untimely death precluded terry's cannonisation.
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Military firsts
The underwater torpedo, Louis Brennan 1874
The tank (1912 - Lance de Mole)
Paper machine gun belt - dramatically reduced gun jamming while firing.
Terry's "Toes-knees-nose"/"heels-arse-head" parachute landings became famous when he served as a Commando between 1991-1995
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Biggest
The largest Island in the world.
The flagpole at Parliament house in Canberra is the largest aluminium object in the world.
Sydney Tower is the highest building in the southern hemisphere.
Kalgoorlie in WA is the worlds largest electorate 2,255,278 sq km
The Australian Labor Party is the oldest surviving labor party in the world. (1891)
The worlds largest cattle property is Strangeray Springs in S.A. over 30,000 sq km
Terry's testicles are arguably the largest in the free world.
