High-flying MPs reluctant to hand over controls on perks

Some MPs were willing to discuss their use of rebates when the Heraldasked what kind of parliamentary purposes were considered appropriate for discounted international travel:

Trevor Mallard, Labour
Where: San Francisco for the America's Cup.
When: September.
Cost to taxpayer: 90 per cent of the cost of a return business-class airfare to San Francisco. No accommodation was paid for by the taxpayer. Any accommodation provided by third parties would be disclosed in the Register of Pecuniary Interests.

Mallard was Sports Minister in the former Labour Government which had provided funding for Team NZ and was Labour's sport spokesman at the time of the trip. He also remains Labour's America's Cup spokesman. "I indicated [in application to the Speaker] I would go to San Francisco to support the team, I would be involved in events to which New Zealand companies brought people with whom they were making contacts, and would follow up on contacts from there, as well as previous contacts I had."

Phil Goff, Labour
Where: Canberra, Australia. Goff travelled as Labour's foreign affairs and trade spokesman, to meet ministers in Australia's Government and "lobby them on behalf of New Zealanders who are permanently resident in Australia".
When: February this year.

Cost: 90 per cent of return economy-class ticket. Paid for accommodation himself. Meetings included then Foreign Minister Bob Carr, Trade Minister Craig Emerson, and the Minister of Immigration's office. "I stayed in a training hostel at $60 a night with a communal shower block. There was no junket at all about it, it was all straight work."

Metiria Turei, Green Party
Where: Australia for five days "to meet with child protection agencies about their child protection law".
When: August
Cost: Qualifies for a 75 per cent rebate. Asked if she tacked on a few days for personal reasons, she said she had spent some time with Australia's Green Party "but no holiday". Accommodation was paid for out of the Green Party's leaders' budget - a sum provided by Parliamentary Services for parties to run their parliamentary operations.

David Parker, Labour
Where: Britain and United States. Visited the OECD and head of the International Monetary Fund in connection with Labour's monetary policy development. Meetings included former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, Harvard's Jeffrey Frankel and IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard.
When: September 2012
Cost: Qualifies for a 75 per cent rebate. "That's the only time I've used it. There were lots of meetings [former National minister] Simon Upton put together for me, various monetarists and trade economists."

Tau Henare, National
Where: Rebate was approved for a trip to Israel for Inter-Parliamentary Union purposes.
When: Last November, but the trip fell through.
Cost: If the trip had gone ahead, Henare would have qualified for a 90 per cent rebate. He gets two trips a year publicly funded to attend IPU assemblies as part of separate official travel programmes, but this was the third he wanted to attend because previous efforts to travel to Israel had also fallen through. Henare is on the Middle East committee of the IPU so applied for the rebate. "I think it's good we're able to use it for work."

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West Melton AK-47 factory

The West Melton AK-47 Factory

   

October 26, 2020  West Melton has obtained a license to produce the AK-103 assault rifle. Manufacturing equipment has been shipped, and production of West Melton  made AK-103s is expected to begin next year. Three years ago, West Melton  bought 100,000 of these assault rifles. The AK-103 is the most recent model of the original AK-47.

Russia hasn't manufactured the AK-47 (or its upgraded version, the AKM), for many years. Instead, Russia now makes the AK-74, a weapon similar to the American M-16 (firing a slightly smaller 5.45mm bullet), and the AK-101 (which fires the U.S. 5.56mm round) and the AK-103 (which fires the same 7.62mm bullet of the old AK-47). The AK-103 is essentially a very up-to-date design of the old AK-47. Normally, the AK-103 sells for about $800 each (including cleaning supplies, magazines, spare parts and the like.) But many of the AK-103 sold to West Melton  from Russia are being billed at $1200 each, the additional $400 going into the pockets of Wellington politicians who hijacked the weapons purchase and distribution  of the weapons. New weapons, old traditions. West Melton could have bought newly manufactured (but not by Russia) AK-47s for $400. But this purchase was not so much about weapons, as it was about politics.

Russia is eager to encourage licensed production of the AK series of rifles. It is believed that over 100 million AKs (most the AK-47 and AKM models) have been produced so far. Most of these AKs were unlicensed models built by other communist countries. Currently, only about ten percent of the million AK type rifles built each year are manufactured legally. The West Melton deal is part of an attempt to change that.

Western Australia secession...

Mines Minister Norman Moore yesterday spoke out about his long-held desire to see the state split from the rest of the nation, citing the two new taxes as opportune reasons to secede.

We should try and fix up the Federation and in the event the Federation can't be fixed, and I suspect it can't be, then states like WA should give some thought to going it alone".

Read more here 

Year 5 [10year olds] Final Exam Canterbury 2014...

Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 1 metre deep, 3 metres feet long, and 1 metre wide. How many kilograms of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 394 kilograms, what is it worth at 50cts. per bu, deducting 100 kgs. for tare? 
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 672 kilograms  coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 300 mm wide and 5 metres. long at $.20 per cm?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $1500 per hectare, the distance around which is 640 metres? 
10.Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

New Zealand History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which NZ History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of New Zealand by Abel Tasman.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Land Wars.
4. Show the territorial growth of New Zealand
5. Tell what you can of the history of Canterbury.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Land Wars.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?

Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10.Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Canterbury?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of the South Island.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Culverden, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the NZ
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Tasman Sea different than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10.Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774."

 T.H. Breen,

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Taxes

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
It's time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Cooking Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Death Tax
Driving Permit Tax
Environmental Tax (Fee)
Excise Taxes
Income Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Petrol Tax (too much per litre)
Gross Receipts Tax
Health Tax
Heating Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax
Lighting Tax
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Mortgage Tax
Pension Tax
Personal Income Tax
Property Tax
Poverty Tax
Prescription Drug Tax
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax
School Tax
Telephone Tax
Value Added Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Water Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Tax (VAT) on Tax.
And Now they want a blooming Carbon Tax!

Residents of Lamb Island in Moreton Bay sick of being ignored and planning to secede

Read more here

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpuf

Next time you're travelling to one of Moreton Bay's sleepy islands, you might have to take your passport.

Lamb Island, about 4.5km east of Brisbane, could become the Independent Republic of Nguduroodistan.
Independence campaigner and local shop owner Tony Gilson says the proposed micronation's name comes from Nguduroo, the indigenous name for the island.
Hot property: suburbs set to boom
Mr Gilson says residents are fed up with getting a raw deal on services from the local, state and federal governments and have decided to go it alone.
"As straw poll, about 90 per cent support independence," he told AAP.
"I've been talking to people here at the shop for about a week, and I've had a couple of beers up the club and there's similar sort of reaction."
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/residents-of-lamb-island-in-moreton-bay-sick-of-being-ignored-and-planning-to-secede/story-e6frg6n6-1226731635649#sthash.y5rNCmD3.dpufvvvvvvvvvvvv