The Aussies' Alpine courtroom...

[Guest]

It looks as if those canny Aussies have a long reach in their legal arms. That is, if I can believe the news item from Daddy's M4M February 5, 2016 news page:

http://www.edgemedianetwork.com/news/international/news//193001/australian_man_fired_for_being_gay_&_hiv-positive_wins_big_case

 

According to the news report, An Australian man recently won a landmark case after he was fired for being gay and HIV-positive, the Local reported on Feb. 4.

 

Australia's Innsbruck's regional court ordered the State of Tyrol to pay the man, whose identity has not been revealed, €35,000 ($39,239.20 U.S.D.) in damages after his employer, the State of Tyrol, let him go.

 

I had no idea the Australians even had a courtroom in Tyrol, let alone have a judge with jurisdiction over the Alpine state...

 

http://wroom.ru/userimg/forum/1360133653.jpg

[mike carey]

I'm looking out my loungeroom window at the Alps as I type!

[Guest]

http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2011/12/austria_s-biggest-companies-Google-Search-600x331.jpg

 

http://www.escunited.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/austria-vs-australia.png

[Guest]

They forgot Canberra...

 

[Marlfox]

I must get out my lederhosen.

[Bargara Leatherboy]

Pmsl

[+ glennnn]

When I was a telephone reservations agent for a major international airline, I got a call from a man who asked if we flew to Europe. I asked where he wanted to go. He replied, "The capital". So I booked him on a flight to Paris. Ah, geography. Such a mysterious subject.

[+ Charlie]

Whenever I tell people I studied German in Austria, someone is sure to ask why I didn't study in a place where the natives speak German (and they are not being sarcastic about my Viennese accent).

[MsGuy]

I'm looking out my loungeroom window at the Alps as I type!

 

Mike,was there a movie back in th '80's (called "The Man From Snowy River"??) set in the Australian Alps?

 

I always thought the co-star was kind of hunky.

[mike carey]

Mike,was there a movie back in th '80's (called "The Man From Snowy River"??) set in the Australian Alps?

I always thought the co-star was kind of hunky.

Yes there was, and yes he was! It was a film adaptation of an iconic poem.

[Bargara Leatherboy]

the poet is my partners ancestor.

 

A B Paterson. Known as Banjo Paterson.