Clutching Straws - Beaking WingsI will admit it - it has never been denied - I was born in Bunbury, W.A. but never actually lived there as such. Still, it's my home town in a sense and the local Wombat Lodge sold a great line of leather and suede rippled sole boots. I seem to recall a fine cake shop in the Plaza across the road from the Highway Hotel.
Several stones thrown consecutively will get you to George Street which is where this fine example from Little Aussie Travellers was knocked out in 1986. Look, it's cute but I do struggle with the logic - if the Emu is, to a degree, simply satisfied with clasping its beak to a fixed wing aircraft as a means of flight then just what motivated the koala to move its hairy backside down from the eucalypts, through flight school and into this pilot's seat? The red and black scarf is another matter. The Bombers took out the VFL flag in '84 and '85 but it was the Hawks year in '86 and the Perth (red & black) Demons last took out a flag in 1977 and haven't even contested another since '78. And it was a good 3 years later before the Australian Pilots Strike took place when the then Labor government recruited emergency replacements from exotic sources.
That still leaves us stranded in '86 although The Flying Emus did take home the Instrumental Of the Year AND the Vocal Group (or Duo) award at the CMAA awards that very year. Spooky!
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