In view of the rapid development of Queensland, our prosperity and our major contribution to the nation and to world trade, I believe it is significant that a Queenslander should be honoured with such a high position in Rotary.

Poa Secunda and John Secada don’t play bluegrass; and I’m not prætentious enough to pretend I can identify Kentucky Bluegrass, although there was a band by that name (Poa Prætensis) in the mid-‛70s.

Why the lowly Urals should continentalize Europe from Asia, while the massive Himalayas should at best sub-continentalize India, is a question best answered by the cultural pretensions of Czar Peter the Great and the imperial distortions of the Victorians. Geographical science has little to do with the existence of Europe.

The fishing rod swooshed through the air.