It's an ancient culture, the 'longest continuously living culture on the planet', up to 60,000 years. Your correspondent has an article about our first peoples in the pipeline. (For our First Australians, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it's also known as 'Invasion Day' or 'Sorry Day'. So wherever you are, pause and join the locals in celebration. The Canberra event includes military stuff, including a showing by RAAF fixed-wing and rotary aircraft.

Similar ceremonies are held throughout the country in many cities and small towns. The Prime Minister gives citizenship documents to a handful of 'new Australians'. So if you can watch it, live or recorded, you'll enjoy it. Your correspondent will post the 2024 ceremony once it's on YouTube.) They had to find another place.)Ī lovely, formal ceremony takes place in Canberra, broadcast live on the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) television (which is the government-funded national broadcaster). (Interestingly, the concept to send prisoners to the other side of the planet to Australia, in today's terms like setting up a settlement on the Moon, or probably more accurately Mars, was partly because of the loss to Britain of the American colonies, where they could send them previously. Australia's national holiday (all shops are open, only two days in the year, Good Friday and Christmas day all shops are shut, by law.) The date 26 Jan, is the date the First Fleet anchored in Sydney Cove in 1788 with the first group of settlers (convicts), Captain Cook having sailed into nearby Botany Bay in 1770. Sydney, Gold Coast (Coolangatta Airport is 5 minutes walk from the beach, but likely to be overcast and rainy.), so better to stay way south.Īustralia Day. So take the weight off, have a few days holiday somewhere, e.g. Flyers might have to slow their progression towards and into QLD for a day or more until it passes into western QLD, then they should be able to skirt it up the east coast. Tropical low 05U (it hasn't been declared as a cyclone officially yet by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), when they do, it'll be given a person's name. By your Aussie Correspondent.Ĭyclone Watch. I guess the GUID is somehow embedded in the object (xml?) as ADE has no problem in determining it. There's often a cross ref text file matching names to GUIDs but without placing the object and looking at it, there's no way of telling what the name & GUID actually refer to. Second, most devs also didn't bother giving a well organised document cross referencing the GUIDs with the particular object. First, most devs didn't bother including thumbnails with their uploads. The problem with manually adding thumbnails is twofold. Starting in Airport Design Editor.exe's root directory, the correctly named jpg goes into: jpg and the filename has to be the scenery object's GUID in curly brackets, for example. I guess this is the main advantage of something like Instant Scenery.įor ADE, as long as you have an image, how you obtained it is irrelevant. I generally lay out all the contents of a library bgl along a runway and brace myself for some tedium. Kinda slow hardly begins to describe it but at least you only have to do it once.

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