TIDAL FLATS

Cairns. Aeronautical Correspondent Abra  photo.

 

BURLEIGH'S FEATHERED FRIENDS

The  above  crucified  chook near the end of life on Earth , drawn by columnist and illustrator Peter  Burleigh , contemplates  what came  first -the  egg  or  the  chicken?

Burleigh went on to say in the Bulldust Diary  he  kept on a  road trip across  Australia  what  a  great  debt we owe to the  humble chicken.

How many of them , he said , had died and will die to keep us sandwiched, roasted, saladed and breakfasted? Yet we make jokes about them, call them  cowardly, burn, boil and roast them.

If we ever need another religion based on an example of sacrifice, his vote was for the chicken. He  hoped a talented poet  would write a “Chicken Odyssey” some day.

(Burleigh . Chicken. Bulldust.)

POWERFUL NEW RUGBY TEAM

If  the proposed  Papua New Guinea rugby league team in the  Australian NRL competition no later than 2028 is  anything like the  powerful  Warrior  rum  then  there  will  be  fiece  matches.  Bottle, to be raffled by a Brisbane squad of  senior football players,  supplied  by  Petros.

(PNG. Rugby. Rum.)   

PERFORMING JUMPING CROCODILES

 

Adelaide River, Northern Territory.  Petros pix. 

(Crocodiles. Territory. Petros.)

BRITISH EMPIRE SHOCK , BASIL SWEETLIPS REVEALED !!!

 Continuing laugh in with  gifted columnist , illustrator Peter  Burleigh who was   deeply involved in the unique, short lived ,  l969 Melbourne   magazine ,Broadside , edited  by the late  Pete  Steedman, the Black Knight of  Victorian politics.  

  

The  above  zany  cartoon  shows  Burleigh about to depart for England  with  a  letter of introduction from the hanging  premier of  Victoria , Sir Henry Bolte, plus a  food pack for Prince  Charles  . There is also the  shock revelation   that  the mysterious  person called    Basil Sweetlips,  mentioned in  graffiti  in  public  conveniences , was   actually  Burleigh.

There is a passing  reference to  Barry Humphries , another luminary who   contributed  to  Broadside .

No  other  gifted   artist  or cartographer produced such a memorable map of Australia as the one  Burleigh  kindly included in his  Bulldust  Diary,   which  he  wrote  for  Little Darwin.  

The  following   Burleigh  gem run in  Broadside   highlighted  the  Melbourne  City Council  knocking  down  many  existing   residences and  putting up    dull  towers.   

(Burleigh. Empire. Flats.)

AGGRESIVE POTPLANT

Vallis photo.

 

GALLOPING CYCAD

Townsville.  Vallis photo.