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Bon-đai biển đầy, người bơi không có đây...

Bondi beach swallowed by tide waters and other Sydney beaches flooded over
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...s-flooded-over

Dã tràng xe cát biển Đông
Nhọc nhằn mà chẳng nên công cán gì
Dã tràng xe cát Sidney
Nhọc nhằn mà chẳng thấy gì hết trơn
(Tục ngữ)

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Ba em trồng khoai tây
Đào lên thấy lựu đạn...

muddy spud turns out to be grenade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...de-new-zealand

Grenades frequently pop up in potato fields in Europe, but are a highly unusual find in New Zealand.

The weapon had been sent to Auckland’s East Tamaki Mr Chips factory on Tuesday, after being dug up from a potato farm in Matamata, in the Waikato region.

Night shift worker Richard Teurukura told news website Stuff, he pulled the device from a “potato reception area”, where 100,000 potatoes had been delivered at 3.30am on Tuesday. Initially, he thought the object was a muddy stone but on further inspection, was surprised to discover it was a grenade.

Giống tin này: Potato or Hand Grenade? A Rusty Bombshell at a Chip Factory

Zealand ăn chip khoai tây
Ăn nhằm lựu đạn gãy răng Zealand.
(Ca dao)

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Cướp đêm là giặc cướp ngày là Qantas:

Australian travellers left without luggage: airport staff shortages
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...shortages-bite

Guardian Australia reported on Thursday that some planes were only being half loaded with checked luggage to ensure flights were not significantly delayed, with passengers told to expect their luggage in the coming days.

“Decisions were made to have these flights depart without baggage to ensure that customers could get to their destination and not face long flight delays or cancellations,” a Qantas spokesperson said on Friday.

The bags would be put on later flights and then sent to customers by courier.

Georgia McCafferty @georgiemac

My sister was on QF616 from Melbourne to Brisbane yesterday. Entire flight had no bags. They have not been couriered. She still has no bag and has not been contacted about when she can get it and can’t get through to Qantas. So that’s blatantly incorrect.

11:34 PM · Apr 14, 2022

Peter Bragge @BraggePeter

Been in qld 30 hours. No idea where my bag is, and neither do @Qantas . Meanwhile, their CEO has earned $6507.85 since the plane landed.

6:23 AM · Apr 14, 2022

Bận hai ba bộ trên người thì khỏi xách theo hành lý, khỏi lo thất lạc hành trang. Dưới đó qua mùa thu trời cũng bớt nực rồi.

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Cứu vật vật trả ân, cứu nhân nhân xả rác:

Tonga struggles with post-volcano waste problem
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-waste-problem

Since the tsunami, in the worst affected villages and the halls in Nuku’alofa where people have been living since moving from the islands in Ha’apai, rubbish bins are filled with plastic water bottles.

There is no recycling collection in Tonga, which means plastic waste ends up in landfill.

Tonga has very limited space for landfill. The country’s only rubbish tip, which has been in operation since 2006, has just four cells for storing rubbish, with each cell meant to be large enough to house at least 20 years’ worth of waste from across the country. The second one is filling up fast.

Some work to remove and recycle waste has started. Last month, volunteers from the No Pelesitiki (plastic) campaign spent two Saturdays collecting plastic waste from more than 1,500 households, which were compacted, wrapped into plastic bales and loaded on the HMAS Canberra for disposal in Australia.

The founder of the No Pelesitiki Campaign, Eleni Leveni Tevi, said people responded strongly to the collection and are keen to see it become a regular occurrence.

Dã tràng lượm rác ny lông
Nhọc nhằn mà chẳng nên công cán gì
(Tonga dao)

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Tránh roo chẳng xấu mặt nào:

Large kangaroo kicks woman to the ground in unprovoked attack
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...s-country-club

The 69-year-old woman was playing golf at the Arundel Hills Country Club when the animal struck from the side without warning just after 9am on Friday, Queensland ambulance said.

The kangaroo then suddenly stopped its attack and moved away, leaving the woman lying on the ground with significant cuts to her face, head, arms and legs.

Khôn ngoan đá mấy người ngoài
Chuột cùng một túi chớ hoài đá nhau…
(Cang ga ru dao)

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Thất cử lỡ vận:

Australia election: conservative government voted out after nearly a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...early-a-decade

Australia’s rightwing Coalition government has lost power after nearly a decade in office, with Saturday’s election showing a sharp shift to progressive parties that will result in a Labor government under Anthony Albanese – though he may need the support of climate-focused independents or the Greens.

The Liberal party leader, Scott Morrison, conceded defeat just before 11pm AEST on Saturday, and announced he would step down as leader of his party.

Albanese is expected to be swiftly sworn in as prime minister, before travelling to Tokyo on Tuesday, where he will meet the US president Joe Biden, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida.

Pháp khoái chí: schadenfreude

France’s outgoing foreign minister welcomes defeat of Scott Morrison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...scott-morrison

France’s outgoing foreign affairs minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has undiplomatically welcomed the election defeat of Australia’s conservative government after a war of words last year over an abandoned submarine deal between the two countries.

He said: “I can’t stop myself from saying that the defeat of Morrison suits me very well.”

Huỷ bỏ hợp đồng là bất hợp Pháp.

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Hai bà Lê:

Incoming MP for Fowler Dai Le
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ictable-result

Le, the deputy mayor of Fairfield and a former state Liberal party candidate, said even she had been surprised by the size of the swing against Labor, but said she believed it was a sign that voters felt “insulted” by the decision to impose Keneally onto the seat.

“I think the ALP was arrogant. They took us for granted and just thought, ‘it doesn’t matter, we can put anyone there and those people are stupid enough to vote for us’,” she told the Guardian.

She said she campaigned on local issues – such as healthcare and roads – but also that issues such as the difficulty of accessing small business support during the lockdown for people from non-English backgrounds had been a huge issue in what is one of the most diverse electorates in the country.

The decision to parachute Keneally into a highly diverse, working-class seat despite living on affluent Scotland Island in Sydney’s northern beaches was also criticised at the time by the retiring MP Chris Hayes, who had championed local lawyer Tu Le as his preferred successor.

Tu Le says Labor ‘learned the hard way’
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...oses-safe-seat

After Keneally conceded on Sunday, Tu Le told the Guardian both major parties had been taught a lesson about the importance of listening to local communities, likening Keneally’s loss in Fowler to the teal wave which swept through the Liberal party heartland at Saturday’s election.

“Overall I think it was a fantastic result for the ALP and it’s unfortunate what has occurred in Fowler. But if this is what it takes for us to actually listen to local community voices then I think sometimes it is a lesson that has to be learned the hard way.

“Ultimately I think the community benefits from that and really the community has won in this case because they made their voices heard very clearly and sent a clear message [that] you can’t take us for granted,” she said.

Bỏ ứng cử viên xa bầu láng giềng gần.
(Tục ngữ)

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Hội hoa đăng:

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Hơi tốn điện.

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Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thuỷ khôn bằng tiền:

Australia pays $830m penalty for ditching non-nuclear French submarines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nch-submarines

The Australian government has agreed to pay €550m (A$830m) in a settlement with Naval Group over the former Morrison government’s controversial decision to scrap the French attack class submarine project.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced on Saturday the confidential settlement would draw a line under the cancelled $90bn project.

Có tiền mua Tây cũng được.
(Tục ngữ)

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Vivid Sydney 2022

Hơi tốn điện.

Hại điện:

NSW residents told to conserve power
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ias-east-coast

The Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) took the drastic step of suspending the entire national electricity market for the first time in its history on Wednesday.

On Wednesday evening, the NSW energy minister, Matt Kean, told Sydney residents to reduce usage between 5.30pm and 8pm to reduce the risk of blackouts.

Khéo ăn thì no, khéo lo thì cúp.
(Tục ngữ)