Wave Depp’s dogs through and we’d hear “See? This is why the country has one of the world’s worst records…” yadda yadda.
The story is a laugh, though.
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What’s the point of being rich if you don’t get special treatment?
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You can’t board it, it gets upset, it’s hair falls out.
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They took all the joy out of this. They should have created some trippy, over the top ode to Australia.
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Us too, and it was we who introduced the non-native species.
I think my point has been slightly missed, or I made it badly. I would be more impressed with the motivation behind the policy if the Australian government:
Put a lot more effort into reducing non-native species
Made some serious efforts to control the environmental vandalism of their mining industry
Made some serious recompense to the native Australian population
rather than the PR/window dressing of getting a pair of naughty people to make a public apology, as if this proved that the Australian government was taking its responsibilities seriously. It’s a little bit like Soviet show trials, only without the Gulags. It’s the same hypocrisy as the British government making a huge show over a celebrity being done for tax evasion, when it turns out half the City of London is employed trying to devise schemes for tax avoidance that are only just legal (and then because they haven’t been properly tested in court.)
Dust specks, planks.
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As does the IOC (the traditional five rings). Way back when, I actually heard someone in a Geography 100 question the prof about this. 
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AFAIK “public apology videos” aren’t something courts usually make the little people do.
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Barnaby?
Barnaby Joyce is not in fact the Prime Minister, that would be Malcolm Turnbull.
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Somewhere a script writer is now furiously pounding out “Rabid Koalas Down Under: The Cutening, Now in 3D ™” Alternate title “Because Johnny Depp”.
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Shit… I should have pitched this to Syfy.
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Add some lasers into the mix and they will be throwing money at you.
“Koalanado: Because everything is a remix IV”.
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Its not that dogs are banned, its that they have to be quarantined before allowing them in. Dogs are great vectors for disease and pest insects. Japan has the same rules
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Or train Koalas to perform special operations military missions: Koalamandos!
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A masterpiece of deadpan passive aggression.
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Gary Busey?
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No. You’re thinking of bovine granular vulvovaginitis which, like Gary Busey, is far less amusing to say than “koala chlamydia”
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The story’s putative headline in the video description:
The War On Terrier
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Are they blinking morse code throughout the message?
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