The radio signal was staticky and we could barely hear the announcer.

A newly elected Dietman, Ozawa Ichirō, said that “my energy is now devoted to two things: handling requests from my constituency and learning how the Diet works. […]”

All of which means that the nice neat pattern suggested by other Tasmanian endemic birds isn't a template for all its endemics: did the turbo chooks evolve on the mainland (and, if so, why did they lose their flight powers there?) and later run to Tasmania, or did they evolve in Tasmania and cross to the mainland during an earlier glacial period?

critic + -aster → criticaster (“petty critic”)