I find them a curiously confronting sight, dressed in thongs, boardies and Victoria Bitter singlets, and shrouded in Australian flags.

It would be much better for the community if sufficient inducement existed for the rich and dispendious classes to expend their surplus wealth on articles of home rather than on those of foreign production; the effect of the commercial legislation ...

Once this lottery owned a State, and openly offered it a princely revenue of millions for a renewal of the law which gave it a respectable habitation and a convenient foothold from which it might lure its victims month by month. Now it is an outlaw, and seeks its prey by surreptitious advertising on the play-bills of theatres.

I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.