Perth Zoo hit the heights of spotlight in the past week with every would-be word player and their grammatical accomplice at hand to join the unofficial contest to name a newly born baby giraffe.
“Help choose giraffe name that is head and shoulders above the rest” was the official headline that set the high-flyers flying.
Announcing there would be lofty prizes too, the WA Premier chose a commentary of comedy to offer jolly giraffy jargon to announce he was: “confident that together we can find a name that is spot on,” the Premier playworded.
His worldly wording was cunningly over-clevered however by the WA Minister for the Environment who also skipped up the ladder of ludicrous laughabity by claiming the naming to be a “tall order.
“But I have no doubt West Australians are willing to stick their necks out for this important task,” the minister declared from a great height.
PS-sssst!’s uninvited and bound to be unappreciated suggestion is for the little giraffe’s name to reflect the world’s most modern title of the modern day and become Australia’s first and, therefore most famous giraffe, bearing the inspirational name Gerry McGerryFace!
Our fee will be in the post!
Dogs’ lest friends
To New South Wales now where dog lovers have raised the eyebrows of animal lovers keen to see their rare animals protected from dogs, particularly in the State’s National Parks and Wildlife Service where wildlives have been collected, protected and visited over many years of education and enjoyment.
Publicising the Parks and Wildife Service’s concerns about the dangers of dog-eat-wildlife, the NPWS’s rangers have reminded Parks goers that dogs in the trees are canine-non-gratis and must be left outside or fac formidable and forceful financial fines.
And who better to put lead the call representing how seriously the Service sees the problem than the National Parks and Wildlife Service Area Manager.
And as Parks Managers go, who better than one who has trees and wildlife as relatives and who can put the case in a personally fitting and felicitous way than a man with the aptynomically appellated name.
That Parks and Wildlife Service Manager man is one Graham Bush!
Congratulations Graham. Could the Parks and Wildlives be in anyone else’s more appropriate hands?
Free books by the dozen
To a marathon of Rama’s regular giveaway this week in which not one, not two and not three lucky prize winners stand to wallow in their fame but a regular Rama Army of 12 winners thrust into success simply by answering her traditionally traditional quiz one at a time.
To join this week’s stampede of success, all we had to do was name the publisher of the warmly reviewed runaway environment novel Red Reflection by Australia’s own Phil MacNamara.
The answer to Rama’s Quiz Quonumdrum was the ‘The Third Fuse Project’ and the lucky 10 correct answers to jump out of the PS News Barrel of Booty to snap up their big prizes were Susan M from the Department of Social Services, Suzanna A from the Australian Border Force, Jennifer H from the Queensland Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, Matt H from Services Australia, Kate D and Frank L from the national Department of Education, Skills and Employment, John G from the Federal Department of Social Services, Dominic S at Defence, Rita B at Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mela D from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Bruce I of the Federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, Mark I at ACT Education.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part.
For another chance to relieve Rama of her plentiful prizes, simply visit her review of the Book Breaking Good at this PS News link and answer her quiz question or stop by at her other review of the DVD The Birthday Cake at this link and answer her quiz question there.
Good luck to one and all who take up Rama’s challenge.
Subs going up!
And finally, our regular rundown of the unique Public Sector sport of swelling the PS News subscription list, a challenge in which each State and Territory compete to boost their checklist of champions to sign up the most new PS News subscribers for each month.
For the just-finished September, five keen States contended for the championship which was taken out by the Australian Public Service (APS) whose monthly readership increased by 273 new subscribers in September, taking its total to a record-breaking 60,621.
Second on the growing game was WA where 82 new names were added to its monthly total taking the State’s following to its highest ever 17,104; followed by Queensland whose new 76 readers took it to its best-ever 14,592; Tasmania fourth with 49 new readers also setting a record at 11,649; and Victoria continuing its steady growth by adding 41 readers to its highest-ever end-of-month total 22,201.
Congratulations to all the winning States and Territories for contributing to Australia’s new national total of 173, 056 brother and sister readers, just like we all are!
Well done everybody. Next update this time next month.
Till next week….
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