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Title: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Syllestrae on June 13, 2006, 08:56:43 AM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1661737.htm

ACT-government?  I don't understand what any of that means.
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Sagacity on June 13, 2006, 02:24:10 PM
ACT = Australian Capital Territory.

Australia's capital, Canberra, is not in any of Australia's states.  The city, and a small bit of land around it, has basically been declared an autonomous territory independent from all the states.

Wikipedia info and stuffs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory)

It doesn't have all the rights of a full state but apparently enough to make some local laws that others object to.   :P
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Syllestrae on June 13, 2006, 02:32:24 PM
Ah, like us and the District of Columbia I guess (D.C.)

- Syll
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Noa on June 13, 2006, 02:53:35 PM
i thought we kicked D.C. out because it's evil.

like in Escape From L.A. where they sectioned off part of Los Angeles to be a penal colony.
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Alwynn on June 13, 2006, 03:19:50 PM
Any chance.. any chance you can get to say 'penal colony'   

Same 'ole Izz  ;)
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Bindi on June 14, 2006, 05:19:33 AM
Vatican City is like that too, I guess. It's like its own little country.

A very small country...with funny dressed guards and stuff.
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: PinkRose on June 14, 2006, 06:12:26 PM
It isn't "like". It IS it's own country.
So not the same.
DC and Canberra are still part of the country they are surrounded by.
Title: Re: Hey Adeste... translate this for me?
Post by: Syllestrae on June 14, 2006, 09:18:20 PM
You're gonna get slapped :p