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TIL the Australian guy that put on the single greatest piece of improv theater ever caught on camera during his wrongful arrest passed away this August from cancer.

For those who don't know: in 1991 an investigator who suspected this man of credit card fraud called the cops on him at the Chinese restaurant where he was dining with a friend. To expedite the arrest, he led the police to believe they were arresting a high profile criminal of some sort.

Police surrounded the restaurant, corralled the waiting media (who had somehow gotten wind), and interrupted Karlson's lunch.

"He was as calm as anything," former police detective Adam Firman says of the moment he arrested Karlson in the restaurant.

"He was happy to go with us. Well, as happy as you can be, to be arrested. Until he saw all the media. And that's when he just went berserk."

The lines Karlson delivered have since become classic quotes in internet culture.

"Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!" Karlson declares to the cameras as he's wrestled into the police car.

...

"As soon as we drove away, he stopped and he said, 'That was fun,'" Firman says.

"There was no fight getting him out of the car. Nothing. It was all put on for the cameras."

The drama behind the rant

The Brisbane police who arrested him that day didn't know that Karlson had been a criminal and a serial prison escapee. He was also a part-time actor.

By the time he was 34, Karlson had spent most of his life in homes and prisons.

His first escape was in 1966. He was on a train going from Boggo Road Gaol to face a breaking, entering and stealing charge at Maryborough Magistrates Court. He got out of his handcuffs and jumped off.

Two years later, after he had been locked up in McLeod Prison Farm on Victoria's French Island for another theft, he convinced a local fisherman to give him a lift to the mainland.

Three months after that, he was picked up in a stolen car carrying safe-breaking tools in Parramatta. Just before his trial, he impersonated a detective and walked out of his court cell. Finally, he was captured in an apartment on Sydney's North Shore.

That's when his life took a dramatic left turn.

Sentenced to eight years in Parramatta Gaol, Karlson was put in an unusually large cell with an inmate named Jim McNeil.

This chance encounter would become destiny manifest.

McNeil had heard about Karlson impersonating a detective, and he thought it was hilarious.

He welcomed Karlson into his cell. The two men bonded over making foul-tasting alcohol in the cell's washbasin from raisins and yeast, and shared histories.

They had both grown up poor, even by the standards of their rough-and-tumble neighbourhoods. Adults had abused them physically and sexually. And they'd both stolen and scammed a few shillings for their families when they saw the chance.

After encouragement from Karlson, McNeil wrote a play about cellmates who brewed grog. They put it on in prison, and Karlson played a leading role.

Both had discovered talents they didn't know they had. McNeil kept writing on his smuggled typewriter, and Karlson kept acting. The plays became a hit among young Sydney intellectuals, many who had been campaigning for prisoners' rights.

Within four years, their work got them out on parole a combined 13 years early.

Best friends

Karlson and McNeil's friendship continued outside the prison gates and they moved into a house in Richmond together.

The two men stuck out like sore thumbs in their new-found scene of artists and intellectuals.

Neither man had set foot in a theatre, but McNeil's plays were already being performed across Australia. He felt that, with the success of his plays, he'd never need to resort to crime again. On radio and in the press, he would give didactic rants about the brutality of the justice system.

Karlson, meanwhile, got parts in the prime-time crime dramas Homicide and Matlock Police.

They remained close.

"The lovely bloke. I love him," McNeil told an interviewer around the same time Karlson named his son Jim McNeil Karlson.

Karlson described them as best friends.

But McNeil's alcoholism killed him in 1982.

Karlson couldn't travel to the funeral in Sydney for legal reasons.

"I … with a bodgie [fake identity], booked up hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of flowers and wreaths," he says.

Final days

McNeil's plays weren't subtle. They were screeds aimed at a society that arrested and tormented unfortunate men for petty crimes.

"The message is: look what you're doing to people," he told one interviewer.

He went on to tell a story about an Aboriginal cellmate. "He was illiterate, he was poor. He had nothing. And he stole thruppence ha'penny. And then he got three and a half years. That's a penny a year.

"Prison is the best way to show what's wrong with the outside."

His final play was about two cellmates in Parramatta. He named it 'Jack', and finished it in a drunken haze.

"Do you know I'm here?" shouts Jack the character. "Do you give a f*** where I am? No. No, you don't give a f*** where I am. Pricks. Democrats."

Fifteen years later, Jack Karlson declared "Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!" to the waiting cameras and an enduring audience.

It would be his most unforgettable performance.

From 7news:

So how did Karlson improvise a performance so poetic, so theatrical and so amusing?

“Of course, I was somewhat influenced by the juice of the red grape."

Karlson spent his last years as a painter, incidentally selling many paintings of his own infamous arrest, and helping make a documentary about his life that's yet to be released. He died aged 82, surrounded by family and was widely mourned.

"Tata and farewell" legend. Hope the internet never forgets you. ACAB forever.

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No. 39 - Qantas

...huh. Well, today I learned Qantas is actually an acronym for Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services. The more you know!

Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia, is the biggest fish I've covered so far. Yes, bigger than Lufthansa. Qantas is one of the airlines. They're the second-oldest continuously operating airline in the world, they're often mistakenly claimed to have had no fatal crashes (they have never lost a plane or a passenger in the crash of a jet, but had several fatal crashes prior to 1951), and they have a dinosaur named after them.

They didn't make a commemorative livery for the Qantassaurus. I just don't understand that.

Now, they do have a handful of special liveries that I will cover in the future, because they're very interesting. They also have some significantly less interesting older liveries. But today I'm only here to talk about their default livery, the one they're using today.

I'm honestly exhausted.

So the first thing that I need to mention is that this is Lufthansa-shaped. Lufthansesque. This isn't even that long-looking of a plane but already the detachedness of the tail is really noticeable. In its defense, Lufthansa was ripping Qantas off and not the other way around - this livery was introduced all the way back in 1984, making it truly ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was a massive downgrade from the earlier quite cromulent 707 liveries.

The tail isn't exactly consistent. Some have no trim at all, some have a very thin grey line, and some have this decent-looking layered grey shading, and it seems completely inconsistent across models and times. Not that it would have improved my opinion tangibly, but I can't even actually count it.

You know what's strange? I have to hand it to Qantas - their logo, the silhouette of the kangaroo, is well-designed, recognizable, and I would go so far as to say iconic. But look at that graceful bit of grey shading on it. It's on the newer airplanes, but it's so subtle you might easily miss it (I actually did) - they clearly know how to use shadow, so what's with the unadorned white fuselage?

As for the font, it's definitely balanced a lot better than Lufthansa and looks very nice, but it doesn't solve the issue. Not even close. It reminds me a bit of WestJet's livery.

They even ripped off the 'Spirit of Australia' thing. I know you weren't involved in this, but I still blame you, David.

There just isn't much to say about Qantas, unfortunately. I think I like the little cut-ins on the engines. I like the logo. I just think they should have got around to designing an actual livery at some point. Such a storied airline owes it to themself, and they owe it to me even more.

Final grade: D+.

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WHEN AUSTRALIA HAD NAVAL AIR POWER - HMAS SYDNEY and MELBOURNE

Australia once maintained a formidable naval presence, vigilantly patrolling the nation's coastline. However, one of the most short-sighted decisions by the government from the early 1960s through the 1980s was to allow the gradual disintegration of the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

Returning from his final 'at-sea' naval posting, my dad flew off HMAS SYDNEY in a Fairey Firefly. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, my eldest brother served on HMAS MELBOURNE.

HMAS SYDNEY

HMAS SYDNEY, though a Majestic-class ship like MELBOURNE, differed in that it lacked the more modern angled flight deck, limiting the types of aircraft it could deploy and recover. SYDNEY carried both Hawker Sea Fury and Fairey Firefly squadrons, which it deployed during the Korean War. In 1962, HMAS SYDNEY was retired from aircraft carrier operations and redesignated as a troop carrier, a forerunner of today's Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD). Although it occasionally provided landing facilities for UH-1 Iroquois and Westland Wessex helicopters for Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD), SYDNEY never again conducted air operations.

As a troop carrier, SYDNEY earned the nickname "Vung Tau Ferry" due to its frequent voyages transporting troops and equipment to Vietnam.

HMAS MELBOURNE

The aircraft carrier MELBOURNE boasted many modern features for a post-WWII vessel. Fitted with an angled flight deck, it could conduct safer air operations in harsher sea conditions. In the 1950s, like HMAS SYDNEY, MELBOURNE was equipped with Fairey Firefly and Hawker Sea Fury aircraft. For anti-submarine operations, the carrier embarked the Fairey Gannet, a highly capable maritime aircraft outfitted with various anti-submarine sensors and weapons, including sonar buoys, depth charges, and torpedoes.

LATER AIRCRAFT - ASW

HMAS MELBOURNE underwent significant upgrades in the 1960s, being fitted with state-of-the-art weapon systems and aircraft. In 1967, the aircraft carrier embarked a squadron of Grumman S2E Tracker ASW aircraft, which were at the cutting edge of carrier-borne ASW technology. In 1977, following a fire at Naval Air Station HMAS NOWRA, MELBOURNE was fitted with the later model Grumman S2G Tracker. The S2G had a structurally stronger airframe and significantly improved avionics, electronic support measures (AN/ALR-54), sonar (AN/AQS-13), and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD). This not only enhanced MELBOURNE's native capabilities but also increased its interoperability with the RAAF P3C Orion long-range maritime patrol squadrons (10 and 11 Squadrons).

In 1974 through 1975, the Westland Sea King ASW Helicopter was introduced to MELBOURNE, replacing the aging Westland Wessex ASW helo. The Westland Sea King, a variant of the Sikorsky SH-3, was fitted with the highly advanced AN/AQS-13B Sonar, an advanced Doppler navigation system featuring auto-hover, Racal ARI 5955/2 lightweight radar, Mk46 torpedoes, depth charges, and a MAG-58 door-mounted machine gun. The Mk50, Mk50A, and Mk50B Sea King helicopters provided a quantum leap forward in Australia's seaborne ASW capability. The Sea King's AQS-113B dipping sonar, with its passive-active sonar sensor that could be quickly lowered into the water to variable depths, was a feared opponent for submariners who used varied ocean layers to hide their self-generated noise. The AQS-113B provided highly accurate active sonar, instant bathythermograph information, and aircraft-to-subsurface voice communications.

FIGHER & STRIKE

In 1967, MELBOURNE's fighter capability was enhanced with the introduction of the Douglas A-4G Skyhawk. This highly versatile aircraft could perform a variety of roles, including fleet air defense, maritime strike, close air support for land-based troops, and training. The A-4G Skyhawk was equipped with 20mm cannons, AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, and could deploy Mk77, Mk82, and Mk83 bombs, ground attack missiles, AGM-12 air-to-surface missiles, and AGM-45 anti-radiation missiles.

MELBOURNE AND TRAGEDY

Sadly, HMAS MELBOURNE became known as the ship that sank two vessels in peacetime but none in wartime. However, neither accident—the sinking of HMAS VOYAGER on 10 February 1964, and USS FRANK E EVANS on 3 June 1969—was the fault of MELBOURNE or her crew.

My brother was on HMAS MELBOURNE at the time of the EVANS incident. He recounted that during those blackout night operations, MELBOURNE realized EVANS was out of position and attempted to warn the destroyer, indicating it was on a collision course. Despite accurate radar plots on both ships, MELBOURNE took the unprecedented action of turning on its running, navigation, spotlights, and all aircraft navigation lights to visually identify its position. Unfortunately, the young and inexperienced officer of the deck on EVANS became disoriented. Failing to alert his captain of maneuvers, he turned EVANS across MELBOURNE's path. Even though MELBOURNE was only a small Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Carrier, stopping a 20,000-ton ship in a few hundred feet was impossible.

HMAS MELBOURNE IN JOINT OPERATIONS

In later years, as an aircrew member on Lockheed P3C Orion aircraft, we conducted many successful joint operations with HMAS MELBOURNE. As ASW operators, we held our Fleet Air Arm cousins on Grumman S2G Trackers in high regard. HMAS MELBOURNE was an ideal training adversary for our RAAF P3C, as it had almost the equivalent lethal range of the latest Soviet aircraft carriers of the era, such as Kiev and Minsk, when equipped with Douglas A4G Skyhawks.

MELBOURNE also conducted numerous joint operations with other Western nations. One of the many highlights of MELBOURNE's history was its role as Australia's flagship, performing an official visit to Japan to coincide with EXPO-70.

THE CURRENT NAVAL COMBATANTS

The Royal Australian Navy currently has two major combatants that are often mistaken for aircraft carriers: the CANBERRA-class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships, HMAS CANBERRA (L02) and HMAS ADELAIDE (L01). Though larger than the aircraft carriers HMAS MELBOURNE and HMAS SYDNEY, these vessels are classified as large assault ships. They are deployed in support of the Australian Army, carrying tanks, armored personnel carriers, and helicopters. The ships are based on the design of the Spanish Navy's Juan Carlos I, a multi-role aircraft carrier designed for AV-8B Harrier II and F-35B Lightning II, utilizing a bow-fitted ski-jump. The RAN LHD ships, while fitted with a ski-jump, are not capable of deploying fixed-wing aircraft. The Australian government decided it was more cost-effective to retain the ski-jump design, even though the vessels have lighter-construction decks and lack fighter refueling capability. Currently, the RAN has no fighter strike capability. This role is partially assumed by the RAAF Boeing P-8A Poseidon multi-role maritime patrol aircraft, and the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II and Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft using long-range in-flight refueling.

WHY DOESN'T AUSTRALIA HAVE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

Many, both inside and outside defense, ask this question, and the arguments for and against are long and complicated. It is undeniable that aircraft carriers project naval power like no other combatant. Though nuclear-powered attack submarines may provide stealthy surveillance and strike capability, the visual presence of being able to deploy an air force at close range to a point of hostility cannot be understated. Consider the Royal Navy's action to reclaim the Falkland Islands, which Britain would have been incapable of conducting without carrier-based air power. Long-range in-flight refueled strike aircraft would not have had the rapid reaction needed to fend off individual attacks.

The argument against aircraft carriers is that they require other significant naval combatants to protect them. For example, each aircraft carrier would require a minimum of one air-warfare destroyer and two general-purpose or ASW frigates. That ties up a lot of naval resources just to protect the carrier. Of course, those naysayers fail to realize that the LHDs also require the same minimum support assets in wartime. It is a case of balancing the defense budget, and if you spend $368 billion on nuclear attack submarines (sore point), then there is little budget for other major combatants.

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