{"id":55440,"date":"2014-06-02T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55440"},"modified":"2014-06-02T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T05:46:28","slug":"schoolies-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55440","title":{"rendered":"Schoolies Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you graduate from high school in Australia and your family has some money, you’ll typically go to a resort such as Surfers Paradise and party for a week. It’s called “Schoolies<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

I don’t remember this sort of thing 30 years ago. <\/p>\n

If you don’t have air conditioning or a pool at home, your kids are likely to accuse you of owning a “pov house.”<\/p>\n

When I lived in Australia in the 1970s, about 5% of the population went to university. Now it is about half<\/a>, about the same rate as America.<\/p>\n

From Brisbane’s Courier-Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

TENNIS wild child Bernard Tomic has been caught up in a major Gold Coast party drug investigation. <\/p>\n

Tomic is believed to have been at a penthouse party in Surfers Paradise where two teenage girls were allegedly supplied cocaine by local nightclub king Jamie Pickering.<\/p>\n

The Ferrari-driving Pickering, who owns prominent Surfers nightclubs SinCity and Vanity, was arrested in March as part of Operation Kilo Fraction, a 19-month police probe into bikie and organised crime links to the Glitter Strip\u2019s party drug trade.<\/p>\n

More than 150 people were arrested and tens of millions of dollars in drugs and alleged proceeds of crime, including luxury homes, were seized in the operation.<\/p>\n

Pickering, the son of 1970s national political cartoonist Larry Pickering, was charged with five offences including supplying drugs to minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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