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Originally posted by mattisdada
Oppinion. Iunno, the people, the country side. Whatever you like/look for in a country.
You think the Australian countryside is awesome until you see other countries. NZ make us look pretty silly.
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Originally posted by mattisdada
Thats why Ch10 has to say "seriously" all the time... or they think we might think that they were thinking of joking... very complicated matter.
The alternative was "Like, totally", except Sandra Silly couldn't remember the line.
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Originally posted by azn angel
and tbh, i am fucking sick of white australians saying gtfo of OUR country. White people are not the original inhabitants of this country, they basically stole it. we are SUPPOSED to be a multi-cultural society but i am not seeing that happen =/
What's happening here is that people are coming into this country without respecting it's laws. If a law is wrong, you can follow the proper channels to have it changed. Until that happens, you damn well follow that law.
Gtfoooc is usually invoked when migrants have no respect for the country that they are moving to. Which is not to say that it can't be misused by stupid people, but it's not a bad thing in itself.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
...but last year I came across a reportage from UK journalists (BBC?) which claimed otherwise. That despite the fact that some tribe had land rights, they still were being "tricked" by a big ass company and gained absolutely nothing for letting them mining their land. (I think it was somewhere in northern Arnhem Land, but don't quote me on this).
You're probably talking about Jabiluka.
Which is not aboriginal-specific, of course. Federal governments often make decisions regarding mining material or the placement of refuse sites or power plants over the heads of local owners of the land. It's the same story with transport- if the state government wants to build a freeway on your land, they have the ability to take that from you. That the interest is commercial is of as much relevance as if that freeway was to be a tollway.
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With regards the IR laws (this is becoming an interesting thread!)
The fairness test:
The best fairness test is the employee. Why not let them decide if they would like to give up benefit X for reward Y? That's what the old system was.
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Kevin Rudd is a pushover. He had an opportunity to really make a stand for this country, but he's gradually rounded off his edges to fit the conservative mold. Yuck. That said, Wayne Swann will make a great treasurer!
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
Australia
