PM says Australia should become republic - Page 2

Gerald · 08-18-10, 09:10 AM

Reece · 08-18-10, 09:15 AM

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PM says Australia should become republic

Couldn't give a crap what that hag says!

Gerald · 08-18-10, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Reece

Couldn't give a crap what that hag says!

if she is not re-elected

krashkart · 08-18-10, 10:28 AM

Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here.

Or do we?

Gerald · 08-18-10, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here.

Or do we?

party time,Free drinks for everyone in the population

TarJak · 08-19-10, 02:00 AM

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Im sure we wont miss you once you become a republic, means more medals for us at the commonwealth games

Well I'll be surprised if any medals are awarded in Delhi in a few weeks. They are far from ready from what I've heard. Mind you the Canucks will take all the medals if we don't.

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Originally Posted by Reece

Couldn't give a crap what that hag says!

You and me both mate.

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Originally Posted by krashkart

Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here.

Or do we?

Well when you have a choice between a Bloodnut and a Wingnut I'm not sure which to choose:

Gerald · 08-19-10, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

Well I'll be surprised if any medals are awarded in Delhi in a few weeks. They are far from ready from what I've heard. Mind you the Canucks will take all the medals if we don't.

You and me both mate.

Well when you have a choice between a Bloodnut and a Wingnut I'm not sure which to choose:

measurements that you have done,he advantages he has as she has not, except that he is a man,Currently in my eyes she looks better

Platapus · 08-19-10, 08:21 AM

I don't know, I sometimes get the impression that Ozzy may have occasionally experimented with drugs. Can't put my finger on it though. Just an impression.

Skybird · 08-19-10, 08:38 AM

For long time, the Australian Brits tried to be more British than the Brits themselves. That was to be explained by the distance to their home in England, and led to some absurd attempts to make australia look like Britian at home, including the radical extinction of local flora, which simply looks too exotic (I read they payed - and I think they still do - state money for property owners to burn down areas with local flora, it even is mandatory for farmers, they could loose their rights to live on the land and use it for farming and agruclute if they do not comply). This has dramatic consequences for the abailability of natural sweet water ressoruces, becasue it adds to the prpoblem that already are coming due to the heat and the geological structure of the ground, the big porblem is salienation. In another attempt to import dear old Brittany to australia, rabbits and foxes got imported to Australia, so that hunters may have somethign to hunt. The foriegn species exploded in population numbers and kicked the ecological balance pretty much off track.

If people move to foreign places, they feel foreing and try to make this more comfortable to bear by transporting their old known habits and rites with with them, sticking to them to give themselves a feeling of "home". Often this can lead to the colonists sticking more resolut to old habits than their peope at home who meanwhile undergo changes in vogues and modes and habits and rites that do not make it into the colonies, becasue the colonies are too orthodox in their attempt to safeguarding their memory of the old home.

But I think that Austrlia after WWII has slowly started to understand that japan, China and Indonesia are much closer to it and form its neighbourhood, than Britain is. The asian neigjhbours for long time got rejected, and dealed with as trade partners of secionsd class - europe and Engöland were preferred. I think that Australians struggled for decades to overcome this handicap, and fianlly arrive in the place where they already live now since so long. and I think they indeed have understood that Enbgöand is iucz less important for them than finding their place in the community of their close neighbourhood.

seen that way, giving up to accept the British queen as head of australian state, is only logical, and Elizabeth's death is also a good opportunity that almost marks a natural watershed.

Australia formally may be a colony that became independant, but now it is time that it indeed becomes mature as well and understand that it's childhood is over and that the English mama must no longer sing the same long-since known lullabies every evening anymore. australia has certain ecological and economical problems that England and europe can and will not help it to solve, but that it can only adress in close cooperation and trade with it's Asian neighbours. How may not be too eager to enagge in closer relations if they are constantly being rejected or ignored.

It is not healthy if with yor body you are in one place, and with your mind you constantly are in a different place. For Australia I think it is time to bring both together - else the future may prove to be more than Australia can handle.

On the economic and ecologic problems I just hinted at, I refer to the chapter on Australia in Jarred Diamond's outstanding book "Collapse".

Gerald · 08-19-10, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I don't know, I sometimes get the impression that Ozzy may have occasionally experimented with drugs. Can't put my finger on it though. Just an impression.

Reece · 08-19-10, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Vendor

if she is not re-elected

Incorrect statement really, she was self elected!

Don't like her one bit, at least Kevin Rudd has some morals!
She is a legend in her own mind!

Gerald · 08-19-10, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Reece

Incorrect statement really, she was self elected!

Don't like her one bit, at least Kevin Rudd has some morals!
She is a legend in her own mind!

especially as a viewer,and morale is then, yes it sounds like a real sleeping pill

Gerald · 08-19-10, 07:01 PM

(CNN) -- Australians go to the polls on August 21, 2010, and will choose between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition to form a new government.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/as...ex.html?hpt=C2

Note:August 19, 2010 Updated 0619 GMT

bookworm_020 · 08-19-10, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendor

measurements that you have done,he advantages he has as she has not, except that he is a man,Currently in my eyes she looks better

If you had a side on profile, your views might change!

Skybird, your looking at the republic issue from the non Australian viewpoint. We have a head of state we don't have to support, and when the Queen or her family stuff up, it's no embarrassment to us!

They way we're going, England will become a republic before we do!

TarJak · 08-19-10, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by bookworm_020

If you had a side on profile, your views might change!

Skybird, your looking at the republic issue from the non Australian viewpoint. We have a head of state we don't have to support, and when the Queen or her family stuff up, it's no embarrassment to us!

They way we're going, England will become a republic before we do!

And yes Julia your ar$e does look big in that.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I don't know, I sometimes get the impression that Ozzy may have occasionally experimented with drugs. Can't put my finger on it though. Just an impression. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,637 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	For long time, the Australian Brits tried to be more British than the Brits themselves. That was to be explained by the distance to their home in England, and led to some absurd attempts to make australia look like Britian at home, including the radical extinction of local flora, which simply looks too exotic (I read they payed - and I think they still do - state money for property owners to burn down areas with local flora, it even is mandatory for farmers, they could loose their rights to live on the land and use it for farming and agruclute if they do not comply). This has dramatic consequences for the abailability of natural sweet water ressoruces, becasue it adds to the prpoblem that already are coming due to the heat and the geological structure of the ground, the big porblem is salienation. In another attempt to import dear old Brittany to australia, rabbits and foxes got imported to Australia, so that hunters may have somethign to hunt. The foriegn species exploded in population numbers and kicked the ecological balance pretty much off track. If people move to foreign places, they feel foreing and try to make this more comfortable to bear by transporting their old known habits and rites with with them, sticking to them to give themselves a feeling of "home". Often this can lead to the colonists sticking more resolut to old habits than their peope at home who meanwhile undergo changes in vogues and modes and habits and rites that do not make it into the colonies, becasue the colonies are too orthodox in their attempt to safeguarding their memory of the old home. But I think that Austrlia after WWII has slowly started to understand that japan, China and Indonesia are much closer to it and form its neighbourhood, than Britain is. The asian neigjhbours for long time got rejected, and dealed with as trade partners of secionsd class - europe and Engöland were preferred. I think that Australians struggled for decades to overcome this handicap, and fianlly arrive in the place where they already live now since so long. and I think they indeed have understood that Enbgöand is iucz less important for them than finding their place in the community of their close neighbourhood. seen that way, giving up to accept the British queen as head of australian state, is only logical, and Elizabeth's death is also a good opportunity that almost marks a natural watershed. Australia formally may be a colony that became independant, but now it is time that it indeed becomes mature as well and understand that it's childhood is over and that the English mama must no longer sing the same long-since known lullabies every evening anymore. australia has certain ecological and economical problems that England and europe can and will not help it to solve, but that it can only adress in close cooperation and trade with it's Asian neighbours. How may not be too eager to enagge in closer relations if they are constantly being rejected or ignored. It is not healthy if with yor body you are in one place, and with your mind you constantly are in a different place. For Australia I think it is time to bring both together - else the future may prove to be more than Australia can handle. On the economic and ecologic problems I just hinted at, I refer to the chapter on Australia in Jarred Diamond's outstanding book "Collapse". __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Explainer: Australian elections 2010 (CNN) -- Australians go to the polls on August 21, 2010, and will choose between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition to form a new government. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/as...ex.html?hpt=C2 Note:August 19, 2010 Updated 0619 GMT __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

08-18-10, 10:28 AM	#19
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Hmmm... Dullard and Krudd. We don't have as much fun with our officials' names here. Or do we?