Comments | pingduck: Rant (i'm sending this to SMH)

pingduck

Rant (i'm sending this to SMH)

Dec 13, 2005 08:09

I stood under the Australian flag and sang songs for my country. I laughed as an ambassador at people who had never understood what the song "waltzing matilda" actually describes, even though they were of the opinion that it was our national anthem. And I've boasted to people with pride about my country. A place were we face more threat from ( Read more... )

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absurd_ December 13 2005, 09:03:22 UTC

Hear, hear.
I almost cried as I watched John Howard deny this is a racially charged issue... as he talked about how Australia is a multicultural nation and that this was nothing to do with racism.

Ugh.

pingduck December 13 2005, 09:22:06 UTC

John Howard has no choice. If he says "Yes, Australia is rascist" the global newspapers will have a feild day. Goodbye tourism, goodbye economy. He's ridiculed no matter what he says.

absurd_ December 13 2005, 09:38:31 UTC

Oh, come on Ping, he doesn't have to say it like that! But flat-out denying it when it's right there in his face? It's just insulting.

absurd_ December 13 2005, 14:27:33 UTC

Nah. Because Australia isn't racist. John Howard is tryin gto give us hope and also protecting his arse. It's expected. Maybe he took the wrong tact but playing down the problem is a must in a world like this. Don't you do it everyday?

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cold_erin December 13 2005, 12:25:56 UTC

Hear, hear from me too.

cold_erin December 13 2005, 21:51:50 UTC

yes australia is a country that relies heaviily on its image. but that can't be an excuse to avoid the truth. howard is a politician isn't he? then why not give 'a poliitical awnser' instead of a blunt, false awnser? some sort of constructiive critisim (thinking back to primary school) might be better.
but the thing that really bugs me about this is, what is so great about before the 1930's? why are the imigrants that came for about 100 years before time, so much better than the ones comming over in the last 20 or so years?
or at leats why can't these pissed off people understand the proplems of the aborigines more now?
i'm not an australian so i appoligies if i missed the point all to geather.

pingduck December 14 2005, 10:01:21 UTC

"avoiding" the truth is the aim of politics...

cold_erin December 14 2005, 16:24:28 UTC

'selective truth'