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4 hours ago, Marty_d said:
Maybe, but he got the shade...
Maybe, but that's the OUT lane of the carpark, not a parking space.
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Just how WOKE can you go?
The comments below are taken from a recent Daily Mail article.A former indigenous politician who received a prestigious award from Barack Obama has described Aboriginal’ welcome to country’ ceremonies as ‘bullshit’.
Quote from former indigenous NT minister Bess Price (mother of Jacinta Price). ‘All the “Welcome to Country”, all the “Smoking Ceremonies” and all the made-up bullshit rituals about “pay our respects to elders past and present” is just one big lie.
The ‘welcome to country’ was adopted into Australia’s parliamentary protocols in 2008, after the then prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the stolen generation.
However, two years after that decision Aboriginal entertainer Ernie Dingo claimed that he invented the concept in 1976 when Pacific Island dancers demanded they receive a traditional welcome.
The Aboriginals have supposedly been here for at least 30,000 years (some say more like 60,000 years). That was about 29,750 years before the British arrived.
The fact is, as uncomfortable and as unfashionable as it is, aboriginal Australia had not produced anything resembling a Shakespeare, nothing much in the way of technology, never discovered the wheel and no philosophy to speak of, in the 30,000 years available to it. The English brought the rule of law, the Westminster system, the notion of progress and all the benefits of the science, technology and ingenuity of the modern European tradition.
On 26 January 1788 when the First Fleet ships unloaded their ~1200 convicts, Royal Marine guards and officials, not a shot was fired. As they looked around what’s now Circular Quay they saw nothing other than bush. Not a single building, planted field, domesticated plant or animal – nothing at all. It was the same across the continent. It was “terra nullius” – a vacant land. There was no indigenous Army to defeat in battle, no Aboriginal flag to lower. There was nothing to claim as the spoils of victory. There was just wild bush. The few Aborigines who came out to have a look at these strange people were completely illiterate and innumerate and those on the south side of the harbour spoke a language completely unintelligible to those on the north side of the harbour and they’d been constantly at war with each other for as long as anyone can remember. To this day Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290-363 dialects belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands.
There was no “invasion”.
Since the arrival of the English, only about 250 years ago, Australia has prospered and developed into a modern first-world country, along with all other Western democracies.
Yet for at least 30,000 years (prior to the arrival of the British) the Aboriginals seemed to have not progressed one step.
To put this into perspective, the Egyptian empire came and went between around 1570 BC and 1070 BC.
Aboriginals had inhabited our great land for at least 27,000 years prior to the Egyptian empire.
The Greek empire was at its peak in the period 500 BC to 300 BC and the Roman empire was at its peak around 117 BC.
Each of those empires was highly advanced and contributed enormously to the advancement of the modern world.
It, therefore, beats me why the Aboriginals are now so revered.
55 years ago, under the Holt Liberal government, that 90.77 per cent of Australians voted to remove race from the constitution, putting ‘indigenous’ Australian people on the same legal footing as all other Australians and allowing them to be counted in the Australian population. It was a momentous shift towards equality. Half a decade later, the Albanese Labor government wants to insert ‘race’ back into the constitution!
To enshrine a special place in the constitution based purely on racial grounds is racism pure and simple. Length of time on the continent whether it be 40,000 years, 250 years or 10 years shouldn’t be the determinant for any special consideration to any population cohort in the constitution.
JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO CONTEMPLATE BEFORE SIGNING UP TO “THE VOICE” – TAKE CARE – WE ALREADY HAVE A PARLIAMENT THAT REPRESENTS “ALL” AUSTRALIANS!
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Received a call this afternoon.
"This is an automated message. Your account will be debited $880. To cancel, press 1."
I hung up. The caller ID showed the originating number was from Neetze, Lower Tuscany, Germany. A quick check on the internet confirmed the country and area code as Neetze. Their 'automated call' probably dialed a string of random numbers and got mine. I have never done ANY foreign transactions, let alone Germany. Still, I will keep a close watch on my accounts, as I do every day.
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I heard in passing somewhere that some Republican states want to pass or have passed a law that allows people to carry weapons in public without a permit. Back to the good old wild west. Strap you holster on your hip. Who is the fastest draw? Stand-off at high noon.
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100% parking FAIL!
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Further to my Jan 17 post, yesterday I got my water rates bill, due 13 Feb. After deducting the bill total, my balance stands at a credit of $23.00. No bill shock there. Mortgage paid off more than 20 years ago, all personal loans paid off, only debt is credit card, under $5,000 and reducing.
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The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.
Molly put up her hand and said,
“My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating.”
The teacher said,
“That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not ‘fascinating’.”
Sally raised her hand. She said,
“My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.”
The teacher said,
“Well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.”
Little Johnny raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before.
She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.
Johnny said,
“My aunt Carolyn has a sweater with ten buttons, but her t!ts are so big she can only fasten eight!”
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Two other stories at the top of tonight's news highlight some of the inconsistencies with the treatment of whiltes and aboriginies. First there was the aboriginal woman gaoled without bail for being drunk and drugged on a train, and whose pleas for help in the cell were ignored and she died of a stomach problem. Then the guy who was "next level drunk", got in his 4x4 to get more beer, and backed over his mate of 25 years and killed him. Allowed out on bail. Notice the difference?
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I heard Warren Mundine say that the referendum is a waste of millions which would be better spent trying to solve the problems. He believes The Voice will have little effect, as it was tried previously with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission which was abandoned a few years ago.
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Same here. That's why the current ad campaign with Bon Jovi's "Livin on a Prayer". The guys in the blue ute: Hey guys, I gotta wizz, eh? Again?
Playing that one to death.
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Bill Gates was seen at the Australian Open. He can afford the $3000 for front row seats, but did he pay?
BTW, he's in Australia to stop cows farting. A company he has an interest in has developed a supplement for cattle which reduces the Methane they generate. Got to get greenhouse gases under control.
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The five African-American police officers charged with second degree murder for the bashing death of a black youth, Tyre Nichols (pronounced Ty-ree). Causing anti-police riots in America. Punched, kicked, used baton and tazor.
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One day, a man was dragged to the cinema by his wife who wanted to watch a romantic comedy.
Half an hour into the film,
the man felt a nudge in his elbow.
“What an outrage,” his wife murmured to him.
“The person sitting in front of us is sleeping!” the woman said, clearly offended.
Her husband was fairly annoyed.
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You might be surprised at how many cars have been designed with twin engines, disregarding EV/ICE hybrids.
Here is one of those slideshow type reports listing a number of such examples, many as conversions of popular showroom cars.
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Wife" "Why did you wake up grumpy this morning?"
Husband: "Sorry, I'll let you sleep in tomorrow."
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A man is "trapped" and "crushed" inside a public "telescopic" urinal near Trafalgar Square, in central London. The man was working at the Cambridge Circus site and was seriously injured at first. This is what the Metropolitan Police said.
As reported by the Daily Mail emergency services were called to the scene at 13:10 at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road outside the Palace Theatre in London's theatre district.
Emergency teams are struggling to free the man. An air ambulance landed in Trafalgar Square while a large number of ambulances and fire brigade vehicles arrived at the scene of the accident.
What is a telescopic urinal?
The telescopic urinal is a "pop-up" toilet stored underground, that at night is brought to street level for use by people.
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Totally p'd off
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Just been to Woolies. My flavoured, sugar zero mineral water jumped from 75c for a 1.25 lt bottle to $1.50.