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Yesterday was a good example of the fact that, sometimes, people are just dicks
Yes.
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Yesterday was a good example of the fact that, sometimes, people are just dicks
Or it will be a claim they have been held back, by purposely keeping them on welfare.
Nothing will change until the generation that is school now, is forced to change. Their parents are probably a lost cause, unless they personally want to change their circumstances.
Yep and the disagreements are all about how to effect that change....
good example in effect by your seniors is a good start.
I saw the 9 coverage.. there were a whole bunch of protesters banging on the glass of the restaurant. the security guards told the PM that they thought she and Mr Abbott should leave. Once they left, there werent many people outside, but the ones they were seemed very aggressive. and once they got in the car, they started trying to stop the car.
I was ashamed that Aussies would treat the PM and Opposition leader like that, and the people who were being honoured... on Australia Day as well.
It even made me feel like using one of my most hated words... un-Australian
..and particularly the guy who was holding Gillards shoe like it was a trophy. Disgusting.... and a really bad reflection on the Aboriginals who had been protesting peacefully. a very sad day...
So it was a tip off by a Labor advisor... but the staff member did not in any way suggest or encourage violence or demonstration .
WOW!
I agree :So it was a tip off by a Labor advisor... but the staff member did not in any way suggest or encourage violence or demonstration .
They have definately set their cause back years, any sympathy from me has dried up today.
I do wonder if the date of Australia Day exacerbates tensions.
That said, there is a correlation between being a drunk obnoxious cretins and having a southern cross tattoo and wearing the flag as a cape.
That said, there is a correlation between being a drunk obnoxious cretins and having a southern cross tattoo and wearing the flag as a cape.
So it was a tip off by a Labor advisor... but the staff member did not in any way suggest or encourage violence or demonstration .
WOW!
They thought they'd get smart, but the whole thing backfired on them.
Having said that, it is starting to get boring to see Abbott's tongue beat his brain when it comes to public life. You'd think he'd learn his lesson by now.
I do wonder if the date of Australia Day exacerbates tensions.
What were the findings of the study ?
She says Australian flags on cars are a common sight in the West.
"I think that's partly to do with the fact that here, Australia Day is a bit more of a celebration in terms of the fireworks and so on," she said.
"Clearly they were trying to say something by doing this and so I wanted to know what exactly were they trying to say."
WA University anthropologist Farida Fozdar says those flying the flags expressed more racist opinions on a number of issues.
"People who had flags on their cars, 43 per cent of them believe the White Australia Policy had saved Australia from problems that other countries had experienced," she said.
"Fifty-six per cent of those with flags on their cars feared their culture and its most important values were in danger compared to 34 per cent of non-flag flyers."
Professor Fozdar says of the people surveyed who do fly flags, the common factor was fear.
"You can't actually ask outright a question about 'do you feel fearful?' I guess the question that I asked that was closest to that was the one about fearing the loss of one's cultures and most important values," she said.
"Certainly 56 per cent of people with car flags agreed with that statement, but there was definitely a feeling of, I guess, being under siege."
There is a place for more public education about the value of diversity to Australia to encourage people to feel more positive about that diversity.
WA University anthropologist Farida Fozdar
She says the majority of those polled - whether they flew Australian flags or not - had negative views of Aboriginal people, Muslim Australians and asylum seekers.
"I asked a question about some of the minorities within Australia who tend to bear the brunt of Australian racism," she said.
"There were a lot of people who felt negative towards Muslim Australians particularly and towards asylum seekers particularly."
But Professor Fozdar says according to her research it is simplistic to believe all of those with flags on their cars or trucks hold racist attitudes.
"You had flag flyers who were expressing non-racist views, so I wouldn't like people to go away from hearing about this research thinking, 'oh well all people who have flags on their cars are racist'. That's certainly not the finding," she said.