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what does it mean to be an australian?

oi oi oi
being australian is a euphamism for being daft, a bit slow and easily lead. johnny howard is therefore a great australian.
 
Kemical Burn.............I am not suggesting that I am against our country taking in refugees.........in fact im very much in favour.

I am however against us simply taking in people willy nilly which is what we have done.

It has started with a person here and a person there and next thing u know we have the whole bloody family joining us for the next 50 years.

Now if serious checks were done on these peoples backgrounds then I wouldnt mind so much...........but its all to late now as we have allowed much of the worlds filth and vermin to infest our country already.........not only do these bring there illegal practices here but also cultivate a culture that we were supposed to be saving them from.........a culture in many cases which includes misdeeds against women as u so rightly pointed out.

I am not against refugees at all.........Im against the way we simply have opened our doors to pretty much everyone without some sort of serious checking.

I also feel that we need to be stronger about accepting some of these foreign cultures or ways of life to permeate our Aussie way of life.



Take your head out from your arse and learn to not watch commercial news. All bad eggs? and who's the judge of that? you? Then who will be your judge? me? and mine? and so on and so forth?



As for this comment...........I have no idea what ur on about..............Yes all nations have a percent of the population that is gunna be bad.............it is my belief that some nations have a much greater percentage.
 
MazDan: that was also the opinion of bigots who didn't want the Europeans coming in the 50's and 60's, and then of those who complained about the "yellow peril" when there was large intake of asian refugees in the 70's.
 
actually .dR spgeddi... much as i loathe the man and a stack policies he's an amazing tactician in playing the public and achieving his outcomes. It's quite startling to see you calling him daft.. just because you disagree with his policies etc does not make him daft.. it means you have a differring viewpoint.

He's not as easily led as green left would have you believe either..
 
The Prison Train Is Sailing...


"When will you Australians learn?

In America,
we stopped using corporal punishment,
and things have never been better.

The streets are safe.
Old people strut confidently
through the darkest alleys.
And the weak and nerdy
are admired for their
computer-programming abilities.

So,
like us,
let your children run wild & free,
because,
as the old saying goes,
let your children run wild & free."
 
ozbreaker said:
he's an amazing tactician in playing the public
and achieving his outcomes.
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Whilst I tendest to agree with this Oz-B,
playing the public doesn't seem that hard :(
*stares across room at stereo that was on 2UE talkback before...*





I keep my friends close,
and my enemies deader.
 
Re: The Prison Train Is Sailing...

UnSquare said:

"When will you Australians learn?

In America,
we stopped using corporal punishment,
and things have never been better.

The streets are safe.
Old people strut confidently
through the darkest alleys.
And the weak and nerdy
are admired for their
computer-programming abilities.

So,
like us,
let your children run wild & free,
because,
as the old saying goes,
let your children run wild & free."
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Simpsons yeh ?!?

Quality quote nonetheless.
 
After reading through this topic I dont really know what to say about all this... It's a pretty big can of worms.
To tell you the truth i don't think I even have a concrete opinion on what it means to be Australian. I just am.
I agree with some of you if not in full, in part and some just scare me with their opinions. I can appreciate the opinions of people like kemical burn, mr_p, quiet roar and shuba. *pats ont the back* thanks for thinking outside the square.

The one thing that strikes most closely to home for me is this

guess for me being Australian means being lucky enough to be able to experience lots of different cultures in the one place, while still being able to live in some sort of harmony.
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idea of Australia as an accepting multicultural society. Sure it sounds good in theory and from the outside it probably even looks that way as you walk down the street.

Australian means being 'multicultural' while incessantly bitching about how every culture is threatening to kill our national identity.
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Far too true unfortunately and i hate it. My girlfriend is from overseas and the hardest about it all is getting the people around you to accept her as an equal and not some mindless slave. Standing there listening to your friends or even your family rant on about race, "the bloody..... those fucking...." and trying not to let it ruffle your feathers isnt easy. Cant imagine how she must feel too, everytime she meets someone new here they insist on speaking in only two syllable words making various hand motions and nodding with stupid grins on their faces...
thats probably too much of a rant on my part and not really on topic :\ sorry

Sorry but i really cant agree with the refugee thing either...

I am not against refugees at all.........Im against the way we simply have opened our doors to pretty much everyone without some sort of serious checking.
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doesnt that sound a bit stupid to you? the amount of red tape to get here legally even if your married to someone is fucking enormous let alone immigrating here on your own merits let alone as a refugee.

The only other thing i have to say scares me is the blind nationalism of america... it's very scary, i hope it never gets turned against us. i guess i can understand why we end up sucking up to the states and Bush...
 
Bottom line is that I have my opinion and you have yours.

I respect that you have a different opinion to mine, however I have not seen anything that youy have put forward that would even slightly make me change my mind.

I live in Fairfield in Sydneys West.........probably the most multi cultural area in the country.

I choose to live here because i love the multi culturalism.

I am however also realistic enough to see, and experienced enough to know, that there are many many people living in Australia who were not born here and whom do not deserve to be living here.

They are nothing more than a burden to society.

And yes, the long term affects do concern me greatly.
 
The Prison Train Is Sailing...

MazDan said:
I am however also realistic enough to see, and experienced enough to know, that there are many many people living in Australia who were not born here and whom do not deserve to be living here.

They are nothing more than a burden to society.
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*raises hand*
apart from the not being born here bit.
Sorry.
*raises hand*
"Can I go to the bathroom"
*waves hand violently*
"Miss, Miss!"
*puts hand down and stares at ground sheepishly*

Sheepishly, mods.
Indeed.
 
I respect that you have a different opinion to mine, however I have not seen anything that youy have put forward that would even slightly make me change my mind.
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umm ever thought that they actually DO background checks on people before they enter the country?? It's not exactly a half arsed effort either, thats why people end up in detention centres for so long.
 
RaiseAWhyAre We Here Question

Red Koi said:
thats why people end up in detention centres for so long.
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You sure 'bout that one?
Just seems to me a bit narrow...
not you... just... the... well... comment...

Anyhow...
I shuffle back to my drinking thread...

(The more hits on the drinking thread,
the more I get paid by various companies
which I'm not allowed to mention.
It's really amusing you guys don't take
me seriously when I say I'm gettin paid
a nearly-live-able income an' free alcohol
to promote drinkin' on a harm-minimisation board.
And no matter how many times I tell you,
you won't believe me.
What A JOB!
=D )

That's what it means to be Stralian.

:)
 
Im pretty sure, correct me if i'm wrong. I always assumed that detention centres were for people that came to Australia illegally were caught and have applied for refugee status. The government (or whoever it is) checks the legitimacy of their claim and puts them in detention while they go digging around.

I've never really looked into the whole process but i thought thats how it worked. :\

Anyways i know that just to immigrate if your legally married to an Australian you need police clearances for you and your whole family, if they come with the marriage deal (dependants and what not). they're not oing to let just anybody in on a whim.
 
Huh?

I figure if you can get here on a mad boat
without a jolly-roger an' heaps of parrots to feed,
and you can prove you won't put another
eyepatch on the cast of out soap-operas,
then you're no pirate...

*...stamps hand of entrant...*

*...stares at already existing population with
more suspicious than two eyes could than the
one that he already has...*

*waves cutlass*

*informs Red Koi
of 'UnSquare claus
(Santa Claus - check the coss-thread-referencing, it's amazing.....)
of Not Allowed To Say Anything Serious'*

^^
1-2-(3)-4 enforces this quite seriously.
 
I'm a proud aussie pole =D I appreciate what it means to be australian coming from a communist country where you had to line up at 3am to see what the trucks brough in for you to buy for your family hoping it's food as opposed to clothing like socks because the stores had nothing to sell.

I'm still proud of being a polish girl though because i was taught by other *cough* "aussies" that i wasn't a true aussie and so much wanted to have that vegemite sandwich that would make me vomit just so the other kids didn't laugh at me.

Now i like to say i'm a proud human being and a teacher in the making that will create a new generation of what being australian (and more importantly a global citizen) means

go aussie go!!!!

But i don't mind if anyone else wins as long as it's done fairly ;)

=D :)
 
The thing I love most about being Austrlalian is the tall poppy syndrome. I guess in countries like Britain they're taught to respect the rich and to revere them.

Here in Australia most of us just say "Fuck those guys, arseholes".
 
What being an Australian means to me:

It means having the freedom to chose to do as I please.

It means never having to live in poverty.

It means never having to live up to strict cultural expectations.

It means freedom to chose any religion in the world... or no religion at all as the case may be. It means not having to place any restrictions on the way I live (unlike my muslim friends, who can only eat take-away from KFC).

It means eating weetbix and vegemite sandwiches and drinking the best beer in the world.

It means being able to live the laid-back, carefree lifestyle that we Aussies truly do take for granted.


For all those people who have argued throughout this thread about multi-culturalism, refugees and the like... I have this to say to you... find yourself some friends who were born and raised in other countries... ask them about the expectations and rules in their own countries, and compare your own life to theirs. Ask them why they like living in Australia so much. The reasons they give you will make you realise just how lucky we are...

Australia truly is the 'lucky country'.
 
it really doesn't mean that much to me and that's a problem i think.

i really value the laid back attitude that we have to a degree but then i dont aswell.

i was born overseas, lived there only till i was four then came here and was raised here. i came from a largely socialist country which i cant remember much of (when it was still socialist) so i cant really give proper insight. but still ive had the opportunity to listen to my parents' observations and opinions over time, and there are definitely a lot negatives and positives.

lack of culture is a problem i think, although we're doing a lot better now i think it has been a long standing problem.
 
pinkness: "it means never having to live in poverty" - i assume you mean this purely for yourself? because i can assure there's plenty of people living in terrible conditions around the country.

a fairly large percentile of students are also actually living below the poverty line too, due to the government's lack of funding for those who actually want to seek an education. it's fantastic.
 
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