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Posted by zazenduck on June 15, 2006, at 15:58:03
I'm on to you
Posted by Declan on June 16, 2006, at 0:46:19
In reply to Amanda Eloise Vanstone, posted by zazenduck on June 15, 2006, at 15:58:03
She's a Liberal moderate. They are the hope of the country. You are right.
Declan
Posted by Declan on June 16, 2006, at 13:58:04
In reply to Amanda Eloise Vanstone, posted by zazenduck on June 15, 2006, at 15:58:03
Go look up Phillip Ruddock. He ran immigration and was a liberal moderate (once). He outraged informed and sensitive opinion (people like me) by always wearing his Amnesty badge. He was responsible for setting up the detention camps. Commonly described as 'whey faced' and like Dracula.
But then the shadow minister for immigration, Laurie Fergusen, reacted to the freeing of Peter Qasim (after 3/4/? years in detention, because they couldn't agree on which country he'd come from) by saying that it set a bad precedent.
Ah, The ALP.
Declan
Posted by zazenduck on June 21, 2006, at 6:57:03
In reply to Re: Amanda Eloise Vanstone » zazenduck, posted by Declan on June 16, 2006, at 13:58:04
I find Amanda Eloise Vanstone comely with her big girl Versaces and frisky wiermaraners.
I like Australia I like you I supposed you knew I've been teasing you?
It's possible to be an American idealist and be heartsick about many many things the politicians in this country have done and not done. In fact for me it would be impossible not to be.
Happy trails :)
Posted by Declan on June 21, 2006, at 15:31:47
In reply to Re: Amanda Eloise Vanstone » Declan, posted by zazenduck on June 21, 2006, at 6:57:03
Hello zazenduck, here's something that might interst you.
KP wasAustralia's richest man, before he died. His properties and investments were/are held by a complicated series of offshore trusts. He appeared before a senate enquiry into the media (is all I remember now) and told the senators that he was not so impressed with the way they spent people's tax money that he wanted to give them any more than he had to. He treated them with contempt and became more popular. His very midrange publications did not rival Murdoch's in vileness, but there isn't much to say for them either, beyond that they advance an agenda of Australianess.
He never paid any tax to speak of, but lost up to $20 million a night gambling, and when he died was given a taxpayer funded state funeral (at which Russell Crowe officiated) proving the point that he had made all his life, that it was not worth paying tax since the government spent it so unwisely.
One of the signs of the times here.
Declan
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