What the hell happened to Australia?

Your Face

Which one is Australia again?

Gwynplaine

Your Face wrote: »

Which one is Australia again?

The one where every sentence sounds like a question.

wexie

Your Face wrote: »

Which one is Australia again?

The one with the Kangaroos, the one with the chocolate and mountains is Austria

Your Face

Gwynplaine wrote: »

The one where every sentence sounds like a question.

The one where every sentence sounds like a question?

OneEightSeven

Zebra3 wrote: »

Gotta hand it to Australia.

As racist as apartheid South Africa, but without the negative publicity.

Australia pays Indigenous Australians to go to school and has a CareerTrackers organisation that creates internship opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students.

Australia gets plenty of unfair criticism for having a tough asylum policy, but as proven by the European migration crisis, most asylum seekers are in fact illegal immigrants and turning back boats saves more lives than taking those boats in.

If you think modern Australia is comparable to apartheid South Africa, then you need to stop living in the past and get out more. It isn't the 1970s anymore, the white Australia policy and Stolen Generations ended around the same time mother and baby homes did in Ireland, so I think it's a bit rich for an Irishman to be looking down on Australia for something that happened nearly 50 years ago.

Zebra3

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Australia pays Indigenous Australians to go to school and has a CareerTrackers organisation that creates internship opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students.

Australia gets plenty of unfair criticism for having a tough asylum policy, but as proven by the European migration crisis, most asylum seekers are in fact illegal immigrants and turning back boats saves more lives than taking those boats in.

If you think modern Australia is comparable to apartheid South Africa, then you need to stop living in the past and get out more. It isn't the 1970s anymore, the white Australia policy and Stolen Generations ended around the same time mother and baby homes did in Ireland, so I think it's a bit rich for an Irishman to be looking down on Australia for something that happened nearly 50 years ago.

The comparison was historical. I’d have thought that was obvious as apartheid as we know it is history in SA.

Hande hoche!

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

That one of the German plans in WWII.

By taking over France they inherited Madagascar and they were considering expelling all the Jews to there.

The British had other plans. They wanted to send all the Jews to Uganda.

Anyway the Battle of Madagascar was France vs UK in the UK's first amphibious assault since Gallipoli , but it went better.

Yep Vichy France against the UK with Rhodesian, Indian and pre-Apartheid South African assistance. Fascinating bit of WW2 history.

The Crowman

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The Cars That Ate Paris and 100 Bloody Acres too.

Don't forget Bad Boy Bubby.

fergus1001

Ubbquittious wrote:

Then I got talking to some people from Aussie land and it turns out you need a fcuking license to drive a jetski. Out in the open ocean where it's an absolute torture to even find someone to crash into. Now they rival the UK for health and safety nonsense Every week there's a new law being passed that will make the place less free and more big brother. There's a cop behind every corner looking to dole out fines and speed cameras everywhere.

an it bleedin cost 900 dollaridoo's it's a bloody outrage that is

wexie

wexie wrote: »

The one with the Kangaroos, the one with the chocolate and mountains is Austria

This also caused confusion in Dumb and Dumber..........

Cookie_Monster

Aus has vending machines that dispense High Vis jackets. that's when you know it's gone too far.