Apathetic Australians? - Page 6

xoxoxoBruce · 01-11-2009, 05:55 PM

Great job for an extrovert.
Promoting the pristine island, to attract foreign tourists, to come and make it less pristine.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-15-2009, 08:38 PM

You mean be Chris Whatsisname from Total Drama Island?

Where did that bear suit come from anyway??

Aliantha · 01-16-2009, 05:14 PM

Actually, they have to promote Qld tourism in general, so they're required to go from island to island sampling the sites and then blogging about them. It'll have to be someone articulate and I assume well travelled in order to make it worth the while.

It's a great opportunity for someone to have a 6 month holiday on the Qld government.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-20-2009, 03:11 PM

Alienated Aboriginals?

...Oh great. Now I'm imagining a guy with a didgeridoo wearing Deely-Bobbers. And pigeonwing sunglasses.

Shawnee123 · 01-20-2009, 03:18 PM

He's a real disgrace to the Aboriginal race. I bet his boomerang won't come back.

DucksNuts · 02-01-2009, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

He's a real disgrace to the Aboriginal race. I bet his boomerang won't come back.

oh my god, how do you know that song?

Shawnee123 · 02-01-2009, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts

oh my god, how do you know that song?

My brother and I had a bunch of "novelty song" albums when we were kids.

But I thought it was pretty well known anywhere.

Aliantha · 01-20-2009, 05:04 PM

Aboriginal people have been alienated since white people first arrived here. Things are looking up for them now though, so that's good.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-26-2009, 05:52 PM

Austrian Australian Armigers?

Kingswood · 01-30-2009, 04:22 AM

I'm feeling a bit apathetic right now but that's not surprising given how bloody hot it's been here for the last few days.

DucksNuts · 02-01-2009, 03:40 AM

Today I drove over the Westgate bridge and couldnt help but think...how the fuck did that guy throw his daughter off this bridge? why her? the other 2 kids were left in the car?

It was a horrid experience [/off topic]

TheMercenary · 02-01-2009, 09:19 AM

Let's just give it all to the UN. What do you say?

Time for a new world order: PM

KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of "social capitalism" in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily.

In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the 1970s, and ultimately brought about the global financial crisis.

"The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed, that the emperor has no clothes," he writes of those who placed their faith in the corrective powers of the market.

"Neo-liberalism and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic philosophy. And, ironically, it now falls to social democracy to prevent liberal capitalism from cannibalising itself."

Mr Rudd writes in The Monthly that just as Franklin Roosevelt rebuilt US capitalism after the Great Depression, modern-day "social democrats" such as himself and the US President, Barack Obama, must do the same again. But he argues that "minor tweakings of long-established orthodoxies will not do" and advocates a new system that reaches beyond the 70-year-old interventionist principles of John Maynard Keynes.

"A system of open markets, unambiguously regulated by an activist state, and one in which the state intervenes to reduce the greater inequalities that competitive markets will inevitably generate," he writes.

He urges "a new contract for the future that eschews the extremism of both the left and right".

He mocks neo-liberals "who now find themselves tied in ideological knots in being forced to rely on the state they fundamentally despise to save financial markets from collapse".

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/...818725574.html

Aliantha · 02-01-2009, 03:06 PM

It's disappointing that that's what you get out of that article Merc.

TheMercenary · 02-01-2009, 03:11 PM

There is a lot written about anti-protectionistic practices being floated by various countries, including the US. IMHO, the global economy has fueled much of this mess we are in now. Making things more global is not going to help.

Aliantha · 02-01-2009, 03:16 PM

Yes but why the comment about the UN? What's that got to do with it? I don't get why you'd think KRudd would be suggesting we hand over regulatory powers to the UN.

What he's calling for are tighter restrictions on the free market economy that we've been operating under over the last 30 years in order to try and stop banks from collapsing in the future, to name just one major issue connected to this situation.

01-11-2009, 05:55 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Great job for an extrovert. Promoting the pristine island, to attract foreign tourists, to come and make it less pristine. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-15-2009, 08:38 PM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	You mean be Chris Whatsisname from Total Drama Island? Where did that bear suit come from anyway?? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-16-2009, 05:14 PM	#3
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Actually, they have to promote Qld tourism in general, so they're required to go from island to island sampling the sites and then blogging about them. It'll have to be someone articulate and I assume well travelled in order to make it worth the while. It's a great opportunity for someone to have a 6 month holiday on the Qld government. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-20-2009, 03:11 PM	#4
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Alienated Aboriginals? ...Oh great. Now I'm imagining a guy with a didgeridoo wearing Deely-Bobbers. And pigeonwing sunglasses. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-20-2009, 03:18 PM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	He's a real disgrace to the Aboriginal race. I bet his boomerang won't come back. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-20-2009, 05:04 PM	#8
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Aboriginal people have been alienated since white people first arrived here. Things are looking up for them now though, so that's good. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-26-2009, 05:52 PM	#9
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Austrian Australian Armigers?

01-30-2009, 04:22 AM	#10
Kingswood Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Melbourne, Vic Posts: 316	I'm feeling a bit apathetic right now but that's not surprising given how bloody hot it's been here for the last few days. __________________ Ur is a city in Mesopotamia.

02-01-2009, 03:40 AM	#11
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Today I drove over the Westgate bridge and couldnt help but think...how the fuck did that guy throw his daughter off this bridge? why her? the other 2 kids were left in the car? It was a horrid experience [/off topic]

02-01-2009, 09:19 AM	#12
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Let's just give it all to the UN. What do you say? Time for a new world order: PM KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of "social capitalism" in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily. In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the 1970s, and ultimately brought about the global financial crisis. "The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed, that the emperor has no clothes," he writes of those who placed their faith in the corrective powers of the market. "Neo-liberalism and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic philosophy. And, ironically, it now falls to social democracy to prevent liberal capitalism from cannibalising itself." Mr Rudd writes in The Monthly that just as Franklin Roosevelt rebuilt US capitalism after the Great Depression, modern-day "social democrats" such as himself and the US President, Barack Obama, must do the same again. But he argues that "minor tweakings of long-established orthodoxies will not do" and advocates a new system that reaches beyond the 70-year-old interventionist principles of John Maynard Keynes. "A system of open markets, unambiguously regulated by an activist state, and one in which the state intervenes to reduce the greater inequalities that competitive markets will inevitably generate," he writes. He urges "a new contract for the future that eschews the extremism of both the left and right". He mocks neo-liberals "who now find themselves tied in ideological knots in being forced to rely on the state they fundamentally despise to save financial markets from collapse". http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/...818725574.html __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

02-01-2009, 03:06 PM	#13
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	It's disappointing that that's what you get out of that article Merc. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-01-2009, 03:11 PM	#14
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	There is a lot written about anti-protectionistic practices being floated by various countries, including the US. IMHO, the global economy has fueled much of this mess we are in now. Making things more global is not going to help. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

02-01-2009, 03:16 PM	#15
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Yes but why the comment about the UN? What's that got to do with it? I don't get why you'd think KRudd would be suggesting we hand over regulatory powers to the UN. What he's calling for are tighter restrictions on the free market economy that we've been operating under over the last 30 years in order to try and stop banks from collapsing in the future, to name just one major issue connected to this situation. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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