Pete, we Australians avoid such questions by blaming it all on the perfidious British, who left us this mess when they ran for home in 1901. Or we can do what the British do, and blame the French...
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PeterT I had an Uncle and Auntie who nursed a severely disabled child for 2 decades and saw the toll it took on them, I dont actually blame her for making the decision. What is more offensive is ...
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Michael Jennings, goodness, I had forgotten that. Keating! A https://www.samizdata.net/2015/06/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-580/#comment-684430
Yeah, Snorri, a contradiction - who'd have thunk it?
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Hitler has had plenty of telemovies. Of course Julia should get one too. Paul Keating had a musical, too, but he deserved it.
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How odd. People were falling over themselves to commission programmes on Maggie Thatcher, provided they were Hatchet Jobs not Hagiographies, of course.
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Have the Australians learned nothing from their dreadful treatment of the Aborigines? It seems not if they can commit another atrocity like this.
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She was made of iron, so that does not count. Or something.As we all know, witches are made of wood.
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To be honest, frollickingmole, there is not enough in that quote to allow me to confidently condemn her action. No doubt there were many factors of which we are not aware, and she simply took wha...
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Thank goodness the Left would distance themselves from any such attacks on any former female British Prime Ministers.She was made of iron, so that does not count. Or som...
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I actually attended the demo where the notorious “ditch the witch” poster was put up. Terrible, shocking, acts of misogyny. Thank goodness the Left would distance themselves from any...
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Actually it is the present Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Abbott) who is savagely and unfairly attacked by the media and so on. The former socialist Prime Minister was supported by the media. Cl...
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