[QUOTE=Herr Sven;20180176]I personally don't care a very lot about the censorship, the internet isn't actually very important for me.
At the moment it's only used as a spending of time until I can move to (duh Duh DUHHH!) Australia and the outback there.[/QUOTE]
The problem with the censorship of the internet is that it's just the beginning, once they get away with censoring one freedom it will eventually lead to more.
It's the people that sit back and go "Oh well, doesn't effect me" that eventually get fucked the most.
[QUOTE=$$>MUFFIN<$$;20154645]Well, I live in South Australia, it’s a nice place full of trees and big national parks, the people for the most part are friendly and the beaches are beautiful when they aren’t clogged with little screaming kids. But once a year we have this day, Australia Day, it happens on the 26th of January and is the anniversary of the first fleet landing at Sydney cove back in 1788… it is also the day that us white people invaded the Great and bountiful Australian Outback and started killing it’s Indigenous people. Now days Australian Day is a day for having a BBQ or going to the beach and swimming in the cool waters, people run around with big Australian Flags on their chests or over their backs, Cars have little flags out the windows and people love sticking those tattoos on their cheeks… I don’t… I think it is totally wrong what people do, celebrate a day that we destroyed a Race of people and destroyed their land, the Australian Outback used to have hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Australian living all over it, now they are living in outback shanty towns with no power, heating or medical care. They are abused by people for being Different and the police do nothing about it, there are some that aren’t but they are usually not fully Indigenous, half Australian Half not, I have nothing against this.
I am also Troubled by this:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Australia.svg/800px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png[/IMG]
This flag is wrong... When this man was in power:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Image-Howard2003upr.JPG/225px-Image-Howard2003upr.JPG[/IMG] (This is also the man who though apologising to the Indigenous australian 200 years later would help.)
The country had a Referendum, Choose separate from the Commonwealth or stay with them... He made the voting card himself and the yes vote was a 300 word long statement and the no vote was the same so people just chose the first one because they couldn't be bothered reading it, the vote came in "no" we stayed part of the Commonwealth. Afterwards newspapers around the country took votes and 75% said they want to be out of the commonwealth.
These days you get all these people (usually on Australia day) complaining about "Why would we want to change the flag?" Well it's got this huge ass Union Jack in the corner that’s says we want to be part of the commonwealth! We don't! We need a flag change! I don't want some flag that says "I'm part of the commonwealth of Briton!" (Nothing against you, I’m just not British). The Australian Flag at the moment shows that we were part of a huge group of people that took over a small community of people and killed them for their land the Australian flag should look like this:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg/750px-Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg.png[/IMG]
[U][B]THIS IS THE REAL AUSTRALIAN FLAG![/B][/U]
I think I have ranted enough… Discuss?[/QUOTE]
3/5. nice effort put in but didnt start enough of a flame war. got some good bans though
I thought the whole native extermination thing was only for the US but welp
[QUOTE=nono345;20181464]I thought the whole native extermination thing was only for the US but welp[/QUOTE]
No country is perfect.
I like Australia today , Its a good place i couildnt like being anywher eelse bnetter =D
exept mabye hawaii ^.^
Australia is not that bad.
It's actually pretty awesome.
Once you get past the horrible internet prices.
I understand all too well TH89's point of view, but it's simply one of those things you can't properly understand unless you've been to Australia.
Although I'm a Victorian (That little bit on the bottom), where there's something like a 1% population of Aborigines as opposed to at least 12% in other places, it's still hard to make a positive opinion on the subject, considering the one and only Aborigine I've seen when in Melbourne was completely drunk and staggering down the road.
Australian people are cool, but I've got to admit I've met more cooler Kiwis
[QUOTE=worm;20154759]I pretty much agree with everything you have said OP, we need independence and Aboriginals need to be treated as par to the rest of us. [/QUOTE]
I agree with this 100%.
Though there's not denying that European settler's did some terrible things to the native's when they arrived.
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