[Public-list] Australian Federal Election.

[Gary Barker]

Ditto.

Gary Barker
Blarney #563



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org]On Behalf Of Roger L. Kingsland
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David,

I too am sorry you are spoiling this list with political banter.

Roger Kingsland



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Fisher" <liquid_addiction at hotmail.com>
To: <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:57 PM
Subject: [Public-list] Australian Federal Election.


> Hi All, sorry to soil this list with political banter, but for us aussies
> this is an important one.  We go to the polls on Saturday with the most
> serious implications that en election has had the possibility to deliver
> certainly in my lifetime.  If our conservative government wins again, it
> will be their fourth term.  Over this period, Australia has been faced
with
> an increasing problem with illegal immigrants, uncertain economic
movements
> due to our proximity to Asia while we try to ally ourselves with Europe
and
> the "west" and the obvious and real threat of terrorism.  These are
> considerable difficulties for any government to overcome.  What has
saddened
> me over this time is that our government has taken a consistently
> unhumanistic stance.  Refugees are locked up in the desert while their
case
> is bogged down by bureucracy.  Our indigenous population enjoys the worst
> health standards in the first world.  Our SE Asian neighbours are snubbed
> because (I can only presume) of an old world mentality and, I'm sorry to
say
> it, because of our relationship with the US.  Most dangerous of all, we're
> well and truly on the band wagon over terrorism.  Your president has been
> clever in painting a black and white picture of it all: he has convinced a
> fair percentage of your population from what I understand, and he has
> convinced our government as well.  Somewhere along the line our government
> has lost track of the fact that people born outside Australia, the US and
> Europe are still just that: people.  Not terrorists necessarily.  No very
> thorough consideration is given to the role of this attitude in
> exasserbating this problem.
>
> If Labor wins on Saturday, maybe these problems will prevail, but I'm
> hopeful they won't.  If Howard stays in, they'll only get worse.  It is, I
> suspect, a similar situation to yours with Kerry.  We don't really know,
but
> can we stand things going along the same path and can we continue to bear
> the consequences?
>
> Maybe this weekend will be the first sign of a change in mentality where
> people begin to look around them and realize there are more important
things
> in life than the lining of their own comfort zones.  Here's hoping.
>
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