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April 27th, 2015, 05:31 AM | #2041 | |
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April 27th, 2015, 12:47 PM | #2042 |
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If we could think up a way to export flies, and get people overseas to pay for 'em, we be in budgetary surplus overnight. Hell in the text ten minutes.
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Abbott unveils $100 million Villers-Bretonneux educational centre to 'remember our victories'
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has unveiled a $100 million educational centre to be built on the site of the Australian Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux in northern France. Mr Abbott said the Sir John Monash Centre would increase understanding of the Australian effort on the Western Front during World War I. Some 46,000 Australians lost their lives on the Western Front. The centenary of the Gallipoli landings at the weekend also marked the 97th anniversary of the Australian victory at the battle of Villers-Bretonneux, which halted the 1918 German offensive on the Somme and helped turn the course of the war. Mr Abbott said Australians should congregate at the town in northern France each Anzac Day. "It was an extraordinary story," he said. "It was the story that we're familiar with, of valour, of commitment, but it was a story of success as well. "As I said before, Gallipoli was a splendid failure but the Western Front was a terrible victory, and we should remember our victories as much as we remember our defeats." (ABC News) This was all after Abbott's visit to Gallipoli. Let me say that I have a great deal of admiration for the soldiers of the 1st AIF. They contributed a lot to the Allied victory, something that has not always been acknowledged. Do we need another monument to this, though? And who is going to fit the bill? Well we are, of course. $100 million, from a government that keeps banging on about how we must cut costs. I have long suspected that politicians like these commemorations, because it allows them on stage, but without having to face difficult questions on the floor of parliament. Abbott is not the only one, but it definitely applies to him. And I really hate this triumphalism. No political leader ever says "This was a terrible tragedy, and as a leader I will not allow it to happen again, in my lifetime." At Villers-Bretonneux there is an Australian cemetery. The school in Villers-Bretonneux was rebuilt using donations from school children of Victoria, and in every classroom is the inscription "N'oublions jamais l'Australie". That is enough. |
April 28th, 2015, 01:44 PM | #2045 |
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I don't know what you all think about Chan and Sukumaran upcoming execution. But I've got to say. Having seen Mark Davis's piece on them a number of times on Dateline, I do feel uncomfortable that it's about to occur. If the purpose of a prison is to provide some form of rehabilitation, then I genuinely think these executions defeat the purpose.
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April 28th, 2015, 02:30 PM | #2047 | |
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April 29th, 2015, 06:17 AM | #2049 |
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Not wanting to derail any current topics on this good thread. I just want to write that I think Australia is an awesome, kickass country that i would be proud and honored to live in.
You mates are patriotic. You don't take crap from anybody. You love liberty and freedom. Your country is beautiful. Your women are flat-out gorgeous. Your food is delicious. Your lust for life is contagious. God bless your people and country! OK. Carry on! |
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April 29th, 2015, 07:22 AM | #2050 |
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It's actually a totally irrelevant point, now that I think about it. It was 11:40pm. I was tired. I was laso watching abc24. I was aware of the enormity of the moment.
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