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April 24th, 2013, 06:00 AM | #681 |
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Let me get this straight: the government hires experts to learn how best to celebrate ANZAC day. And this upsets you? What the so called experts come up with is beside the point. Every government today hires experts. |
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April 24th, 2013, 07:17 AM | #683 |
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Baudalino - When I first started work in the Personnel and Training Dept of a major British employer I was inundated with adverts from Consultants. I asked my boss why we didn't use them and his reply was. 'That's what we pay managers for. If a manager can't manage we sack him and employ someone who can.'
I'm not an Aussie but I find it interesting that the Government feels it has to spend this amount of cash asking consultants about what must be one of Australia's more important anniversaries. Is there no one in either the Government or the Australian civil service with the wit or intelligence to work out such matters for themselves. |
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Taxes play their small part. There are so many arguments regarding the rich and taxation. Usually they end in favor of the rich because results are bought. It has always been thus. Just read Roman history. I have no answers. |
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April 24th, 2013, 08:18 AM | #685 |
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Australia is weird. Did you know, aside from the indigenous music of the Kurri people, we have no music of our own? Australia as a nation is in time with the history of the recording studio. So American cultural music has been the main influence. Brazil had it's samba. We had nothing other than folk music brought from places like Ireland and England. So it is no surprize sport is the major cultural drive. Aussie Pub Rock is a watered down version of American soul.
Australia is very young and has no idea what it is. This results in the notion, cultural cringe. |
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April 24th, 2013, 02:59 PM | #686 |
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I heard a report on the radio a few days back that was gonna happen, then I thought 23 million is small for a nation settled over 200 years ago and massive in land size..... Then I was thinking again, we don't fuck enough too preoccupied with football etc...
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April 24th, 2013, 03:18 PM | #687 |
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1) A cliché:
more haste makes waste, &: 2) the last word (above) just brings to mind Kath & Kim (or Fast Forward, for those with memories). Speaking of which, where's that button gone...? |
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It must be 4/25/2013 in Australia now, so Happy Anzac Day, comrades!
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As a (somewhat pertinent) example: look at the current fetishisation of ANZAC celebrations/concepts & the "invention" of Australian & NZ national identities that supposedly resulted. Such ideas are repeated so often people begin to believe them as true, yet recent historical research has begun to show those are fallacies--e.g. Ron Palenski's latest book. (NB, sorry, I don't mean to take this thread off topic, just using RP's work as an example. I don't know, but presumably there's similar such work being done in Aussie?) |
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