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Getting back to topic. Today is ANZAC Day. I've just come back from the Dawn Service in my town. A lot of people came to the service in ages from five to ninety-five. My town has a very strong tradition of remembrance becasue it was from here that the first citizen's recruiting march of WWI began. https://cooeemarch1915.com/ In a while. I'll go back into town for the daytime service at which there will be a lot more people. However, as I was listening to the radio on the way home this morning there was talk of how the change in origin of our population is going to reduce the importance of ANZAC Day to the national identity. To be brutally honset, ANZAC Day is something that relates to those of us who have links to a British ancestry. Aboriginal people did participate, but thier descendants do not seem to want to be involved. The organisers of the serices in my town have tried to simply get the local Aboriginal community to provide a flag to be flown alongside the Australian and New Zealand flags, but to no avail. I don't want to dwell on that point, so don't you. There are only a few people in town from what we might call the immigrant countries. They are good citizens, but do not have the heritage of ANZAC Day. I suspect that in our major cities the ratio of Anglos to non-Anglos is weighted towards the non-Anglos. Those non-Anglos are Australians. Think of the Italians, Greeks, Germans, Dutch, Hungarians etc who came here after WWII. Their decendants are dinki-di. In the future those whose parents came from India, Africa and Asia will reformulate what an Australian is. But I think that the ANZAC tradition will not be a big ingredint in that fomula. Is that a bad thing? Lamentable, perhaps, but as a nation's character evolves, some traits disappear. Should we cling stubbornly to the Past, or accept an evolving Future. I know that you will have strong feelings about this due to how you were brought up, but soon we will be gone. Will our descendants have teh same feelings. Considering what the make up of the Nation will be in say, 50 years, will the clebration of ANZAC Day be important?

I was thinking exactly the same thing. If you didn't want him to touch you and cut your nails, why would you go there? If you go to a hairdresser, it is assumed you give consent to to the barber cutting your hair when you climb into the chair. I am reminded of a comedy sketch I saw on TV a few years ago where a guy and girl were sitting on a couch and he pulled out a tape recorder and turned it on to record asking for permission to kiss her, and recording her approval.

At its very simplest, an assualt consists of touching another person, or being in close enough proximity to continue moving towards touching. An assualt can either be consenteed to, or not. If there is consent, then the assualt is lawful. Those sorts of assaults can range from a handshake, to a hug, to a kiss. Even a tackle in a football game is an assault consented to, as long as the tackle style is lawful under the rules of the game. In the situations I have mentioned, consent is normally assumed as being part of normal interaction. In all other cases, touchin another person is an unconsented assault. Have you ever undergone a procedure in a hospital? Do you remember signing a document to confirm your constent to undergo the procedure? In the case of the podiatrist, the more serious assault arises from the use of a cutting tool on a part of the body. If one visits a podiatrist for a procedure, one has in one's mind that the assault is consented to. However, the podiatrist is not a mind reader, and therefore for the podiatrist's protection, that consent must be confirmed. The consent can be revoked at any time thereafter.

Have a look at the problems the UK and Europe have now because of open border policies.

If you add up all of the countries that contribute less than 2% it comes to around 35%. The amount of tax I pay is minuscule by itself, so perhaps I shouldn't have to pay it.

That is the most sensible statement I have read on here. I work with people from many different backgrounds and my father was married to a Chinese lady and she was a great person. What pisses me off is not being able to discuss the out of control immigration without being labelled rascist. The left wing comments on this thread certainly come across as hating Australia and what we stand for.

The problem is that thousands of immigrants in our cities now fail the character and deeds assessment, and we can do nothing about it. W would like our government to acknowledge this and do something about it.

91% of Australia's energy comes from fossil fuels. There is nothing wrong in trying to develop alternatives, but acknowledge that it will take many decades to substantially replace fossil fuels. Whatever reason we have for doing it, it will make no difference to our climate, as we contribute only 1% to 1.5% of global emissions, even if you believe these affect climate. The greatest risk to our economy and way of life at present is the self destructive idea of net zero.

The fact that I like my son's Chinese partner does not mean I hate Australia. I judge people by their character and their deeds, not by where they were born.

Why do you hate Australia and Aussies so much that you can't take your blinkers off and see what is going on. Or maybe you just want to see white Australia disappear into history.

I believe that in Australia by law you have to obtain consent before kissing your girlfriend.

FFS. He was asking if you consented to his handling your feet to cut your toenails. When my karate sensei corrects my stance he asks permission to move my arm. In the age of Epstein and Weinstein it's just safer to ensure you have consent before touching someone's body. If you want someone to blame for that, entitled rich creeps like them and indeed "grab 'em on the pussy" Trump should be your target.

What a load of horseshit. All these stupid treaties do is divide the people. That's why we voted against the treaty last time. Then that pos Jacinta Alan brought in one anyway against the will of the people. We need to be one nation not divided into many. There are more and more places getting added to the list of where can't go in our own country every year. We are held to ransom by a small minority and stupid left wing politicians. There are schools teaching our kids to be ashamed for being a white Australian. And even told not to sing the national anthem. I am proud to be a white Australian as everyone should be. If you burn our flag you should get a jail term. I worked with aboriginals and they had no interest in all this rubbish. In fact not once did anyone ever talk about black and white because we were all just workmates doing a job. The only trouble I saw was if we went to the pub the local Aboriginals would always pick a fight with our blokes because they weren't from their tribe.

If anyone criticises the labour party you call it misinformation. You refuse to admit crime is out of control in Victoria. Because Daniel Andrews caused it Never mention the corruption labour have been involved in. Billions handed to crime gangs and union officials. Alboneses has been a communist party member since he was a teenager. Andrews and Alan are too. And banging on about one nation being racist is crap. They only want what's best for Australians and that means slowing the current migration levels and bringing in more stringent entry standards. We all know we need immigration just not the way the clowns are doing it at the moment. Hopefully this November some healing can start when Jacinta Andrews gets kicked out . But our electoral system needs to change to stop preferences getting unwanted people elected. I don't know anyone that voted labour yet albo got in by a landslide with prefences.

I went to a podiatrist early last year, he happened to be muslim. I explained that I needed work done on my large toenails, they were curling and hard for me to trim. Then he started talking about consent, "if I come in his shop, I'm giving consent", or some such thing. Not knowing what he was on about, I gave a reason why it wasn't urgent, excused myself, and left. Anyone know what that consent business is all about? Any experts on Islam here? Perhaps Tony Burqa could clue me in.

Yes, quite agree.

We've got a local town a bit like that but it's not immigrants, just hoards of ice addicts. I don't feel at ease there during the day and would never go there at night, not that I have any reason to. Last week I was there and got talking in the street to a bloke I used to work with. He told me he was in town at night recently and a couple of them with a knife came up to him and demanded money or they said they'd kill him. He threw the bloke with the knife off the footbridge into the creek which is a long drop, and the other bloke wouldn't give up so he was forced to batter him a bit until he ran away.

I watched a video from Spanian, the Sydney chap who spent a time in jail and now travels and eats out recording his travels. in Paris he had a guide who had lived in Sydney who was from France. She took him through the city. There were many parts where the Parisians are scared to go, at least alone and female due to the large number of male immigrants living in tent cities under the bridges and on the foot paths. Spanian is a scary enough looking dude and many of them wanted to front up to him just for being there. that type of migration is not beneficial to society. when I was younger I remember everyone talking about the Greeks and Italians that came to Australia. They worked hard, opened shops, built houses and became the new Australians I know there are other groups that have done similar. Without this type of input we would be pretty boring. All the new foods and culture brought here has been beneficial to all. gangs of youths wandering the streets with machetes and committing crime are not welcome. Some of these groups are children of people who escaped pretty bad situations in their home countries, but the youth seem to not appreciate the fortune of living in a good country, perhaps dreaming of being gangsters from too many poor influences. maybe sending these ones back to where they (or their parents) are from for punishment might be the answer, then they may appreciate what they had.

Sounds rather drastic , she ain't goin nowhere 🫢

We mine a lot of things we don't just Burn for energy. Look up the tonnage of CO2 various Countries produce and wonder where all that can go without changing things There's a lot of sulphur in the crude as well. It make s sulphuric acid when burned and water added. Water is also a product of combusting Hydrocarbons so even in a desert acid is Made when you drive an ICE vehicle with sulphur in the fuel... Nev

I've saved heaps of fuel the last few days being stranded with the vehicle up on blocks. Got the rear leaf springs out at moment, so no dawn service tomorrow unless I start walking now.

It's more a fact of Larger Countries having a large enough home Market to support mass production and the Low unit cost THAT offers. It's often Materials Plus a figure MUCH less than the Materials. Robots and CNC machines with computers can operate in a lot of Places.. Factories in China are as big as Towns. IF Trump went there, He'd have a fit once he saw it..Nev

I am not particularly knowledgeable in the field of economics; however, growth surely is not purely the production of manufactured goods. As an individual economic unit, I made a good living selling a service, not an item. If I sold my services overseas, the profit would be every bit as important as the income for selling wheelbarrows.

You are a very Patient person Octave and put a lot of effort into correcting erroneous figures and statements, There's a hell of a lot of deliberate Misinformation out there so we ALL should put a more critical eye on stuff from dubious sources for Nefarious Reasons . You have consistently done this for a Long time and I thank you greatly for your efforts. Nev