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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Has this country gone mad? Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:51pm Now there are jerks out there who want to give illegal boat people bravery awards. I would rather see bravery awards for the single & abused mums who are forced to sleep in cars with their kids, while this other trash gets acommodation, welfare and furnishings lavished on them.
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Reply #1 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:52pm

Brave men on tyre raft nominated for awards

Date April 16, 2013

An Indonesian crewman and three missing asylum seekers from Myanmar have been nominated for Australian bravery awards.

Christmas Island administrator Jon Stanhope said despite the men not being Australian citizens, they were responsible for ''inordinately brave'' acts in Australian waters and their courage should be commended.

In January, authorities rescued about 16 asylum seekers on a boat foundering 20 nautical miles from Christmas Island.

Those on board told rescuers that the day before, the three men from Myanmar and an Indonesian crewman had built a makeshift raft by lashing inner tubes and bamboo together, and had set out to get help.

After four days the crewman washed up alive on Christmas Island, badly sunburnt and dehydrated. The bodies of the three Myanmarese were never found.

''Christmas Island, a tiny speck in the Indian Ocean, wasn't visible,'' Mr Stanhope told ABC radio on Monday.

''I think that's an act of just unimaginable bravery. Fifteen nautical miles at sea [on] an inflatable automobile tyre and to begin to paddle … I believe they deserve the highest bravery award,'' he said.

He says he had advice from the Australian Honours and Awards Secretariat that the men were eligible to receive bravery awards because the acts took place in Australian territory.

Meanwhile, confusion still surrounds the fate of one - and possibly two - boats believed to have sunk in Indonesia's Sunda Strait last week, en route to Christmas Island.

Indonesia is yet to launch an aerial search for scores of missing asylum seekers amid fears two boats bound for Australia may have gone down in recent days.

Initial reports from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority suggested an asylum-seeker boat sank early on Friday, and that some survivors were possibly rescued by fishermen.

But one survivor says he was on a vessel which sank on Wednesday, and he was rescued on Thursday after spending 24 hours in the water, raising fears there may have been another vessel.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/brave-men-on-tyre-raft-nominated-for-awards-20130415-2hw3t.html#ixzz2Qaw4J03k

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #2 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:52pm Stanhope, you're an A1 jerk!
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Peter Freedman Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5275 Wellington Gender:	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #3 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 2:22pm Sounds pretty brave to me. So Stanhope is a "jerk" just because you don't agree with him? People you have never met are "trash"? You're in the right place, bogarde, name calling is very popular here.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #4 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:16pm Come to think of it, isn't Stanhope the former jerk who was the Chief Minister of the bleeding green loonies in the ACT? That would explain everything.
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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #5 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:22pm After four days the crewman washed up alive on Christmas Island, badly sunburnt and dehydrated. The bodies of the three Myanmarese were never found. Darwin award maybe?
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progressiveslol Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17029	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #6 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:23pm This will be good. People smugglers should be given an award. Pretty silly stuff.
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Dsmithy70 Gold Member Offline ire futuis vobismetipsis Posts: 13147 Newy Gender:	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #7 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:32pm Quote: The bodies of the three Myanmarese were never found.
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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Has this country gone mad? Reply #8 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:00pm Dsmithy70 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:32pm: Quote: The bodies of the three Myanmarese were never found. http://blogimgs.only-apartments.com/images/only-apartments/cannibalism-vienna.jp...
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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #9 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:01pm

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:51pm:

Now there are jerks out there who want to give illegal boat people bravery awards.
I would rather see bravery awards for the single & abused mums who are forced to sleep in cars with their kids, while this other trash gets acommodation, welfare and furnishings lavished on them.

You want to give bravery awards to dopey women who are to stupid to use birth control and then to lazy to get a job because they think everyone else should support them and their sprogs for the rest of their sorry lives?

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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #10 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:13pm

adelcrow wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:01pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:51pm:

Now there are jerks out there who want to give illegal boat people bravery awards.
I would rather see bravery awards for the single & abused mums who are forced to sleep in cars with their kids, while this other trash gets acommodation, welfare and furnishings lavished on them.

You want to give bravery awards to dopey women who are to stupid to use birth control and then to lazy to get a job because they think everyone else should support them and their sprogs for the rest of their sorry lives?

What a spiteful old retard....

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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #11 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:33pm

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:16pm:

Come to think of it, isn't Stanhope the former jerk who was the Chief Minister of the bleeding green loonies in the ACT?
That would explain everything.

No actually Jon Stanhope[less] was leader of the bleeding ACT ALP.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stanhope Quote:

On 17 August 2012, Stanhope was appointed Administrator of the Indian Ocean Territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island) by Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

Jobs for the Boys? Must be a comrade of the GG's son in law..... Wink

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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #12 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 5:05pm

Swagman wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:33pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 3:16pm:

Come to think of it, isn't Stanhope the former jerk who was the Chief Minister of the bleeding green loonies in the ACT?
That would explain everything.

No actually Jon Stanhope[less] was leader of the bleeding ACT ALP.........

OH PLEASE I WAS ABOUT TO ASK.. PLEASE NOT THAT JON STANHOPE....NO WONDER HE RETIRED WHEN HE DID CREEP.. WONDER IF HE TOOK HIS STATUE OF AL GRASSBY WITH HIM...

YOU WILL REMEMBER OF COURSE JON NOMINATED DAVID HICKS FATHER FOR THE FATHER OF THE YEAR AWARD IN ACT....THE MAN IS RAVING MAD AND EVERYONE WAS GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF HIM IN ACT.

ITS OKAY THOUGH IT WONT COST JON A PENNY HE MAKES SURE OF THAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stanhope Quote:

On 17 August 2012, Stanhope was appointed Administrator of the Indian Ocean Territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island) by Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

Jobs for the Boys? Must be a comrade of the GG's son in law..... Wink

hes an arrogant pig.

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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #13 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 5:17pm

adelcrow wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:01pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:51pm:

Now there are jerks out there who want to give illegal boat people bravery awards.
I would rather see bravery awards for the single & abused mums who are forced to sleep in cars with their kids, while this other trash gets acommodation, welfare and furnishings lavished on them.

You want to give bravery awards to dopey women who are to stupid to use birth control and then to lazy to get a job because they think everyone else should support them and their sprogs for the rest of their sorry lives?

Please don’t speak about Woof Woof like this, Adelcrow. She supports Free Enterprise and will help out on the campaign - when he returns.

She mightn’t be elligible for an honourary degree in Medical Science, but surely an award of some kind could be dished
out to the campaign staff.

Thoughts?

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Re: Has this country gone mad?
Reply #14 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 5:19pm

Karnal wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 5:17pm:

adelcrow wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 4:01pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 1:51pm:

Now there are jerks out there who want to give illegal boat people bravery awards.
I would rather see bravery awards for the single & abused mums who are forced to sleep in cars with their kids, while this other trash gets acommodation, welfare and furnishings lavished on them.

You want to give bravery awards to dopey women who are to stupid to use birth control and then to lazy to get a job because they think everyone else should support them and their sprogs for the rest of their sorry lives?

Please don’t speak about Woof Woof like this, Adelcrow. She supports Free Enterprise and will help out on the campaign - when he returns.

She mightn’t be elligible for an honourary degree in Medical Science, but surely an award of some kind could be dished
out to the campaign staff.

Thoughts?

While there is a shortage of "massage parlor" workers and pole dancers in this country no women should be getting taxpayer handouts.

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