aquascoot wrote on Mar 12
th, 2014 at 5:37pm:
rabbitoh08 wrote on Mar 12
th, 2014 at 12:34pm:
aquascoot wrote on Mar 12
th, 2014 at 7:11am:
i believe greg the peck has hacked your computer rabbitoh.
In all seriousness, the UN is a defunct organisation.
Look at Vlad in the crimea.
The UN is a bit of a joke.
I doubt even the people in the UN take it seriously.
I'll bet you that 90 % of voters in the suburbs could not name its head and would not know where its headquarters were.
Scott has our interests at heart.
He has single handedly saved the budget about $8 billion a year and about 1 life every 36 hours from drownings and he has offered hope to GENUINE refugees rotting in camps who didnt selfishly try to elbow their way to the front.
Some of that 8 billion should be used to build a statue to the chap. I would suggest a large statue of scott , in bronze, 50 metres high,holding up his arm , like a policeman signalling you to stop, and placed at the entrance to the port on christmas island.
This would be fitting
If what you say is true - then why doesn't Tony simply withdraw Australia from the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees? Then he can set up all the gulags he wants.
Until he does this though - his Ministers should be responsible for upholding Australia's legal obligations. If Morrison can't do this - he should be sacked.
Its just a convention. has about as much street cred as an Amway party. Why do a very small per centage of people think the electorate gives a f^^k about the UN. you're out of touch if you believe that. They dont.
There are only a few Australians like you describe, dearie.
Most Australians I know travel have international partners, friends and relatives, and care deeply how Australia is seen by the rest of the world.
Australia was instrumental in the establishment of both the League of Nations and the UN. Australians are very outward looking people, largely because we depend so much on foreign trade and overseas markets. We have suckled on the teat of two world powers: Mother England and Amerika, and we will never stand on our own.
We depend on institutions like the UN, APEC, the G20. Our political classes thrive on the membership of these global organizations. As a former colony, it’s in our DNA.
Provincial isolationist hayseeds are quite rare, Aquascoot. In 1901, they were the majority. Now, they make up about 16% of the population.
Sorry dear, Australians are often more in touch with international affairs than their own - far more than Amerikans. 47% of us were born, or have a parent who was born, overseas.
Australians are very sensitive about what other people think of us. We used to call this the cultural cringe. Many of us faked English accents only a few decades ago.
I’ll bet a few in your local CWA still do, dear.
Forum
Pages: 
Abbott must sack Morrison: Greens (Read 10748 times)
