You just cited Get Up as an impartial source. You are either too much of a fanatic to hear reason or too damn silly to figure it out.
Any debate with you will be fruitless. Go ahead, vote Greens/Labour, I'm not going to waste my time reasoning with you.
Dude, I'm sorry but who are you to tell me that I am damn silly...you put yourself above me yet you have no clue who I am. Tell me, were you above the UN aswell? Because if you're above Get-up, and Get-up is sourcing from the UN, who do you think you are?
I am 100% sure that at Get-up they spend all day researching the facts and presenting a campaign in which they feel benefits the public. Do you spend all day researching facts? Or rely on Tony Abbott's ads?
You raise an excellent example. Sri Lanka. (I dont want to sound condascending, so if I come across as such on the internet I'm sorry) Please look at a world map. Find Sri Lanka. Now tell me why if you were GENUINELY concerned about political persecution, and getting out of Sri Lanka was your ONLY goal (not say to get a better life, or suckle on another countries welfare system) Why the hell is your boat travelling in a South Easterly direction???? Please look at a map - don't just naysay my arguement. I think perhaps a lot of people genuinely can't visualise what these 'helpless people' are undertaking, and thus how by arriving in Australia they are proving themself to be far from helpless.
You do sound condEscending (I thought law students could at least spell...?). If you were to leave a civil war ravaged country would you leave for a better life? Or would you leave for India, to live in poverty... Start using common sense please. You study economics...where the first assumption is that individuals make rational decisions that will be in their self interest. Now, would you rather live in India, or be definitely safe in Australia. If you head north west you hit Pakistan and the middle east...great. If you head east you hit Thailand and Burma...great. So tell me, what is the closest OECD country?
Its alarming how often I hear that. Fortunately my degree steers me clear of group work 95% of the time - but my cousin who was doing architecture got hammered because of it. He got put in a group with two Indian overseas student who couldnt afford to pay for materials for the models they were constructing. He bore the $700 cost for that semesters worth of assignments by himself.
I am alarmed at how racist this is. If you had moved to India, and you had no money, I am sure that you would expect help paying for Uni. The reason they have no money to pay for group assignments is because as international students they don't qualify for HECS, so they spend their money on actually paying for uni, and for living.
And this is why I am against compulsory voting. The people who accuse others of being some sterotype or another are typically the "close minded uninformed parrots for what their political masters tell them (read: idiots)" themselves that they rail against and denigrate at every opportunity.
Perhaps I could interest you in the book in my car at the moment. Its called a street directory, look up Killara, note the massive gulf between where I live and the Northern beaches. Then find yourself a copy of the cencus and land valuation data from the Ku-Ring-Gai council area... once you find where the average person has their million dollar mansion, tell me, I'd love to see it. I guess you're just living in the past (you know before the cold war ended) because when I look out my window, all I see is Medium-High density apartment blocks.
Have you ever been to a University? Given the drivel coming out of your mouth I sincerely doubt it - but I could be wrong. I stand out like a sore thumb in my law course as a likely liberal voter. But don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, will you? Your mate Joseph Stalin didn't.
Now, you accuse him of being one "who accuse others of being some sterotype or another are typically the "close minded uninformed parrots for what their political masters tell them (read: idiots)" themselves that they rail against and denigrate at every opportunity."
what did you do to me before? Exactly assumed me of being some sterEotype...so you calling yourself an idiot?
So about Killara...on the famous 'north shore.' The home of many of Sydney's exclusive private schools? So, I didn't look at the cenSus, but i did look at domain.com.
http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=buy&suburb=KILLARA&postcode=2071
Where the average selling price through the past 12 months has been what? $1,462,000. $1.4MILLION... and the average selling price of a "Medium-High density apartment block" is $805,000.
No, not a rich area.
Now, putting yourself above people that don't go to uni is fun isn't it? What uni do you go to? (Sydney I'm guessing...).
Lay off, - Constructive forum responses remember...
And comparing anyone online to Joseph Stalin is ludicrous. Please don't do that again. It's embarrassing.
You know what the difference between Australia and the rest of the OECD countries was before the GFC. We had a 1% of GDP government surplus. 24 of the 27 other country had defecits ranging from 5% to 11% of GDP. Look at the state of their economys, look at ours. I think its pretty clear who we can thank for spending 10 years eliminating 97bn of labour debt and preparing our economy to whether this storm.
If you study economics and you don't know that the boom that Howard relied on was created by Keating, what's the point?
