Quentin Bryce - what a champion!

[i-need-a-martini]

How great is this woman?

In the last of the Boyer lectures she imagines an Australia where human rights are pivotal, all marriage is equal and we are our own republic.

Politicians take note. 

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/queens-rep-backs-republic-and-gay-marriage-201...

[icyfroth]

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@para-sights wrote:

Quentin Bryce is a self made woman. If she gets paid well then she had the great presence of mind to educate herself. She had choices and choose well. Why people live in shipping containers is also a direct consequence of life choices.And even if that is the Australian way of life (of poverty and desperation) it seems odd to call us The Land of Plenty.

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Oh we are the Land of Plenty alright, for foreign investors and the gatecrashers. Who then rubbish the hosts for their bad hospitality.

[polocross58]

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polocross58 wrote:

Realities?

He is exactly what  polocross58 accusses Ms Price of being.

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons

If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband. Notwithstanding all his or, his faults, you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss, but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

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Oh yes, we saw what you did

We saw how you so deftly (not) swung the discussion from Q. Bryce to opportunity to vent your apparently painful state re: the last fed. election

Now, if you don't mind too much, how about you take your personal issues to where they belong

and let the rest of us continue to address the thread topic

thanks heaps

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You made it political with personal issues about her not understanding everyday people.....look back at it or do you want me to quote it.

Last I checked the thread title was Quentin price, what a champion, not Quentin price, she has a silver spoon in her mouth and doesnt know realities.

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No, topsidesoul

You are not telling the truth

My remarks re: Q. Bryce did NOT involve ANY political party or issue

Go back and read it again

Maybe you need to take a break from all this

It's a discussion forum

[freddie*rooster]

All previous 24 Governors General of Australia were also paid well, I guess she could always get on the turps and make a fool of herself like Kerr, maybe then she would be a true Aussie and be worthy of the accolades.

[izabsmiling]

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@polocross58 wrote:

Party politics denotes very low intelligence.  To my mind, those who are unable to address any issue without party political divide are lower than those who see everything in terms of Holden vs Ford or their footy team vs someone else's footy team

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Can't Tony Abbott (our Prime Minister) address the Political  issues you suggested Quentin Bryce  address ?

Your post is in response to another which merely referred to our PM by his name and suggested that our PM could also deal with those issues??????

[topsidesoul]

We pay and house (dress, feed, transport) her very well for doing little more than dressing up and playing a non-arduous role.  We don't pay her to have opinions.  Fine, she has opinions which are those of a woman past 70 who will never have to live under the same conditions as is suffered by the most marginalised group in this and most other countries, i.e., impoverished older women.  As such, her opinions are of no greater import to me than those of the woman next door

If Q. Bryce wanted to make a difference, why not address the coal-face and real issues right  now, such as sixth generation Aussie families compelled to survive in shipping containers out in the bush minus running water, electricity, etc. while those clearly able to pay $16,000 per person are buying fake papers and flying themselves into the Land of Plenty where they'll be provided free accomodation, free money for life and no pressure to contribute a drop of sweat to the country to which they'll never have any loyalty ?

Or, she could address the tens of thousands of older women in this country who're scratching by on two minute noodles in order to be able to pay their electricity and water bills after fifty or more years of working themselves to the bone ---- something Q. Bryce has never done

She's a figurehead, a well-paid figurehead who almost certainly does not even make her own bed or wash her own undies.  We pay for her to fly around the world, first class, in order to attend empty ceremonies and sip champagne.  After her retirement from doing next to nothing, she'll live out her days in luxury and ease.  A bubble head.  So no wonder she waffles about a utopian society while older women sit alone in tiny flats, counting their coppers in the hope they'll have enough for half a litre of milk so they can offer a cup of tea in case someone drops around

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[polksaladallie]

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@topsidesoul wrote:

I cannot wait to see the stooge she is replaced with..........Downer maybe?

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Possibly the yes man, Cosgrove

[polocross58]

All previous 24 Governors General of Australia were also paid well, I guess she could always get on the turps and make a fool of herself like Kerr, maybe then she would be a true Aussie and be worthy of the accolades.

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Yes, we're paying FAR too much for fluff

If it were up to me, we'd privatise government.  We'd put it up for tender and choose the most worthy, based on merit, past performance and results.  And we'd pay only for results

We don't need all these public service layabouts. They're costing us a fortune and produce beggar all most of the time

Too much for local, State and Federal government

As I've suggested before, there needs to be machines similiar to ATMs distributed plentifully around the nation

People would be provided a card to use with those machines

All government proposals would be shown on a scrolling display which also indicated how much time remained to register a vote or opinion

People would be able to vote yay or nay to all proposals

Technology would very swiftly tally those votes.  Those with the most 'ayes' would proceed.  The nayes would be abandoned

A limited number of people would be required for this task with another limited number required to put the approved proposals into action.  No need for several hundred Humpty-Dumptys flying across the country to attend Parliament so they could argue or sleep in between getting their snouts in the Parliamentary cafeteria troughs.  No need for all the 'commissions' and 'think tanks' and other expensive blather and waste

A contracted or privatised government would save us billions and produce a nation where 'Of the People - For the People -- BY the People' actually applied.  And we'd all be far happier.  And no geriatric, useless, bottom-feeding ex-pollies to keep in luxury

[izabsmiling]

Polocross wtote:s I've suggested before, there needs to be machines similiar to ATMs distributed plentifully around the nation

is it alright if I make suggestions too?

[lakeland27]

planet serco. sounds enticing ..

[izabsmiling]

is that near the new world?