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...

[polksaladallie]

 m'Lady

Please don't call her this, she would laugh if she heard it.

[icyfroth]

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@topsidesoul wrote:

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@polocross58 wrote:

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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The same could be said about a certain mad monk....ut you would not do that...

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Ms Q Bryce is a lovely lady, no question, but she has her imaginings while Mr Abbott has the realities, to deal with.

[polocross58]

Onya, Icy

Takes big ovaries to step up for any comment which runs against the majority, especially in here  

Take a bow and have a thumbs-up  🙂

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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.

[topsidesoul]

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.

[topsidesoul]

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@polocross58 wrote:

Onya, Icy

Takes big ovaries to step up for any comment which runs against the majority, especially in here  

Take a bow and have a thumbs-up  🙂

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Takes big guts to suggest machine gunning asylum boats doesn't it polocross58?

[polocross58]

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

[polksaladallie]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

• vigorously support or defend the cause of:he championed the rights of the working class and the poor

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This is what she has been doing for most of her adult life.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

 m'Lady

Please don't call her this, she would laugh if she heard it

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That is how we were required to address her and how I always have and will continue to do so. If not that, on formal occasions we were required to address her as Her Excellency. I did not mind then, and I certainly have no objections to doing so now.

She holds a position of respect and is entitled to that respect.

[topsidesoul]

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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.