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...

[izabsmiling]

My husband could take it and live by it Polo...he does now...he isn't even Australian.More so than some going by the Pledge.

[polocross58]

The allegedly accurate government stats are online

They allegedly reveal the extent, in billions of dollars, of money being sent overseas to migrants who decided to 'return home'

It's a lot of money

Their own countries provide them a pittance, if anything

But that's ok.  They're big men in the village now --- thanks to those hundreds of Aussie dollars hitting their bank account in the old country -- every week, every month, every year, for decades and decades

My we're a lovely and generaous temporary (if reluctant) host nation, aren't we

They took the pledge though

Bargain !   To earn fifty Aussie dollars in their country, they'd need to cart logs for ten years

But by merely 'taking the pledge' in Australia, they're made-men for life !

LOL 

[***super_nova***]

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@polocross58 wrote:

She's a figurehead,

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As was any GG before her and will be any after her.  She is educated intelligent amazing woman with style and class.  Why she should not have the right to express what she thinks?  And what does it matter whpo is her son in law? 

She ended her lecture with the offer of a new vision of an Australia ''where people are free to love and marry whom they choose and where perhaps, my friends, one day, one young girl or boy may even grow up to be our nation's first head of state''.  That sounds perfectly good to me.

What GG is paid has nothing to do with how much are pensions or dole, or refugees, who by the  way do not receive free housing or anywhere near what pensioners get.  By the way I am prety sure the pensions are now more than $16 000, which is $300+ per week, and if people are renting they also get rental allowance, and discount for power, gas and water, and car rego.   If you shop wisely you can easily live on $100 per week for food.  You certainly do not need to live on 3 minutes noodles. 

[***super_nova***]

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@polocross58 wrote:

They allegedly reveal the extent, in billions of dollars, of money being sent overseas to migrants who decided to 'return home'

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Yes, when people retire they can go live o/s and get their super or pension paid over there.  They paid their tax while working here and contributed to their super, so of-course you cannot deny them that income.  But they have to be from a country that has reciprocal arrangement with Australia, that means that these countries also pay any pensions to people living here.  For instance I know people from Germany and UK who get their Australian pension plus pension from the other country, this amount is counted as income and the Australian pension gets reduced accordingly.  One of my friends gets about 100euros = $150 a week, and she loses something like $50 (?) from her pension.  Not to mention that people taking their pension o/s lose such benefits as healthcare, and only get the basic pension.  That means that Australia saves lots of money by not having to provide health care, and other benefits to them.

[polksaladallie]

You are right, Super Nova, OA pensions are now almost $414 p/week, not including rent allowance.  Plus, if you are a real pensioner, there are lots of discounts to be had. 

Noodles have no nutrition.  Real food is much cheaper than man made "food".   Lots of healthy food can be bought for less than $50 p/week.

[j*oono]

Underbat!!!  

Do people just come here for a bicker everyday? 

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@polocross58 wrote:

She's a figurehead,

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As was any GG before her and will be any after her.  She is educated intelligent amazing woman with style and class.  Why she should not have the right to express what she thinks?  And what does it matter whpo is her son in law? 

She ended her lecture with the offer of a new vision of an Australia ''where people are free to love and marry whom they choose and where perhaps, my friends, one day, one young girl or boy may even grow up to be our nation's first head of state''.  That sounds perfectly good to me.

What GG is paid has nothing to do with how much are pensions or dole, or refugees, who by the  way do not receive free housing or anywhere near what pensioners get.  By the way I am prety sure the pensions are now more than $16 000, which is $300+ per week, and if people are renting they also get rental allowance, and discount for power, gas and water, and car rego.   If you shop wisely you can easily live on $100 per week for food.  You certainly do not need to live on 3 minutes noodles. 

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rubbish

[the_bob_delusion]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

She does nothing more than the job she is well paid to do.

Definition of championin English

champion

Pronunciation: /ˈtʃampɪən/

Translate champion | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1a person who has surpassed all rivals in a sporting contest or other competition: [as modifier]:a champion hurdler

• 2a person who vigorously supports or defends a person or cause:he became the determined champion of a free press
• historical a knight who fought in single combat on behalf of the monarch.

verb

[with object]

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

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Yep, I agree. Indiscriminate uses of this word doesn't make it so.

[silverfaun]

Sack her, she's not doing the correct thing by embroiling herself in Labor policies & opinions., She should never have had her tenure extended. A Labor puppet.

[polksaladallie]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Sack her, she's not doing the correct thing by embroiling herself in Labor policies & opinions., She should never have had her tenure extended. A Labor puppet.

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And the next one will be a ..................puppet. 

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