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[icyfroth]

Pauline Hanson slams ‘politically correct’ Australia Day lamb ad

ONE Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has slammed the meat marketing body’s latest Australia Day lamb ad which controversially omits any mention of “Australia Day”.

Meat & Livestock Australia’s annual ad, released earlier this week, has been dubbed the body’s most political yet for focusing on the controversy around Australia Day for indigenous Australians, many of whom have taken to describing January 26 as “Invasion Day”.

The ad opens on a beach, with two indigenous Australians preparing to light up a barbie, before various settlers begin arriving by boat — the First Fleet, the French, the Russians, Chinese, Greeks, Italians — finally ending with a boatload of asylum seekers approaching the shore.

“Hang on. Aren’t we all boat people?” former MasterChef contestant Poh Ling Yeow asks, to cheers from the crowd. Lamb, according to the MLA, is “the most multicultural meat”.

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What a bunch of gutless wonders the MLA are. Mulitcultural? Aren't we all supposed to be Australian?

[springyzone]

If you don't like the mainstream politicians and you don't like the individuals such as Pauline Hanson, who would you suggest we vote for?

Of course we don't have to vote for anyone, but that doesn't solve the problem either.

I also believe we have quite a few greedy politicians who have their snouts in the trough but I don't think all of them are necessarily like that, nor do all of them want to wage war.

Or maybe I am just too optimistic.

[johcaschro]

I think you are too optimistic.

How better to get the attention of the professional polly than to withold one's vote? On an individual level of course this is insignificant. But imagine if a majority of Australian voters refused to vote for any of our present crop pf pollies at the next election.

A crisis of confidence? It's already here; we just need a means and a way to express it.

[johcaschro]

With regard to immigration of people claiming refugee status; our western democracies have done a lot in recent years to cause this increasing phenomenon.

We bomb their countries and destroy their homes and we wonder that they move out and come to our place?

We wonder that our foreign policy actions actually cause and facilitate terrorism and terrorists to want to move over here?

And then we say that immigrants from the lands we have figuratively bombed back into the stone age should be screened lest they harbour a little resentment against us?

It just so happens as a matter of coincidence that the majority of these people are Muslim. They belong to a religion which already holds a fair bit of disdain for those whom they see as "infidel". (that's most of us by the way)

Couple that with a justifiable argument that we are the real villians, having wreaked so much destruction on them in the first place and it's no wonder that they really don't like us very much even if we do grant them refuge.

There's a quote from Voltaire who said  . . .

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

Now this is true just the same for those people who teach religion as it is for our politicians who feed us such lies served out as truth in order to serve their own ends.

[springyzone]

I see it this way.

Just supposing you blamed a country for waging war on you. You resented people from that country.

Tell me, why would you then wish to migrate to that country?

You wouldn't.

London and England were heavily bombed during the second world war but there was not an exodus of people fleeing over to Germany.

I am not saying you are completely wrong but I think it is too simplistic. It places all the blame on our society and none on the terrorists. You see them purely as innocent victims reacting.

But a lot of the stats coming out are showing that quite a few of those being recruited are young and have never known war. They may even have been born in westernised countries to migrant parents. It's a mind set driving them, not personal experience.

I don't see the connection between the current crop of terrorism & the muslim religion as being one of coincidence. Extremist religious indoctrination is what is driving this. The terrorists themselves claim this. They could not make it clearer yet we still have people here who scratch their heads and wonder what on earth could motivate these people.

It has gone beyond them wanting to defend themselves. We are seeing the rise of a militant & savage culture of thought.

We can debate forever what factors contributed to its development  but the fact remains that it now exists, it is dangerous to all of us-not just our polticians-and it can and will wreak havoc in our own society if we are not careful.

We need to deal with it, no use pretending it doesn't exist and has nothing to do with the muslim religion.

[chameleon54]

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@springyzone wrote:

If you don't like the mainstream politicians and you don't like the individuals such as Pauline Hanson, who would you suggest we vote for?

Of course we don't have to vote for anyone, but that doesn't solve the problem either.

I also believe we have quite a few greedy politicians who have their snouts in the trough but I don't think all of them are necessarily like that, nor do all of them want to wage war.

Or maybe I am just too optimistic.

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Nick Xenephon ( and his " team" ) appears to be a lot more in touch and genuine than many politicians. Sure he knows how to play the political and public spin game, but for a minor party this is essential to first get noticed and so have some actual influence on the political system.

He is a lot more moderate and main stream than people like Pauline Hanson and uses his balance of power and 3 senate seats in a responsible way. I dont agree with everything he says ( he,s still a bit to the left of centre on many issues ) but I think he and his party are the best of the bunch at the moment.

His candidate Rebekha Sharkie ( hope I got the spelling right ) is our local sitting member after ousting Jamie Briggs from the ultra safe Liberal seat of Mayo at the last election. She is very active in the electorate and is playing a safe but intelligent game at the moment.

Thats one way to use your vote to unsettle the two main players without voting for some of the cartoon characters that have their hands up at the moment.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Hands up or hands out?

[lyndal1838]

A bit of both if you ask me.

[unique_pre-driven]

They also left Tasmania off the lamb add.  Made by Australians?  Pretty poor if you ask me. 

[johcaschro]

Did you notice the second last sentence spoken in that ad?. . . . "Thanks for having us, guys"

That's something a guest often says to the host after a party, just before leaving and going home.

[johcaschro]

"Nick Xenephon ( and his " team" ) appears to be a lot more in touch and genuine than many politicians."

Good choice of words . . . "appears to be". in other words he's got the politicians' scam down pat.

Don't listen so much to what he says but look at what he does. I think he wants to "appear to be" something he isn't.

How's he doing on his original No Pokies platform? No pressure here in SA to reduce their number.

How's he doing on supporting some policies of the LNP in an effort to "appear to be" fair and reasonable?

My opinion of him is that he is just another self-serving politician who wants to "appear to be" something he isn't in order to get our votes, stay in office, stay in the headlines and inscribe himself in the history books for having done so, just like all the rest of them.

Self-serving non-representative scum, (to steal a description) as are the majority of our polllies.