• Thanks jack... a very interesting response and, from my conversations with Sonya I think this is exactly the conversation she's hoping for. Be very interested to hear your response after viewing the doco. - Wendy Harmer
  • As someone who doesn't follow the Australian Vaccination schedule, I already feel like I am risking ridicule and worse posting here. We have been hassled and hounded by doctors, nurses (one of us is a nurse) and other parents. Blamed for the resurgence Whooping cough and related deaths, etc. Our stance is that we immunise based on our own needs and intelligence. As a for instance, we are not convinced that our children needed to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B at birth, especially given that the vaccine contained Thiomersal when it was recommended to us. I'm not sure how aware you are of the Japanese experience with the DTP vaccinations in the mid 1970's, but as a result of many adverse reactions and over 30 deaths as a direct result of the vaccine, the schedule was altered and children were vaccinated later. I am aware that the vaccine is no longer a whole cell vaccine, however it is worth considering the delicate balance of the immune system in infants below 6 months of age. So we immunise roughly to the Japanese schedule. There is no Hep B or vericella. And MMR is given as MR and Mumps separately. We will make the call on Japanese when we visit next month. I note that the tone in the promotion of the doco appears to depict the non vaccination school as driven by emotion with the pro vaccination argument being driven by Science (which is a pretty broad concept). Our decision to vaccinate alternatively has been based on a lot of careful research and is based on risk mitigation considering that vaccinations do carry a percentage of risk, however small. We have the advantage of also being Japanese citizens, (myself a spouse resident) and can access the differently combined vaccines and scheduling. When recently discussing this on a facebook post I was branded an anti Vaccinator. Abused and blamed. My response is that I think there is a better way. A much better way. And the heavy handed pressure to Immunise to schedule, which then elicits a strong anti response from those who question, but are discouraged strongly and frowned upon for questioning, has created a climate of 'for or against', emotion or science, us against them. All pretty narrow reductive way to explore a whole collection of different diseases, risks, and vaccines (including their varieties of compositions, combinations and timing). So we have attempted to immunise the best way that we can ascertain. It's a tricky time consuming task to get all the info on each different vaccine from the manufacturers, to research each and every disease to ascertain the risks of actually contracting it and then what the risks associated with the disease are, but it has been worthwhile. I think that the community could benefit from a less doctrinal approach to the current immunisation schedule and regular review of disease risks and the vaccination schedule response. - Jackdan
  • I'm an E cup. When I was younger and skinnier I was only a C cup and could handle underwires. Then I got pregnant and discovered the bliss of maternity bras. Post babies and breastfeeding I went back to the wires only to find they poked me and now I've got 'birdseyes' in my cleavage. I cannot fathom the underwire. Obviously the person who designed it has never had to wear one. Having big boobs we're all encouraged to wear them, but now I'm old and fat they're far too uncomfortable to contemplate. I'm happy with my 'wirefree' bras. I figured that if manufacturers could make a maternity bra without wires that fitted perfectly and provided excellent support to lactating breasts, they could do the same for large, non-lactating breasts too. I found the perfect fit for me at a large chain store and bought the same type for years. Not terribly sexy, but comfortable and serviceable. Now I've discovered same large chain has a moulded cotton bra in large sizes. Better still, you can order them online when the sales are on and collect them from the store. Bliss! - BeansGran
  • Well put Sonya. I am so glad that you have created this documentary. Also, you have put forward a voice of reason backed up by compelling evidence & your own credibility. I am pro-vaccination, but I understand why it is an delicate decision for many parents. I haven't come across the anti-vax theories (I'd never even heard of the AVN until Mamamia kept writing & tweeting about them). I'd always just followed the immunisation schedule. But I have come across a lot of pushy pro-vaxxers and I have to say, it is a turn off. I understand that it's a passionate issue. But is it an effective way of increasing immunisation rates? Of course not. Some pro-vaxxers make it their full time job to name, shame & harass people opposed to vaccination. Is harassment going to change their position, heck no! Is it going to galvanise their anti-vac position, quite probably! I just think we need to be smarter about this. I know it is not a "debate" in the sense that the science is in on the benefits & general safety of vaccines. But it completely normal to feel uneasy about purposely injecting your child with something most of us know very little about. And then watching their every breath that evening as they process that vaccine. Sonya, I hope that your documentary is the beginning of the change in the way we talk about immunisation. Well done. - Kasey
  • I am very impressed by what you've set out to achieve and how you've come about it. Much of my work these days is in vaccination and I work hard to break down the myths and false beliefs people have about vaccines. I find listening to concerns, empathy and responding with good evidence based information has been the most successful manner I've had so far. I also reassure parents that it is always their choice, but I also share that I am a mum too and that I choose to vaccinate my child fully. And funnily enough that's usually the clincher. Respect, good information and empathy can go a long way. I really hope that many people watch your documentary and help absolve the many concerns and myths surrounding vaccination that are out there. You must be proud of your work :) - The Huntress
  • Not everyone has access too or any interest in the internet, you cannot drive a tractor and watch the internet but you can listen to radio, you cannot drive a car and watch the internet but you can listen to radio, you cannot wash the dishes, the clothes, yourself and watch the internet but you can listen to the radio, you can also lie in bed with Phillip Adams, half my University of the Third Age students go to bed with Phillip. Australia's best journalists were trained by the ABC. What I don't understand Gee is your palpable hatred, how can you be so angry all the time, just relax and learn that we are all different and some of us prefer the quiet nature of the ABC compared with the ranting and rage of radio shock jocks and commercial TV. Your phrase 'slash and burn' is shocking to me, no one I know hates anything, no one I know wants to destroy things or institutions, not even the IPA, why such violence of language? - sue Bell
  • [...] Science says vaccinate! [...] - LET'S TALK (NOT SHOUT) VACCINATION
  • Thankyou Emma for your good work and humanistic attitude towards others. I could not do your job and be nice to others at the same time, i'v e realized. The other ABC journo's et al should be taking notes.......all the best in your career! - louise
  • Why censor the pictures, Ro? Don't call them "young men" either. They are "vicious animals" as their act so clearly evidences. They are not human at all. Are you saying it is "justifiable" for ethnic Nigerians, who have never been to either Afghanistan or Iraq but grew up on the teat of the British Welfare State, to run down and then Halal butcher a complete stranger walking along the street and minding his own business? How can you possibly draw any connection between what happened in London and the alleged mistreatment of Aborigines in Australia? What a fine example of the "straw man" argument! Do you think NATO and other allies were "unjustified" in invading Afghanistan and liberating it from the Taliban? That same Taliban that banned girls going to school; regularly indulge in female genital mutilation and the sodomising of "dancing boys"; blew up ancient Buddhist monuments; regularly carried out executions by stoning and beheading as half-time entertainment at football matches in Kabul and Kandahar; undertook ethnic cleansing against Hazara muslims; banned music and dancing on pain of death; and provided a base for the racist extremists of Al Qaeda to operate completely unfettered? Do you think it was wrong to overthrow Saddam Hussein who had used poisonous gas on the Kurds of Iraq? Whose two mongrel sons crawled the streets of Baghdad looking for women to rape; who executed his own son-in-law after promising "forgiveness' if he returned from exile; who gained power in a coup and then personally executed scores of his own "party"? The problems in Iraq today have nothing to do with Saddam's overthrow and everything to do with the seething sectarian and ethnic hatreds that have plagued Mesopotamia since the Babylonian Empire. Why didn't those two vicious animals condemn the latest round of sunni-shia bombings and murders in Iraq? If muslim women are subjected to the regular sight of dismembered bodies, those bodies were provided by other muslims. Why is it that only this week we saw Syrian women asking Bob Carr why it is that the USA and the non-Islamic world is not interfering in their current civil war? The war is yet another essentially religious/sectarian conflict between a Sunni majority and an Alawi-Shia minority. Why should any young Americans, Britons or Australians risk their lives for these benighted, backward bastards who regularly tell us how much they hate us? Have you forgotten the spontaneous eruption of glee and happiness that occurred in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the "Islamic world" when the 9/11 attack was carried out? It seems to me that you, like so many others, have forgotten the lessons of the period from 1919-1939. Appeasement never works. Trying to trivialise this disgraceful crime; saying that ...well, maybe, it was Britain's fault and maybe if Britain hadn't been and Imperial power 200 years ago and ... really, when you look at that and what happened to the Aborigines here, maybe they were justified in running over a total stranger, who'd done nothing to them or any of their family or relatives, and then hacking off his head with a meat cleaver. The white-washing, the diminution, the trivialising, the justifying has already started in media and the blogosphere. The appeasers and the white-hating racists are already talking this whole thing around so that in a few weeks they'll be wanting to give these two mongrels a medal and have them treated as Prisoners of War. I am so glad the British cops didn't shoot them dead. I want them to suffer in HM Prison System for the rest of their lives. But, knowing the way the British EHRC led by that treacherous hater, Trevor Phillips, operate, they'll probably be named and shamed and given 20 hours community service. - Jack Richards
  • Anyway. So long Latin. I know there will be people close to Hazel who will be feeling sad and confused today. Sad for who she was and confused because she is perhaps better off dead now. And then there is everyone else who were touched by Hazel's contribution to our lives. Thank you Hazel and her supporters. - ro.watson
 
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AUSTRALIA. WHY SO ANGRY?

By The Hoopla
July 18, 2012

Australia. Why so angry? Where does the rage come from?

 

An all-too-common occurence… road rage. Photograph via Ted Szukalski.

That’s the question Dr Gordion Fulde, Head of Emergency Department at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, is asking us.

He’s the one who deals with the shocking fallout of street violence on the mean streets of Sydney and he is in no doubt that there’s something sick at the heart of our culture.

“We’ve become a more angry, violent, vicious society,” Dr Fulde told the ABC’s Radio National host, Fran Kelly yesterday.

“OK, we’ve been drinking and fighting since whenever… but it’s the randomness now. You have parking rage, people get into a rage over a trolley over a supermarket and it’s both genders. It’s not just the boys.

“Trying to catch a taxi – they fight about it. A war over a taxi!

“Were just nastier to each other for the smallest reason.”

And, apart from the obvious rampant drinking and drug culture in Australian society, Dr Fulde is largely at a loss to say why we are like this.

Last night hundreds of people crammed into the Sydney Town Hall to discuss ways to curb violence in the notorious Kings Cross strip with a panel including politicians, police, crime experts and liquor industry representatives. At the meeting, the NSW assistant police commissioner Mark Murdoch said it was the availability and abuse of alcohol that was the problem. As he was speaking, inspectors were carrying out a major compliance audit of every licensed venue on the nightclub strip.

The move follows the death of Tom Kelly, who died after a violent assault at the Cross 11 days ago. The 18-year-old trainee accountant was talking on his phone when he was punched in the head in an unprovoked attack by an assailant who has yet to be identified. He collapsed instantly, hitting his head.

Mr and Mrs Kelly made the heartbreaking decision to switch off his life support.

Then there’s the incident involving ex-League player Craig Field who has been charged with murder after the death of a man on the NSW North Coast at the weekend. The death came after a fight in a pub carpark.

Dr Fulde also cited the 2004 death of former cricket star, David Hookes who died after an altercation with a bouncer outside the Beaconsfield Hotel in Melbourne’s St Kilda.

So violence is nothing new, of course.

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28 Responses to this article

  1. Harriet July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Too much pressure to be Happy all the time. You have to be Happy and be seen to be Happy. No other emotion seems to be acceptable, you’re Happy, you’re having a Good Time. Yay. And when events stop one from being Happy and having this Good Time… well, one gets angry. Ridiculously angry. It’s MY RIGHT TO BE HAPPY AND YOU’RE TAKING MY CAR PARK AND THAT’S STOPPING ME FROM FEELING HAPPY AND NOW I MUST PUNCH YOU IN THE HEAD AND THAT WILL RESTORE HAPPY TO MY WORLD (AS LONG AS YOU GET OUT OF MY CAR PARK).

    Ok, it’s probably not that simple. But maybe it is? And saying please and thank you and not pushing in…

     
  2. Matt July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Not just alcohol, drugs + alcohol cause all sore of behavioural issues.
    Our values are in serious need of readjustment. Some people in the Eastern Suburbs honestly believe cocaine usage is nothing more sinister than drinking a nice bottle of red wine. Our respect for the law is a reflection of our respect for each other. When young kids can legally tell Policemen, employers and even teachers to “eff off” what’s left to fear? Putting more Police around Kings Cross for instance is just more Police for douchebags to abuse as they show total disregard for any authority.
    An education campaign and a soft approach won’t fix this. Giving Police more powers to arrest troublemakers and to keep the peace is a start. Civil libertarians may gasp in shock at that suggestion but consider this, if you behave yourself and respect other people, then you have absolutely nothing to fear from Police at all.
    Maybe Rudolph Giuliani might be able to help us get this violence problem under control?

     
  3. janiemay July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I’ve tried and tried not to be a fuddy-duddy, but I believe a lot of the violence we are seeing from young people is from the tv/film/video they are exposed to from a young age. In the movies people are punched, stabbed and often shot, fall down and bounce up to fight again. When a punch is thrown in anger or rage and the victim doesn’t bounce back up, what then? Let’s not glorify blood-covered heroes fighting on and on and on. Show our boys, (and let’s face it, most of this one-on-one and king-hit violence is from young men) footage of brain-damaged victims of their own age.

     
  4. Annie Also July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    There are several ‘reasons’.
    You want respect? You GIVE respect first.
    Police state does not fix anything, just makes people more angry. Police giving respect and overt help to people creates respect, the respect is given.

    But more than that;
    Violence was always with us. But now violence is Comedic.
    I cannot watch ‘Australia’s Funniest Home Video’s” as it is mainly laughing at people getting hurt…
    When something becomes comedic then it is acceptable. No longer do we have subtle satire and irony and wit for comedy..we have violence.
    Violence begins with verbal ‘put-downs’…with name calling, lying and sarcasm being considered acceptable means of communicative responses to the ‘other’ in relationships.

    We have lost the meaning of ‘respect’..for humans, for law, for each other, for difference, for our community.

    I think it escalates when our leaders show comtempt for the ‘other’ as Howard did for the boat people…Dehumanise someone and they are ‘nothing’ and can be ‘picked on’ and vilified and it is ‘us and them’.

    We are all in this together, hamlets, villages, towns, cities, communities, states and our Nation and the World. We should not have a sense of entitlement to ANYTHING. We are all in this together. “This” life, world, country, community.
    Compassion, sharing, generosity..when these go missing violence comes bubbling up…and SPORT is the greatest permission of violence.
    It would only take ONE famous well paid sportsperson to be banned forever for hurting someone and we would be on the right road to lessening violence.

     
    • Matt July 18, 2012 Reply
       
       

      You want Police to give more respect? When I grew up I was taught to respect anyone in the blue uniform and to call them “Sir’ or “Ma’am”. I wasn’t taught to ‘only respect Police if they respect you first’. With attitudes like yours no wonder young kids have zero respect for the Police or the law. By the way, I applaud your literary skills to be able to blame this on John Howard. Isn’t it Tony abbott’s fault though. Clearly it’s somebody in the Liberal party I’m sure.

       
  5. sue elliott July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    At the risk of being a fuddy duddy too, I wonder whether all this texting and emailing and facebooking ( is that a verb now I wonder) means that it is a rare event to actually look into the whites of folks’ eyes and therefore be less aware of the effectiveness of good manners, and the very real effect of all the nastiness and abuse.
    It’s so easy to tell someone to f*** off in a text etc and escape the physical reaction. I can see how it might come as quite a shock when people repeat all this abuse in person and the situation turns violent.
    I long for the day when I can push a trolley around the supermarket without it becoming a V8 rally, and when people maintain polite eye contact and say, ‘after you’, ‘thank you’, ‘please’, ‘would you mind’.

     
  6. VRog July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I think the general level of inconsiderate behaviour you encounter every day (ie. people not giving a seat on public transport to pregnant women, or people who try to get on the train before people have gotten off, or people pushing in to get served at the cafe) is at the root of the problem. If people were more considerate, perhaps the level of rage out there wouldn’t have escalated so much. I know myself, I get quite angry (haven’t reached the rage stage yet!!) and sometimes it’s just the accumulation of lots of little inconsiderate-nesses that tips you over. If only people could realise it costs nothing to be considerate to other people!

     
  7. Wendy July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Lack of respect is a biggy, its very hard to teach respect to anyone when our society has no repercussions for violent acts, yes we have law and courts , but we are weak in our punishments. If people do wrong things, then they should be sentenced accordingly, that poor family in Sydney must be so angry ,but if the person responsible is caught will the punishment fit the crime ?? We should be harsher with punishments, and i don’t think prison is the answer. These young people that are trashing homes need to learn the hard way, take them from their homes, no benefits, take them into the middle of Oz and let them fend for themselves ,and lets see how tough they are then.Might sound barbaric , but why should they have a home when they have destroyed someone elses ?These kids are out of control, and we cant blame all parents for that. If a parent has a child such as that, what can they really do, ground them ?( they sneak out), take away phone? they steal another ) ,it makes no difference to a strong minded teen, they just walk away and keep on doing it, the parents need the support of community services to help them , to help their children. Its the same in education, government, workplace, etc, at school a child plays up, what can the school do, ? expel them ?? what use is that ? . Our politicians abuse each other every day and we are trying to teach our children respect !!! We have some great laws in Australia , but they are not being followed as they were intended. We have so many people with huge legal problems, ( often from being ripped off)but very few people can afford to correct these wrongs, so we suffer in anger and frustration,I for one am fed up with the lack of respect and discipline in our society.

     
  8. Magee July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I think we are not at all happy with the limited capacity of our leaders, with the dessicating and enervating intrusion of ‘management theory’ and ‘competition policy’ into every part of life. Issues of our lives are always reduced to ‘the economy’, ‘ strategy’, ‘spin’, ‘a sales opportunity’ and especially ‘competition’. Not competition as a vital and inspiring part of life, but slavishly applied to all endeavour. Many people who are apparently ‘winners’ in this environment seem also NOT to be SO HAPPY that they want to share that wonderful feeling and to support and invite others in, but rather they are SO UNHAPPY they want to control and punish those who have not succeeded. (blame the poor. rage about welfare, ‘my taxes’ blah blah) . They’re angry because these principles to live by don’t actually deliver. They don’t accord at all with our natural wish for cooperation, community, thought, reflection, feeling, and being, as well as endeavour and competition. OF COURSE we’re all angry. We live in a stupid stupid way that frustrates and denies our human needs and we know we do. Angry adolescents all.

     
  9. Dee-Anne July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I agree with all of the above. This aspect of Australian society is one that’s been worrying me more and more for the last couple of years. Rage is everywhere, shown by both genders and most ages. I think it comes down to a basic loss of RESPECT for self and all others. Manners have become extinct and thought of as old fashioned. It’s now all about, ‘ME, ME’. The social norms which held society in check for so long have been lost and most live in a purely hedonistic way. There is little in our society of doing the wrong thing because all actions can be justified in some way.

     
    • Matt July 18, 2012 Reply
       
       

      Well said Dee-Anne

       
  10. kid July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I suppose part of it, for older folks, is the realisation we’ve been fed a lie, that having a house and a nice car and a good job and a family don’t guarantee happiness. They only guarantee long hours of hard work and massive debt which in all likelihood will be the most “valuable” thing they’ll leave their kids.

    Speaking of which…we have a generation of late teens/early twenties raised by parents who wanted to be friends with their kids rather than parents. Who exerted no discipline and constantly told their kids they could be anything they wanted and they are wonderful. So many have taken this to its logical extreme, with massive egos, a sense of entitlement and an attitude that they can do whatever they like.

    Add to this a media feeding us a diet of “famous for doing nothing or being rich” celebs, sociopathic reality contestants and shows designed to make you rich and famous without having to work for it.

    I don’t think violence in our media is the problem. Humans are inherently violent and always have been, and if anything the lack of regular public executions and torture would hint that we are exposed to less violence than in centuries past.

     
  11. Royce July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I’m a teacher….. It’s the parents….

    Oh dear. That was not nice was it? But my generation of Baby Boomer parents have given our kids whatever they wanted and taught them to be the ‘me generation’. You can have it NOW…if not WHY NOT????

    “Rights” …. stand up for them!

    But worse is yet to come. These ‘me generation’ people are now breeding. They are raising similar kids…. but they live in the ‘me society’….. If they can’t have something RIGHT NOW…. they really kick up a stink. If they are bored…. well that’s good enough excuse to RAGE….

    Mind you my kids turned out all right and I’m working on my grandson….

     
  12. liza July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    many issues.I trained as a psychotherapist years ago and we spent a lot of time getting to realise their “Self worth” . The advertising companies who also have psychologists then introduced a new concept. have what you like because you are worth it. L’Oreal shampoo. Pay more Cos yer worth it.
    Our self worth is now very much wrapped up in entitlement.
    make room for me .Don’t you know I’m worth it ?
    Run across peoples cars because the owner can not be worth as much as me.

     
  13. Catherine July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” Plato quoting Socrates (around 400 BC)

    Every single generation complains that the younger generation behaves so much worse than they ever did. I am 51 years old and it never ceases to amaze me, how many of my contemporaries seem to suffer from collective amnesia about their own youth.

    Let’s stop throwing insults and engage our smart, senstible young people in a rational and fair dialogue about what they want to do to make their lives better.

     
  14. Julie July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Problem is where the locus of responsibility lies. Last generation is learning.It’s all about me, me me it’s always with someone else- not with me. Responsibility comes from response-ability ie the ability to respond (in a positive manner preferably). Drugs, alcohol, stress and energy drinks all take this away. Whatever happened to mateship and caring for your neighbours. Most people these days don;’t even know their neighbours.! Cimmunity- where the hell has that gone?

     
    • Sere July 18, 2012 Reply
       
       

      Also abuse creates abuse.

      There are a lot of children growing up with a lot of abuse around them and directed at them. It is very hard to show respect for others when you have received none yourself, and therefore do not respect yourself. It is pretty much impossible unless you receive help from somewhere else while forming, if your parents were unable to give it.

      People who work with young people who are on the wrong track have been able to help them turn their lives around, just by giving them the love and respect they deserve. This includes discipline because discipline is a part of love, fair discipline that is.

      Then you have the media throwing everything at them and all of us everytime we turn our heads. People are losing the knowledge of what REALLY makes them happy.

      Here are some quotes to help the situation:

      1) If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything

      2) Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself

       
  15. Kate S. July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I agree with Dee Anne.

     
  16. Marilyn July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Too much coffee. Every country worshipping the coffee bean ends up being a hotbed of violence. Oh yes.. also social media, violent games and films, bad role models in abusive or absent mums and dads..

     
  17. Carol July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Simple things that used to be taught in Kinder and at home, like taking turns, sharing or having a little nap /going to bed at a reasonable hour, saying please and thank you…. care, consideration and courtesy are often missing nowadays.

     
  18. amd July 21, 2012 Reply
     
     

    There is nothing new under the sun. Nothing. This is not a new phenomena. Plato said: “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

    Also, here’s another one from the 8th century BC “I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
    frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words… When I was young, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint”. (Hesiod).

    It’s a cycle, nothing more. What I also found interesting from watching old Twilight Zones from the 50′s and 60′s recently was how they were saying exactly the same sorts of things about society then as now. Every generation thinks it has the inside track on societal problems. Eventually, hopefully human beings will out-evolve our penchant for violence (assuming we make it that far), but in the meantime, this is not news, it’s olds

     
  19. Judith Rubbish July 22, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I am with Dee Ann too. I often say, to anyone who might care that ALL world problems would be eradicated if everyone had good manners and respected one another.

     
  20. Danny Dix August 3, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I wonder what this next generation of me people will turn this place into, and how much care and responsibility they will show their children….and their children again.
    I think the world will be a lot different a place in one hundred years from now.
    Their’s just too many of us on the planet now and society seems to be degenerating…god help us all.

     
  21. Danny Dix August 3, 2012 Reply
     
     

    *There’s…..5/10 spelling. Lol

     
    • Wendy Harmer August 3, 2012 Reply
       
       

      OK,there’re… geez, considering the amount of words we do, we get it rite, bi and lerge.

       
  22. Beth August 7, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Sydney is full of angry sober people. I think the attitude in this place is – I will take on my anger out on that person as the likely-hood of ever seeing them again is pretty slim.

    People put there angry head’s on when they drive in this place, car drivers are the worst out of all vehicles.

    I saw a guy yell at an old man yesterday because he was walking in this other guys way.

    It’s just an angry place and everyone needs to take a step back chill out and calm down.

     
  23. qdfssd May 22, 2013 Reply
     
     

    because kids in aust have no identity and worse, i need for identity.
    because guys in aust are homophobic because their parents were.

    because we killed any culture we had and now we live our lives via american tv and idolise it.

    so much stuff, i can’t be bothered educating you all anymore as to why australia is sooo shit. in every way it fails. left after 340 years and never going back.

    i now live in an amazing cultural country with a rich future and awesome people which generates more good nights out, better outdoor activities, hotter less demanding girls.

    aussies will go “well, good you left, stay out”
    and all that cliche crap they always say. BUT nights out in australia is boring, frustrating and sooo prehistoric. girls are demanding and high maintenance. bali is the only place to go and its dirty and boring. by the way, 4wd, boating, fishing and everything that bogans do badly are 10 times as good overseas in proper countries. you live in a hole and you aggressively try to justify and protect it because it is ALL you know. its your whole little life, you cant compare cos you have no brain capacity or experience beyond it.
    i really feel sorry for you but maybe in the next life you will open up and go “ahhh… i see now”
    you’re welcome. good luck losers.

     

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