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This whole 60 page thread and that's probably the truest thing said on here thus far!

...and just to get it off topic a little more, which countries have the best?

Russia.

[Easts75]

This whole 60 page thread and that's probably the truest thing said on here thus far!

...and just to get it off topic a little more, which countries have the best?

Poland !!

[Jacks Fur Coat]

old habits die hard. she was right to criticise the handling of the ruby princess but she could have done it in a less confrontational manner.

No doubt...but I think her Advisers are letting her down. They need to show her as an a alternative leader not just a contradicter of anything the government does. Her tone needs to lose some whine too.

[zac]

Can you call the journo playing pollie now Jodi McKay and let her know.

Every time I see her bleating on tv a little part of my soul perishes.

old habits die hard. she was right to criticise the handling of the ruby princess but she could have done it in a less confrontational manner.

[rented tracksuit]

Haha.

I have travelled overseas quite a bit the last 10 years and in my opinion New Zealand have the least atrractive women by far out of anywhere i have been. Love their country though, 6 weeks driving around the South Island was sensational.

This whole 60 page thread and that's probably the truest thing said on here thus far!

...and just to get it off topic a little more, which countries have the best?

[Jacks Fur Coat]

one thing I feel more because of the current predicament is that i'm not looking for spin from politicians. Do what has to be done, tell us why it has to be done, don't play politics.

Can you call the journo playing pollie now Jodi McKay and let her know.

Every time I see her bleating on tv a little part of my soul perishes.

[Hollus]

I'm happy to change my original statement to:

"in America it's killing so many people they're now talking about burying the dead (in coffins) in mass graves in public land on Hart Island."

Yes burying the dead in cemeteries. The horror!

[Easts75]

Two answers - take your pick

1. Attacking people for their looks is pretty low.

2. I've heard rumours to the effect that when she gave birth she bit through the umbilical cord with those chompers. Is she the daughter of a Xenomorph?

Haha.

I have travelled overseas quite a bit the last 10 years and in my opinion New Zealand have the least atrractive women by far out of anywhere i have been. Love their country though, 6 weeks driving around the South Island was sensational.

[zac]

one thing I feel more because of the current predicament is that i'm not looking for spin from politicians. Do what has to be done, tell us why it has to be done, don't play politics.

[Johnny73]

All i know is if Ardern ever finds herself out of politics she could definitely get a job haunting houses....she is one offensive looking person, hideous

Two answers - take your pick

1. Attacking people for their looks is pretty low.

2. I've heard rumours to the effect that when she gave birth she bit through the umbilical cord with those chompers. Is she the daughter of a Xenomorph?

[Easts75]

All i know is if Ardern ever finds herself out of politics she could definitely get a job haunting houses....she is one offensive looking person, hideous

[rented tracksuit]

I'm sick of the media love fest with the NZ Queen Bee...shes got a nerve to lecture us on what we should or shouldn't do. Go away Jemima.

I think shes got plenty of good qualities but you are only as good as the team behind you. I think her grass is getting too long and she shouldn't be criticising others when her own backyard needs a mow.

[rented tracksuit]

Its very easy to compare- she acted fast and had a stage 4 lockdown in place early.....the results are there to see. No bullshit confusion straight off the bat on what was open and what was not open. People here still cant figure out why hairdressers are open- none of this bullshit that you're an essential worker if you still got a job. She also showed strong leadership in demoting the health minister for breaking lockdown rules.

CNN just had the NZ deputy PM on explaining the reasons for their success they have had thus far. Wasnt rocket science- they shut everything -including borders- real fast and and efficient.

I think you missed the issue with the cruise liners. How did almost 2,700 passengers - some coughing and spluttering - were allowed to leave the Ruby Princess at Sydney Harbour, catching trains, buses and even overseas flights to get home ??? A monumental fark up thats nearly too unbelievable to be true

Not exactly sure where you are getting your love and admiration for Adern or how NZ is handling it when their numbers are worse than Aus. They have only tested 46875 people which is only 9721 per 1mil population. Aus have tested 319784 which is 12541 per 1mil population. Aus currenty have 237 active cases per 1mil poulation. NZ has 251 per 1 mil population.

We have our border restrictions in place and so do they which you seem to think are better than ours so why are their cases worse than ours? Surely in a country the size of ours in comparison to theirs, they should be doing a LOT better than us?

Based on those stats, I fail to see how you can criticise the job our govt is doing in comparison to our smaller bros across the ditch.

It was not the fed govts fault for the cruise ship dilema. That will require many many months if not years of investigation to determine who was at fault there but I am certain it wasnt a fed govt call. No matter what, it shouldnt have happened and is simply unacceptable to the innocents its affecting and those who will continue to be affected by it. My point still doesn't change however that the passengers should not have even been sailing after the govt issued travel advice advising not to do so. Its not the only cruise ship in the world with Aus passengers that ignored the DFAT travel advice and are now claiming to be victims.

[bondi.boy]

We old men were young once...fighting for change, fighting for better.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/toom...21-gdsixl.html

2008

It's 1987, and welcome to Toomelah, a small Aboriginal community on a former mission station on the NSW-Queensland border, and the subject of Australia's first intervention.

The son of a Wran government minister, Einfeld faces perjury and traffic charges. Back then, he was a famed human rights activist who, in 1963, his eyes welling with tears, had stood among 200,000 people at the Washington Monument listening to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" address.

Twenty-one years ago, Toomelah had one water tap for 500 people, and it flowed twice a day for just 15 minutes. Some houses had 30 people sleeping in them, and Goondiwindi High School, just across the border, had a blackboard for the whites and a blackboard for the blacks. And when the children came home, they played in the raw sewage of Toomelah's fetid, fouled streets.

Then Marcus Einfeld, president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, pulled into town to investigate conditions after a race riot in "Goondi". Suddenly, like manna from Sydney, houses were built, the dirt road sealed, a sewerage system materialised and a new bore, pumping station and tanks dried up the line at the water tap. But a drink of water could not banish the devil.

The winter of 1987 was a heady time for Aboriginal issues: hoopla surrounded the 1988 bicentenary and what it meant to original inhabitants, and the Hawke government announced a royal commission into the deaths in custody of 44 Aborigines since 1980.

Then Einfeld turned the spotlight on neglect by walking with his trousers rolled up through the muddy, soiled streets of Toomelah and crying tears of shame and pity.

Tall, patrician, with Cecil B. De Mille-epic looks ready-made for the night's television news, Einfeld put Toomelah's plight on the front page.

[bondi.boy]

Nailed it again RR. I read somewhere recently about how many bright intelligent YOUNG high profile women were being mocked by middle age to very old men who seem quite threatened by their very presence. Of course they would feel differently wouldn't they if that was their own daughter out there. The world is evolving and some refuse to keep up.

Jacinda was just lucky it was middle age, White, heterosexual, Christian, male [seemingly the most hated people in the country today] "daggy dad" ScoMo standing next to her at Kirribilli House when she blasted Australia over its deportation of criminals policy …….and not the little older lady who sits on the lounge at my place.

We old men also marched in the streets to end the States' death chambers...lucky for wrongly-convicted Lindy. The crowd was baying for her blood.
The cross and noose leading one protest march;

https://www.smh.com.au/national/50-y...02-gu3rpn.html

Waterside workers, among others, march to Parliament House to protest against the state governments decision to hang convicted murderer Ronald Joseph Ryan.Credit:The Age