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And one that makes a manufacturing capital.
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Ridann is ranked 1st in Australia and 1,225th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.
Well done.
im fattest in aus and 272 in the world not something im that proud of.
My skinny ass is 18th fattest.
#15 for me. I don't really answer issues on this nation, so not really surprised.
Last for culture
hmmmm I thought being Imperialistic and war mongering would have counted as some
Most cultured must be all that money spent on music halls.
I have been singing all day :D
Apparently I am 13th for highest police ratios.
Has anyone read Stasiland?
I haven't read it. Is it good?
Australia is off to be the whipping boy of the USA once again.
yea again but they did help us in WW2
@ Mcmasterdonia R - I thought it an excellent book. Written by and Australian journalist....she interviewed by getting to know the East Germans, and shared memories with them of what was. I was struck by the truly insane levels of surveillance, fear and paranoia. No matter how far the Stasi infiltrated human privacy, there was always more that needed to be stripped back. There seemed to be a correlation between the stripping back of privacy with decreasing human dignity and an increasing fear and paranoia. Made me acutely sensitive to the interconnected issues of privacy, individualism and increasing paranoia in our world today.
In a semi yoked extension to the above, I suppose, it shouldn't surprise me - we are happy to jump in with weapons, but perish the thought we should offer any hope of a sanctuary to a people that just want to get away from the bloodshed.
You are right King Rankmore, the Americans did help us. It was a different America and a different Australia back then, small business and everyday people mattered.
That is quite a review of the book. I will have to check it out, it sounds like something I would find quite interesting. It reminds me of a book I read about Czechoslovakia and the rule of the Communist Party there.
I think you're right about the state of affairs. It truly saddens me that the idea of keeping children in detention (Even separated from their parents) is considered acceptable or even desirable by modern society. I may very well be considered a bleeding heart liberal, but I don't understand how the government can on the one hand argue for this "humanitarian" effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, but then ship asylum seekers off to other countries who cannot afford to adequately provide for them!
That's one of the ironies of modern tech we willingly use tools and adopt behaviors that would have made the police states of the Cold War cackle with glee and often not even think about it or worse care. I'll have to ask my local library if they can borrow a copy of Stasiland, it was published in 2002.
Never heard of that book
What do ya'll think of kangaroo & emu meat for eating/cooking?
I've never tried them and I don't have a problem with eating them. I would think emu would taste a bit like ostrich or wild turkey, bird not whiskey.
Skippy :o !! :D
Not a huge meat eater unless it is fish.
But I have eaten 'roo - I enjoyed it.
*thinks about wild turkey whiskey*
Good idea :) Anybody else for a drop of Talisker?
*starts pouring*
I enjoy kangaroo. I cooked some the other day and shared a photo of it to another region I am in. I was promptly put on court trial for it.
Australia should open Embassies with Canada.... *flies off*
Sorry for triple posting. But I found this and couldn't stop laughing: http://www.abbottsimulator.com/
Ok i put the request in.
Haha! That Abbott Simulator was good for a laugh. :D
Isn't it brilliant? I absolutely love how the titanic music comes on when Clive Palmer emerges. So damn good.
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