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THE PEOPLE, AS USUAL
“The mask is peeling off,” points out Margo Kingston. “What will the people think now? When they see Howard will they see themselves, or someone else entirely?”
I … DON’T … KNOW!
When I see John Howard, I am looking at another person. Take that as read. He is not me, right?
What am seeing though?
Closing my eyes ... I am still seeing that lawyerly looking guy with the coiffed eyebrows.
Am I seeing ‘someone else entirely’? Eyes closed ... try a funny hat, Karl Marx beard, dreadlocks, duelling scar ... damn.
Margo is wearing a mask? Bet I know where she picked it up. When Fairfax finally get around to firing her sorry arse, she can hire on at the Sydney Opera House- they’ve got a vacancy for a phantom.
How about the intro.
G’day. This is a version of the column I wrote last night for tomorrow’s Northern River’s Echo. The paper’s editor has kindly given me permission to publish it on Webdiary today.
So the Echo prints yesterdays news while web diary gets a head start on tommorrow’s. Time travelling Margo!
o/t- ex mediawatch exec producer slags Gerard Henderson.Name of David Salter.
touche- Salter says of Henderson that despite his faith in free market forces,he considered himself immune from the commercial realities of the media and “he’s just another hack filling up all that empty space between the ads. Like the rest of us.”
Well of course producers of mediawatch (a) have a hatred of conservatives (b) don’t have to bother about those nasty,dirty,commercial realities, being exorbitantly funded by the unwilling taxpayer.(c)and by the bye David - you’re way below his class.“...will they see themselves, or someone else entirely?”
Jeez, that’s like saying the Boston Red Sox will win the World Series, or else some entirely different team will win it.
And people actually get paid for writing that kind of drivel?
Posted by David Crawford on 2005 06 16 at 03:40 AM • permalinkNic wrote:
You mean Margto ?
Secret, secret. Margo’s got a secret?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 06 16 at 05:13 AM • permalinkOnce again we hear the cry that the people must be protected from the nasty State.
Like all before her, Margo forgets that the people she wants to give protection to are representative of numerous others who will come later, if the bar is lowered. Ask any honest asian resident if we are too soft. They will tell you that we will be taken advantage of in no uncertain terms, because if it can be done, it will be done.
Margo and her fellow loons seem to be blissfully unaware of just how tough it is, how competitive it is to make a life for yourself in many overpopulated countries to our north. They would love to be told that if you can get here, by whatever means, you have a much easier wicket to bat on.
Margo also fails, like all before her in this argument, to give us a vision of the other way of protecting our country against the determined undermining of our sovereignty by illegal immigrants.
The left are the flab which will destroy our healthy country, if we allow them to.
Australia is still blighted by a group of naive children of some yesteryear ideology, rooted in class warfare, and determined to win - but failing to see that the game is no longer the same.
The ALP and the union movement are pretty much irrelevant. Unless Margo and the rest of the so-called intellectual anacronies smarten up they will be too.Blogstrop said, “Margo and her fellow loons seem to be blissfully unaware of just how tough it is, how competitive it is to make a life for yourself in many overpopulated countries to our north. They would love to be told that if you can get here, by whatever means, you have a much easier wicket to bat on.”
Exactly. I deal with many young Asian couples professionally and in that group getting ‘PR’ (as they call it) legally is a very high priority. PR (permanent residence status) is their holy grail obtained, as I deal with them, via a spouse or prospective spouse visa. Getting PR is difficult and time-consuming and they have to jump through hoops.
And they are welcome. They are all tertiary educated and keen; they will make a valuable contribution to the economy.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 06 16 at 07:43 PM • permalinkWalterplinge, I was very close to a chinese girl who was here completing a MBA and amongst her crowd one of the in-things was to get your PR so that the Australian government would heavily subsidise a post-grad degree and then they’d take off to American where it was worth some real money.
Nice people an all but it’s a shame immigration can’t weed out the bad seeds.
HC44 - how did that work? I’ve just completed an MBA (Deakin) and I was paying $1,850 a unit. I don’t see much of a government subsidy in that. (And I’m born and bred here).
As far was I was aware all my Asian fellow post-grad students were paying top-whack.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 06 16 at 10:46 PM • permalinkNot her degree Walter, nor MBAs in particular. But if an immigrant makes PR then for education purposes are as Australian as anyone else and can take advantage of the schemes are available to residents (I believe). For post-grads that means subsidised and you have PELS which is basically HECS for higher degrees. Surely most resident post-grads are not paying top dollar in the same way that non-PR full fee paying students do.
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You mean Margto ?