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Australian values — a user’s guide

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I’ve said it many times before. Australia is the best damned country in the world with the exception of some island nations in the Caribbean with some very liberal banking laws.

For all that Australia can be a confusing place, especially for Australians. There are three tiers of government, all pretty much worthless and in various stages of decrepitude shuffling between inertia, chaos all the way along to abject failure. We have a corporate world blagging its way around a laughably cobbled together regulatory system while trying not to snigger too much. There’s a mutant media that routinely crucifies people, more often that not for no apparent good reason and a taxation system that, frankly, I gave up on a long time ago.

Last week the Turnbull government announced a range of changes to the 457 visa scheme and rounded it off with tightening requirements for citizenship. At a presser and then again in an interview with Leigh Sales on the ABC, our Prime Minister, resplendent in an electric blue suit, equivocated in response to what were some fairly mild inquiries on his thoughts on Australian-ness and what he considered might be Australian values.

Full column here.

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  • Henry Blofeld says:

    Well, Mr Insider, who’s a cheeky boy and its the new French President-elect Emmanuel Macron who has gone on to mock POTUS Trump in an election video where he promised he would ensure that, if elected, France would keep its Climate Change initiatives. Of course as we all know Trump on day 1 or 2 deleted all reference to Climate Change on the WhiteHouse.gov website, such is his opposition to this unproven Science. No early trip to the White House for you young Emmanuel, and a shabby start too imho. France has just gotten rid of one failed Socialist and they don’t need another!
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  • Henry Blofeld says:

    Ex-Labor leader Mark Latham joins Liberal Democrats, Mr Insider. My only question is what has the LD’s done to deserve this?

    • Jean Baptiste says:

      Who knows Enery. Perhaps he’s just a mole, a cunning plant.

      • Henry Blofeld says:

        Methinks he’s slowing working his way up to joining the Liberal Party itself, Mr Baptiste. Any Party that would have Tony Abbott as a leader would suit Latham imho. Cheers.

    • Carl on the Coast says:

      Get off the grass HB! He makes eminently more sense nowadays than his erstwhile Labor colleagues and many on the conservative side also.

      • Henry Blofeld says:

        How’s your Tony Abbott going Carl, headed for a “‘comeback” we hear good buddy. You must tell us one day what you see in him as 99.95 of Aussies cant stand him. Are you related? Cheers

  • .Lou oTOD says:

    Macron gets the chocolates in France, the youngest leader since Napoleon. All he has to do now is declare war on the bloody Brits and we’ve gone full circle in a few hundred years.

    Sure as hell he won’t take any crap from the old ladies running the show east and west of France, given he is a married to a cougar of his own. Vive la difference.

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