Kids at Port Augusta Residential Housing Facility pleads for freedom

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Are we going to learn from the past about stolen generation? If children of illegal asylum seeker parents are sent back to the refugee camps of origin, and Australia accept the children in good faith, in decades to come, the story can be so distorted that they become the stolen generation Mk II. Who will be the twit (or Australia’s King of Twitter) to apologise next?

Asylum seekers, carbon tax legislation on table for Julia Gillard

Posted to Herald Sun(12/9/2011) on 12/9/2011 at 1:56 AM
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Rudd started the mess, Gillard only made it bigger! Rudd did some seemingly palatable things to Australian voters, until he was dropped from the "flavour of the month" list. Gillard is getting from bad to worse, behaving like a spoilt brat and wanting to interfere with the separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary.

Kyoto Protocol is a formality that will become empty promises. Many European countries' carbon emission has been reduced NOT because of their conscious effort to do so, but their manufacturing industries have gone south (or to China precisely). This leads to drastic reduction of power consumption and in the meantime less output of carbon dioxide.

An apology to Indigenous Australian will not make their livelihood improved. Once precedence is set, in decades to come, future Government will have to apologise to "stolen" children of illegal asylum seekers whose parents were sent back to refugee camps, say in Malaysia.

WorkChoices was the key issue that brought down the previous Liberal Government. History will tell whether the people of Australia had made the right choice, by electing Rudd for dismantling it. There are already signs that wage breakout and strikes returning to Australia sooner than expected.

The Iraqi War was a war that should not have taken place at all. The real evils of axes were the two George Bushes and their Administration under their command. The Americans did not want their sons and daughters to fight in the unjust war, and why should Australia follow? The WMD turned out to be Worldwide Mass Deception. On one hand, Rudd recalled the combat personnel from Iraq, and on the other hand he sent troops to Afghanistan.

The stimulus package meant to prevent Australia falling into the cracks of GFC benefited overseas manufacturers of flat screen televisions and outbound overseas tourism. The effective impact was minimal and lasted for about two months. Without the package, Australia would not have sunken; it would be better off to use the money for future rainy days or tempests.