Full-body scans rolled out at all Australian international airports

Sorry to be the one to “pop” your romantic ideology bubble about the USA, but there is nothing remotely “good” or “free” about a civilisation that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a citizen without telling that individual what they are being charged with, and ignoring the basic rights to human justice.

Human beings are suppose to be moving forward, not going backwards as a species.

 

If you take away scenery, Australia is little America. We are killing off our own grass-roots culture and losing our identity in favour of another imported culture, and to me that’s wrong.

We have friends in California, and they say that present days Australians are just like Americans towards the end of the 1970’s and early 1980’s. In fact the similarity are so significant, their daughter is writing her thesis on the comparison. Everything, including the high density housing the USA went through in the early 1980’s that Australia is going through now - the “Brady bunch” suburbia syndrome.

 

'Stands for' is definitely the appropriate words. Especially in US international airports - in line for the balls groping and inter bra activities. Such freedom, eh? And other countries consider their citizens should follow suit. How pathetic for the world traveller.

 

What`s an "inter bra activity?

 

LOL interbra, really?!! I'd guess same sex groper though?

Its interesting to see how we copy the US culture, I remember seeing a Ford commercial in the US in late 1980's, and about 2 years later Ford Australia rolled out the exact same catchphrase whilst at the same time trying to sell the message it was all Australian. Straight regurgetation of US culture as Australian culture is a bit suspect.

Not to mention plenty of people want us to become a republic and have a similar political system to the US, even if they deny it to your face.

 

Only to the untrained eye.

I believe cross dressing is the new activity.

 

Considering how closely Australia has followed the USA since WW2, and now that the USA has military troops permanently stationed on Australian soil; some are suggesting Australia “IS” the 51st State of the USA and Canada is the 52nd.

The Republican system of Government is seriously flawed, and the Romans proved how easy corruption could seep into that system a few thousand years ago when their Empire feel into ruin through greed and corruption, but that system was adopted by modern man & we still hold it up a model and guiding light to worship even though its fallen apart and rotted from within.

We need a different system whereby one or two individual leaders of a country can no longer create a war and get thousands or millions of innocent people killed just because those two leaders disagree over something trivial.

 

So if Australia is so bad and Australians are so bad, why don't you go back to England where you came from.

 

Paul Hogan roaring around in a speedboat wasn't copied from America.

 

What was the “Paul Hogan Show” all about? Wasn’t it a comedy TV show about Australians laughing at themselves and their behaviour?

If you make a TV show portraying and selling your people as a bunch of slack-jaw yokels; then how do you expect other societies & cultures to understand you and take you seriously. No wonder Americans to this day still think kangaroos jump down the streets in our capital cities and everything looks like the “Ettamogah pub”

 

Where did I say Australia was bad? Dont have such a thin skin, the inability to accept criticism just shows immaturity .I was commenting on the fact that culturally Australia is very similar to America and what we can offer to tourists is often so remote it is prohibitively expensive to travel to.

 

This is what we do, we find self deprecation humurous, you americans take yourself so seriously, we dont.

Most of us dont care what Americans or anyone else thinks of us, dont confuse the sychophantic wanna be american lickspittle Australians who come to this forum with the average Australian.

 

I was talking about a 70's cigarette commercial where paul Hogan was having fun in a speed boat while someone sang "Craven special mild is a mighty good smoke...." it went something like that anyway.

 

Gotcha. Another whinging pom.

 

Actually you are the one whinging.

 

Maybe that’s the problem!!

 

What problem? Most of us dont feel the need to be "recognised" by other countries, I dont see that as a problem.

 

Australia needs to carve out its own destiny and foreign policy, as a western country we are in an almost unique geographical position as compared to any other industrialised nation. We were doing just fine until the John Howard years which set us back about 3 decades in my opinion. He made manipulating the greedy and self entitled in this country into a fine art form.

 

LOL were you here when Hawke and Keating were in power!??? No, Howards era was called surviving the Asian Ecomonic Crisis and dot com bubble. If the Libs hadn't of gone out of power we'd have cruised through the 2008 crisis as well.

 

Living in a foreign country and travelling around quite a bit, when I get back home for a visit, I can really appreciate Australia.

Greatest place on this planet.

 

Perhaps you can put up a list as to what the past 2 governments have done to claw us back from this remarkably dire position JWH left us in.

This should be funny……..

 

Pink bats, carbon tax & balls ups. Nearly forgot, lies, and backstabbing.

 

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Pherps you could explain just exactly what 'dire position' you are talking about.

 

Perhaps you could ask Ian, it was his claim, not mine.