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Australia

dellarte said:


When you've swept something under the rug.
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Most of Australians weren’t even born before the White Australia Policy was abolished. And there has been no hiding that it happened and that it was a shameful period for the nation.

For the record we are now a nation where the majority has at least one parent born overseas. We are more multicultural than nearly every other and most celebrate it.
 
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Not just that, but Australia in 1955 was a very different place, in part because of the White Australia policy. Racism was far more commonplace because it was accepted. As he said, it was unlikely for anyone in that age to not be racist. It wasn't "swept under the rug". This interview in fact is so famous that it's in Wikipedia.
 
Sorry, not working; you are all readonable for a little while, and just when I start thinking that tvere actually is a place called Australia, and then you go and do spmethin like this. Not buying it anymore. Drop crocs. Sure. I wasn't born yesterday.

Now you'll have to excuse me while I transfer some money to a friend, who has lost his phone, passport and travel funds. Luckily, the police in Freedonia is helping him out by messaging me!
 
Helen said:
Sorry, not working; you are all readonable for a little while, and just when I start thinking that tvere actually is a place called Australia, and then you go and do spmethin like this. Not buying it anymore. Drop crocs. Sure. I wasn't born yesterday.

Now you'll have to excuse me while I transfer some money to a friend, who has lost his phone, passport and travel funds. Luckily, the police in Freedonia is helping him out by messaging me!
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Do those police look like crocodiles?
 
lionking said:
Most of Australians weren’t even born before the White Australia Policy was abolished. And there has been no hiding that it happened and that it was a shameful period for the nation.

For the record we are now a nation where the majority has at least one parent born overseas. We are more multicultural than nearly every other and most celebrate it.
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Between the White Australia Policy of 1901 and your...

ad populum fallacy
"The ad populum fallacy is the appeal to the popularity of a claim as a reason for accepting it."

... for the record we have the...

Stolen Generations
"Official government estimates are that in certain regions between one in ten and one in three Indigenous Australian children were forcibly taken from their families and communities between 1910 and 1970. The Bringing Them Home Royal Commission report (1997) described the Australian policies of removing Aboriginal children as genocide."
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novaphile said:
By some absurd coincidence, my hen-house is under a very large pittosporum tree...

However, my girls are called Snowy and Cinders.
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I can see you went with a theme for their names. Do you have a third one called fallout?

(or did I misinterpret the theme?)
 
EHocking said:
I can see you went with a theme for their names. Do you have a third one called fallout?

(or did I misinterpret the theme?)
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I'm not sure.

They're a couple of weird breed rescue chooks. One black and one white.

I just went for Cinderalla and Snow White, because I don't have a lot of imagination (hence Snowy and Cinders).

The black one has a rather fetching 'pom-pom' crest, and the white one is vaguely fluffy (but not furry like a Silkie).

I'm guessing that they may be some kind of Polish cross breeds, because I haven't been able to find anything that looks like them online.
 
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