Kevin Rudd = Epic Fail

I just dont think Australia was ready for a PM who routinely didn't wear a tie on TV. I mean come on how seriously can you take a bloke who looks like he just knocked off work.

Let that be a lesson to us all, respect the power of the Tie!!!

Seriously though Gillard will be great!! Smart, funny and has done a great impression of sincerity so far.

Rudd didn't get stabbed in the back, he shot his own foot off by being a crap politician, the public lost faith and the leadership had to change.

Simple.


As for the race issue, it doesn't suprise me at all. Be warned, I feel a rant coming on.

Australia is a massively racist country, it’s pretty much casually accepted by almost everyone.

A couple of times I've pulled blokes up on making racist jokes about Aboriginals, mostly I just leave the room though.

I think most of the time its not that Aussies HATE other races/cultures either, most of the time we just parrot a line we heard elsewhere cos it sounds vaguely like what a real Australian would say.

Yeah its Australia love it or leave it ya bloody muslim.

Hold on what does that phrase actually mean?

Simplistically it means that as an immigrant or refugee you should make every effort to appreciate the country or you should go somewhere else.

In practice that phrase is jammed with multiple interpretations and racist ideology.

What does it mean to Love Australia?

Again simplistically:

Loving a country means appreciating it, contributing to its development and being part of a shared experience.

In practice:
Loving Australia is reduced to conforming with what the person shouting the phrase wants you to do or to stop doing.

Eg: Loving Australia can be shown by kissing the flag as 20 people surround and intimidate and perhaps attack you

Eg: Loving Australia can also be shown by picking up that Maccas wrapper someone just threw down and binning it cos YOU want to look after Australia.

I am always putting on the “beached as” accent, doing “ze Russian voice #OOPS#en”
And paying out Asian drivers, its just an Aussie thing to do.

Yet I never stereotype indigenous Australians, purely because I was brought up to acknowledge the #OOPS#ed up #OOPS# that happened to them.

Double Standard MUCH!!!!!

This sort of schizophrenic approach to race and racism is pretty symptomatic of most Australians I think.

It is a tough issue BUT, it is worth discussing…