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Deirdre McCloskey explains what makes Australia great : Comments

By Gary Johns, published 22/9/2017

The quaint idea that the intellectual property of Australia was somehow created by Aborigines, Anglos and (mostly) European postwar settlers misrepresents the truth.

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The problem with the Aboriginal protest movement is not the Aboriginal.
Roll over the stone of stirrers and bingo, out pop the ABC, the Greens, the Labor Party, Clover (idiot) Moore, with her version of a gay North Korea in the heart of Sydney, and a hundred thousand dollars worth of rainbow flags fluttering so proudly from Sydney Harbour bridge.

They have determined that the date of Australia Day needs changing.
Posted by diver dan, Friday, 22 September 2017 7:50:03 AM
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“The quaint idea that the intellectual property of Australia, how we came to be the superb country that we are, was somehow created by Aborigines, Anglos and (mostly) European postwar settlers misrepresents the truth. It is tantamount to theft.”

Aborigines created absolutely nothing in Australia – they were Stone Age hunter/gatherers with no concept of civilisation; and, we are no longer the “superb country” that was originally created by the British Empire.

Australia is now a pathetic, Leftist, multicultural cesspit, which would be hard-pressed to defend itself from enemies within and without, thanks to its lack of morals and values, and the PC attitude of what passes for a defence force these days – gender bending, taxpayer-funded gender reassignment and employing females in combat roles they are simply not equipped for.

According to defence writer, David Archibald, Australia was in a similarly weak position at the onset of WW2; only a plane crash taking out the military top brass in one go saw changes that were responsible for our survival to this day.

We need to stop talking about piddling things like “intellectual property”, homosexuality, diversity,and start getting tough. Tearing ourselves apart with homosexuality and recognition of people who no longer exist simply does hot cut the mustard in a very dangerous world.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 22 September 2017 7:59:36 AM
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Deirdre was/is essentially correct, within the limited framework of her thesis.

But not the vexatious mischief Gary seeks to make of it?

Innovation is extremely limited in ultra conservatives like Gary, but vastly more apparent in everybody else willing to try something new/better?

Just not people like (high lord executioner) Gary, trapped forever in a timewarp/artificial world of coal fired steam power and master servant constructs.

Imagining as they view the world from this artificial narrow prism, that the great unwashed horde are jealous of their UNEARNED PRIVILEGES!

You're joking surely? We still make power from steam, made from burning coal! Just as my granddaddy did over 100 years ago!

You're not about advancing Australia, but HOLDING IT BACK or just selling it and our heritage/future prospects to the highest bidder?

And not a rosy picture!?

All while you mumble monosyllabic mantras about the jealousy of the folks who built all we see around us!

Now if you're fair dinkum about innovation and truth? Well, I could possibily be misjudging you?

Then you'll get online and type into your search engine, "The case for thorium." Then when the page comes up, scroll down the page to a 10 star, Peer reviewed documentary, named, Top documentary.

Where the the extremely interesting presenter, Kirk Sorensen and half a dozen or so fellow scientists, will both educate and entertain you, for around an hour.

And you've got all weekend! My bet is, you just won't bother to look, let alone pay rapt attention!

Simply because that latter activity, would hurt brain or burst the confirmation bubble you, currently along with what's left of your mind, you live in? Or the subject matter is beyond your current comprehension level?

And true of most of your fellow backbenchers? Who plainly think, innovation is stuff other folk do as they reject our best ideas and better people?

And after selling anything not nailed down? Their idea of advancing Australia? How innovative!? Or?

Innovation? What's that beside being a bigger word, phonetically, than wheelbarrow?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 22 September 2017 10:04:22 AM
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ttbn wrote "Aborigines created absolutely nothing in Australia – they were Stone Age hunter/gatherers with no concept of civilisation;

Hmmm But their society lasted 60,000 years. Way longer than any other society ever.
I wonder how long ours will last?
Posted by mikk, Friday, 22 September 2017 1:10:37 PM
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mikk,

With people like you in it, I don't think our society will last very long at all.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 22 September 2017 2:19:20 PM
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mikk wrote, "But their society lasted 60,000 years."

Not exactly a society, more likely their subsistence lasted for 60,000 years. But don't get me wrong here, I love and deeply respect Aboriginal people of today - the too few I get to meet in country towns anyway.

Seriously, though, there's not a lot to show for that 60,000 years in Australia. The rest of the world did a great deal better over the same time. It simply goes to show what the results of isolation are.
Posted by voxUnius, Friday, 22 September 2017 2:43:27 PM
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