Yea, lets have a Bill of Rights, it's just what we need.

Yep another bit of paper passed through the parliament, compromised to hell & back to get it through the upper house. Good one.

Then we can have yet another billion dollar a year bureaucracy to administer it. That should help the employment of useless arts graduates.

Then we can tie up a couple of courts for 10 years running cases so the idiots we have on the bench can mutilate what ever mess happened to get through that upper house.

What a damn fine idea, to get rid of a few billion we don't have.

It really is hard to see where the fools with such ideas come from. Must be a big deep dark pit of ooze somewhere.

The title is provocative given that, once again, we now live in a land of Knights, Dames, Wenches and intellectually-challenged Prime Ministers (well, one at least!).

We also live in a land where, at any moment, the Government may buy up all the used fishing boats in the world which are favored by refugees.

This will create heavy demand and drive up the price, something that Joe is probably counting on.

Of course, refugees may then adopt barrels as the vehicle of choice although there's nothing wrong with those dinky little life boats either.

Surely our world has gone mad! Looney Tony is the new Pied Piper.

God help us!

Haahaaaaaaaa Heeheeeeee, cough, cough cough, choke, chortle, Haahaaaaaaa!

Stop it Has been! Your killing me!

FROSTY..GET OVER IT../quote..<<>.>underonegod< If you could become just a little more coherent, we'd know what you are trying to say, or what it is, you seem to be accusing me of?>>

i used your post as a base to expand my thoughts from
NO POINT BUt to prompt my thoughts..[AN ATTRIBUTION..TO AVOID THE ACCUSATION I PLAGIARIZED YOU WITHOUT ATTRIBUTING your words tO YOU]

i thought to ignore it
BUT YOU SEEM REAlLY SLIGHTED BY IT
so i explain..i chose your words cause the value of the words most closely approximated..my own values..[have you never heard ..is the most siNcere form /of flatery]

IM DOING THE BEST I CAN WITH A NEAR DEAD COMPUTER That freezes every 5 minutes ..and deletes great chunks of text by a sticky CuRSER[SAND IM OVER BuYING COMPuters that gOT WINDOWS THAT ALLOW BUGS TO KILL Perfectly fine computers

DONT SWEAT ON IT/POSTING has become sO FRAUGHT
I WILL SOON LEAVE THE LOT OF YOU IN PEACE
AS ITS MAKING ME TOO ANGRY[YOU HAVE HEARD SMILE TI YOU MAKE IT?
THIS WRITING IN UPPER LOWER CAPS CHANGING AT WHIM..IS Resulting..iN JUST THE OPPOSITE OF SMILING/PLiS I HATE WRITING AND HATE EVEN WORSE PEOPLE KNOWING MY SECRETS..even reading..im so over the ot of it/and nuthin changes

all in all
i shall soon begone
please ignore me..tiLL that fatefull day..i up stumps and go away
ITS ONLY MY VAlues that force me to say..[oops stay]..BAH MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY/

Hi Bill.
We would welcome some of your social commentary and articles at www.elephantmagazine.com.au, a national print/digital magazine on social enterprise.
Liked this one.
Best regards,
John

It has been with a heavy heart I have followed and studied Politics for the past 15 years. Where has our compassion and sense of care gone? 'I'm alright Jack' seems to be the accepted value. Well, it's NOT. Why do we fear and vilify those less fortunate? I can hear our politicians agreeing with the famous (infamous??) utterance "I will decide who comes here". Just because we (all Australians) are part of a bigger world, we do not have to take on the values of the bigger world. We are a good nation, let's keep the morals and values upon which our country was founded (all be they oh so very English). Australians are not greedy nor hostile. We are a proud and generous race. Open your hearts to those less fortunate.