Leigh
"You are a dreamer with no evidence to back up your claims for a brave new world"
You have right. I am a dreamer and I work and I fight and I try, and I wish and I hope to convert my dreams to reality! I do not say that I am a brave man bur sure I am not the most scary one!
My brother Leigh! Imagine some centuries before a Dreamer like me to say that there is a continent which one day we will colonize and will name it Australia! All people would called him crazy dreamer! HERE WE ARE!
You seem broken my friend, you stack in the past and you can not see any leight in the tunel!
Humans always have been brave, some of them more, always they have provoced their environment, always they have provoced their future! We are unlucky because we born early but we know that humans have improved their abilities very fast, that we have changed our conditions, that we learned many things, that we can see further into the future, that we can see further into the space. All these people who died for space exploration, who died searching in laboratories and hositals, all the people who have dreamed and have fought for a new, brave, fair, smart, democratic world ALL THESE HUMANS ARE OUR NEW HEROS, OUR NEW COLONISTS, OUR NEW DRIVERS, OUR NEW PIONERS! You and me are tired, we have remained behind, more me than you, but we know that human kind is marching for new qoncuests!
I know, you know that human beings are from good staff AND I AM PROUD FOR THEM AND I FEEL SHAME FOR MY WEAKNESS, FOR MY SELF!
Our dreams are the first steps for our long, great march!
EVIVA THE GREAT HUMAN PIONERS! EVIVA THE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

* I thought that NOW Chinese take our iron ore for nohing!*

They still want it for less, as we all can see right now.

*Do not worry an international government will not underestimate or ignore the local interests and worries. Do you see what happened in European union?*

Ho ho ho Antionious, you must be Santa :) The EU is a disaster,
a hopeless way to run anything. But the beaurocrats running it
get fatter and fatter. No thank you lol.

*Realy! Do you prefer in australia to transfer the power to aborigines and avoid the tyrany of majority? *

Democracy is the best we have and it works best, in smaller countries,
where people actually get to have a say. In Western Australia its
bad enough being governed from Canberra, they are totally out of
touch with what happens here. Now imagine the same thing, being
goverened from New York or Beijing or wherever. You would have no
say at all. Stop dreaming Antonious.

*WE, THE HOMO IDIOTS HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF OUR PLANET AND WE WILL DO IT, THE ONLY SURE WAY IS THE SPACE!*

We will most likely wreck this planet without any asteroids, so make
it uninhabitable for warm blooded creatures. We are well on our
way there, with ever more people, thus guaranteeing ever more
conflicts and problems. But we don't want to face it, so talk of
space and international govts. Sorry, but its rubbish. I am a
realist.

While I have been lost in ciber space for 8 days, dead PC new one now, I have not missed our thread starters rants.
It truly clearly is time.
Time conservatives looked at the polling and asked is this working?
Last two days have seen even more of the rubbish dished up in regard to China and these business men.
Would any rational government rush to judgment on this issue?
Howard put a plan in place for things like this in our rational ship with China, we are acting under that plan.
Conservatives complaining screaming stamping feet, pushing an empty wheel barrow and wondering why they are not gaining s wasteful.
Polling shows very clearly, they re on the wrong track, should pull their heads in, the next time they gain power it Will have to be well earned not cry baby stuff.