This morning I heard some morally corrupt politician when pressed for an answer to an easy enough question, responded by saying "...it's Un Australian, that's why..."

I don't know about any of you out there, but personally I'm fed up to the back teeth with another 'mealy mouthed' politician, whenever they're bereft of an answer, trying to shrewdly sidestep the question, with that old hackneyed response '...it's Un-Australian...' ? Or, we give everyone here, '...a fair go...' ?

What's meant by, it's Un-Australian ? Don't we all now live in a much lionized, multicultural society, where we're all equal ? And where the old ways and former generations have now been blurred into a much newer and superior community without the existance of any of the old cultural baggage or prejudices of yesteryear ?

Sure, many of us still try to give our fellow citizens a 'fair go', but surely this is not exclusively just an Australian characteristic ? However hard we might wish it to be so.

Courtesy at a busy intersection, standing back and allowing a lady to go through a door before you...Is this a 'fair go' or just common courtesy and good manners.

What is really meant by a 'fair go' ? Whatever it is, it's certainly not sole, nor uniquely an Australian quality, not by a long shot.

I do wonder if these two quaint phrases we hear ad nauseam, is just another attempt by the media to inculcate some form of jingoism into the mix of fashionable journalism ?

Cheers...Sung wu.

Dear o sung wu,

Here's a link to get the ball rolling:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/letting-go-is-harder-than-a-fair-go-20110128-1a8d6.html

I'll comer back with more later on.

Hi there LEXI...

A thoroughly interesting article, and I couldn't agree with it more.

We're a funny country really, officially we welcome all our new settlers, but many of us install obstacles, in order to dissuade migrants from making overtures of friendship, then we blame them for not being friendly, even accusing them of being aloof ?

Isn't there something about '...giving 'em a fair go...' ? As I said, we're a funny country really.

Many thanks LEXI.

Cheers...Sung Wu.

As I said, we're a funny country really.
o sung wu,
yes, and a weird mob to boot ! :-)

Dear o sung wu,

Here's another link from our very own
online opinion:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4871

Again, thank you very much LEXI for taking the time to extract these topical links, I do appreciate it.

At the conclusion of page one, I stood quietly, faced east, and humbly thanked the 'great geometrician of the universe' that my miserable life was never destined be that of a 'senior public servant'. I do apologise if I sound disingenuous, it just means I'm very much the pragmatist, albeit an uneducated pragmatist.

There's no doubt the ideals, objectives, theoretical visions, and all the other highly desired qualities, are at least comparable to what we all seek and desire. That is to attain Abraham Maslow's motivational technique of 'self-actulization' though not for ourselves, but for our country.

The way this gentleman describes it, we're already there and leading the world, or so it would seem ? The whole tenor of his piece, to me, certainly smacks of jingoism in spades.

Still, I guess he's only supporting his professional calling, that of a senior bureaucrat.

It just annoys the hell out of me, when I hear a politicion utter those words '...it's un-Australian...', when all he/she needs to do is tell the truth. Or am I demanding too much ? Should I put such awkward questions ? I suppose I shouldn't, it's un-Australian to do so ?

Cheers...Sung wu.