Dear Belly,

Thanks for explaining about taking off hats
as a mark of respect from by-gone days. But
did this apply to women as well? Afterall
the Queen and her female entourage - always
wore hats in public. And I'm sure that the
security guard in Parliament who made me take
my little hat off, didn't know the reasons
why that rule was put in place. Or if he did
he certainly did not explain it to me.

I was so irate at the time - 'cause I'd
bought that hat especially to match my elegant outfit
for Parliament (and so that I could wave to
Malcolm Turnbull from the Gallery. ;-)

Belly>> I after mentioning Rechtubs last post here and the one without thought above,<<

“The one without thought above,” my china? Is that your response to my all encompassing but brief “1975” comment?

I beg to differ Belly; it is a great and thoughtful comment, but only for those with knowledge of Australian politics. They will quickly resolve that in 1975 muslim immigration was ramped up by the Labor party and we doubled the number of musilims in Australia by 1977. In 1975 the first Vietnamese immigrants began entering the country….they were the original “boat people,” and that also contributed to major changes in the culture of our nation

In 1975 we began to implement protocols from the Lima agreement, which changed the structure of our social laws and began the decline of manufacturing in Australia.

I still luv ya china even if you’re my team right or wrong attitude is insulting your intellect.

sonofgloin,

Wasn't it around the same time that we ramped up activity in the North West, deciding it was easier to dig out great lumps of our country and and send it offshore to be fashioned into stuff?

Lexi>>I was so irate at the time - 'cause I'd
bought that hat especially to match my elegant outfit
for Parliament<<

I can only surmise Lexi that you were an elegant addition to a pedestrian forum.

Poirot I think you are right.
What the Lima agreement stopped us from doing was to value add to what we dug up. As one example we dug up Bauxite and turned it into aluminum in Weepa...remember Comalco? After the Lima agreement we still dug up the Bauxite but it was shipped to Asia for processing.

Belly, I don't dislike the guy, but, the fact remains that he has (in my opinion) made a mockery out of our laws, laws that were introduced to protect (mainly) young lives.

Our authorities are battling to enforce these laws, even some twenty or so years later, and situations like this are (again in my opinion) a huge backward step.

What's next, the Burka!