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Sounds just the ticket! It continues;

“Anyone can be nominated for an Award, as long as their work with or for refugees is worthy of recognition and falls within one of the ten award categories. Nominees can be individuals, organisations or specific projects.

This is where it gets a little tricky you see the categories are as follows;

Refugee Community Worker
Refugee Supporter
Youth
Education
Government and Legal
Media
Sport
Rural and Regional
Best Project

Tony gets the nomination for the Government and Legal but where to put you? Perhaps media?

Anyway I will get the forms in ASAP but you will need to be a touch circumspect about what you say in public and who you associate with, these bleeding heart can be a bit touchy. I will try to keep the others in line.

Dear Banjo,

I feel if you have any affection for Tony and SM you might want to tone down the rhetoric at least until after the close shave by HRH. So perhaps park 'illegals', 'shonks', and 'harsh measures' for now. This honour would make SM's day and for Tony … let's say the just isn't enough room in the budgie smugglers.

As to the rest of you please try and remember these two blokes are after a well deserved H-U-M-A-N-I-T-A-R-I-A-N A-W-A-R-D got it? So get on script and let's not poo in their nest.

Australian honours recognise and celebrate ordinary Australians who show courage, self-sacrifice, dedication, love and service to their community and humanity. Their stories help shape our country's enduring qualities in the present and the future.

Steele,
I do not hold any particular affection for TA or SM and do not feel a need to tone down my speech when referring to the illegals. In fact I could use even stronger language, but the mods might not allow it and that would defeat the purpose of posting.

I believe those illegals that send kids or bring kids on the boats should be charged with child abuse and endangering their lives, wilful neglect comes to mind.

I hold no respect for the illegals at all, it is you and your ilk that love the shonks and you should be praising Morrison for saving their lives.

Abbott should be praised for the money allocated to the homeless in Aus. Again another promise made by Rudd and never fulfilled.

Egg over the face of those who smirked, mocked and ridiculed Abbott. Still waiting for an apology from Abc. Guess the saved lives speak for themselves. The left have shown clearly their crocodile tears over previous deaths caused by Rudd/Gillard policies.

Dear Banjo,

Fair enough mate, I will remove your name from the list of referees I had included on the nomination form.

But I am intrigued by your statement;

“Abbott should be praised for the money allocated to the homeless in Aus. Again another promise made by Rudd and never fulfilled.”

That Tony is full of surprises. First a great humanitarian now an advocate for the poor and homeless.

And so misunderstood. This is him speaking on that very topic with Four Corners in 2010.
http://youtu.be/CiekYLkMyv8

From what I had read recently he was not prepared to commit to homelessness funding secured in a bipartisan fashion by Rudd and Turnbull called the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness which was started in 2009.

“On 16 November 2012, at a Council of Australian Government (COAG) meeting, the Australian and state and territory governments agreed, subject to Cabinet processes, to enter into negotiations for a new NPAH. The NPAH has been in operation for four years and is due to expire on 30 June 2013. In 2011-12 over 180 new or expanded initiatives were delivered. At the COAG meeting it was also agreed, subject to Cabinet processes, to work on a one-year transitional partnership agreement for the 2013-14 financial year while the new long-term agreement is negotiated.”
http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/housing-support/programs-services/homelessness/national-partnership-agreement-on-homelessness

So it appears you have information that he is not just going to continue the funding arrangements installed by Rudd but from the implication of your words is going to do over and above what Rudd did. That is certainly welcome news and indeed he does get credit for it. If you could send me a link I will make sure it is sent to a couple I know who work in the sector. They will be mightily relieved.

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However I shouldn't have been surprised since I had remembered reading this somewhere;

Prior to the “election, before we made any announcement about homelessness policy, we went together to the Mission Australia homelessness facility in Surry Hills and with no media present, just the then Leader of the Opposition and I, we sat there for several hours talking to those men and some women, mostly men, about their lives, how they had become homeless, what had happened in their families, in their backgrounds and how could we change things so that not only would they have a roof over their head for the night but that they could leave homelessness behind, they could find a permanent home. That personal discussion and investigation that the then leader of the opposition brought with him into attacking and addressing the issue of homelessness was very important.”

Hats off to the man.

Well hello runner, surely a man I can pen it instead of Banjo as a referee on the form. Just need a few more and I will get the thing sent in.

Any others?