Dear Paul,

Your question, "Is Australia A compassionate Nation?" makes no sense because Australia is a continent, not a "Nation".

Of the people who live here in this continent, some are more compassionate, other less, but this is not what you asked.

Yuyutsu,
That's just Paul1405 trying once again to gauge support for his insidious agenda.

Dear Individual,

You should at least give Paul the benefit of the doubt before blaming him of some "insidious agenda".

I believe that the main thrust of this discussion which he introduced was about compassion, about how people here treat each other - a very legitimate topic, rather than trying to claim something about Australia being a "Nation" or the like. That could well be an innocent common error, most possibly just absent-mindlessly repeating expressions from media propaganda.

Paulnazi,

Given your past frequent lies, I call bullsh1t on your story about a store owner stealing a customers gift voucher.

What about the unions that turn a blind eye to agreements that benefit the shops over the workers? Your fascism is showing.

To clear up a couple of misconceptions, I have no "insidious agenda" in raising this, or any other topic for discussion. The story of the gift card is true, and of course it was not picked up by an executive of Coles supermarket's, just some other shopper. When told of the card and the fact it happened outside of our local Coles, the irony of Coales stealing millions in wages was not lost on me. I could have also related the story of the homeless fella who ran through the 'self serve' at Wollies while I was there with a 2L bottle of flavoured milk, I think it was chocolate, much to the anger of the employee on duty, with her cry of "stop, you have to pay for that!", all I said was; "go thirsty man, its free", wife told me to shut up, more irony.

Hi Foxy and Yuyutsu,

When I say Australia the Nation, I'm refering to more than just its people, although its people is its most impotant component. I'm also refering to government and institutions, business and organisations that make up the Nation of Australia. Yuyutsu you say Australia is simply a continent, I respectfully disagree, its more than that, for the better or worse, its also what I have described as a nation. Therefore I think my question is valid. As Foxy said; "So again yes, we are a compassionate nation!" I totally agree, we are still a compassionate people. Maybe its better if I ask where is the pendulum of compassion, and which way is it swinging. Given the events of the past year or two, with Covid, and the actions of our governments, institutions, businesses and organisations, in general, as well as the actions of the people, is the pendulum swing in the right direction?

p/s Foxy, a most enjoyable Xmas lunch at a local club, with the volunteers yesterday, 15 or 16 old folks made it, its mostly old folks who have the time, although there are a couple young people in the group, but they were working, being a week day. All paid for their own meal. Next week its the Community Xmas Lunch, all welcome, and its free. Such compassion!