For those morons who fail to understand the seriousness of Cane toads, take a moment to think & then perhaps read about the impact of these toads on the environment. If you then still think this a frivolous affair then I'm afraid you really are as insipid as most of us here have suspected for years now !
Bush camps for young people would be an adventure they'd treasure for life. It'd expose them to socialising which is all but dead now in the suburbs. Imagine their pride to know that they're actually smarter than their parents ?

Hi Paul1405,
I'm glad they're taking another look at it.
A lot of people in the community aren't happy about it.
He was never named in the newspapers, but on facebook he was named and his father was too.
From what I remember seeing on facebook myself the whole family were grubs,
- and maybe that's what he used as a defense;
Poor upbringing or something, who knows.

- But those couple didn't deserve that especially after he was videoed driving around the streets like a maniac running other cars off the road prior to the incident.

My friend went there and signed it.
FYI, I found out it's not called the Red Shop anymore.
It's called the 'Do Drop In'.
And they have really good food apparently.
It's good to support the small businesses instead of the fast food chains.

Kudos Indyvidual-

National Service- Most people that do basic training admit that they learned a lot about things and it was a valuable experience.
Do you think we could introduce some basic training style training within the school system- similar to the Army Cadet's- I'm sure that the "Maoist march through the institutions four pillar types" would be upset by it.

Armchair Critic-

If people get away with little things they'll graduate to big things. But the Communists Tabula Rasa controlling hiring and firing within bureaucracy the whole system is corrupt- we need to start with the bureaucracy and work outwards from the centre

As far as Engineering goes- until the 1900's Engineering was learned on the job- mainly on steam engines. In recent times since the 1980's it's been recognised that many engineers don't have enough time in the laboratory doing practical tasks. Aiden is correct in saying that engineers are given a broad tuition across engineering disciplines in the first 1-2 years. Sadly many engineering graduates don't go on to engineering careers in Australia. It's not enough to train skillful people- Australia needs the infrastructure to make use of their skills for both the benefit of Australia and themselves.

In older times sons followed the trade of their fathers- this perhaps ensures that the nation is stable in a sense- a doesn't have- so called shortages- of skills.

Hey Canem Malum,
"If people get away with little things they'll graduate to big things."
Yeah that's true, people tend to stick with what they know or what they think works for them.

'Tabula Rasa' - Had to look that one up, I didn't know what it meant.
Interestingly I learned a Russian term myself the other day, 'maskirovka'

I haven't gotten around to looking at Marxism/Leninism in depth yet.
- But I have come across a few things, I'm planning on looking at more.

Recently I've been looking at western state sponsored media censorship in regards to so called 'Russian disinformation'; and after looking at Fabian Socialists, and global elite from the Bilderberg group in mind...
http://fabiansociety.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/hello-world/
I came across this below from KGB propaganda expert Yuri Bezmenov.
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America
http://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA
In it he mentioned the term 'Communist Conspiracy' which kind-of pricked my ears up, as I'd heard that somewhere before, and it was here:
http://books.google.com.au/books/about/None_Dare_Call_It_Conspiracy.html?id=uFjaoAEACAAJ
NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators-whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion.

Seems to me that if anyone leader knew about this stuff, it would be Putin,
- But the USSR's gone and it's the globalists running the show now.

- I'll probably poke my nose around a bit of this stuff, when I get time.

I think the rapport between Trump and Putin says a lot as to his philosophy- that's not to say that Putin can be trusted but says that perhaps the issues are more complex than perception.

Putin as the embodiment of the Russian intelligence community knows the state of play more than most- if he hasn't been compromised by the "hall of mirrors"- and knows what's at stake- remember the Russian intelligence community killed Trotsky- the poster boy of modern socialism. At times communist countries have been at odds- for example in Vietnam.

Tabula Rasa "blank slate" was a key discussion point of Fyodor Dostoevsky- Jordon Peterson talks about him more than anyone else from memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot

Aside- the concept of Tabula Rasa comes up in a few contexts in philosophy- Schopenhauer advocated hermit-ism, Buddhism talks about idealism and humanity blinding us to reality. Schopenhauer was one of the great group of three German thinkers/ philosophers- Nietzsche, Goethe, Schopenhauer. Goethe attended Schopenhauer's mothers intellectual "salon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_philosophy

Yuri Bezmenov is good value- he eventually left America in disgust at "Bernay's consumer culture" the culture of emotion.

Also interesting...
http://www.rbth.com/history/334691-inside-mitrokhin-archive-spy-ussr-kgb

Thanks ttbn for the information on "maskirovka".