At last the federal government is doing things right. Malcolm has got the Australian electorate sussed. Give them all a tax break, talk of more funding for sport and our capacity to shine in the next olympic games, de-fund, education, science, research and anything that may equip us for a future economy and the electorate gives him the big tick.
Captain Cook;,” Be careful Caruthers, their bodies may be invaluable for science”!
Welcome to Asutralia, where being small minded is not not just small, it encompasses everything.
Natives, resist the conversion of their lands to REAL ESTATE. “Un-Australian”.
Paradoxicaly then, why not spend up to 45 million on a statue of Captain Cook. It’s only one fifth of the price tag it costs to de-secularise our public schools with prosletysing bigots. And it’s a huge symbol for the correct view of history. Australia was discovered by Captain Cook. There may have been others, the odd Portugese, Dutch or Indonesian, but the captain stands proud and tall. He did it all by himself. ALONE. And demonstrated to natives the world over, the value of their sacred land as REAL ESTATE!
And it’s just not the statue which will be tastefully designed but what it brings to the impoverished western bits of the the south of Sydney. There WILL be an interperative centre. And with the interperative centre will be the “Museum of Cook”, in which the life of our greatest explorere ever is detailed from his boyhood on colliers at Whitby, to the first ever expedition to observe the transit of venus.
Glorious statue of Mao in Tibet. Tibetans celebrate the annexation of their land for REAL ESTATE!
Cook was a great navigator. He circumnavigated the globe with an old compass, prized from the heel of a pair of Bata Scouts, a couple of Embassy HB pencils, (he couldn’t afford Derwents) and a protractor. He had a crew that didn’t die of scurvy, and he had good conversationalists like Banks, Solander and Parkinson, to ensure that there was always a hand in whist, bridge and vingt e un.
Beyond that, we have proof, that unlike Dampier who left glowing accounts of the native Australians, Cooks party on landing set up the national pastime at taking pot-shots at the locals who by all accounts were none to pleased to see the white fella. And with Cook came the bounty of civilisation as the first fleet dumped their vermin on these shores in 1788, and set up the providence of good governance, that the natives have enjoyed to this day.
Palestinians celebrate Israels annexation of Palestine.
So let’s celebrate 1770, as doubtless the Iraqi’s will celebrate 2003 when we overthrew a dictator and replaced it with oil monopolies. And as the Palestinians do when they die in celebration of the nation state Israel in 1948.
Ask anyone, but for chrissakes don’t ask inidegenous Australians. They were already here, they knew this country for the odd fifty thousand years before us, and have watched us desecrate it in barely two hundred.
The original inhabitants of Botany Bay. (Babakiuerians)
But then again, you wouldnt’ want to ask them. Half of them are in jail, and the rest have an opinion on the subject which to be quite frank is “Un-Australian”.
Killjoys