Reply #4: You're right about Oz being a ‘banana colony’.

[no safe haven]

I don’t think we’ve ever NOT been one. We’ve been selling our ‘furniture’, our resources, manufacturing capabilities, to overseas interests forever. For what? A few lousy jobs here and there. Wow, lucky us. We’re just a small subsidiary in the broader corporate world. It’s what we were in 1788 and what we are now. Gough was the only leader to try and break the cycle, and look what happened to him. (I guess worse could have happened, like disappearing in the surf whilst taking a swim Holt style.)

Big Pharma will more than likely have another crack at PBS, I'll wager. They seemed to slink off into the shadows a little too quietly. They’ll be back, and pusbag Howard will more than likely hand it over on a silver platter. Just like he’s handed over everything else. He does what he’s told.

And now Oz troops in Iraq indefinitely? On the request of Japan? We send our SAS teams to protect Japanese engineers? Give me a break! I thought the magnificent democratic government of Iraq got to decide who stayed, anyway. I guess not. Silly me.

And yes, call it what it is – Assemblies of God, aka Family First. Moral religious conservatives infiltrating our government. Sometimes I miss Pauline Hanson – at least she was clueless!