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Happy Birthday To The Greatest Country In The World.

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Rory Walkerfield said:
I’ve travelled a lot overseas, particularly for work. In my biased opinion we are indeed so lucky to live in by far the best country on the planet. They don’t call it the lucky country for nothing.

So here’s one for all our friends overseas on this day of celebration:

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Post of the day, mate.

I have many restaurants around the world, traveled to every country in the world.
Only about 5-6 countries that would rival Australia as the greatest.

From my experience, it is by far the most tolerant and welcoming country i Have come across.

*Shame on those who say otherwise.
 
Rory Walkerfield said:
They don’t call it the lucky country for nothing.
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Donald Horne coined the phrase "lucky country" when he wrote a book by the same name. He was actually being critical, especially to the country's elites.

“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise" - Donald Horne
 
Sir Ronald Mac said:
Post of the day, mate.

I have many restaurants around the world, traveled to every country in the world.
Only about 5-6 countries that would rival Australia as the greatest.

From my experience, it is by far the most tolerant and welcoming country i Have come across.

*Shame on those who say otherwise.
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That looks like a silver fern on the coffee, are you sure it's not from New Zealand? Which, by the way, rivals Australia when it comes to being the greatest. Very tolerant and welcoming.
 

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Mr_Moogle said:
Donald Horne coined the phrase "lucky country" when he wrote a book by the same name. He was actually being critical, especially to the country's elites.

“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise" - Donald Horne
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Published 1964 IIRC. Does this still apply?

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Kochie getting and accepting an AM on a day that his club to which he is president puts out a note wanting to change Australia day sounds a bit hypocritical.:think:



www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Club statement: January 26

The Port Adelaide Football Club has released the following statement.
www.portadelaidefc.com.au www.portadelaidefc.com.au
 
Sir Ronald Mac said:
Post of the day, mate.

I have many restaurants around the world, traveled to every country in the world.
Only about 5-6 countries that would rival Australia as the greatest.

From my experience, it is by far the most tolerant and welcoming country i Have come across.

*Shame on those who say otherwise.
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I don’t say otherwise. I love Australia, it’s a great place. Still, I can see why it’s not best to celebrate all the good things about the country on the day we came and stole it from the ppl who are still living tougher lives than most. It’s not showing the best of Australia to rub it in their face.
 
WeeBlake said:
I don’t say otherwise. I love Australia, it’s a great place. Still, I can see why it’s not best to celebrate all the good things about the country on the day we came and stole it from the ppl who are still living tougher lives than most. It’s not showing the best of Australia to rub it in their face.
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We came and stole it?

If you were born here, it's as much your country as it is any indigenous persons country.
 

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Eagleboy2011 said:
Kochie getting and accepting an AM on a day that his club to which he is president puts out a note wanting to change Australia day sounds a bit hypocritical.:think:



www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Club statement: January 26

The Port Adelaide Football Club has released the following statement.
www.portadelaidefc.com.au www.portadelaidefc.com.au
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Wow..

I know someone who won’t be very happy with that club statement from the Powa…





















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Amacca 23 said:
Is the 26th of jan the day that australia became free from british rule in 1949 ?

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3rd March 1986

The final step to full sovereignty was the passing of the Australia Act 1986 in the UK. The Act removed the right of the British Parliament to make laws for Australia and ended any British role in the government of the Australian States.[115] It also removed the right of appeal from Australian courts to the British Privy Council in London. Most important, the Act transferred into Australian hands full control of all Australia's constitutional documents
 

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