Tad Tietze is a public hospital psychiatrist who works in Sydney. He co-runs the blog Left Flank, and he tweets as @Dr_Tad.
01 Jan 2011 2:57:02pm
Speaking of refugees, we now have many of them in Queensland,
I had a warm fuzzy feeling when both Prime Minister
Gillard and Premier Bligh announced their respective governments would provide
one million dollars for relief.
So I want to ask, where
is the 'compassionate left' regarding what is truly an
insult to all Queenslanders affected by the floods and
Australian taxpayers, whom these governments are suppose to represent.
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02 Jan 2011 12:27:36pm
True!
One million dollar is not
of a biblical proportion regardless of Left or Right. Compassion is the
first to subside, and a one million dollars may be like a piss in
the ocean.
31 Dec 2010 5:54:12pm
"The problem with the 200+ comments is that
they"
"Workers of the world unite, stop working".
It was actually a
book published with that title too, and it was proven right.
Stop
Working, did work for a better society.
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31 Dec 2010 10:40:04pm
The World (western anyhow) should look the same if
all people was working half-time, and even if all people got a kinda
birth-right basic citizen-salary.
The pollution would be less too
in the cities.
Most people don't really work they are just "stored"
in buildings, to get some order in high populated areas.
02 Jan 2011 11:48:43am
ADDENDUM:
Some people are working, some people
are working hard, some people are working smart.
The term often
used: I'm a hard working family man" is quite a grim one! Some
people NEED to work Hard and some are forced to work
hard.
But let's go back to the "stop the boats"
again:
www.unitednation.homestead.com/
So what did the
minister said? Yes or No or what?
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29 Dec 2010 2:08:09pm
From A to B and back again.
That is almost the same when
some crackpots are talking about a multicultural Fire Brigade, when one should
talk about a multicultural Parliament.
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29 Dec 2010 6:36:37pm
We simply aren't ready to cope with extra people we haven't planned on having in this country atm. There are too many shortages of essential infrastucture, and that pushes up the prices of accessing them. Then more of our own people miss out on the basics. We need to do more than just catch up to the demand, we need to get ahead of it, even if it devalues existing (housing) stock. Perceived inequality is the compost pit for civil unrest.
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29 Dec 2010 9:24:43pm
How many "of our own people" is it in
Australia?
Give us a number, please.
Total 22 million and...who
are the "we" of them?
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