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 | Posted by Scott on Monday 3 September 2007, 8:18 am Categories: Politics Tags: APEC, Australia, JohnHoward, multiculturalism |
John Howard’s relentlessly banging on about how cool APEC will be.
APEC was “the most important international meeting ever to be held in Australia”, Mr Howard said, an opportunity for Australia to be paraded as a “modern, sophisticated, tolerant, multi-racial society”.
Um, after laughing out loud and spraying toast over the newspaper, here are some brief initial thoughts on The Man Of Steel and how those adjectives suit him…
Modern: Third world broadband.
Sophisticated: Look, where do I start?
Tolerant: Unless you’re a towelhead or a poof.
Multi-racial: But definitely not multicultural (the dirty ‘m’ word) because that would require tolerance of non-Anglo ways-of-life.
Now, I’m not saying that Australia and most Australians aren’t all of those things, but John Howard most definitely isn’t.
Monday 3 September 2007, 9:22 am #Jangari
Nor if you have an accent or speak another language entirely, if you’re not a christian, if you drink something other than VB, if you don’t eat meat pies, if you don’t watch rugby league (or yes, AFL for those of you south o’ the border), if you read anything other than Ralph, Woman’s Weekly or Mx, if you don’t worship both Rupert Murdoch and whichever Packer is least dead, or if you’re unfortunate enough to be an aborigine.
Monday 3 September 2007, 5:51 pm #Lang
or your name is Julia Rudd.
Monday 3 September 2007, 7:18 pm #John Surname
Sophisticated - we have “cup of chinos” now!
Monday 3 September 2007, 7:27 pm #The Editor
And a “muggachino” if yer really thirsty.
Monday 3 September 2007, 8:31 pm #Bridgit Gread
Sophisticated - we have “cup of chinos” now!
…visualised and promoted on certain websites as ‘lattes’.