grodscorp@grods.comHoward models Aussie values
 | Posted by The Editor on Monday 18 September 2006, 12:34 pm Categories: Politics, Society Tags: Tags: Australia, citizenship, defence, immigration, JohnHoward, Liberal, values |
Prime Minister John Howard has demonstrated the unquestionably superior nature of quintessential Australian values in his reaction to the Australian soldiers in Iraq who posted internet videos of themselves pointing guns at other soldiers dressed as Arabs. For your convenience I’ve isolated Aussie John’s Aussie values:
Tolerance
He is tolerant of Australian soldiers’ gunplay bringing the defence force’s professionalism into disrepute, along with the soldiers’ aggressive racism bringing Australia into disrepute.
A fair go
He wants a fair go for the soldiers, calling for everyone to lay off the lads because they were just “letting off a bit of steam”.
Mateship
He feels mateship for these soldiers because they’re white, male, English speaking Australians fighting his dodgy war.
“She’ll be right, mate”
He believes that she will, in fact, be right, saying that “the military is quite capable of dealing with this without a whole lot of gratuitous advice from me or other people in the political arena”.
Respect for traditions
He notes that soldiers have always let off steam through time (presumably an acceptable tradition) but the only difference now is that there are video cameras and YouTube.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
