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Example is that someone wanted to be an Australian version of Bella Hadid or Gigi Hadid, which city would have the best career opportunities for that?
Reliable data is hard to find but surely the TSI population of Victoria is in the dozens.
And wouldn't they be the colonisers if they came from so far away?
If every community needs a flag in every context, why not fly the Greek, Vietnamese or Italian flags?
Or why don't we all live under the ONE flag - the Australian flag.
The lies, the drama, the cheating, the sex, the houses, the cars, the wealth, the parties, the exclusive social scene.
What do you think? What’s the tea?
If immigrant's usually earn less than Australian Citizen's (Note. They must earn more than 90k a year to stay) and employees who earn more than 170k per year are in the top 5-10% of wage earners in the country.
Tomorrow I am not not going to be home, for few hours. What happens to my package, do they leave on the door or take to some where?
I have some opinions on why it maybe so bad for Asian children in Australia but I’m curious what others think.
I’m imagining this has changed over time. Some of my older European relatives who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, they told me stories about their struggles growing up in Australia because they were ‘wogs’. That doesn’t seem to be as big of an issue anymore for Europeans today.
I’m not sure where this came from and the only evidence I’ve found is that ‘Mungo man’ was pretty short so he was supposedly part of this race. I only ever hear it parroted by bigoted folks who claim it as evidence that Aboriginals were a savage race and weren’t so peaceful.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t believe they were fundamentally a peaceful culture, we are all human and we all have the capacity for cruelty and greed but the fact this theory is used to discredit and demean them is quite insane.
The only concrete evidence I know we have of pygmies in this area of the world are a couple tribes in New Guinea and the long extinct race of Homo Floriensis that inhabited a small island or two in Indonesia.
I’ve known a couple people IRL that have spouted this and when pressed had 0 evidence of it but still refuted any evidence against it.
Cheers all.
NOT what you want to wake up to 😱😱😱
Burn it!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It won't die 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
This thing is that big I think he's opened the screen door on his own and let himself in. 😬
#Townsville #Australia #spider
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I feel likeI am missing something, but the hypocrisy is almost too much to believe it's not just taking the piss.
People from journalists to business leaders to former politicians to the current government are incensed about this. Penny Wong is demanding a criminal investigation be opened by Israel and is appointing a special envoy to advise on progress.
But Australia has not been in one single conflict in its history where civilians were not killed by their side. America has killed enormously more civilians in its military operations, all of which Australia fought side by side with them.
We know the ADF has killed civilians on operation. We recently had credible allegations of war crimes against the SASR and the government basically did nothing.
The current government is demanding Israel respond far more seriously to far less than Australia and its allies have done repeatedly. There is hardly a peep by comparison when the US kills far more civilians.