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Cobretti2 said:
curl-6 said:
Australia:

Good
- Beautiful land with lots of space
- Excellent living standards
- Great healthcare system

Bad
- Homophobic, sexist Prime Minister
- Prevalent racism
- Terrible environmental practices. We sure love to destroy our beautiful home...


Agree with the Good, except for health. In recent times its all about numbers now. Doctors have quotas to fill not care for patients. However compared to most the world it is still pretty good overall.

 

The bad

1. I think he just conforms with the general public (ie religious groups majority). His sister is gay, if he hated them so much he wouldn't go near her lol.

2. Agreed, we are pockets of multinational countries and not multi cultural.

3. Don't agree, look at Tasmania can't develop anything there as every tree is protected lol. 

 

My bad would be.

1. too many dole bludgers who don't want to work. we should have some sort of work for the dole scheme.

2. too many goverment jobs wasting money.

3. Not enough future planning, it is all about NOW governements and not the future of Australia. Once the moning boom ends thing will get interesting.

3.

You're spot on about the lack of future planning. Every side of politics and economics seems to only think a year or two in front of their face.

The majority of the country is actually for marriage equality, so Abbott's not representative of the nation. The fact that he refuses to budge on the issue despite his own sister wanting to get married to her girlfriend is, in my humble opinion, quite revolting.

Environment wise, at least here in Victoria, huge amounts of old growth forest, which a lot of native animals need to survive, (young trees don't have enough hollows for them to shelter in and raise young) is being chopped down just to sell as cheap woodchips to Japan. 

Speaking of which, apparently some of our redback spiders stowed away in woodchips and became a pest there, haha.