Thread: What is Australias Official language? Not what you think

Hmm... what might some of these true democracies be? And indeed, what is a democracy, true or otherwise?

Cheers
KarlB

Keating once Said, WE ARE PART OF ASIA.
Soon it will be WE ARE OWNED BY ASIA.

Originally Posted by eddiec

Geez, could you misinterpret my words any more? But I think that was your intention....

No not maliciously, just making a point that your argument can be taken both ways, I know your intent was to say the Anglo saxon Australains are creating the problem.
But it can also be read that it is the others that are creating their own problems.
It's just depends on you personal point of view and how you interpret it..

When some people get up in the morning -

- they go:

"I've had brekkie.

I'm dressed.

I did my teeth.

I went to the loo.

Something's missing.

Hmmmm . . .

What is it?

OH! THAT'S RIGHT! I haven't found something to whinge about yet!"

I should add that I once lived in a horrible cultural ghetto in Perth. I just couldn't believe it. These people were pouring into this area of Perth but they just wouldn't assimilate.

They used funny words, didn't mix with other types of people, and just kept living like they were back home. They'd complain all the time about how things were different. It was very confusing trying to deal with them. I'd think, "All this trouble to get over here and they act like they never left home." They never seemed to go to the beach, or eat outside, or even use a barbeque!

Bloody Poms!

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

Keating once Said, WE ARE PART OF ASIA.
Soon it will be WE ARE OWNED BY ASIA.

I remember that and John Howard said that we have to bring the Australian wages in line with the countries in Asia to be competitive.

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

Keating once Said, WE ARE PART OF ASIA.
Soon it will be WE ARE OWNED BY ASIA.

Obviously Paul Keating was not a geographer. Nor was he an economist. He left school at age 15. He was a very good treasure and a fine prime minister.


As for foreign investement in Australia (foreign 'ownership' if you like) these are the top ten (as of 31 Dec 2009) as a percentage of the total foreign investment:

• United states 27.1%
• United Kingdom 26.3%
• Japan 5.4%
• Netherlands 2.3%
• Hong Kong SAR 2.3%
• Singapore 2.1%
• Germany 2.0%
• Switzerland 1.7%
• New Zealand 1.6%

On a regional basis ASEAN accounts for 2.7%.

Cheers
KarlB

PS you can find the source of the figures here: Stock of Foreign Investment in Australia by Country

KarlB, I just wonder which percentage of the American companies are owned by the Arabs
With this globalization business it is hard to keep track who is who in the investment world.

we could breed up babel fishes (as in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe)...

& issue them to all

....from wikipedia

"Babel fish

The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix. It is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. It takes the brainwaves of the other body and what they are thinking then transmits the thoughts to the speech centres of the hosts brain, the speech heard by the ear decodes the brainwave matrix. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert unconscious sound waves into conscious brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species"