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

Originally Posted by DeanoH

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Next time you pick up a paper and read about teenagers critically ill or dead as a result of taking illegal/illicit drugs give a thought to who manafactures and distributes these drugs. You can burn them at the stake as far as I'm concerned.

Deano

I worked for nearly a decade in drug and alcohol and also in the Prisons Medical Service. With all that experience I am well aware who manufactures, distributes and sells the stuff. Don't get me started.

You can not tell me that there are not a lot of people in power protecting some drug distribution networks. When I was working at Kings Cross, some of our street kids would come up to us and tell us that the Kings Cross Police were dealing the best drugs in the city. I had to hold in my laughter until about a month later the Kings Cross detectives were raided and many arrested. Yet Detective Sergeant Graham (Chook) Fowler and Detective Trevor Haken (yes I met both in Police/Community liaison meetings) remained free and able to continue their crime spree for the best part of a decade. Now there's another criminal organisation the NSW Police Service, they're always around criminals and criminal activity!

IMHO if we were to remove the crime and treat drug use and addiction as a health problem we'd be far better off. Even use ethical manufacture to make the stuff for maintenance programs. We could even tax it and still be able to supply at a price where there would be no value in it for criminal organisations. We do it for alcohol and tobacco!

Originally Posted by UncleHo

And not All of the special branch files were destroyed

I know of one case where a person recieved a letter in 1969 in regards to a case that was dropped and the file "destroyed" only to have the file laid in front of him in 1985 Oh yeah! it was destroyed like h---, the 1985 incident was a case of wrong person, wrong picture, and they went off half cocked but it proved that the file sitll exists

Uncle the files I referred to were after 1989 after labor won Government.

Originally Posted by solmanic

Go to Japan - a far more racially homogenous society that just about anywhere - and you will see that ALL their official signage is in Japanese and English. I've never heard anyone there complaining.

That's because they lost

I know its off topic put here is the criminal organisations control bill (nsw) not a mention of bikie gangs this act can be used against any group the police want to, land rover owners, football clubs anybody that can be shown to have a number of criminals and what group doesnt have some

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/nswbills.nsf/0/383d6b6a0233c80dca25758c0000d70b/$FILE/b2009-035-d10-House.pdf

Originally Posted by blitz

so what exactly is democracy??? Australia has one but it is flawed?, the U.S has one and it is flawed? England has one based on teh westminster system and that is flawed???

No matter what democracy we have it will be flawed, but it is as sure as hell better the other options out there??

Rhetorical question right? There are plenty of sources that describe political systems and democracy is but one.

The democratic system here is MMP, yours is not. MMP panders too much to the smaller parties but it decentralises power away from the two party system we had previously. Other than that, I don't understand your question.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Who's Kelvin ??????

Oh! my real name! Nguyan Tat Thanh.

and I was born in Nghe An

Ah now I understand the reference to Uncle Ho

I was wearing an Uncle Ho T-shirt yesterday I bought is Sai Gon

G'day Disco2hse

Do you know the meaning in Viet of Ho Chi Ninh ?


"he who enlightens"



Bung-Tiddley

Originally Posted by disco2hse

Rhetorical question right? There are plenty of sources that describe political systems and democracy is but one.

The democratic system here is MMP, yours is not. MMP panders too much to the smaller parties but it decentralises power away from the two party system we had previously. Other than that, I don't understand your question.

It was a statment meaning that no system is perfect including democracy, but unless a new better system is invented it would appear that democracy is the best system available regardless of flaws.