Thread: My Favourite Australian Statesman

You are no doubt right Ron, but it is still poor form... maybe I am out of touch...

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've just realised that I had mis-read Dawg's post and, therefore, Dawg's own views which were not made clear.

He hasn't claimed it was funny. His apprentice was the one doing the laughing.

My apologies to Dawg if I maligned him in my earlier post.

Ron

I hope so Ron, but the title of the thread is
"My favourite Australian statesman"

Originally Posted by FenianEel

I hope so Ron, but the title of the thread is
"My favourite Australian statesman"

Good point. I had mentioned that in my first post then forgot about it.

Ron

Originally Posted by DirtyDawg

After fits of laughter My Apprentices Girlfriend (a History Maj at Uni) informed me of

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've just realised that I had mis-read Dawg's post and, therefore, Dawg's own views which were not made clear.

He hasn't claimed it was funny. His apprentice was the one doing the laughing.

You're slipping Ron

I'm note sure how many of his apprentices have the same girlfriend though

Who exactly is/was this Lord Bunbury? There was a Lord Bunbury who lived in UK and I don't think he ever came to WA. There was a Lord Forrest of Bunbury, and if this is who we mean then he was definitely a "Great Australian". One ofthe country's greatest explorers and a brilliant farsighted Premier of Western Australia.

We must be aware of judging our predecessors through the prism of our current values. Those who came before made this country what it is and enabled us to learn and develop our ideas and values. It is very easy to be compassionate with supermarkets full of food and 37 hour weeks.

Somebody made a very good point that we are all humans and all have faults and injustice and inhumanity survives today.

And furthermore I don't believe John Forrest did those things and I also know that the history of aboriginal/settler relations south of Perth (ie between Perth and Bunbury) was a violent one. Many indigenous Australians and settlers died violently. I expect the situation was far too serious to be something that one enjoyed as a Sunday past-time. It was going on 7 days a week and the stakes were very high.

Originally Posted by Utemad

You're slipping Ron

I'm note sure how many of his apprentices have the same girlfriend though

Mea culpa!

Ron

Romans did it on a large industrial scale called them gladiators and pitted them against animals and other human beings.

Criminals were executed in arena as well apparently drew lots and the criminal executed the poor sod allotted to him before handing over the weapon to the sod who was assigned to kill him the last mans tanding were killed by animals or gladiators after weapons returned.

Yet people love the italians today and flock to see the death factory which is was the Colssum

The Magnum, a very hot Statesman!

GQ