Originally Posted by Beoz

It is a "try and hope for the best solution". No doubt about it. The other option is to sit back and do nothing and continue to watch genocide unfold.

Originally Posted by knockoff nige

Yes, I confirmed that Australia is special. Fantastic place to live. Too bad for those that don't.

Originally Posted by the troubadour

One of many special places. Let's not over do it.

Originally Posted by commonwealth

should i invest in defence company shares?

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse

A bunker in your back yard might be more practical - multiple uses

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Just thinking back.......anyone know the Neville Shute book (and subsequent film) 'On The Beach'? Where the world was hit by a nuclear war, and Australia was the last country to go - the US Navy relocated ships to Melbourne and Hobart as they were the last places to be affected by the radioactivity. People ere fleeing as far south as they could and Aus was considered the safest place.

An ex of mine moved to Tassie from the UK back in the late 70s along with a couple of friends, and part of their reasoning was that Europe/Russia were on the brink of the Cold War and Australia was the furthest they could go from the 'danger zone'.
Are people now seeing Australia as a haven from terrorists? F;eeing here cos they think its safe, in the same way as its was seen as 'safe' from (fictional) radioactivity - or from the threat of the Cold War?

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse

How strange that you mention On the Beach, Polly! I read it when I was a teenager and I've never forgotten it - I don't think a book has ever affected me so much.

Can't answer about people seeing Oz as a safe haven from terrorists, as I've never lived anywhere else. I can say though that I won't feel any more or less safe from terrorist acts when we move to Liverpool.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Very powerful book isn't it, I was a teenager too when I first read it, then finally saw the film - the Gregory Peck one, not the more recent versions, which don't work as well.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Just thinking back.......anyone know the Neville Shute book (and subsequent film) 'On The Beach'? Where the world was hit by a nuclear war, and Australia was the last country to go - the US Navy relocated ships to Melbourne and Hobart as they were the last places to be affected by the radioactivity. People ere fleeing as far south as they could and Aus was considered the safest place.

An ex of mine moved to Tassie from the UK back in the late 70s along with a couple of friends, and part of their reasoning was that Europe/Russia were on the brink of the Cold War and Australia was the furthest they could go from the 'danger zone'.
Are people now seeing Australia as a haven from terrorists? F;eeing here cos they think its safe, in the same way as its was seen as 'safe' from (fictional) radioactivity - or from the threat of the Cold War?

Originally Posted by Marleys Ghost

It was his book 'A town like Alice' that caused me to first fall in love with Australia.

On the beach was a very sobering read.

I'd hate to see terrorists making a point, as I believe they did in USA on September 11, here.

I recall that day very graphically. I rang my sister (at her work place) to tell her what I was seeing on the news in UK and she thought I was suffering the after effects of the anaesthetic I'd had for a recent surgery.

I remember, way back, going to London to find that there were no litter bins, or post boxes. Then maybe a couple of years later, seeing soldiers in full camouflage in the streets of Warren Point when I was there to attend a wedding.

MG

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle

I was about to say your triipping, however just read something that opened my eyes a little. Intelligent opinion is moving rapidly and firmly against the Saudis and Qatar's They are getting the blame as funding all of this, and turning the West into puppets of corruption. I suspect that realisation is about to spread, which will have a myriad of ramifications.





.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

As of a couple of days ago - Australia's terrorist alert level has been raised to high, meaning the risk of an attack is likely, but authorities say they do not know of a "specific" plot or target. It takes the level from medium, when an attack "could" happen, but stops short of the highest warning level of extreme, when an attack is "imminent".


Usual terrorism alert stuff, which many of us from the UK have grown up with - security checks tightened at government/public buildings, keep your eyes out for unattended bags, people at work having to wear ID cards all the time, don't leave your lunchbox unattended or someone will blow up your sandwiches in a controlled explosion (happened to a cop friend of mine back home!!).

Now today things are going further, G20 fever is starting 2 months out - Queensland Rail has done what the UK did many years back and announced that litter bins are to be removed from railway stations, or in some cases welded shut.

And this afternoon in Sydney patients and hospital staff were evacuated from parts of Prince of Wales Private Hospital, while police also went to Royal Prince Alfred hospital, Longueville Private hospital and Royal North Shore hospital.


============================

As one of my old adversaries on BE use to say - 'Please comment and discuss'

Originally Posted by Bernieboy

Ok who told them i was moving over