Originally Posted by Tr1boy (Post 6891147)

Ah, the irony is breathtaking. You all believe The Daily Fail when its spewing forth its anti British, everywhere is better than here bile, but when it prints a negative story about oz (and I must admit i'm surprised they did) apparently it's all BS and a media beat up? ;)

Can't have it both ways :cool:

Originally Posted by Tr1boy (Post 6891147)

Ah, the irony is breathtaking. You all believe The Daily Fail when its spewing forth its anti British, everywhere is better than here bile, but when it prints a negative story about oz (and I must admit i'm surprised they did) apparently it's all BS and a media beat up? ;)

Can't have it both ways :cool:

Originally Posted by busterboy (Post 6890793)

I am apt to agree with the lot of you! (Well there's a first on BE)!

I am inclined to believe that people will take anything 'free'. The real pity of course is the people who have real need having to compete with those with real greed.

Originally Posted by brendarover (Post 6889717)

Australia loses 'lucky country' reputation as thousands of middle class families join free food queue

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ood-queue.html


It's a picture that no-one believed they would ever see in Australia, known as 'the lucky country' - thousands of people, including those from middle class families, queuing up for free food.
As the global economic crisis hit hard around the world, Australians had been told by Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that their country had a sound financial basis.
But a queue of no less than 6,000 people, many of them from what appeared to be wealthy homes, lined up at a church in Brisbane yesterday for a hand out of food.

Mortgaged up to the hilt and unable to pay because they have lost their jobs, men and women waited from 3am until late afternoon for a mouthful of food.
The scenes mirrored distressing photographs from the days of the great depression in the 1930s.
But this was modern-day Australia, when bank executives were picking up millions of pounds a year while their customers went on the bread line - literally.
The free groceries were handed out by the Christian Tribe of Judah Church, run by a group of former bad-guy motor cyclists who have turned to God.
'This is our Free Food Friday when we usually give food out to the homeless but we've suddenly been inundated with people from the middle classes,' said pastor Terry Walker.
'It's sad that many of our homeless friends have stayed away today because they felt embarrassed about coming here for free food and being seen by the middle class people - yet curiously, the middle class didn't mind being seen here.
'They were hungry and they needed to be fed.' Among those waiting for hours was the mother of 12 children, who asked not to be named, but who said: 'If it wasn't for this church I don't know what I'd do.
'The money I get from the government just doesn't cover my bills.'
Miss Naomi Richardson, standing in the queue with her young baby, said: 'I had no choice but to come here.
'Rent is going up and so is the cost of fuel and it's getting harder and harder to live each day.'
By sundown, the church had given away no less than 50 tones of food - and
pastor Walker expects that next week the bread line will be even longer.


A sad sad sight in this day an age if this is true?