UK snubs Australia?
Dec 4th 2008, 11:18 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 11:32 pm
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Dec 5th 2008, 9:33 am
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
....so, people can move to Australia, become citizens but just because they have an accent or are non wasps they don't then count as Aussies when they have chosen to be so??????
Dec 5th 2008, 11:54 am
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Dec 5th 2008, 12:11 pm
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Dec 5th 2008, 4:49 pm
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
I think the point is that when a country is claiming credit for an invention or achievement, the education/training/whatever that went in to that invention/achievement should have come from the credited country's genes/education system.
It's like Zola Budd - her sporting achievements are clearly not 'British', no matter what flag she is running under. But yes, she may now be British.
Dec 5th 2008, 10:10 pm
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It's also funny that when a UK athlete does well they are British, but if they don't then they are Scottish or Welsh....
Didn't Zola Budd go back to S.A.? (Africa, not Australia)
Didn't Zola Budd go back to S.A.? (Africa, not Australia)
Dec 5th 2008, 10:57 pm
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
But doesn't it make sense that people should pay more tax if they are going to Oz than if they fly to Egypt?? I used to fly from the UK to Dubai and it seemed unfair that I should pay as much tax for flying for 7 hours as someone flying for 24 with one stopover or more.
I am not advocating increases in stealth taxes mind you...I'd rather he cut the ones to nearby places as an offset.
I am not advocating increases in stealth taxes mind you...I'd rather he cut the ones to nearby places as an offset.
This is part of a desperate bid to help cover the massive budget deficits facing Britain for the next decade or more as a result of the economic meltdown. It's a form of old fashioned protectionism. If Australia is smart it will put a similar tax on all UK bound flights. I prefer flying in to Paris or Frankfurt anyway.
Dec 5th 2008, 11:24 pm
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
Dec 6th 2008, 3:40 am
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
Could the Australians in Britain please stay where they are?
It is no longer true, if it ever were, that the Australian migrant to Britain is a West London barworker whose only cultural contribution is a strange habit of posing statements as questions. In fact, in recent years, thousands of educated Australians have come to the UK.
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So it is with some alarm that we should greet the news that the Australians are heading home: 2,700 a month, up from 1,750 a month in 2005. This is largely a vote of no confidence in the old country. As the recession bites, the lure of home, with unemployment at a 33-year low and the dollar at an 11-year high against sterling, is very tempting.
Sitting on the sort of budget surplus that this country can only envy, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is even forecasting that he can avoid recession. With the roof fixed in the good times, it is not surprising that many bright young Australians have remembered that, back at home, the sun is always shining.
There was always a case that anyone leaving Circular Quay in Sydney for Southampton dock was going the wrong way. But they came anyway, and 400,000 Australians live in Britain. But now, with more than 20,000 Britons leaving for their country every year, we need all the Australians we can get. Would they please not go back where they came from?
Nonsense? Alas, no. It's the truth.
Dec 6th 2008, 9:02 am
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
I then saw another article a couple of days later about mystified DIMIA people wondering where all these Aussies were going as their stats were not picking it up. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle as jobs that enable high earner visas are fast going.
Dec 6th 2008, 9:11 am
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
Its true to a point. Australia was snubbed when the UK joined the EU. Overnight Aussies were considered filthy outsiders while Germans and Italians became family.
And the British wonder why Australia is so American. We use to be very British until the UK dropped us like a lead weight.
As for the tax, we will just get more Malaysian and Singaporean tourists to compensate, no biggie.
And the British wonder why Australia is so American. We use to be very British until the UK dropped us like a lead weight.
As for the tax, we will just get more Malaysian and Singaporean tourists to compensate, no biggie.
Dec 7th 2008, 11:01 am
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Re: UK snubs Australia?
An Aussie exodus from London - seized by the British as a signpost of a depressed economy and a terminal ennui with the UK - has been found to be a seasonal, statistical blip.
Trumpeted in an editorial by Rupert Murdoch's hallowed London Times as a symbol of Britain's economic downturn and pessimism about the future, the "exodus" has been revealed to be no more than the annual, 'go home to see the family for Christmas' trip.
Trumpeted in an editorial by Rupert Murdoch's hallowed London Times as a symbol of Britain's economic downturn and pessimism about the future, the "exodus" has been revealed to be no more than the annual, 'go home to see the family for Christmas' trip.
