Saturday, September 10, 2005

UnAustralian?


On Friday our Prime Minister John Howard launched another creative conservative journal entitled 'The Conservative'. He was good enough to define what the average Australian looks like:

"The average Australian, that overworked expression for which there is really no proper or valid alternative, the average Australian is a mixture of a lot of things –
he believes very much in the traditions of this country;
he or she believes this country has been very successful;
he or she doesn’t think this country has much to be ashamed of;
he or she believes that this country is well regarded around the world.
... He or she believes in traditional institutions, like the family and the traditional view of the family...' [Full transcript]

How very unAustralian I am!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

[There's a phone number on a fridge magnet in my house that i might need to ring to report you...]

I still think we should launch a campaign for Victoria to become the western island of NZ.

love the photo - no, not the one of Howard...

12 September, 2005 08:22  
Blogger Jeff said...

I'd be honoured to be considered the outer reef of Tuvalu!

12 September, 2005 12:29  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The thing is, I think he may be right on this one. Critics of Australia are regarded with suspicion.

13 September, 2005 15:20  

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