Sheer Hypocrisy
PM - Aussie vernacular makes tourism campaign a success
PAULA KRUGER: The Prime Minister has seen the ads, featuring iconic Australian images from the outback to the beaches, and says he has no problem with the language.JOHN HOWARD: It's a colloquialism, it's not a word that is seen quite in the same category as other words that nobody ought to use in public or on the media or in advertisement. I think the style of the ad is anything but offensive. It is in fact in context and I think it's a very effective ad.
PM to public: improve your manners
Prime Minister John Howard has backed calls by NSW Chief Justice James Spigelman for Australians to improve their manners.Mr Howard said he agreed with the chief justice and believed Australians were not polite enough to each other.
He said television networks and parents had a responsibility to help people mind their manners.
"I think we have seen a marked deterioration in good manners," Mr Howard told reporters.
"I think it's time that the television networks put a curb on the increasing use of vulgarism on television."
How does he figure that a $180,000,000 advertising campaign which uses a vulgarism as its central theme is anything except what he was complaining about back in January?
I don't agree with John Howard on his views on vulgarities on TV causing society to have bad manners - that's fine, I'm used to seething over what he has done to this country. But I'm offended - much more than by any dirty words that I've ever heard - by his expectation that no one is going to pull him up on being such a fricken hypocrite. How stupid does he think the Australian electorate is?
The whole AWB controversy has moved to the courtroom and is fed on the almost daily revelations. It seems everyone's forgotten about the legislation that this government made law last year, making it illegal for any funding of terrorists. Shouldn't the AWB all be locked up at this point because they've done exactly that?
The legislation introduced last year was a case of knee-jerk overkill which suits the government just fine for reasons well away from terrorism and is a product of over four years of fear-mongering but, now that they've done the damage, surely there's no reason for them to not pursue the matter. Except we're talking about a bunch of wealthy whiteys, aren't we. We're talking about Howard's people - not some dusky skinned muslim who we're told are the root of all terror evil.
Hypocrites!
APOLOGY MADE BY JOHN HOWARD
The Games - Special Announcements
APOLOGY MADE BY JOHN HOWARD ON THE 3RD OF JULY ON NATIONAL TV
Any other John Howard who wishes to make this announcement should apply for copyright permission here, which will be granted immediately.
Good evening. My name is John Howard and I'm speaking to you from Sydney, Australia, host city of the year 2000 Olympic Games.
At this important time, and in an atmosphere of international goodwill and national pride, we here in Australia - all of us - would like to make a statement before all nations. Australia, like many countries in the new world, is intensely proud of what it has achieved in the past 200 years.
We are a vibrant and resourceful people. We share a freedom born in the abundance of nature, the richness of the earth, the bounty of the sea. We are the world's biggest island. We have the world's longest coastline. We have more animal species than any other country. Two thirds of the world's birds are native to Australia. We are one of the few countries on earth with our own sky. We are a fabric woven of many colours and it is this that gives us our strength.
However, these achievements have come at great cost. We have been here for 200 years but before that, there was a people living here. For 40,000 years they lived in a perfect balance with the land. There were many Aboriginal nations, just as there were many Indian nations in North America and across Canada, as there were many Maori tribes in New Zealand and Incan and Mayan peoples in South America. These indigenous Australians lived in areas as different from one another as Scotland is from Ethiopia. They lived in an area the size of Western Europe. They did not even have a common language. Yet they had their own laws, their own beliefs, their own ways of understanding.
We destroyed this world. We often did not mean to do it. Our forebears, fighting to establish themselves in what they saw as a harsh environment, were creating a national economy. But the Aboriginal world was decimated. A pattern of disease and dispossession was established. Alcohol was introduced. Social and racial differences were allowed to become fault-lines. Aboriginal families were broken up. Sadly, Aboriginal health and education are responsibilities we have still yet to address successfully.
I speak for all Australians in expressing a profound sorrow to the Aboriginal people. I am sorry. We are sorry. Let the world know and understand, that it is with this sorrow, that we as a nation will grow and seek a better, a fairer and a wiser future. Thank you.
John Howard, July 3, 2000
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Don’t forget…
John Howard! You're a fucking cunt.
John Howard! You're a bloody liar.
John Howard! You're full of shit.
John Howard! Why dont ya get fucked?
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