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-The interesting thing about once (a very long time ago, before I started my own dance school) teaching dance to the daughter of two local celebrities, is that you see them on the news when they are in an earthquake in Hawaii
-I undrestand that farmers are having a bad time, and that effects all of us. But why is no one running to help the other people in the nation who are having a bad time. Why do farmers get 'assistance' and people effected by the cyclone get 'loans'? Where are the safeguards for the employees whose job and superannuation disapear when the businesses go bankrupt? Why am I reading a book about Howard and God that makes me so incredibly angry?
-Why did Spotlight hike their prices only on the material I needed?
-I undrestand that farmers are having a bad time, and that effects all of us. But why is no one running to help the other people in the nation who are having a bad time. Why do farmers get 'assistance' and people effected by the cyclone get 'loans'? Where are the safeguards for the employees whose job and superannuation disapear when the businesses go bankrupt? Why am I reading a book about Howard and God that makes me so incredibly angry?
-Why did Spotlight hike their prices only on the material I needed?
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on 2006-10-16 08:52 am (UTC)They don't have a whole political party formed for their benefit. And the current Liberal (and Labor) parties have done a good job at killing the Unions, which would have taken the place of the National party for urban workers, I would have thought.
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on 2006-10-16 10:52 am (UTC)Much of the perceived complaining has to do with the fact of farmers realising that farming doesn't hold the pride of place it once did, as the cities increasingly don't rely on farming for their economic stability.
That, and an increasing realisation that when urban-dwellers think of farmers and rural inhabitants at all, it's with contempt and dismissal. It creates a certain defensiveness, especially when the government would destroy the industry in the name of free trade if they didn't complain.
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on 2006-10-16 11:08 am (UTC)It's quite fascinating, actually. A lot of the perceived whinging (and the Hanson phenomenon) also has to do with much perceived abandonment by the National Party, which has been somewhat rectified more recently by the Nationals in response to the Hanson thing.
(no, this wasn't the subject of my last round of politics research. not at all. *grin*)
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