tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post638478777355823575..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: 457 posturingJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-66022488691773833092013-03-15T17:41:56.562+11:002013-03-15T17:41:56.562+11:00I will answer my own question on the White Austral...I will answer my own question on the White Australia policy later, but its quite a big writing job. If you remember the way I posed the question originally, I was challenging conventional answers including my own. <br /><br />The really distinctive thing about it was the size of the shift involved. I am sure that full employment helped. Without that, it might not have occurred. I agree that Australians are generally fair minded at a person level; that helped too. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-75389896325244448692013-03-15T13:50:23.491+11:002013-03-15T13:50:23.491+11:00Jim please forgive earlier flippancy. Was passing ...Jim please forgive earlier flippancy. Was passing the time before retiring to be with the iPad so as to listen to the link you gave.<br /><br />I want to note that your now extended posting is very good and makes a lot of sense to me. But also, or mainly, your reference again to the WAP: I'd suggest part (not all) of the relative ease was that the 'acceptance' occurred in a period of relative full employment (less than 3% not employed?) and the resulting migrants filled jobs and skills that 'we' wished to have, but did not wish to do for ourselves.<br /><br />Longwinded, and probably badly put, but anyway I'd be interested in your own answer to your question.<br /><br />Could it occur today? If you factored in a need for skills and/or labour and removed the political efficacy of painting a new influx as 'threatening' then, yes, it wouldn't surprise to see another successful shift of opinion and acceptance.<br /><br />It's not unique to Australians, but I believe we are basically a fair-minded lot who just want to get on with things. Our current pollies are actively destroying this, but the wheel will turn sometime.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-68032227161109374432013-03-14T20:09:56.877+11:002013-03-14T20:09:56.877+11:00Actually, kvd, you should listen to the program. I...Actually, kvd, you should listen to the program. It ain't quite like that. Now would have thought that goats would be so important? Perhaps you should change the kennels! Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-21067559169760354882013-03-14T19:53:42.306+11:002013-03-14T19:53:42.306+11:00Now wash your mouth out with soap, kvd. City folk ...Now wash your mouth out with soap, kvd. City folk indeed! If you would like to play by introducing goats, I'm sure that another variant would be acceptable!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-29727467101845053792013-03-14T19:52:41.076+11:002013-03-14T19:52:41.076+11:00Sorry Jim
Whenever I see such flubbage as "L...Sorry Jim<br /><br />Whenever I see such flubbage as "Leadership <i>by definition offenses against</i> fundamental principles of democracy" I force my inner pedant to concentrate upon the more important things in life. Such as goats.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-81719426245200439012013-03-14T19:28:51.520+11:002013-03-14T19:28:51.520+11:00Dear Jim
Well I'm just exhausted by the readi...Dear Jim<br /><br />Well I'm just exhausted by the reading of your description. One imagined a sort of convoluted stance involving the complete abandonment of one's normal position; plus goats. <br /><br />Aside: what a varied life you city folk lead! <br /><br />kvd<br /><br />ps you're absolutely sure about no goats? Interesting nevertheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-13904067632906207902013-03-14T18:52:43.785+11:002013-03-14T18:52:43.785+11:00kvd, I'm sorry, but I don't have my copy o...kvd, I'm sorry, but I don't have my copy of the KS handy, but its after that in the advanced session. Very few people can manage it properly. <br /><br />Unless properly executed, it involves an inordinate amount of time and effort. By the time they arrive exhausted, sore and sorry, at the end many find the climax a distinct let-down.<br /><br />And no, no goats are involved. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-12046742196323461512013-03-14T17:52:28.828+11:002013-03-14T17:52:28.828+11:00Dear Jim
Re posturing: my copy of the KS only goe...Dear Jim<br /><br />Re posturing: my copy of the KS only goes up to page 69. How do you do a 457, and does it involve goats?<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com