First off, a friend from Canada points out that our words for political parties are pretty silly. (They weren't her words, but you know what I mean).
In this case, it's very important to understand
1. Australian Liberal Party .. are not 'liberal', they are the conservatives, the bosses, (and often the useless great grandchildren of the thieving squatters who still believe in the feudal system.) Nowadays a sorry bunch of homophobes, wife-beaters, petty thieves, obese bean counters and drunken sots, lead by an evil little egomaniac whose face is a nasty shade of brown from lapping the fundament of the amerikan president
2. The Australian Labor Party (their spelling)... originally stood for the working people of this country, the ones who built this nation and created its wealth. But nowadays it's difficult to distinguish them from the Liberals
3. National Party.. used to be called the Country Party. I preferred the old name, at least you knew where they stood. Squatters, bloody squatters, with their grasping paws out for more of our money
4. Democrats .. a breakaway sect of the Liberals. They pretend to be 'decent liberals'. Their education is sadly lacking if they think we can't see an oxymoron a mile high
5. The Greens... small in parliament but terrifying to the big boys. Both Liberal and Labor were so frightened of a Green getting a seat in the House that they made a deal with the bible-thumping misogynist reactionary arch-conservative 'Family First'
I should also mention Family First. This is the Assembly of God. Enough said.
P.S. Squatters are "persons who placed themselves upon public lands without license." The English Government had difficulties controlling the settlement of land, younger sons of inbred aristocrats and assorted born-to-rule bully boys just sailed out here with a few bodyguards and faithful retainers and squatted on vast tracts of land.
(No one asked the original inhabitants - a bit of poisoned flour kept them quiet).
By 1836, for example, most of the State of Victoria was "owned" by a handful of squatters. Their descendants still haunt us.
In this case, it's very important to understand
1. Australian Liberal Party .. are not 'liberal', they are the conservatives, the bosses, (and often the useless great grandchildren of the thieving squatters who still believe in the feudal system.) Nowadays a sorry bunch of homophobes, wife-beaters, petty thieves, obese bean counters and drunken sots, lead by an evil little egomaniac whose face is a nasty shade of brown from lapping the fundament of the amerikan president
2. The Australian Labor Party (their spelling)... originally stood for the working people of this country, the ones who built this nation and created its wealth. But nowadays it's difficult to distinguish them from the Liberals
3. National Party.. used to be called the Country Party. I preferred the old name, at least you knew where they stood. Squatters, bloody squatters, with their grasping paws out for more of our money
4. Democrats .. a breakaway sect of the Liberals. They pretend to be 'decent liberals'. Their education is sadly lacking if they think we can't see an oxymoron a mile high
5. The Greens... small in parliament but terrifying to the big boys. Both Liberal and Labor were so frightened of a Green getting a seat in the House that they made a deal with the bible-thumping misogynist reactionary arch-conservative 'Family First'
I should also mention Family First. This is the Assembly of God. Enough said.
P.S. Squatters are "persons who placed themselves upon public lands without license." The English Government had difficulties controlling the settlement of land, younger sons of inbred aristocrats and assorted born-to-rule bully boys just sailed out here with a few bodyguards and faithful retainers and squatted on vast tracts of land.
(No one asked the original inhabitants - a bit of poisoned flour kept them quiet).
By 1836, for example, most of the State of Victoria was "owned" by a handful of squatters. Their descendants still haunt us.
posted by Susanna Duffy @ 8:21 AM
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