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What if, as said above, taxes were optional on art galleries or other niche aspects of society that aren't commercially viable to stand on their own? Would that be okay, as clearly the majority are disinterested, so therefore why should it remain? University education is massively...

So is a credit union the same as the other two? Or a civil union? You're taking the word "union" and associating it with completely different organisations. The links are minimal.

If taxation became voluntary, though, do you not think you'd similarly see a number somewhere up near 90% of people stopping paying them? Surely if you're attending a university campus you'll get something out of the union presence? I think the majority of students would, at some stage, use...

I'd been wondering what the Oscars were going to name Best Picture for this year, as I couldn't pick the film that seemed to be getting the buzz for it. Surely this here's the dark horse to take the statue! It's been too long since those anti-slavery folk were shown up in the way they've long...

Re: Barrack OBama or John Mccain? He's really fucking dumb, considering the next state election is due 2011.

Maybe all their arguments against it were that it won't get through the Senate?

As opposed to the Japanese, who were universally commended for being calm, rational and logical in their decisions during WWII. Edit: You weren't far off.

That football match was terrible. The Australians waited until injury time to start playing some good football - before then (especially the second half) it was pretty God-awful. Thank Christ for Carney, he was about our sole redeeming feature. Can Graham Arnold never have a hand in the...

Wha? Hawke and Howard had substantial swings against them in 1984 and 1998. Whitlam, too, had a slight swing against him in 1974. Your one exception, Fraser, had a smaller swing to him in 1977 than all but Whitlam (and Keating, who granted had a big swing to him). So what are you on about...

If this thread were "who cares, they are just chinese" about the millions of Chinese civilians who died (eclipsing the Jews in the Holocaust) at the hands of the Japanese I'd agree with you - it isn't mentioned enough. And I fully support the dropping of any further nuclear bombs on Japan until...

I dunno, that was a pretty shit match. If it meant most of the team had to drop out and were replaced with superior players I wouldn't mind.

This must be true, as I'm not a Christian and I judge you to be retarded.

Irony. I always felt it quite bothersome in my time at school (both primary and secondary) that my family had to opt me out of scripture into non-scripture, that the default one was Protestant.

Now there's something we can all agree on.

Though this whole thread has been pretty retarded, this post here takes the cake.

Nah. The Old Testament's really cool, with people turning into salt and being eaten by whales and shit like that, but then comes the New Testament which is basically just a bunch of preaching. A really disappointing follow-up, and a further example that a sequel can never live up to its original.

Lincoln?

Where did you hear that?! How ludicrous!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24101281-601,00.html

Re: Australian Politics Chatter Thread I don't know about that. To take, for example, Menzies and his anti-communist shit. Was he just mirroring Australian society, or was he engineering and manipulating it to be a beast that will return him to government? I think Howard did that to a huge...