Today, for the first time ever, I live in a country I no longer want to call home. For the first time, I am ashamed to call myself an Australian. I am ashamed to look people in the eye and know that greater than half of them were sucked in by evil, untruthful, obfuscating political rhetoric spewed forth from the maw of a nasty little man we have to call Prime Minister.
Yesterday, this man, John Howard, was re-elected to the top political job in the nation on the back of a policy platform that returns Australia to the 1950's. This policy platform includes a patently racist agenda purposely designed to appeal to the xenophobic lowest common denominator in Australian society (using our Navy to turn away boatloads of asylum seekers and farming them off to smaller Pacific nations for processing when our asylum seeker intake is miniscule in relation to comparable nations worldwide), it includes a tax regime that cripples small business by making the running of those businesses infinitely more difficult. His platform is anti-women (taxes on sanitary products and a refusal to consider appropriate maternity leave entitlements) and anti-environment (the Australian government refuses to sign the Kyoto Agreement). If I could renounce my citizenship now and live and work somewhere else I would. Anybody interested in an experienced (10 years) IT consultant with extensive government and corporate projects in developer, lead developer and project manager roles? I'll live and work ANYWHERE EXCEPT AUSTRALIA (and I'm NOT joking). Today is a dark, dark day in Australia's history. Steve ======================================================== Stephen Collins, Technical Consultant - ACIS (Australia) Allaire Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer Work : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN : 56321783 Yahoo! : trib "Before I got into triathlon, I was a normal person." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
