Ahh, Australia, land of the rugged individual.
Jon Hope wrote:
>
> At 05:12 28/07/01, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >how about this for dumb then:
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1456000/1456831.stm
>
> I think I should go back to my old tag line, "Danger is nature's way of
> eliminating stupid people". I suppose one could always say "Only in
> Australia.." Our governments here have a penchant for making "nanny" laws
> that do nothing more that make people less responsible for their own
> actions. Personal choice has been so severely eroded in Australia it isn't
> funny. There are people that call for a new law every time something bad
> happens. A person gets lost in the desert, there's a call to make all
> people going into the desert carry EPERBs. A person falls off a cliff,
> there is a call for all cliffs to be fenced off. A person jumps from a ten
> foot high wall into a two foot deep canal and there is a call for all walls
> to have signs put up warning of the dangers of jumping off 10 foot high
> fences into two foot deep canals. It has got to the ridiculous stage where
> people try to sue authorities for failing to put up signs telling them of
> the dangers of whatever it is they have just done. I think it lends itself
> to people abrogating all responsibility for their own actions, yet the
> governments in Australia continue to pass legislation outlawing this or
> that activity, making it compulsory to do this or that.
>
> So the next time you hear of legislation being passed that makes it illegal
> to pat your head whilst rubbing your stomach, or something equally as
> absurd, think "It could only happen in Australia". :-)
>
> Now, what this has to do with photography is beyond me, but I suppose there
> were some photos in the article.. :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Jon
>
> Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind
>
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