Should Australia become a Republic

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Er... Hugh... the disgraceful treatment of Aboriginals continued (and in some states *cough*WA*cough*) got worse after independence.
And then there's that whole boat people thing.

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We did much better after independence

Some of the worst abuses in Western Australia (including those nasty experiments with eugenics) happend after Independence... it's true most of the other states were now where near as bad though.
It's worth adding that the abuses in the C19th were mostly done by state governments and hicks. Same in the C20th actually... I think that Victoria's record is quite good.

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Couldn't get a lot worse... although attitudes towards Aboringals in the larger cities is vastly improved, this isn't the case in rural areas (bull bars on offroad stuff still get called "Boing Bars" by a lot of rednecks) and something should get done about them ghetto's.

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It may be legal, but it's still a stain on your country's usually good reputation in other countries... the idea that someone facing a tough re-election fight would play the race card in quite that way shocked a lot of people over here (but not me. I hated Howard before and I still hate him. As Nye Bevan once said about the Tories, he's lower than vermin).

Re: Invercargill, I kinda like the place...

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I have never experienced any racism against aborigines in Victoria, and only once against anywayone, when someone who I believe was drunk got on the bus just as Myriam, an Islamic somali girl, and I were getting off the bus, and satrted yelling at her. Whilst thats' disgraceful, it is the only time i've experienced racism in my city that was agressive and blatant.

Yeah... Victoria's always struck me as a fairly liberal place. Especially Melbourne.

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I'll agree that most of the East Coast isn't bad... and I certainly didn't intend to make it seem that way.
But the outback does still have a serious problem with racism... not sure what can be done about it though...

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True, but that's not the way the rest of the world sees things... if Latham wins he's got a lot of rebuilding to do so to speak.

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I like the cold

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Politics in the U.K is and remains one of the most class-driven in the world...
And things look to be getting worse...