What better way to celebrate Australia Day than to celebrate the things that our great country can build – like your Holden Commodore ute.
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
Telling a racist where to go
March 20th, 2014
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Last night I was headed out of the city on a packed route 57 tram, along with the usual Wednesday night crowd of people headed for the night market held at the Queen Victoria Market. Among them were a number of people chattering away in a foreign language, when a tattoo covered troglodyte said under his breath to his scraggy looking girlfriend:
You’re in Australia: Speak English!
Such a classic line!
Mr Wong! I’ve lost my travellers cheques!
October 12th, 2012
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It was the early 1980s and my mother and father had just moved in together, when a television commercial for American Express travellers cheques captured the public imagination, giving my parents a new annoyance to deal with.
