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Doctor Jolly Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3808	PM's should be born here. May 28^th, 2012 at 1:22pm Interesting insight by Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer, when she raises the topic that senior minister should be born in Australia. Given Gillard and Abbott are both bloody foreigners, I tend to agree. http://www.news.com.au/national/liberal-mp-kelly-odwyer-takes-dig-at-overseas-born-pollies/story-e6frfkvr-1226369514423
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3568 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #1 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:35pm Stupid idea. The politicians we have at the moment are bad enough. Do you want to reduce the amount of available talent even further?
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Reply #2 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:39pm

Frances wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:35pm:

Stupid idea. The politicians we have at the moment are bad enough. Do you want to reduce the amount of available talent even further?

Yes, it is a stupid idea.

However, it's not surprising that the suggestion came from her.

She's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

"MP speculates that Australian born MP's should get priority
Forgets that her leader Tony Abbott was born overseas ... "

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/liberal-mp-kelly-odwyer-takes-dig-at-overseas-born-pollies/story-e6frfkvr-1226369514423#ixzz1w8Fqf0lq

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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #3 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:41pm Fair enough - it's a pretty standard requirement. Of course the haters won't have a bar of it - dat be raciss yo. And it seems the haters have beat me to it - the consesus seems to be that it's "a stupid idea". What's stupid about it? (besides being Racisss)
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #4 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:43pm ooooooo isnt that a form of racism???? all those migrants who came as babies.. are told to forget the dream because they werent born here.. good one greenie.
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Reply #5 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:55pm

Doctor Jolly wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:22pm:

Interesting insight by Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer, when she raises the topic that senior minister should be born in Australia.

Given Gillard and Abbott are both bloody foreigners, I tend to agree.

Wink

http://www.news.com.au/national/liberal-mp-kelly-odwyer-takes-dig-at-overseas-born-pollies/story-e6frfkvr-1226369514423

Funny.
Abbott and Gillard who class themselves as Aussie but born in the UK would be disqualified.

Yet myself, who classes himself as British first and Aussie second, would qualify.

Would be kinda funny.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #6 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:56pm BUT - It would mean woody - who is a Kiwi - would be disqualified. If we're looking for silver linings etc.
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Reply #7 - May 28^th, 2012 at 1:58pm

... wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:41pm:

Fair enough - it's a pretty standard requirement.

Of course the haters won't have a bar of it - dat be raciss yo.

And it seems the haters have beat me to it - the consesus seems to be that it's "a stupid idea". What's stupid about it? (besides being Racisss)

since when?????????????

they have to have Australian citizenship they do not have to be born here...

if that was the case.well I dread to think really

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Reply #8 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:08pm

... wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:41pm:

Fair enough - it's a pretty standard requirement.

Of course the haters won't have a bar of it - dat be raciss yo.

And it seems the haters have beat me to it - the consesus seems to be that it's "a stupid idea". What's stupid about it? (besides being Racisss)

What is it racist to expect the people that represent us to be born in this country? We are not taking about the color of their skin but the land of their birth. This Prime Minister is so bad it could not possible have been scripted worse. She is so delusional and arrogant.

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Reply #9 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:08pm

cods wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:58pm:

... wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 1:41pm:

Fair enough - it's a pretty standard requirement.

Of course the haters won't have a bar of it - dat be raciss yo.

And it seems the haters have beat me to it - the consesus seems to be that it's "a stupid idea". What's stupid about it? (besides being Racisss)

since when?????????????

they have to have Australian citizenship they do not have to be born here...

if that was the case.well I dread to think really

since when what?

If what was the case?

Huh

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corporate_whitey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8896 Archivist	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #10 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:09pm Julia has prolly been told all her life how evil Australians are and how special she is and she could not wait to get power to teach us all a lesson!
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Reply #11 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:14pm

We just need genuine people who want to do good things for the country wherever they were born. Rudd and Howard were born here and they weren't any more politically astute than Gillard and Abbott.

It's not so much a matter of where they are born, but whether they care. The politics are the important thing, not their birth certificate, their accent or the colour of their skin.

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corporate_whitey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8896 Archivist	Re: PM's should be born here. Reply #12 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:15pm What a crock of shyte.
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Reply #13 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:20pm

corporate_whitey wrote on May 28^th, 2012 at 2:15pm:

What a crock of shyte.

I agree CW, the idea that our PM should have to be born here is a crock, imagine the breathtaking arrogance of assuming that only people physically born here are best placed to run the country, why that sort of arrogance would make us ... well America.

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Reply #14 - May 28^th, 2012 at 2:22pm

The very first thing Gillard did when she became Prime Minister was tell us all she had more important things to do a Prime minister than to attend remembrance day services. Although raised a considerable part of her life in the country - no love, no true affinity with the culture or the heritage, she has been constantly having to repair damage and offense caused by her ignorance.most recently commissioning a survey into the relevance of ANZAC to modern Australia/ We need legislative and constitutional changes in place to protect our rights as a people in this land from foreign occupation and rule.

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