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Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:45pm
 
Sorry Australia, New Zealand is just better

New Zealand may be the land of the sheep, but it's Australians who are the followers.

Ever since our neighbours across the Tasman became the first country in the world to allow women the right to vote (South Australian Whites Only), we've been struggling to keep up.

New Zealand has soundly beaten Australia by appointing its first woman Governor-General in 2001 - years before Quentin Bryce made history here; their first woman prime minister, Jenny Shipley, took office in 1997, while we had to wait a further 14 years.

And Dame Sian Elias was appointed Chief Supreme Court Justice of New Zealand in 1999, whilst our first chief, Susan Kiefel, was only appointed in January this year.

New Zealand has also shown superb leadership in issues concerning native rights, campaigning against nuclear testing in the South Pacific, and have some of the strongest environmental laws in the world.

They have embraced renewable energy, with targets already in place for 90 per cent of its power through alternative sources by 2025.

Back in Australia, our renewable energy debate has the same sophistication of toddlers throwing a tantrum in the middle of a Target store.

Last year, the Social Progress Index named New Zealand as the most progressive country, beating 131 other countries.

They came out on top thanks to their laws and social attitudes to health, sanitation, shelter, personal safety, access to information, sustainability, tolerance and inclusion and access to education.

As Australian squabbles over whether to legalise same-sex marriage through a highly contentious and expensive postal survey, New Zealand parliament quietly changed it laws to allow same-sex marriage in 2013 through a simple vote, after which all members sang a Maori love song.

It was a profoundly beautiful and dignified moment, two adjectives that cannot be associated with Australia's bizarre and prejudice-baiting approach to settling an issue that most other western countries have done via parliament or the courts.

What is it about New Zealand that places them so far in front of us when it comes to equality and compassion?

On paper, we share many similarities - we share the same history of colonisation and Indigenous persecution, plus our flags are freakishly similar - but we continually lack the initiative and imagination to embrace the reforms necessary to progress human rights, gender equality, environmental protections and embrace Indigenous culture and rights.

Australia collectively likes to think of itself as the sheriff in the South Pacific, but when it comes to equality and passion, New Zealand has us pegged.

We're not the leaders we think we are. Instead of stealing New Zealand's Russell Crowe or Split Enz for ourselves, perhaps we could borrow their progressive attitude to fix some of our problems.

- Daily Telegraph




http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11925543


Time For Australia to stop sucking up to Britain and US, and suck up to NZ.
Ask if we can become their West Island?
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Reply #1 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:47pm
 
A homo Kiwi. Sick, Bru....
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Reply #2 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:49pm
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takat%C4%81pui

Takatāpui (also spelled takataapui) is the Māori word meaning a devoted partner of the same sex.[1][2][3] In modern terminology, a person who identifies as takatāpui is a Māori individual who is queer, in other words gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (LGBT).

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The classic and earliest full account of the origins of gods and the first human beings is contained in a manuscript entitled Nga Tama a Rangi (The Sons of Heaven), written in 1849
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Reply #3 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:51pm
 
Joke...

What language does a maori jew speak?
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Hey Bru   Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #4 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:51pm
 
Hey Glitch, where in Aus do you live now?
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Reply #5 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm
 
Central Tablelands.
And no, I am not interested in dating.
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____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm:
Central Tablelands.
And no, I am not interested in dating.


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I'm just curious because being gay in say, Dubbo, would be a very different experience to living in Darlinghurst, and I can understand why in 'small towns' you'd view life as being so overwhelmingly homophobic.

In my job I deal with a lot of inner city arts/media types and being straight is practically the minority.

Why not just move to the city? 
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Reply #7 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:05pm
 
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm:
Central Tablelands.



Thought you might be interested in migrating to one of those place in the world that are better. Wink
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Gordon wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:03pm:
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm:
Central Tablelands.
And no, I am not interested in dating.


It's OK, I'm out of your league  Kiss Kiss

I'm just curious because being gay in say, Dubbo, would be a very different experience to living in Darlinghurst, and I can understand why in 'small towns' you'd view life as being so overwhelmingly homophobic.

In my job I deal with a lot of inner city arts/media types and being straight is practically the minority.

Why not just move to the city? 



Top of Blue Mountains ... and then moved a few kms west.

Far from kiss your cousin straight territory.
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Reply #9 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:12pm
 
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:10pm:
Gordon wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:03pm:
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm:
Central Tablelands.
And no, I am not interested in dating.


It's OK, I'm out of your league  Kiss Kiss

I'm just curious because being gay in say, Dubbo, would be a very different experience to living in Darlinghurst, and I can understand why in 'small towns' you'd view life as being so overwhelmingly homophobic.

In my job I deal with a lot of inner city arts/media types and being straight is practically the minority.

Why not just move to the city? 



Top of Blue Mountains ... and then moved a few kms west.

Far from kiss your cousin straight territory.


Don't tell me you're living in 'The Go'... Fkmedead, you'd get bashed there for just not being a mong.
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Reply #10 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:13pm
 
lee wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:05pm:
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 2:54pm:
Central Tablelands.



Thought you might be interested in migrating to one of those place in the world that are better. Wink



Being talked into north of either Island. Like the idea of Marlborough. Good spot perhaps when climate change collapse speeds up
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Reply #11 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:16pm
 
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:13pm:
Good spot perhaps when climate change collapse speeds up



Ross Base might be better. Wink
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Reply #12 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:23pm
 
lee wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:16pm:
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:13pm:
Good spot perhaps when climate change collapse speeds up



Ross Base might be better. Wink


Stewart Island is better.
Good chance of hiding from the cannibals there and having Lifestyle. .

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Reply #13 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:28pm
 
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:23pm:
Stewart Island is better.
Good chance of hiding from the cannibals there



I hadn't heard about the cannibals at Ross Base. Perhaps they should arm our intrepid polar adventurers. Wink
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Reply #14 - Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:29pm
 
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:23pm:
lee wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:16pm:
____ wrote on Sep 23rd, 2017 at 3:13pm:
Good spot perhaps when climate change collapse speeds up



Ross Base might be better. Wink


Stewart Island is better.
Good chance of hiding from the cannibals there and having Lifestyle. .



Gitch, why not inner Sydney?
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