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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 166634"><p>I wouldn't really hark on because I think Australia has serious problems of its own that it seriously needs to address. The idea that Australia has "moved on" contradicts its sometimes desperate and usually comical search for a national identity <em>other</em> than one which links back to the UK. Paul Keating and his adventures trying to sell the idea of Australia being an equal partner in Asia back in the 1980s is just one chapter of a litany of embarrasing drunken cultural fumbling.</p><p></p><p>I don't deny that we have problems with crime, but there is crime and then there is media hype. I've lived in several cities in the UK in England and Scotland and walking home late at night I've never really felt that at any moment in time I could be mugged. I mean, seriously, if you just use common sense like in <em>any Western nation</em> then you'll be fine. I can assure you though that the UK has been a bit more liberal and progressive than Australia ever has. I mean, Australia were still confiscating porn from visitors well into the late 1960s and early 1970s, just ask my Dad, 3 Para had all their porno mags nicked by Australian immigration in 1969!!!</p><p></p><p>If you really want to be informed, the number one crime is drunken fighting on a Friday night. Something which, I can assure you, is a problem throughout the Western world.</p><p></p><p>In any case, this is what happened next on the beach...</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3331/raephn0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Andy Sheridan can wear what he likes on Bondi because, lets face it, there isn't anyone man enough so far in Australia to match good ol' Andy on the field anyway...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 166634"] I wouldn't really hark on because I think Australia has serious problems of its own that it seriously needs to address. The idea that Australia has "moved on" contradicts its sometimes desperate and usually comical search for a national identity [i]other[/i] than one which links back to the UK. Paul Keating and his adventures trying to sell the idea of Australia being an equal partner in Asia back in the 1980s is just one chapter of a litany of embarrasing drunken cultural fumbling. I don't deny that we have problems with crime, but there is crime and then there is media hype. I've lived in several cities in the UK in England and Scotland and walking home late at night I've never really felt that at any moment in time I could be mugged. I mean, seriously, if you just use common sense like in [i]any Western nation[/i] then you'll be fine. I can assure you though that the UK has been a bit more liberal and progressive than Australia ever has. I mean, Australia were still confiscating porn from visitors well into the late 1960s and early 1970s, just ask my Dad, 3 Para had all their porno mags nicked by Australian immigration in 1969!!! If you really want to be informed, the number one crime is drunken fighting on a Friday night. Something which, I can assure you, is a problem throughout the Western world. In any case, this is what happened next on the beach... [img]http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3331/raephn0.jpg[/img] Andy Sheridan can wear what he likes on Bondi because, lets face it, there isn't anyone man enough so far in Australia to match good ol' Andy on the field anyway... [/QUOTE]
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