Welcome to Australia

[Richard Quartermaine]

Just give us a wave as you go by, Keith.
Richard

[j.sabourn]

#10... Keith I tend to agree with you, thinking back to the 50"s and maybe the 60"s also, going to small town dances at weekends, it was nigh on impossible to rope any girl in to taking her home, as there were always a string of Aussie boys there to protect the fair damsel. Maybe this was because there was a shortage of women in those days, or maybe they were more God fearing. New Zealand on the other hand was always party after party and didnt have to really look for the fair sex, they found you.Think Cappy when he found his one true love in Aussie really was an emu, who he thought was an Australian girl. Just kidding Cappy. Cheers John S

[j.sabourn]

Ref. to above maybe am jealous of cappy doing what a lot of us failed to do. The only Aussie girl I went out with was in NZ and she was on a working holiday. She was from Brisbane, still remember her name job and other distinguishing features, a very nice girl. However things went astray when she flew down to NZ and came down to the ship unexpectantly, and I was up the road overnight at a Maori party night. If life had taken a different turn I might now have been sitting in Brisbane with about half a dozen Aussie kids to look after me in my old age. Cheers John S

[Charlie Hannah]

Can't be to bad in australia iv'e stuck it out for 46 years now!P---ing down here now and its glorious,see some green lawn again!

[j.sabourn]

Charlie mines full of weeds. Have a corner block. Built this house for retirement. Forgot about the front garden. The wife called in the SOS ( save our Seniors). The first time these two old blokes came round they looked older than me so hid behind the curtain in case they passed any rude remarks about doing myself. Younger ones since then so maybe the other two pegged out after taken on my bit of land. Have been to look at these retirement villages but accomodation seems that small. Also the occupants seem a lot younger, some only in their 50"s. Dont fancy paying for the upkeep of swimming pools and bowling greens, unless was going to use permanently. So now just shut my eyes to the weeds. Cheers John S.

[Captain Kong]

I have just recieved this note from a mate in Australia,...............he served in the RAR in Korea and Viet Nam so he knows what he is talking about..................... Cheers
Brian
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Below is a letter passed onto me by another “True Blue Aussie”.
After you have read the letter and say "My Bloody Oath " then you are truly an Australian.


A Letter to the Editor

So many letter writers have explained how this land is made up of immigrants.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people why today's Australian is not willing to accept the new kind of immigrant any longer.

Back in 1900 (after federation) when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to Australia, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and be documented.

Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground.
They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times.
They made learning English a primary rule in their new Australian households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.

Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labour laws to protect them.
All they had were the skills, craftsmanship and desire they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.
Australians fought alongside men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France , Japan , Czechoslovakia , Russia , Sweden , Poland and so any other places.
None of these first generation Australians ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from.

They were Australians fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan.

They were defending the Freedom as one people.

When we liberated France , no-one in those villages was looking for the Ukrainian-Australian or the German-Australian or the Irish-Australian.
The people of France saw only Australians.
And we carried one flag that represented our country.
Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were.

It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here.
These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an Australian.
And here we are in 2014 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges, but not to learn or speak English.

They want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes an Australian passport and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country.

That's not what being an Australian is all about.

Australians have been very open-hearted and open-minded regarding immigrants, whether they were fleeing poverty, dictatorship, persecution, or whatever else makes us think of those aforementioned immigrants who truly did ADOPT our country, and our flag and our morals and our customs. And left their wars, hatred, and divisions behind.

I believe that the immigrants who landed in Australia in the early 1900s deserve better than that for the toil, hard work and sacrifice.
I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags, fighting foreign battles on our soil, making Australians change to suit their religions and cultures, and wanting to change our country's fabric by claiming discrimination when we do not give in to their demands.

It's about time we get real and stand up for our forefathers rights, we are AUSTRALIANS!

Lest we forget it!!! NO MORE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. NO MORE not saying CHRISTMAS in our stores and in our schools. I eat pork, I drink beer and I want my Australia back!

Hope this letter is read by millions of people all across Australia and Aussies living overseas.

[cappy]

Can't be to bad in australia iv'e stuck it out for 46 years now!P---ing down here now and its glorious,see some green lawn again!

######send you some green turf if you send us some sun ......regards cappy......bloody freezin here

[Charlie Hannah]

John thats all i grow in the winter months weeds!talk about sweating i do a lot of mucking around in my gararg never had the car pass through the entrance to it yet thats my shed,when ever i am out there my neibour gets a sweat up just watching.shore walla's dont know the meaning of the word work!

[Charlie Hannah]

######send you some green turf if you send us some sun ......regards cappy......bloody freezin here

Cappy we have had lots of sunshine but as you know it is winter here and its only been as high as earlie twenties so dont think its worth sending wait till summer time gets here i will think about sending some then,if you still need it.

[j.sabourn]

As we used to say Charlie, They think Manual labour is a spaniard. JS