zepher25
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hey, im looking to discuss about Australia, post topics, or ask question about the country, talk about sports, politics anything!
A_Wanderer said:Why do Victorians like their bloody AFL?
Why does our (Victorian) Police Comissioner look like Big Kev?
Why can't the state liberals win elections?
I think that the history wars attest to the rigorous debate going on with that topic, the assertion that there was ever a willfull campaign of genocide conducted by the colonial authorities has been challenged in recent years.Our history is tarnished by a genocide committed against the indigenous population. (although no one speaks of it)
What i've just read,you may want to change your heading to "A few negative things about NSW"intedomine said:A few negative things about Australia...
AUSTRALIANS eat fewer vegetables each year than Americans, a new report has found.
Australians consume an average of 162 kilograms of vegetables each year, including potatoes, compared with Americans' 189 kilograms, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics report said.
While both countries have dramatically improved their vegetable intake over the past three decades, Australians are now eating only the amount Americans were eating in the 1970s. And that amount is not increasing.
"The recent trends in per-person consumption in both Australia and other developed countries suggest that per-person consumption of vegetables is unlikely to increase significantly in the short to medium term," it said.
Dr Tim Gill, the principal research scientist at the NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition said Australians had fallen short of the amount of vegies required for a healthy diet.
Australians should try to eat about 146 kilograms of vegetables a year, not including potatoes, or 400 grams a day.
He also cautioned against concluding Americans were healthier eaters, observing that Americans tended to consume more carbohydrates.
Indeed, potatoes represent about half of America's vegetable intake, compared with 42 per cent for Australians, the report found.
Changing cultural habits and eating arrangements, such as eating out, were the main culprits behind the vegetable deficiency, he said.
"It's not as if families sit down and mum prepares the evening meal these days," he said. "A lot of it is preprepared."
The report confirmed this trend, finding Australians consume about a third of their vegetables in restaurants and that, despite an abundance of local fresh vegetables, processed vegetables made up about half of Australian vegetable intake.
But most vegetables consumed in Australia are produced locally - just 8 per cent of vegetables are imported, the report found.
Vegetable consumption, 1998-99
Potatoes 42%
Other root and bulb vegetables 15%
Tomatoes 15%
Leafy and green vegetables 12%
Other vegetables 16%
A_Wanderer said:Those Scotch bastards
The private school issue seems extremely dubious, the majority of families that send their kids to private schools are not rich and they will pay to do what they think is best for their kids, wanting to go out and punish them for this is wrong - parents should be given education vouchers and there should be no government money going to any private schools.
fly so high! said:
What i've just read,you may want to change your heading to "A few negative things about NSW"
We've got a shite anthem no one knows the words to. Give me the Turkish, Tunisian, Brazilian national anthem anyday.... or Men At Work's Down Under.
dazzlingamy said:LOL! i dont think indetermine was being serious, although he seems rather passionate about a great city, and well a pretty CRAP state!
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A_Wanderer said:That is exactly not what I was saying, your talk of "equalisation" is just the same redistribution class-divide shit that Latham tried to pull off last election. it is appropriating money and redistributing it away in the name of equality that I have a problem with, it is the slurring of the private schools as elitist and the proposed solution that would just drag everything down.
Australia has a fairly well balanced system, some things are definitely changing for the better (e.g. dumping mandatory student unionism, reforming HECS at a tertiary level - opening up for full-fee students). Cutting all government funding to private schools and instead offering a voucher system to parents not taking money away from private schools is much better idea and would give parents choice without taking away anything directly.
dazzlingamy said:We are multicultural, and on the whole compared to places like the US, we embraced that wholeheartedly.