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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keating</span></a> was still the prime minister, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Kennett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kennett</span></a> was premier of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Victoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victoria</span></a>. The highest selling song of the year in this country was Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been out for four years but still held sway over the entire universe. </p><p>There was a band in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a> called Def FX who were winning awards and telling us in song titles and lyrics – with a metal/hiphop backbeat – about "ritual", "magik" and "psychoactives". </p><p>This was what was in the wind. It was commercial music, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TripleJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TripleJ</span></a> staple of the day, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cranky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cranky</span></a> came and went so very quickly within all of this with 2 Bugs and a song called Australia Don't Become America, otherwise known as "Straya Don Come Merica". It was influenced by the above – the sound and the fury – and in particular by Rage Against The Machine, Disposible Heroes of Hiphroprisy, Public Enemy, Pop Will Eat Itself and EMF”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusMusic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HipRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HipRock</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hip</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/band" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>band</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/kOQ7X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/kOQ7X</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/entertainment/music</span><span class="invisible">/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html</span></a>&gt;</p>
Emus for Entropy<p>We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works</p><p><a href="https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insidestory.org.au/the-improvi</span><span class="invisible">sers/</span></a></p><p>(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?</p><p>This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low. </p><p>Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.</p><p>&lt;edited quote&gt; ::</p><p>... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words. </p><p>Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary. </p><p>Adaptable is what we need to be. <br>&lt;/ quote&gt;</p><p> Yep :) </p><p>Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .</p><p><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/LuckyCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LuckyCountry</span></a> <br> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Hawke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawke</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keating</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Polity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polity</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>The great Australian debate wasn’t so much a lost opportunity as a deliberate watering down of a great idea by those with vested interests in the current system and the most likely to lose something from the changes it could have brought about. </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/100063761191572/posts/pfbid0vvoLrf39JWde6hzTYPLhUTsXZas28DgjLKbfDrqGWqswSxwqLDzipKnaZdgieDeXl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/100063761191572/p</span><span class="invisible">osts/pfbid0vvoLrf39JWde6hzTYPLhUTsXZas28DgjLKbfDrqGWqswSxwqLDzipKnaZdgieDeXl/</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustralianRepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianRepublic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keating</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Whitlam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whitlam</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ConCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConCon</span></a></p>
Andrew Jennings<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keating</span></a> where Keating is wrong: <br>1. China is not a benign force: ask any country in Asia that is not a Chinese colony. Colonies: Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar. <br>2. It is not possible for Australia to defend itself. See Hugh White “Defending Australia”<br>3. Given 1,2 the choices are AUKUS or Chinese rule. There are no other choices. I wish there were.</p>
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