Asquithian was right. (1 Viewer)

[Not-That-Bright]

Yes no interest loans, that's why most news organisations were just claiming it as a 1billion dollar donation.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

500 million in 'concessional loans' 500 million in direct aid.

Indonesia obviously feels it's a good deal or they wouldn't have accepted it.

 

[hiphophorray123]

yeah at uws they had a 'socialist alliance' stand, they were just standing there with posters looking like idiots they didn't approach anyone or anything, they just stood there. :S

 

[Not-That-Bright]

That's fine. The only people i've had walk up to me demanding anything was at unsw open day where some religious fanatics just kept throwing stuff into my hands.

 

[withoutaface]

yes but I'm sure trotsky would disagree.

Your name is not Trotsky.

 

[Korn]

After checking out the newspapers etc, at uws... i have discovered something.. I'm REALLY on my own being on the right in university.
Thoughts about this topic?

i personally consider myself on the right, which campus are u going to

 

[transcendent]

Sydney Morning Herald Saturday writes about university, lack of time for protests, students spending more time working then attending lectures through e-learning and online notes of lectures, fundamentalism from USyd Evangelism Union ( EU ) and the inevitable approach of VSU come July.

 

[Grobus]

For the most part, the people at universities who are most political tend to be left wing. It comes with being young and self righteous.

 

[Riewe]

I'm glad i'm in the science faculty so i don't get to really hang around those tree-hugging hippies. With all their protesting about everything, and they usually protest that which i believe in (War in Iraq, Howard winds election etc.) I swear i could just about knock them out.
I'm at the UTS, and try to avoid all those groups, but it is a bit hard when the Sociallist Alliance set up tables at the front of the Broadway campus, hogging half the walkway, and the other half they take up with themselves handing out flyers and ALWAYS saying "Troops out of Iraq, Howard is a liar: vote him out". They were starting to really piss me off coming towards the end of year. But now that it is starting again, i better get prepared for them again.

 

[Grobus]

The left wingers are the loudest, but its usually the case that the majority is silent.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

I would say that avid anti-howardism isn't really a plus for them, the general populace doesn't see him as evil, so people calling him evil doesn't really help their cause..

 

[Grobus]

They are just loud because no one listens to them.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

You're allowed to say what you want i agree, but i think there are certain possitions of power & certain situations where you shouldn't.

This isn't necessarily the sitution at university.

 

[Riewe]

It's called a right to protest - free speech - etc - No wait they are not even protesting! -

That's the problem with some of the right. If they had controll they would supress the left. They even have violent feelings towards them whem all they want to do is save trees and stop wars which coincidentally are generally not nice things. Fascist feelings of control and unquestioned loyalty to people in power.

Yes the socialist alliance is very far left. But you are allowed to say what you like in this country (Well actually you are not. WE don't have a bill of rights and genocide is not illegal under the constituion) - but people generally feel that there is a right to be heard and to express their opinions.

If you don't like them ignore them and cherish the fact that your view will will also never be stepped on.

I don't want to stop them from having their say. As if there weren't people like them, the world would be a boring place. It just annoys me that they can push their ideology in my face whenever i walk past them, but i can't ignore them, because, well, they are just so in your face about it (at least the ones i've met). But what really irks me so much is that they keep on repeating the same thing over, and over, and over etc. It's like i what to say to them "I get your point. Now can you complain about other stuff rather than Iraq and Howard?"

 

[Xayma]

It's called a right to protest - free speech - etc - No wait they are not even protesting! -

That's the problem with some of the right. If they had controll they would supress the left. They even have violent feelings towards them whem all they want to do is save trees and stop wars which coincidentally are generally not nice things. Fascist feelings of control and unquestioned loyalty to people in power.

Yes the socialist alliance is very far left. But you are allowed to say what you like in this country (Well actually you are not. WE don't have a bill of rights and genocide is not illegal under the constituion) - but people generally feel that there is a right to be heard and to express their opinions.

If you don't like them ignore them and cherish the fact that your view will will also never be stepped on.

Yeah but it is really just rubbing salt into wounds when you realise they are using part of your student fee's to do it.

If it was only the greenies putting money towards the paper which they throw at you so be it (I hope they get paper made from plantation timber otherwise it loses the whole impact.

 

[Generator]

Yeah but it is really just rubbing salt into wounds when you realise they are using part of your student fee's to do it.

If it was only the greenies putting money towards the paper which they throw at you so be it (I hope they get paper made from plantation timber otherwise it loses the whole impact.

Most of the time the socialist groups are there making use of their own funds, and if not then they would only be as financially dependent on the unions as the typical social society (if they are linked to a student organisation in any way at all, that is).

 

[Xayma]

That's good then it really only bugs me when they start harrassing you then getting uppity at you when you say you disagree with them.