australia is not ready for the world...give it another 100 years like usa...then by that time it will be ready.

they are humans only.

australia is blessed with

1)coal for electricity and for melting iron

2)iron ore for making iron

3)titanium for making aircraft steel

4)lithium fields for making handphone batteries

5)gold mines for making gold

6)vast lands for planting vegetables and producing pork,beef and mutton.

singapore hasnt any natural resources nor good leaders  but like hong kong,taiwan,china,thailand,malaysia they have all progressed to same level or ahead of australia without much natural resources..

so its really the people and the minerals found on that land that determines the future of the country.gov can be overthrown be it thru elections or coup by its people.so if people are weak...............u can complain until year 2050 also nothing will change in spore.singapore in 2050 will still be more or less like singapore in  2010.

if one  likes extreme sex.....and no country has that and still stuck in spore ...how??

Originally posted by Rock^Star:

PM has just told us again not to be complacent. How many times have we heard that over the years?? lol Have singaporeans been really complacent?

He has a "template" to follow that's why we hear repetitive words.   Time for him to go upgrade his vocab.    

Shallow talk!    This is what we get when we pay him millions..

Despite a population of 20 million and over, australia still remains resilient despite global economic shocks in 2008/09. Singapore despite having higher GDP Growth than Australia, is in the doldrums now in terms of true national progression..

A truly national taxation system which trickles down to the mases
Central banking powers – vested first with the Commonwealth Bank, then the Reserve Bank.
The development of  social welfare and health systems.
Minimum Wages

The cultivation of morality and compassion based attitudes
The expansion of higher Knowledge based education and the development of world class research institutions and business enterprises

Australia excelled in what singapore didnt,  despite having similar socio economic conditions

 

Indeed, much can be said of  the nation that  maximise  strength by affording  fellow Australians  fairness.  
Strength comes by giving every Australian a fair opportunity to work and live
Strength comes by giving a great education to every child, including those whose family and personal circumstances mean they need that great education the most.

Again Singapore failed to achieve the above due to its farce meritocratic policies which sidelines the weak and economically underprivileged

Indeed Australian policy makers have not abandon the aspirations and the life-chances of hundreds of thousands of Australians to the short term vagaries of the labour market unlike Singapore's.This done by carefully calibrating immigration into Australia

If we as a nation adopt Australia's  the values of courage, flexibility resilience and compassion, I am confident that we can emerge from  crisis stronger, fairer and more optimistic than ever.

 

The foreigners working in singapore remit money back to their own countries, and its their own countries which earn from the economy of singapore.While they use Singapore's money to grow and prosper, eventually at some point of time, they will rise to challenge singapore itself. Will singapore survive or go down in the FACE OF ANNIHILATION?

yawn....ZZzzzzz............!

are we still on this topics....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yd7kiswffo&feature=player_embedded

 

Link as shown

just want to chime in that the swiss with their direct referendums have taken consultativeness to a new standard and have no need for meddling with politics. http://direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/switzerlands-system-referendums.html

however we can be sure that sort of thing sure won't be adopted here... don't malign the swiss hor...

Originally posted by βέτά:

 

I like these replies.

 

So far, the People’s Action Party’s tactic is to put all the scholars into the civil service because it believes the way to retain political power forever is to have a monopoly on talent. But in my view, that’s a very short term view.

After I had just taken over as the Housing Board’s chairman in 2000, an astute academic asked me: ‘Tong Dow, what’s your greatest problem at HDB?’ Then he diagnosed it himself: ‘Initially, you gave peanuts to monkeys so they would dance to your tune. Now you’ve given them so much by way of peanuts that the monkey has become a gorilla and you have to dance to its tune. That’s your greatest problem.’

We should just concentrate on helping the poorest 5 to 10 per cent of the population, instead of handing out a general largesse. Forget about asset enhancement, Singapore shares and utility rebates. You’re dancing to the tune of the gorilla. I don’t understand the urgency of raising the Goods and Services Tax. Why tax the lower-income, then return it to them in an aid package? It demeans human dignity and creates a growing supplicant class who habitually hold out their palms.

it's nothing surprising. I mean, if you give e scholars so much attention, pampered for e belief they're only e very best... soon it'll become as if no one is above them when there is (practical ppl).

Originally posted by hasene:

i cld not bother about what he talk talk.   No more goodies, now everything is $$$$.   Better not have $$ gift from govt.  Give $1000, take back every cent and dollar later.

I agree. They give u gift short term one.

they win election GST 9 percent. Take back ur short term gift.

Hasene i am sorry lastime i bully u on eternal hope.

Originally posted by hisoka:

talk so long all nonsense, never say important things like whether got goodies for us. waste time.

i cld not bother about what he talk talk.   No more goodies, now everything is $$$$.   Better not have $$ gift from govt.  Give $1000, take back every cent and dollar later.

Originally posted by PRP:

Like the govt, those who support death penalty for drug trafficking problably have good intention but believe in the wrong means i.e. a cruel and inhuman punishment.

You see the punishment decide it is a cruel and inhuman punishment.

But for the offender, life in a small cell is a cruel and inhuman punishment, and death is great. Actually beheading by chopping off at one chop is the best. Chop, and the fellow suddenly feel light headed, and absolutely no pain. The head is known to say "ahhh!" and smile in relief.

Originally posted by PRP:

This topic is too difficult for u. I hope you wouldn't discuss this topic anymore.

You are quite right, this topic is too difficult for me.

But I must try to understand you. At my own risk. The balcony specially for drying clothes, should have upgraded bamboo holders, in side the balcony, or outside the balcony?

If inside, a lot of money spent, the clothes still won't get sunlight. If outside, after spend a lot of money, go back to square one.

This topic has become mind boggling. Only those from the Institute of Mental Health can see the brilliantness of the idea.

Media broadcasters and newspapers are just tools of the ruling party.

Look no further for evidence. The high level condolences to the passing of a senior broadcaster says it all.

The ndp/rally compulsive coverage show the extend of their grip of the media.  In fact, they have no business in the media wat.

It is precisely because the political media is part of the party structure, which is why senior media people have access to highest echelon of the ruling party, usually in  one-party states like China, NKorea, Vietnam etc

Off course it happened right here in Singapura.

As a prospective voter & layman, really hope the electoral process will bring about change in the media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like these replies.

 

So far, the People’s Action Party’s tactic is to put all the scholars into the civil service because it believes the way to retain political power forever is to have a monopoly on talent. But in my view, that’s a very short term view.

After I had just taken over as the Housing Board’s chairman in 2000, an astute academic asked me: ‘Tong Dow, what’s your greatest problem at HDB?’ Then he diagnosed it himself: ‘Initially, you gave peanuts to monkeys so they would dance to your tune. Now you’ve given them so much by way of peanuts that the monkey has become a gorilla and you have to dance to its tune. That’s your greatest problem.’

We should just concentrate on helping the poorest 5 to 10 per cent of the population, instead of handing out a general largesse. Forget about asset enhancement, Singapore shares and utility rebates. You’re dancing to the tune of the gorilla. I don’t understand the urgency of raising the Goods and Services Tax. Why tax the lower-income, then return it to them in an aid package? It demeans human dignity and creates a growing supplicant class who habitually hold out their palms.

Originally posted by angel7030:

If you said, it is a home, so be it, but you can also choose to stay or leave as you like, foreigner came here because they are looking for greener pasture and better living condition than their own home, you can also look for greener pasture and take this as a transit place where you did your learning curve.

seriously not siding w/ MIW or whoever... touch ur heart how our forefathers came to Nanyang in search for a better life.

It's alrdy happening from 1980s w/ M'sian, only now more from PRC. Some might really end up regard tis place as home.

Originally posted by tranquilice:

Singaporeans don't want to work?

Singaporeans don't want to work with foreigners?

I say you don't understand and don't see the whole picture.

 

i say, different school of thought with a different whole picture

what is wayang?

Originally posted by angel7030:

out of job because you dun want to work, because you dun want to work with foreigner, because you have a hatre somewhere in your brain with the govt policies and the way they do thing, out of job because you ask for it, and i understand it

Singaporeans don't want to work?

Singaporeans don't want to work with foreigners?

I say you don't understand and don't see the whole picture.

 

If you said, it is a home, so be it, but you can also choose to stay or leave as you like, foreigner came here because they are looking for greener pasture and better living condition than their own home, you can also look for greener pasture and take this as a transit place where you did your learning curve.

Originally posted by -StarDust-:

Japan communist party u heard of?

They gt seats in japan parliament.

Taiwan communist party no seat in parliament one.

no seat cannot have party meh, like PKMS, where got seat in parliament...

out of job because you dun want to work, because you dun want to work with foreigner, because you have a hatre somewhere in your brain with the govt policies and the way they do thing, out of job because you ask for it, and i understand it

Originally posted by angel7030:

if not walkover, most like, it will be a walk by or just for the sake of the world and media, a show

wayang.

Originally posted by angel7030:

in the first place, Raffles already quoted this place as a port of transit, so what you expect, even today, you see the changes in immigration and shape, if you take this place as home, so be it, but to me, it is a transit, a fast transit that changes so fast that those who took this place as home, can hardly handle it.

it's no longer a place of transit, it's a home...

fail or success would affect us