En premier, je dois dire que le liste suivante n'est pas une list des choses que je deteste en Australie, c'est juste une partie de la vie, many annoyances and challenges, different challenges to what other countries have, some you can get around and some you just have to live with.
Peut etre mon grand 'issue' pour le moment c'est le fait que ces jours en Australie, c'est pas possible pour ignorer le gouvernment dans le facon que a semble si facile avant que le 11 Septembre quand je crois que beaucoup des gens autour de moi a pense que c'etait un 'waste of time' worrying, specialement parce que there's not much you can do about it anyway so you just try to basically ignore them and get on with your life quite happily.
Maybe what made that so easy was the combination of youth, not being interested in history (I wonder if that can make people less interested in the present?) et etant occupe avec un boulot, mais maintenant le monde a change si tant. Ce semble pas possible pour ignorer le gouvernment d'australie maintenant, specialement lorsque beaucoup des lois changent si souvent.
Voici quelques exemples de choses que je vois (pas un liste complet, juste quelques)
* Far more contempt for police, specialement apres les nouvelles lois dans Victoria (not sure about the other states - not always the same) ou si tu conduire a vitesse plus de 3 km over the limit, on peut recevoir un 'fine' pour $200.
September 11 and all that has brought
La guerre en Iraq - Aussies I think have always had a healthy disrespect for the government, but now the contempt seems so much stronger and more open than ever before, partly due to the US alliance and the fact we had no say in it, and even the opposition party appear to be almost as against it as the people are. It feels like we’re united in being divided.
The government has tried to protect us with stronger laws, but sometimes I think they go too far. Par exemple, now we have much stronger gun laws than even before (even stronger than the ones they put in place just after the Tasmanian Port Arthur massacre in 1996). Now they are so determined to try and make things ‘safe’ that guns have to be kept under such high security that many collectors can’t afford the costs, and the new rules say even non-firing antique weapons are to be melted down if they can’t be stored this way (which really angers collectors, who are probably very old with stuff from their war days, who might have felt fairly neutral towards the government before...)
Bali - people are now more dependent on government for travel and security warnings instead of just ‘doing our own thing’ like we used to do.
Thinking of non-existent utopias, here’s the ‘brain teaser’ question of the day: est ce que quelqu’un peut me donnez le nom d’un pays ou le gouvernement EST bien aime? Surtout, le premier ministre?
If we settle for neutral/not too bad, I’d suggest the prime minister of New Zealand.
The list of bad ones I think must be too long to count...from the idiots to the dictators....
Back to the subject...
En Australie depuis Septembre 11 Il y a aussi le probleme enorme a propos de l’assurance ‘public liability’ et le prix qui monte tres tres haut vers le ciel.. - c’est peut etre un chose de la plus pire car tout le monde suffrir, as it comes up again and again in everyday life when there are any sporting or other events happening and has affected just about everybody from huge tourism companies right down to small sport and hobby clubs where an accident would be almost impossible to happen (like lawn bowls or simple walking - par exemple a dawn Eureka commemorative promenade to be held in my city this December has had to be cancelled because the local Council told the walkers they’d have to be insured for 1 million dollars before they could allow it to happen...and the walk is only a few blocks, in the city!
Some clubs have had to shut down completely long ago, others operate with a lower level of insurance than required and don’t necessarily tell this to people (horse riding is now said to be a high risk activity in Victoria because of this)...the list goes on and on and on. I guess Australia is certainly not alone with this problem, but it is very hard to deal with when we’ve had so much freedom before.
There’s also the health care, Nursing home & doctor insurance crises
Those who have to have dealings with government departments, i.e., Centrelink are often totally frustrated on a regular basis and definitely can’t forget that the government exists.
Kate