http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26324917-5014090,00.html
KIWI tourism operators are sending a big thanks to Kevin Rudd for "stimulating"
their best ever ski season.
The recession-beating stimulus package handout had the unusual spin-off effect
of helping Australia's recession-ravaged neighbour out of the financial doldrums.
New Zealand's 2009 winter ski season was the best ever, with 1.5 million sets of
skis and snowboards hitting the slopes.
This impressive figure is thanks largely to record numbers of Australians flying
over the ditch to sample the snow delights.
"We're all writing to Kevin Rudd to see if he'll do it again next winter," Lake
Wanaka Tourism manager, James Helmore, said.
It's a big turnaround for New Zealand, which started the season saying Aussie
ski numbers were disappointing.
Just over a million Australians either ski or snowboard but only 60,000 to
80,000 were choosing to do it in New Zealand each year.
This year's season, which officially ended on Sunday, is expected to have drawn
over 100,000 skiers across the Tasman.
The extra income brought some much-needed relief to New Zealand, which has
officially been in recession since early 2008.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
- KRudd at his finest.
"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.
"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.
"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.
"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.
"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.
"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMB CUNT!"
- FlangesBum on learning the truth about Labour's economic capabilities.
"I don't care what you fuckers think!"
- KRudd the KRude at his finest again.
"We'll just change it all when we get in."
- Garrett the carrott
NZ has NOT been in recession since early 2008 , we entered a recession in
the latter part of 2008 and it exited it last quarter -our economy is now
growing and it's not because of Australians skiing here.
An MP for New Zealand Maori Party has labelled [former] Australian
Prime Minister John Howard a "racist bastard" for his radical
intervention aimed at stopping child abuse in Aboriginal communities.
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What is the difference between a duck?
The same MP (hone Harawira) is now in doo doos again for making racist
statements..
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is expected to apologise tomorrow for racist
remarks about white people and for skipping off to Paris (and lying about
it to his party l;eader ) whilst he was leading a Parliamentary group to
Europe .
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Responding to an email questioning his trip to Paris, Mr Harawira said it
was "white man's bullshit" and "White motherf...ers have been raping our
lands and ripping us off for centuries".............
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3046575/Harawira-to-apologise-tomorrow
But white people, racists, were raping and pillaging...
...oh, yeah, so were Maori enslaving each other.
He should apologize because he only went half way and
didn't talk to the Maori cannibal and slave culture!
Morori?
In fact Europeans, by shear numbers, and need to work
closer together to sustain those higher populations
forced upon Maori higher ethical and moral standards.
Oh, the shame of it! Just as Maori forebears forced
by over-populated islands had to work together to
build waka and sail the biggest ocean in the world!
As for Howard, his policies did nothing to alleviate
the dispossession and harm done to aboriginals.
Especially when so much of the Australia character
is aboriginal in its origin.
Howard was a caretaker, a good caretaker, but he
was hired to be a leader not a care taker.
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He just doesn't have the history of powerful elites behiind
him who know how to make racist off the cuff remarks that
are cloaked enough to pass muster.
Give him time, give Maori time!
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That's good.
>NZ has NOT been in recession since early 2008 , we entered a recession in
>the latter part of 2008 and it exited it last quarter -our economy is now
>growing and it's not because of Australians skiing here
No, it's because any Kiwi with brains (an oxymoron if ever) has left NZ for
Oz!
And holds shares in ski companies!
Its the timeless tale of two species, one Morlock, who spend their
days creaming off the best humans from the garden and taking them
back to their desert caverns to consume them.
If only we could get them to go back then the IQs of both countries would go up.