I nominally live in this part of the world and this guy Gunner is as dumb as a brick. I have found Australians in general to be low IQ and "sheep like". Their "border force" and police have always been ugly and heavy handed with a penchant for police state surveillance. I think arriving and departing from Australia is by far the worst th…
I nominally live in this part of the world and this guy Gunner is as dumb as a brick. I have found Australians in general to be low IQ and "sheep like". Their "border force" and police have always been ugly and heavy handed with a penchant for police state surveillance. I think arriving and departing from Australia is by far the worst that I have experience anywhere on the planet. When I was there last end of 2019 a new innovation was special cameras to detect mobile phone usage in cars. In Queensland pulling up to a curb to discharge or pick up a passenger invokes a fine of hundreds of AUD. I could go on......
was in Sydney a couple of years ago and shocked at the cost of a parking meter fine. couple hundred if I recall. My son got pulled over for speeding and the cumulative fine was $700 after the passenger backseat seat belt violations were added, who also received separate $300 fines each. Not as bad as the covid violation fees they're handing out these days. What is it these days, $5,000? I love the country and people. Guess that's why I'm so distraught with the current ongoing situation. Not to mention that the Virgin tickets we had from overseas to Queensland which fell right in the beginning of covid and border lockdown, 3 seats at over $3,000, were never reimbursed. Virgin Air was put into some protected status then bought by Bain Capital. Virgin has offered us domestic vouchers. Not too helpful when we have no access to the country and the vouchers require reservations made by June or something this year. I'd have to check the date to be sure. A long story, but we've lost tens of thousands directly, and through lack of access to the country. And we're just one family overseas, very middle class, with direct ties. Hundreds of thousands of families who do not live in Australia have been affected by Australia's covid lockdowns when you consider 870,000 international students in 2018. Not to mention overseas workers who had been working towards visa requirements. The converse is also true. Those students who were not able to enter lost the country BILLIONS. 37.6 billion Australian dollars in 2019 for student fees alone, which has been rising by a couple of billion a year for a decade. I think they lost 11 billion in student fees alone in 2020. Many continued online. Many deferred. Many are looking elsewhere. Not even sure what the amount in lost rent and general living expenses to the communities has been. Many of those students would later become residents on a citizenship path who then prop up the outrageously overheated property market. The knock-on effect is tremendous, financially and emotionally. I would have to give some thought into letting Gunner borrow my car. Certainly don't think he's capable of managing covid.
I nominally live in this part of the world and this guy Gunner is as dumb as a brick. I have found Australians in general to be low IQ and "sheep like". Their "border force" and police have always been ugly and heavy handed with a penchant for police state surveillance. I think arriving and departing from Australia is by far the worst that I have experience anywhere on the planet. When I was there last end of 2019 a new innovation was special cameras to detect mobile phone usage in cars. In Queensland pulling up to a curb to discharge or pick up a passenger invokes a fine of hundreds of AUD. I could go on......
was in Sydney a couple of years ago and shocked at the cost of a parking meter fine. couple hundred if I recall. My son got pulled over for speeding and the cumulative fine was $700 after the passenger backseat seat belt violations were added, who also received separate $300 fines each. Not as bad as the covid violation fees they're handing out these days. What is it these days, $5,000? I love the country and people. Guess that's why I'm so distraught with the current ongoing situation. Not to mention that the Virgin tickets we had from overseas to Queensland which fell right in the beginning of covid and border lockdown, 3 seats at over $3,000, were never reimbursed. Virgin Air was put into some protected status then bought by Bain Capital. Virgin has offered us domestic vouchers. Not too helpful when we have no access to the country and the vouchers require reservations made by June or something this year. I'd have to check the date to be sure. A long story, but we've lost tens of thousands directly, and through lack of access to the country. And we're just one family overseas, very middle class, with direct ties. Hundreds of thousands of families who do not live in Australia have been affected by Australia's covid lockdowns when you consider 870,000 international students in 2018. Not to mention overseas workers who had been working towards visa requirements. The converse is also true. Those students who were not able to enter lost the country BILLIONS. 37.6 billion Australian dollars in 2019 for student fees alone, which has been rising by a couple of billion a year for a decade. I think they lost 11 billion in student fees alone in 2020. Many continued online. Many deferred. Many are looking elsewhere. Not even sure what the amount in lost rent and general living expenses to the communities has been. Many of those students would later become residents on a citizenship path who then prop up the outrageously overheated property market. The knock-on effect is tremendous, financially and emotionally. I would have to give some thought into letting Gunner borrow my car. Certainly don't think he's capable of managing covid.