realredhillboy said:
so obviously because i dont bend over and brownose to the most racist minority group in australia.so that makes me a redneck. insults are the last defence of the uneducated.
i have nothing against asians
i have nothing against east indians.. i'm sure your average redneck would have have something against those particulart groups.
yeah "palm island" i know how they treat horses up there "lovely group of people"
so keep the insults coming
Loathe as I am to enter into the fray here chilli boy, do you get all of your info from the townsville bulletin or the cairns post ?
I have worked on both palm island and in mount isa and have experienced good and bad from aboriginals. I find that the problems are very complex and that it's best to take people as they come. A dickhead is a dickhead regardless of skin colour.
Now this is just my take on things but especially on palm the vast majority of white people who chose to come to the island to work came for one of three reasons.
!) money. Thats what attracted me there. I was taking home in a week what i used to take home in a fortnight
2) missionaries. They thought they could save everybody from their lives not realising that the problems were huge and that the locals had seen so many just like them come and go with good intentions that they had stopped caring. Eventually this type got depressed and angry and left feeling like failures
3)the crazy. The ones who couldn't get jobs other places due to their personalities, drug or alcohol use, mental health issues or lack of work ethic.
I was there for 18 monthes and left when i found myself thinking that living in a compound was normal. One of my work colleagues are still there and one has gone completly native. Think he is one of the locals is is behaving as such. It is a strange place.