I am genuinely appalled and dismayed at the historical evidence of national oppobrium before me:

"Exchange in federal parliament 1901:
Senator Matheson: We all admit that the black people have to live. What we say is the black people should live in their own country.
Senator Walker: This was a blackfellow's country before it was a white man's country
Senator Matheson: The honourable gentleman fails to recognise that we have taken this county from the blacks and made it a white man's country, and intend to keep it a white man's country, so that there is not earthly use in the honourable gentleman saying that 100 years ago this was a black man's country.
Senator Walker: There are still 100 000 Aborigines in Australia
Senator Matheson: We are aware of that fact and it is very regrettable and the only consolation we have is that they are gradually dying out."

Can't you hear the obnoxious sarcasm oozing from Matheson's "the honourable gentleman"? Go Walker. Go to hell Matheson. To think that such a premise as Matheson mouthed echoed in the walls of parliament. To think there was such support for this blatant display of bigotry and racism and meanness. Egalitarian my arse.
There must have been an extremely large dosage of closed-mindedness swimming around the foetid alleyways of white Australia for there to be no realisation of the lack of boyancy, lack of the crudest reason in his statements. Bah, it makes me sick.

Haha, listen to this: It was suggested that enfranchising woman at the turn of the 18th century in Australia was a risky business because they would cast their votes in favour of the most elegant looking candidate. How ironic! Did they not try to pull that ploy in America this recent election by putting forward the young and (it's a stretch, i know) handsome Palin? I mean, really, can you imagine one miserable sod throwing sympathy on Palin if she were a tired husk of a man; whiskery, jowley and lined? I think not. She had little to nothing to show for intrinsic capabilities. Not a single intellectual bullet point on her credentials that i can see. I downloaded the following video from i-tunes. Watch through to the Palin montage. Cringe-worthy. To think (once the rickety McCain had become extinct) this could have been hypothetically the most powerful person in the world...