I thought I left, for instance. What makes me fear John Howard so much is that his retrograde policies have had such a palpable effect on our society. Somehow John Howard has given people permission to express their nasty, white separatist, conservative-Christian moralistic sides. I thought I knew. I would never have believed that a Prime Minister could so profoundly effect Australia socially, rather than just politically.
Subsidies can be a hidden tax.
I would really like to know how many Australians are overseas occupying reasonably good positions. I wonder if there are reliable figures for this because as far as I know, the Australian Government would not have recorded me as leaving to work overseas. I always think of the brain drain in terms of talented scientists and the like going to overseas universities. I am however reaching some kind of conclusion though that there are huge numbers of Australians working overseas helping to vastly enrich foreign coporations and foreign countries. Except to retire perhaps.