Perth stadium voted the best in the world. Come and visit, make it before the end of September so you can watch a game of Aussie Rules.

Question to the Trump supporters, do you really support a president of the unites states inciting mob racism that gets spread around the world where it is viewed with disbelief and disdain? Are you not embarrassed?

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Tis a pity the crowd aren't like at the Paul McCartney concert with Ringo Starr joining in, place full of love not hate. Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away!

Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows.

Refugees who have been stopped at Australia’s borders are held in offshore detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

President Donald Trump celebrated the collapse of the Democrat effort to move impeachment proceedings forward in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Trump 2020 :)

I am a human being who will only be on this beautiful planet for a short while. I did not have any say as to my race or ethnicity. I do have control over how I treat my fellow man. I would hope asthat on the day of my passing

I hope that on the day of my passing that I can look back on my life and know that I treated everyone with respect and compassion.

jon4720, noble goal. If only we all could share it, the world would be a much better place.

exactly jon4720, good on ya.

kaosangel,

kaosangel, General consensus in Australia is one of a fair go, and we recognise we are built on immigration as is the US.

Our border policy is to stop deaths at sea. We also expect anyone can apply to come here, but do it legally. We also are critical of the Nauru solution, brought about through bad policy. However, this is not about race, never has been and hopefully never will be. BIG difference.

A racist politician said much the same as Trump in Australia recently - he was censured by the house and indeed prevented from speaking his racial hatred. He was voted out at the first opportunity. As he should be and as Trump should be.

Jacinda Ardern is in Melbourne at the moment. A Leader for our times, and one to greatly admire. Trump's behaviour eminds me of the worst of leaders frankly.

helenkeller, the other day you said your mother was in a POW camp. Yesterday you said she was a non-combatant.

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I'm confused. Will you elaborate?

Just watching The Final Quarter - very timely

Wow, powerful doco on the way racism in Australia needs to be confronted and is being confronted. Me thinks there is a lot of similarity between Adam Goodes and Colin Kaepernick.

Phil - Are you saying that Adam Goodes is a washed-up athlete who expresses his love for his county by deameaning it and making millions of dollars from a private company who uses slave labor to produce their product? A company that engorges college athletics with millions of dollars - most of which goes to coaches and administrations and virtually none of it to the athletes? And somehow we are to believe that this "effort" enlightens people about racism? Come on Phil, you are much smarter than that.

Colin Kaepernick is a fraud - a self aggrandizing opportunistic crybaby huckster. He is no more an ambassador for civil rights and changing racial attitudes than I am. His sell out to Nike in the name of promoting racial harmony is a disgrace.

SJ - You misread and made an assumption. You are incorrect. Never would I, ever, say my mother was a non-combatant. She fought her fight for almost the entire duration of WWII, all over Europe. She was a hero. She was captured at the end of the

Warsaw Uprising, where she fought as part of the AK (Home Army). That ended in Oct. 1944. From then on, she spent time in a POW camp. I suppose I can see I'where you're confused - I gave you the beginning and the end of her experiences, and I left out the majority of the war. I'll try very hard to be brief:

Starting in her hometown, the nazis began shooting kids who didn't cooperate, couldn't stop crying, didn't understand what they were saying. Lucky for her (and ME), she took German in school & she was fluent in speaking, reading & writing. At the farm, this behavior by the nazis continued. The kids slept in a large barn, on a dirt floor, no blankets, worked from sun up to sun down, fed morning and night, usually only some broth and a piece of bread. It was going on the end of September, getting colder. My mother saw the writing on the wall. It both killed her & saved her life to do this - she approached a female guard, told her of her language ability, asked if perhaps she couldn't be of better use elsewhere. She was gun butted in the ribs for that, but 2 nights later a couple of nazis she hadn't seen before, come in the night, drag her away by the arms. She knows better than to questions what's happening. The get her outside & put her in a car! And drive her to Berlin! And drop her off at a female dormitory! Where they give her a few clothes, food, a room with a bed, a bath! Can you imagine her anxiety, fear. curiosity? A swirl of emotions. Too long, sorry. I can share a bit with you by e-mail or FB messenger, if you like. Long story short - Underground contacts her, she begins to pass papers and intel for the Resistance, in Berlin to help get people out, to move info along. Time passes. Less than a year. Two gestapo interrogations later (not simple question & answer sessions - read as 'torture.'), she is told the next papers she gets will be for her. Would she like to carry intel? They will send someplace else if she doesn't, but, of course, she does and off to France it was. Not so easy to get out of Germany, 3 regular German citizens were tortured and killed to protect her. They could have easily pointed to the floor & said, there, in that root cellar. More Germans would die for her later, also other civilians. She went to France, then Italy, Belgium, back into Germany another 1/2 dozen times. She went back into Poland especially to take part in the Warsaw Uprising. Back and forth, all over Europe. She was an international courier. By the time the Brits liberated her camp, she spoke 6 languages! Crazy, yes? Wait until I share my father's experiences! Even more crazy. He visited 3 continents before ending up in London in 1946.

Oops everyone, sorry that was so long. There's so much more, it's so hard to 'keep it simple.' It wasn't simple at all.

Several loners of four. 16.

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Helen - are your parents history written down anywhere?