Posted by alexandra_k on May 11, 2015, at 0:20:42
In reply to Re: not doing so well, posted by alexandra_k on May 10, 2015, at 19:38:26
so the NZD approaches the AUD... And we know how the AUD has been doing - right?
Technically... IN the Australian constitution... NZ is a state of Australia.
NZ is all fierce about it's own independence... On a number of grounds... Typically most-est because of the Treaty of Waitangi. Because Australia basically doesn't give a sh*t about indigenous people insofar as they won't assimilate...
There is this whole thing about 'stolen generations' in Australia. Basically... The white settlers had babies with aboriginal people and some of those babies could pass for white... And so they did drive-bys and took the ones who they thought they could raise in orphanages as white... Thinking it would be giving them a better life...
And now there are entry categories to help the ones who could pass as white to a 'better life'.
NZ basically is a state of Australia... Except that NZ international policy is so liberal that the Aussies had to put severe restrictions on immigration from NZ. So now NZ born citizens get nothing really from Australia, because we have decided to be so liberal about our own immigration. NZ is no longer the gateway to the developed world because the developed world has responded to us by (rightly) seeing us as... Potentially harboring significant threats.
(Hence british detension facilities).
Anyway... Back to chemistry, ho..
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