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| Subject: Irrational leftist hatred of feral OZschwitz cats Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:00 pm | |
| On Australia Day 1996, my family attended our citizenship ceremony in Hobart. Later that day Bob Burgess, a National Party electoral candidate, referred to this joyful occasion as ''de-wogging''. Ever since, after John Howard's Tampa, and after Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard made asylum seeking here another election issue, it seems intolerance of outsiders is entrenched as a common value in Australia.
This intolerance is categorical and extends to non-native animals too, but particularly the feral cat. It's a creature so detested in Australia that it has made it into the uncharmed circles of the ''un-Australian''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/hatred-of-feral-cats-hides-a-sinister-truth-20130107-2ccqu.html#ixzz2HKz9W3cU
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