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View Poll Results: Anzac Dollar
Yes 27 26.21%
No 34 33.01%
Wouldn't mind if NZ adopted Australian Dollars 27 26.21%
Not Sure / Undecided 15 14.56%
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:53 PM   #31
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So you just knock stuff off for two years? I see your point, if we reduced the waiting period we could really cut back on home invasions and armed hold-ups.

Thats a stupid comment.
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:55 PM   #32
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I would not see the point in it but couldn't care less either way.
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:55 PM   #33
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:56 PM   #34
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Thats a stupid comment.
Closet Sheep Enthusiast eh?
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:56 PM   #35
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I'd be happy to have one currency if we can have one rugby team.
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Old 23-04-2007, 09:58 PM   #36
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I'd be happy to have one currency if we can have one rugby team.
Now what fun would that be? Hell might aswell ask the poms to join the party too then :
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:00 PM   #37
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Closet Sheep Enthusiast eh?
Whats that supposed to mean?
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:01 PM   #38
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Now what fun would that be? Hell might aswell ask the poms to join the party too then :
here we go much better lets just have every country tied to australia with the same currency :
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:06 PM   #39
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Whats that supposed to mean?
When a young man meets a ewe in NZ quite often a very special bond forms and with the shepards consent...... :
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When a young man meets a ewe in NZ quite often a very special bond forms and with the shepards consent...... :

Mate, you live in Mount Isa.........do you want me to start?
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When a young man meets a ewe in NZ quite often a very special bond forms and with the shepards consent...... :
jealousy i think thats how u spell it is a curse :
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:10 PM   #42
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Mate, you live in Mount Isa.........do you want me to start?
You don't want to start on Mount Isa, not my pride but maybe your safety. Townsville is home to alot of ex-isans.
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:10 PM   #43
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I didn't realise this was a payout on Kiwi's thread.

Back to the topic or padlock time.
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:12 PM   #44
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You don't want to start on Mount Isa, not my pride but maybe your safety. Townsville is home to alot of ex-isans.

WEAR A RESPIRATOR, the dust out there has ****** with your head.
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:14 PM   #45
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LMAO! Doesn't take much for people to go for it :
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:18 PM   #46
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Ok,ok back on track I work with a few Kiwi's pretty sizeable blokes (slack pricks though) but yeah good blokes.
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:32 PM   #47
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sorry to go off topic, but this is a pet hate of mine...

are you saying the 1mil (or however many) Kiwi's here are dole bludgers?

you do realise that anyone (including NZ'ers) have to wait two years before they are elligible for centrelink 'benefits'?
I got a full-time permanent job two weeks after arriving here 6yrs ago.screw centrelink, thats for flannel-wearing mulleted winnie-blue smoking ferals that can't be ****** getting off there asses to get a job.

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can't see the currency change happening anytime soon...
I second that
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Old 23-04-2007, 10:43 PM   #48
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I am a kiwi and proud of it. I think a united currency makes a stronger entity in the pacific but as a state I think Australian government would ruin the the place and treat it like it does Tassi. I think this country is a very greedy place and people only think of them selves. Sure in time of need its a very giving nation of people, what I mean is in Business and people working in the corperate feild who are on huge pays and bonuses and have the cheek to say workers are over paid etc..

Can see why Jon Hoppa ddid what he did he must know that some day aussie will do it to us
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I am a kiwi and proud of it. I think a united currency makes a stronger entity in the pacific but as a state I think Australian government would ruin the the place and treat it like it does Tassi. I think this country is a very greedy place and people only think of them selves. Sure in time of need its a very giving nation of people, what I mean is in Business and people working in the corperate feild who are on huge pays and bonuses and have the cheek to say workers are over paid etc..

Can see why Jon Hoppa ddid what he did he must know that some day aussie will do it to us
I fail to see how it is any different anywhere else in the world :
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I fail to see how it is any different anywhere else in the world :
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Old 24-04-2007, 01:30 AM   #51
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So if New Zealand is a country made up of islands ,does that mean that Australia is the mainland?
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Old 24-04-2007, 07:33 AM   #52
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Great to see the Ford Forum community can have a civilised discussion without stooping to the usual Kiwi bashing.... Not !

Some of you are worse than school kids in the playground, or maybe you are school kids that should be :

As for the combined currency, No Thanks :the_finge
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Old 24-04-2007, 08:28 AM   #53
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New currency?? No thanks, what a waste of money to pull AUD/NZD out of circulation and replace entirely. Look at the billions and billions spent in the euro-zone.

NZ wants to use AUD? Be my guest.
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Never going to happen
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A Different government.A Different economic situation.Difference in Dollar value. No Thanks..
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Old 24-04-2007, 03:37 PM   #56
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wouldn't NZ be better off becoming another state of AUSTRALIA?
But that would make them the 52nd state of the Yew Ess of Ay!
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Kiwi's have a strong sense of self identity. I can't see this one getting up. But if they keep loosing cricket match's like the last one, anything is possible.
i Havent met one fellow Kiwi that wants it.........Cricket..whats that ?Rugby world cup coming up boys.......if the super 14 is any indicator then you lot shouldnt bother going eh........... :jab:
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Old 24-04-2007, 03:56 PM   #58
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New Zealand was infact to be included in Federation, but pulled out while the constitution was being drafted. So, they had their chance.
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New Zealand was infact to be included in Federation, but pulled out while the constitution was being drafted. So, they had their chance.
Well I guess you people only know nothing about why that never went ahead oh and new zaeland did not really pull out. You see your democraticly elected government only wants you to hear what it wants you to hear. It will come our years from now just like the so called treaty of Wiatangi which the Moari people signed but as all those who decieve or try to cover up it will all ways come to the surface evenually and in this case it was in the form of a document signed by King Goerge which give all land rights to the Moaris. This document has been found and it rear its head on an occasion I am sure most have read about when New Zealand went for a loan at the world bank and of course as any leader of a country does they use the country as some sort of surety but this time it was founfd that infact the New Zealand government did not own the country but the indiginous people did and was proven on documentation hidden pre waitangi. How do I know, wel it is no secret but lets say that I just know people in high places on both sides.

T get back on track with the topic, I had a wee think about this and have read the posts of both sides. It would apear that the answers are pride driven and entwined in that pride is a little hatred for one another, a bit like england and scotland if you will and don't try to sell the good sporting nations thing because that would be like ****ing down my back and telling me its raining. The point to this is lets get over our selves and think like adults. There are a few countries in europe that are seriously regretting not becomming apart of the euro. Can one of you tell me what was so wrong about them doing this I mean those that are in it have prospered from it and who here is to say that both in our ****y existance down under would not benifit form some form of unison that strengthens our position as a trading comunity. lets not get all tide up in our identities and cloud our judgement for the greater good and survival.
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Sorry what I did fail to mention with regard to the federation thing as explained in my previous post, It was infact not a good thing for Australia to embrase the NZ federation thing as it would have infact became responsible for repaying the Moaori people for the big cover up.


Of course alot more indepth than that and more could be said but in a nut shell that is it. So if you have a comment on NZ and political history make sure you know what your talking about. behind some political decisions there is a hidden ajenda or reason for doing or not doing and not always the obvious either.
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