"You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette!"

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Is Australia turning quixotic again?

OK, not my specialty, Aussie politics.

*AND* at the risk of sounding unsympathetic to the benign, gentle people of the Kingdom ...

But didn't Australia make a southern route railway, but leave because of too many complaints of "hapless villagers?"

Didn't both Australia and America make sacrifices in the 1800s and early 1900s to create a modern nation today?

People think we're in the 21st century here in Cambodia! Bwahahaha!

I think by their calendar we're at Year 42 A.K.R.

Perhaps analogous to 1850s–early 1900s (U.S.) gold rush / robber baron-era.

Pretty cool back then, but instead of barouche carriages then they have Land Rovers now.

Not a very strong central government at the time. I think AUS/NZ had just became a country with ANZAC Day in 1915.

(Strange fact, Australia up until 1850 was also like Cambodia, a penal colony, full of venturing enterprises, criminals, and giant rodents *the size of small kangaroos*.)

Can't we learn from history, since it seems we're due to repeat it?

SmartAston Martin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:24 am (Strange fact, Australia up until 1850 was also like Cambodia, a penal colony, full of venturing enterprises, criminals, and giant rodents.)

True fact, kangaroos and water buffalo aren't rodents.

Cruisemonkey wrote: True fact, kangaroos and water buffalo aren't rodents.

the water buffalo are not native to australia,they cause heaps of damage to the wetlands up north.

Cruisemonkey wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:05 am

SmartAston Martin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:24 am (Strange fact, Australia up until 1850 was also like Cambodia, a penal colony, full of venturing enterprises, criminals, and giant rodents.)

True fact, kangaroos and water buffalo aren't rodents.

Rats!!

The rest of the western world waited until the Vietnamese invaded before they hung out with Pol Pot. That lasted for over ten years and we gave him a seat at the UN. The legitimate government of cambodia.

SmartAston Martin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:24 am(Strange fact, Australia up until 2050 was also like Cambodia, a penal colony, full of venturing enterprises, criminals, and giant rodents *the size of small kangaroos*.)

FTFY

If Sweden and Cambodia had premarital sex during this engagement and bastard child resulted, would it look like a capybara?

Sweden can pull out of Cambodia if they want to I suppose, but the Australians still have that refugee deal, FWIW.

Japan stand by their commitment to the Cambodian government to assist with electoral funding for next year's elections.

Japan confirms it will fund national election amid political crackdown
Fri, 27 October 2017
Japan confirmed yesterday it will go forward with plans to contribute funding to Cambodia’s upcoming national election, despite an ongoing political crackdown.

Iwao Horii, vice minister for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn on Wednesday and Thursday, pledging various aid commitments to the Kingdom.

Among those pledges was a reaffirmation of Japan’s commitment to fund the election, according to Hironori Suzuki, Japanese Embassy counsellor...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/j ... -crackdown