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pkcRAISTLIN
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this is why australia is the greatest nation ever

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QANTAS staff have been booed by frustrated passengers at Brisbane Airport after leaving their check-in counters to assist an elderly woman who collapsed and died in the long queue.

The 80-year-old woman is believed to have suffered a heart attack shortly after joining Qantas Club check-in queue on Monday morning.

Two doctors at the terminal provided medical assistance until paramedics arrived 15 minutes later but they were unable to revive her.

Julie Bignell, from the Australian Services Union, said that when staff heard of the woman's plight, two of them went to her aid but were booed when they closed their counters.

"There were only half the number of check-in points operating that morning because six staff had called in sick. The terminal was packed with about 1000 people and no one could move. The public didn't know what was going on," Ms Bignell said.

She said it was not particularly unusual for check-in staff to be booed or even spat on when they finished their shift and closed their counters during busy periods.

"The Qantas terminal at Brisbane Airport is chronically understaffed. We've been trying for two years to have staffing levels improved, but they've actually decreased," she said.

More than 90 staff had left Qantas from the domestic and international terminals since September 2006, and there were "always people off on stress leave", Ms Bignell said.

"It's extremely stressful for staff when they have such big workloads, and now they've got people dying in the queues," she said.

Curtis Davies from Qantas said the airline was employing more than 20 additional staff "to provide even better levels of service".

"We have done a great deal to improve the check-in process, including introducing online check-in and QuickCheck kiosk," said Mr Davies.

But Ms Bignell predicted waiting times at Brisbane Airport would worsen in the upcoming school holiday period.


if any nation is going to boo people in a life-death situation, its us!


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pkcRAISTLIN
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here's some more. what the fuck is wrong with australians?

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BOUNCERS kicked a man out of a Cairns pub after paranoid patrons complained that he was reading a book called The Unknown Terrorist.


Melbourne teacher Michael Chalk, who was in Cairns for an education conference, left the novel on a ledge at Shenannigans to go and dance.

But he was stunned when a bouncer approached him on the dance floor and escorted him outside.

The main character of The Unknown Terrorist, a bestseller by Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, is mistaken for a terrorist and subjected to a witch hunt of paranoia and false perceptions.

"It was my last night in Cairns so after dinner I walked into Shenannigans and decided to have a bit of a dance," Mr Chalk, 40, said.

"I put the book face up on a ledge near the dance floor. Shortly after, a security guard came over to me and said ‘move to the front please sir’.

"I hadn’t even bought a drink yet so I asked why, and he said he’d explain outside. We were on the footpath and he said several customers had complained about the literature I was reading, and I’d have to move on.

"I was absolutely flabbergasted."

Mr Chalk believed his olive skin and dark hair may have been a factor in his removal, particularly when connected with the title of the book.

"I found it quite distressing and I did feel a little bit scared," he said.

"I was wondering whether I’m in a place where everyone is in the grip of fear where they see danger everywhere, or the sort of place where a vigilante group might hunt me down for reading a book."

Flanagan, who also wrote The Sound of One Hand Clapping, said he was appalled by the pub’s actions.

"When the paranoia in our society has reached this level of idiocy, when you can be thrown out of a bar because of a book cover," he said.

Shenannigans' manager did not deny Mr Chalk was ejected but declined to comment.


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Deeman
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^^^

Bahahahahahaha WTF is that all about??? Oh man, that's just sad!


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Re: this is why australia is the greatest nation ever

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
if any nation is going to boo people in a life-death situation, its us!


Sweet, it was up here in Brisbane too. I feel so proud lol.

Idiots.


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the people who booed shouldve been the ones who carked it!

dumb ****'s!

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Are you people trying to outdo Yanks in stupidity?


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Are you people trying to outdo Yanks in stupidity?


And occasionally succeeding!


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Ha!

I'm reading The Unknown Terrorist at the moment; I'm about fifty pages in and it's shit so far.

p.s yah Australia can be farken stupid.


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quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
here's some more. what the fuck is wrong with australians?

You tell me what's wrong with Australiens


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Simon00
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Melbourne
this is why we are great...

It so easy PKpee in this day and age to focus on the negative, but what about a rousing cheer for our newest world record holder....



With each beer-filled stein weighing at least 2.5 kilograms, Mr Wurtz carried 50 kilograms of beer and glass in the record-breaking effort.

Yep Mr Wurtz is a ring-in true blue Australian.

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quote:
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Are you people trying to outdo Yanks in stupidity?


Impossible; look at all that ocean between Australia and stupid. All we in the States have to do is look north and we get all new ideas about how to live stupidly.


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