A ride in a taxi

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  • Published 20030902
  • ISBN: 9780733313318
  • Extent: 160 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

‘These incompatible misfits who were smuggled into Australia should all be kicked out … Thank God for the Howard Government. Better you show some loyalty to fellow Australians instead of these illegal criminals, and that’s what they are, pure and simple.

I pay significant taxes and whilst happy to support worthwhile national issues, object to housing and financing some goat herder from the Middle East (who happened to have a lazy $20,000 lying around).

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