Australia suffering man drought

[shan]

bbc

An analysis of new census figures has shown that Australia is suffering from an unprecedented "man drought".

The statistics have revealed that there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia.

The problem is worse in the coastal cities, where women have moved seeking better jobs and lifestyles, while many men have gone overseas.

Thirty years ago Australia was with flush with men thanks to immigration policies that favoured males.

That position has been reversed because thousands of Australian men in their 20s and early 30s have gone overseas either to travel or to work.

It has caused a gender imbalance that is having far-reaching implications.

Town and country

Major cities in Australia now have concentrated groups of unattached women, along with dwindling numbers of the opposite sex.

Demographer Bernard Salt says the exodus of young men to foreign countries is leaving its mark.

"If you go into the United Arab Emirates census you'll find there is around 12,000 Australians living in Dubai, mostly male, mostly in the 25 to 34-year age group.

"Here is an example of one country that has drawn out a specific age demographic out of Australia which has contributed to the 'man drought'."

But the situation outside of the larger towns and cities is very different.

Vast numbers of women have abandoned the countryside seeking better jobs or education in metropolitan areas. They have left behind communities overloaded with younger males.

In the town of Glenden in the northern state of Queensland there is one single female for every 23 men.

Demographers have compiled a so-called "Love Map" that shows how the various clusters of unattached men and women are distributed across the Australian continent.

[Drive By]

olde but a great song. will play tonight as frosties go down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-kGfhg-i0&feature=related

and of course a great singalong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1FxUqqPc-U&feature=related

[shan]

this forum suffered a draught as well

[Polly]

I don't understand why people want to wallow in their soppy emotions, teary music and ridiculous helplessness.  Nor do I think very much about them.

Soppy emotions and teary music will not get you out of your problems.

For solutions you have to use your BRAIN.

Sorry to be blunt but in all honesty I do not care about musicians, especially those who have to compound their helplessness with alcohol.

[shan]

Many non-working Chinese people can not afford to buy alcohol and guitar,    australia's  good welfare breed a group of lazy bones .    sadder

[shan]

Many people who engaged in heavy physical labor  usually don’t have too many sufferings, their agony was driven out  from their bodies by the heavy physical exertion and hardship, maybe they will feel like in the heaven when they eat a bun and sleep on the ground at the end of a busy and exosting day . on the other side , for those who have no worries about food and clothes usually get dissolute and wallow in degeneration when they have nothing to do  , some of them even chose to suicide. They are a group of parasites who get lost in a wealth society since they can survive by doing nothing and they can’t feel the menaces of the poverty. Day by day , they will lose their life goal and get disoriented by the meaning of life and gradually they find nothing is happier than getting dead drunk under the accompaniment of rock music

yes, We Chinese have to flight for our meals , medicals bills and a place to live while you needn' t
but our suicide rate is lower

[Drive By]

i love it when  u two talk dirty. yes i am very ofrtunate i can afford a guitar http://www.maton.com.au/ and it sings without me singing. when i play it i am in heavaen, honestly, especially if i hit the high notes. but my life is not complete you are right. i am a paraiste. i used to play iwth other parasites in china nd eslewhere and although we had a ball learning off each other, sharing differnt songs, having agiggle at differnt chord variations it meant nothing compared to the nikkei dow gong down or the price of gold going up by 5%, that was a turn on. i realised as i travelled through china and the world that those peasants playing their instrument of choice were just plain ignorant. they could never expereince the sheer bliss of capital  multiplying. their link in the chain of world sound was nothin compared to all ordinaries having a bull day. oh the bliss of watching wealth accumulate.shakespeare would say a rose by any other name. it lifts the heart, the products that can be consumed, the power, the wonderful power of knowing that you can buy more than your neighbour . how couold those peasants ever understand that an A minor key is but a step to the real thing which is a portfolio and a BMW.

[Drive By]

Many non-working Chinese people can not afford to buy alcohol and guitar,    australia's  good welfare breed a group of lazy bones .    sadder
shan i have been to suzhou and seen many chinese people with guitars. i remember the first itme i went to china and worked a university and my first chinese words were guitar. the doors it opend up were amazing. been to many cities and many guitar shops where glazed eyed kids looked at the 'fender' copy guitar or even chinese made (terible) aand wished it was theirs. met many chinese people with guitars that should never have ben sold and they have played the best songs about love, hate, etc. dont be so pathetic to say chinese people dont know about love and loss and dont want to sing about it, how closed is your heart and you mind.
polly i understand it is an evil waste of time music when you can get a fillipino band to do it wan chai.back to the stock market

[Drive By]

this forum suffered a draught as well 
when have u and pollly ever done anything for any ohter person.if china is to lead the world it will be with more worthy people than  self indulgent shoppers than you two.

[shan]

wow , driveby was a university teacher !!!!

as for the stock makert , i am getting excited day by day

I will largely buy in when the index is dropped under 1900 and  i would hold it for 3 -4yrs. and then sell them out .....

 
a chance in a million ,catch it

[Polly]

Music is stupid.

Just as my first association of it in the form of a P.5 classmate.  Annie Ma her name is, a pointed nose Shanghainese who lived in the upscale Mei Fu Sun Cheun and shopped in Dodwell in Ocean Terminal for those lovely white socks, a place I only have the class and good fortune to visit 10 years later.  She wore two big braids and had amahs to care for her.  From a very well off family and pampered I must say and she was the class prefect and all the teachers' pet.  She played the piano already grade 5 in that young age.  So I summoned all the courage that was in me and approached her for the first time in my life hoping that she would show me how to count chord just before the music test (yes convent school have that too).  She said she didn't know "or dough ng sick ah".

So you see, music is really stupid.  So are all the people who play it.

[shan]

i would say that's the past tense , maybe the current Polly is more outstanding than her now .

[Drive By]

i think i understand now. china has no real culture, or music culture at least a part form those whinny opera singers. there good musicians play western music because it is superior. this is why at the olympics they could only come up with a thousand drummers which is like wow for two seconds but then is boring.no matter how much china tries to rule the world is it really going to dominate western culture like western culture is dominating china. ie will kids in australia and america in fifty years time be listening to cxhinese music and movies in prefernce to their own. like yeah dream on and on and on.

[shan]

i am not too keen to music as well ,i perticularly hate those sentimental/blue songs and music.

[shan]

CHINA has 275 Operas, how many operas do you have?