So the Victorian government has decreed that most business must shut, excluding certain ones determined by a series of rules that would make H.P. Lovecraft gibber in terror at the sheer insanity, on Easters Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The reason is onstensibly to supply people with "family time" and that it falls on a Christian Holiday is, of course, completely coincidental.

This, incidentally, from the same government that banned the re-done version of "The Exorcist" from being shown on Easter.

To make matters more odd, this is from the more *left* winged party (Labour)!

It's been suggested that this is due to a deal with the Unions, but that leaves me at about the same level of angriness (subverting public freedom due to religion or due to underhanded deals is about the same to me).

Anyway, I'm completely against the decision no matter the reason; if people want to shut their shops for their religious holidays, let 'em, but if people want to shop whenever they like, they should be able to. The government has no place deciding when people should shop.

Opinions? Thoughts?

Oh, dammit, I made a spelling mistake in the title whilst trying to make it fit in the word limit. It should, of course, be:

"Vict. Gov: "We're the boss of you and we'll stop you shopping if we like: Haha!""

I am soooo glad shops are shut this Easter. I dont have to go to work this Friday or Sunday, and I get paid for it!

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The decision should be left up to the owners

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Labor making a deal with unions? Psshaw.

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Im assuming the victorian government is the Australian Government?

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Nope, it's a state.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1 & 2 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Sounds like crap. It's kinda funny, some local businesses are owned by Mormons and they simply don't open on Sundays ever. It should definitely be left up to the owners.

Also, in my state, you can't buy alcohol past 2am! I didn't even know that till I tried to buy my first bottle of wine at 2:02 and they refused to sell it to me. Lame!

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Same for your eastern neighbors.


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0 of 14.

I frequently tell people [in my head] as i'm driving that they need to go home and spend time with their families and stop clogging my roads..
If they /really/ wanted people to be more family-oriented, they should impose a 7 day a week curfew for everything but like 1 hour a day which you could use to buy grocieries or something.

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And this would stop them clogging up the roads how?

[edit: related to the topic, I think it should be up to the individual businesses, because it seems like they're endorsing religion otherwise...]


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~William Shakespeare

[This message has been edited by Silent_Rhapsody (edited April 07, 2004).]

Hey Matt! I'm assuming you're posting here because you actually want replies. This place is actually good for something!

Anyway, I'm not familiar with your constitution. In the US, government activities can be regulated in a similar manner to what you describe but it seems odd, to put it mildly, that private businesses would be so regulated. Oh well, you guys produced Steve Irwin. Go figure!

Now come back home!

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Have you forgotten ...

Actually, I didn't post it at TACC because I'm fairly sure everyone would actually agree with me...

Seems like everyone here is, too! Bah! Damn people with taste! Where are the whackjobs?

I'm actually not sure about our constitution. I'm not even sure it does anything useful at all. After all, didn't our idiot Prime Minister put the "word" 'mateship' in there? That would lead me to distrust it anyway...

Possibly we don't have guaranteed freedoms because we've never revolted to get them...

It's a good idea, though. Our government sucks. All of them.

We have a constitution?

Yeah. No one had heard of it, though, until Johnny changed the preamble of it for no reason.

Even though I know of its existence, I still have no idea what's in it.

...And they don't want you to know.

[insert dramatic music]

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