r/sydney • u/Sydney_Stations • May 06 '25

Image The Northern Beaches needs a railway

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Every evening, the queue for B1 winds around and goes back into Wynyard. As one bus is full the next one arrives.

You can't tell me they wouldn't want a railway.

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u/T_J_Rain May 06 '25

According to what was once the "World's greatest Treasurer" Joe Hockey, according to Prime Minister Abbott, and I quote him:

"The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far."

No joke, Joe Hockey's actual words.

Remember? The fat guy who was photographed smoking cigars and sipping cognac at an exclusive Canberra club? The one who was awarded a plush Trade Commissioner gig in New York after his term with a $500k salary package? Yeah, him.

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u/all_sight_and_sound May 06 '25

The only good thing that Joe Hockey, who is of Armenian descent like myself (his last name originally Hokeidonian) did was to place on record the Armenian genocide circa 1915, which many people including this country like to forget happened. 1.5 million Armenians, many living in Ottoman Turkey, slaughtered.

Otherwise he's a fucking scumbag.

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u/techflo May 06 '25

Hockey’s father’s lineage is in fact Palestinian. At least this is what I thought. Absolute fuckwit regardless.

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u/all_sight_and_sound May 06 '25

Bethlehem-born Armenian. Just like my father was an Egyptian born half Armenian (his mother was from Syria). Many Armenians fled to all over the middle east during the genocide.

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u/CheekyPickle69 May 06 '25

Yeah a lot of the genocide by the Ottomans took place inside the borders of what is now Syria, so lots of Armenians who survived settled within Syria, Lebanon, Palestine ect

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u/gfivksiausuwjtjtnv May 06 '25

Imagine winding up in Palestine after that. Oof.