The Canberra mens outfitter who is now our high commissioner in Australia has been keeping really busy with diplomatic business
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December 5, 2013 at 7:14pm
A member of my international worldwide network of spies, this time somewhere in Australia, has sent me this media release issued by the Maltese High Commissioner in Australia, Charles Muscat, who runs a mens outfitters in Canberra.
Read it with disbelief.
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Pathetic. Oh, and note Repubblika misspelled.
And you would expect Maltese fonts on the header għolja
There was no need to inform, as the viewers would have already found out. An apology would have made more sense.
Low calibre indeed. The professor was correct after all.
Miktuba minn cuc. Ma tipperswadi lanqas lill-icwec cuc, izda.
What’s the point of “informing” the general public that a programme was not aired?
Wouldn’t anyone who gives a damn already know that?
If the Maltese Aussies want to know what is really going on in Malta, then they need look no further than this site. Of course, if what they really are after is listening to spoken Maltese in order to hone their atrocious Maltese accents, then they can tune in to the PBS site without His Excellency having to oblige. Maltese immigration to Australia was surely not a cause of brain drain in Malta. With all due respect.
One should make a distinction between pre and post-war emigration (particularly the 1950s) as distinct from the comparatively smaller waves of those who left in the 70s and early 80s prompted mostly by the fact that they had had enough of Malta’s political situation and saw no future for their children, nor any chance to apply their skills or further their careers other than being sent by Mintoff to Libya to live and work in a virtual open prison.
Osservatore, I know you know all of the above but I felt I had to clarify for those who may read this.
After all, Malta benefitted greatly from the waves of reverse immigration of the returning emigrants from places such as Canada, the US and Australia, but not exclusively. In the pre-1987 days the Maltese left to every corner of the earth to make their careers and build a future for their children away from the oppression.
Emboldened to return by the 1987 democracy-winning election result, they brought back skills, knowledge and expertise that helped re-build Malta and make it what it is today.
Oh really? Because most of the returned migrants seem to be Mintoffian pseudo-intellectual c*nts. Think Yana Mintoff and ‘Bertu’ Marshall.
In short, yes. There were the nutters but many of those who left in that latter wave were anti-Mintoff. For obvious reasons I don’t want to mention names, but trust me there were many who are now here working in various sectors who seem to have congregated around the Sliema, Swieqi, St Andrews, St Julian’s areas.
Baxxter, surely you can’t tell me you don’t know at least one.
Edward Mallia, who came back to Malta in the darkest of the dark years, 1983.
That’s it.
Reno Bugeja had better be more careful. He almost caused an international incident between Malta and Australia.
His Excellency Charlie Muscat is going to be breathing down his neck from now on.
A day in the highly demanding and complex life of His Excellency.
Vera qabza fil-kwalita’, Onorevoli Ministru Vella. You told us to give them a chance to prove themselves: they’re proving the rest of us right, because we knew they’d be rubbish.
Could it be that Reno Bugeja is expecting to be paid extra for this service?
I really cannot belief this circular came from an office of the highest level of diplomacy such as a Maltese High Commission. What exactly does it mean “the Mission will be closely monitoring the situation”?
What a let down.
News of such monumental importance he had to issue a press release about it. I wonder how many Australian newspapers carried it, or whether it’s pinned to several noticeboards for a laugh.
The mission will be closely monitoring the situation.
Does nothing ever happen in Australia?
Maybe it was a slow day at menswear.
The weekly Maltese news has regularly, over the years, not gone to air in Australia. What seems to be the fuss this time?