Presidential address to Parliament Part 3

US President Barack Obama's speech to the Australian Parliament

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[woodykiddy]

Thank you ten news team for the full speech coverage. 

[xxxxviv]

Who is he addressing as "Mr President" at the beginning?

[MisterSunson]

@JaneSanFrancisco If you dare say the truth dear, your comment will be deleted here!

You said - [I COULDN'T AGREE MORE! JUST LIKE BACK HOME IN NORTH AMERICA, LIFE IS GOOD DOWN THERE! FREE GIANT CONTINENT + FREE ABUNDANT RESOURCES! Australia/New Zealand, a well-prized Anglo Brotherhood Empire's Asian Pacific territorial acquisition. Out of this massive ginormous land mass extracting all the minerals and resources as fast as it can, and exporting to China, Japan and others.]

[typicalmelburnian]

@xxxxviv He is addressing the President of the Senate.

[MrDanbloom]

WHY is nobody talking about this? re President Barack Obama clenched his lips, or pinched his lips as some put it, over 100 times during a 30 minutes speech in Australia today . watch. he purses his lips, clenches them, pinches them,,,weird body language why?

[Tiridev]

@bulanjdjan Oh, good-o! Apologies, I couldn't quite work out from what angle you were being critical of the President's wording, so I jumped to the conclusion that it was the "ancient" part (such is my heightened regard for YouTube comments). I will make a note to correct my information.

[bulanjdjan]

@Tiridev I have a PhD in Aboriginal linguistics and live in Canberra, hence my frustration with these oft-cited faux etymologies for 'Canberra'. Hence my snark. Though, to be fair, Obama didn't actually say that 'Canberra' means 'meeting place'.

[bulanjdjan]

@Tiridev While I appreciate your efforts to respond to my snark with information, I'm afraid you're misinformed. 'Canberra' does not mean 'meeting place (of great leaders)'. Ngunnawal is not a dialect, it is a language, one which is no longer spoken. And, though it is politically incorrect to say so, the Ngamberi people are likely the actual traditional owners of Canberra. 'Canberra' is likely an Anglicisation of 'Ngamberi'.

[BritishTrekkie952]

@xxxxviv The President of the Senate, who is the presiding officer in the Australian Senate

[Tiridev]

@bulanjdjan "Canberra" is derived from the word for "meeting place" in the regional Ngunnawal dialect. The area on which the city was developed was a place of corroboree for roughly 21,000 years before Sydney and Melbourne turned out to be too immature to let the other one be the capital. For context, the Great Pyramid of Giza is about 4500 years old, the invention of agriculture is about 12,000 years old, and the last ice age ended around about 19,000 years ago. Your facepalm is invalid.