Oprah in Australia

[jimbur]

I assume Oprah and entourage will be nipping up the Calder to enjoy the Macca experience at Calder Raceway (last chance to pee before the city)
Like many others I don't watch her and I dislike having a proportion of my taxation paid to a foreign commercial enterprise just in the hope of attracting tourists.
Cheers,
Jim

[Lignum]

I was reading her Angel network charity has so far raised 80million and she has covered 100% of the administration costs. That is very cool and in its self should give her a fair whack of respect.

And I had to laugh, ZOO mag has offered her half a mil to pose in it. Wonder if she will take up the offer.

[munruben]

I was reading her Angel network charity has so far raised 80million and she has covered 100% of the administration costs. That is very cool and in its self should give her a fair whack of respect. .

If you earn around a million dollars a day as she does, I am sure you would be able to cover administration costs too.
It is not a matter of not having respect for Oprah I have no reason not to respect her or others like her but it seems that nobody can tell me what her talent is exactly.
She gets paid $116,145. 83 cents every hour which equates to close to a million dollars every day. I think I could be very charitable too if I earned that kind of dough. All I would like to know is what talent she has and nobody so far has come up with the answer.

Would also be interesting to find out how many of her fans, who put her where she is today, she invites to dinner every week or even once in a while. Just a thought.

[Waldo]

It's pure carp.

I'd like to go to visit Devon in England, maybe Jow could petition the government to pay for my trip, it would be great for the English economy.

It pings me off.

[Bob38S]

I don't get it - obviously.

Why are WE paying?

Is this how/why she is so rich?

I've heard many times before how we have to invest money to make money - I don't see too much of a return when asked what it costs and what does Australia get back from it.

Just currently - our bid for the soccer, our levels of "foreign aid/gifts" etc

Just how often do we spend our hard earned and then get abused for it ............

I could go on and on and on and on.............. but no one seems to care too much about our own people - perhaps [I'm told] living in the lucky country is enough.

[silentC]

Yes it is a joke. Whether you like her or not (and I don't) it's absolutely ridiculous that she is being treated like a visiting head of state and having the cost of security and other arrangements picked up by the NSW government.

I think that she should be given a bill for any costs incurred by NSW during her visit. If she has an issue with that, she should pass the cost on to all those supposedly benefiting from her presence.

As for her worth as an entertainer, her popularity is a sad reflection on society. Famous for being famous. Nothing more.

[Wongo]

Don't worry folks. Oprah won't be coming. The plane couldn't take off.

[Mike Busby]

I can't think of a single good thing that will come out of her "Australian Experience" They have already started brain washing the yanks into believing that we can only get coffee from one source MaCafe which has the coffee industry in Australia up in arms.

Wanna bet she appears on TV with an Akubra with corks on it at some stage, says gidday mate in a false Australia accent and walks on to the stage to digge - the koala and kagaroo segment should also be a laugh - (should send her out my way and see what happens when a roo meets a B Double semi trailer). I really, really hope a koala piddles on her, she gets bitten by a sand fly and a mossie, swarmed by flies and finds a daddly long legs in her hotel room.
Instead of "Where the bloody hell are you" it should be "Why the bloody hell are you here".

As for the tourist industry - meh. Every second news story up here has some facet of our weather either adversly affecting them or they are whinging because not enough tourists come here.

[wheelinround]

Here's an idea Kenneally ( is this free sponsorship for a US citizen) send her to Moree, Wallget, Coonamble, out west, where ........... Redfern even where Aboriginals live let her see how the same state government who's holding this gig treats them.

[Christopha]

I don't like Oprahs much, too many fat ladies and I prefer classic rock

[Wongo]

too many fat ladies

That is an oprahtunity for you Chrisy.

[Lignum]

Im so surprised. It appears im the only one here that likes her.

[silentC]

I'm sure that in private she is good company.

[Greg Ward]

I'm surprised with all the angst as well???
Perhaps its the tall poppy syndrome, it is rather sad if we haven't got over that.

In terms of marketing, this is huge and with our high AUD and economy on recession apart from mining, we can do with all the assistance we can get.

If we ran a marketing programme that would generate as much global interest as Oprah will, it would cost our nation a mint.

Stop thinking so small.

Greg

[Wongo]

I don't hate her. I don't think anyone should be treated so differently.

Geez she is one powerful woman. I reckon she can start a religon on her own.