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Reform made huge gains at the expense of the two major parties and have a new MP, a new Mayor, 7 new councils to control, hundreds of local councilors and have proven they can take votes from Labour and the Tories.
They now need to show they can govern the shires they have been handed by the electorate and many in opposition are hoping -and expecting- that they fail as many of the newbies are inexperienced. Mind you that is not always a bad thing bearing in mind what a mess those who are “experienced” have managed to make.
So interesting times in the UK, what with this and the common sense ruling on trans people not being allowed in women’s sports.
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Concern over Carneys win in Canada.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sinister-globalist-agenda-that-engineered-carneys-canadian-victory/
Hope the results in OZ have been better.
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Long but interesting article on the effects of Trumps tariffs
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/02/making-sense-of-trumps-tariffs/
When services are added in to the equation, the US has few countries it runs a deficit with. The exception is China, but ironically the US has only itself to blame as its companies seized on that country in order to make cheaper products which are then exported back to the US. As a result of this policy many well paid jobs have also been exported, together with technology needed in the modern world.
It seems that some countries are now looking to China as a trade partner, even Vietnam, which has a centuries long hatred of that country.
We will have to see how it plays out as at the moment friends and allies have been very hard hit by the tariffs whilst China is seeking to find new export markets.
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Its full steam ahead, over the past decade Vietnam-China economic partnership has been strong.
‘Economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and China, alongside investment and infrastructure connectivity, has shown robust growth. In 2024, this cooperation is projected to surpass new milestones, reaching over US$200 billion according to Vietnam’s data, and US$260 billion according to China’s figures.’
Vietnam Briefing
https://www.vietnam-briefing.com › news › vietnam-chi…
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Albanese increases his majority.
I presume (from England) that this is because the oppositino had the same policies only a bit more diluted, rather than genuinely different policies like Reform have here?
(Those who know their history might find people in the Reform Club in England to be unamused.)
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There is an element of the opposition (Liberal Party) not differentiating themselves enough.
The leader didn’t have much public appeal. But then again that hasn’t stopped some others becoming PM. But this one lost his own seat.
But overall it was a poor campaign by the opposition. Generally a dull election campaign period overall by all parties.
The Government (Labor) did well in that they effectively got on the front foot and defined the opposition as Temu Trump before the opposition could define themselves. Then followed through with many lies and the opposition leader wasn’t strong enough in calling out those lies. Unfortunately the media had little interest in doing so.
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“Then followed through with many lies”
What were thesemany lies?
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Lets start off with ruinables being the cheapest form of electricity and nuclear costing $600billion, and go from there…
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The Mediscare campaign they run every election.
That the Lib’s nuclear policy would cost $600b.
After having claimed Labor had done the energy cost reduction modelling, when their promised saving was shown to be a lie and costs had increased $1300 per household instead of saving $275. Albo said it wasn’t Labor’s modelling.
That the Libs would rip the guts out of school funding. (The Libs increased school funding from $13b to $25b.)
That the Libs cut spending on Hospitals. (Last time the Libs were in it rose from $13.3 to $24.7b)
That the Liberals will cut childcare and early childhood education. (Last time the Libs increased it from $6b to $11b.)
That the Liberals were obsessed with Trump and Dutton was Temu Trump.
Labor claimed it had built X amount of new housing. But they had actually bought housing and not added to housing stock.
Labor claimed it had opened over 50 Urgent care clinics and would do another 50. But they had actually rebadged existing clinics and state run urgent care clinics. They hadn’t actually added to the care available in any meaningful way.
Many lies about managing the economy. Falsely claiming things about their record and ability and that of the Libs.
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Here’s a list of some lies Albo said.
https://susanmcdonald.com.au/albaneses-48-lies-in-just-18-days/
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We can keep adding many he told over the last 3 years. Including that he said he couldn’t see any circumstance in which a full inquiry into the handling of covid wouldn’t occur. Then he knocked an inquiry on thd head.
That he would run the most transparent government. Even the ABC has run an article about how false that claim was and how lacking in transparency they’ve been.
“My word is my bond”, before backflipping on tax cuts he never intended to keep.
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And he didn’t fall off the stage.
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How can lying (false advertising) be legal, are pollies exempt?
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Since 2007, both major political parties (with the possible exception of Tony Abbott’s) have run small target election strategies.
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But small target strategies results in small vote shifts (when they shift) – more commonly they result in a Uniparty vision.
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At the last election the LNP were positioned to become champions of the working class, sadly they failed to become those champions, allowing Labor a measure of respite.
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Time to make Australian politics great again…
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“Time to make Australian politics great again…”
They have been grating for decades.
The Liberal party was starting to “slide after Harold Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach.
His replacement was a no-hoper in the face of a renewed, trendy, Labor party who who had captivated the entire LSM, (not a difficult task) and reeled in the usual “show-biz personalities”, the “Art’s End” of politics.
Politics is show-business for ugly people.
Show business is politics for the “beautiful” people..
Enter Edward Gough Whitlam and his toxic circus. Thereafter, the Liberal Party destroyed itself playing “catch-up” with the socialists.
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Anton,
Leaving ideology aside for the moment, in practical sense two sides are like chalk and coal.
The left is ruthless fighters for power, lies of all kinds are very acceptable methods to achieve it.
The conservatives are nice-meaning talkers, envious of the opposition determination.
From inside a conservative party (back in XX century) I have got a sentence, sort of a motto “Ladies a plate, gents a bottle” – it was a village club for retired people.
And I loved it because for young newcomer Australia seemed like an ideal society at the time.
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Good Luck Oz.
You are going to need it……………….
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What you want is a Reform Australia. Any takers to start one?
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Has Farage ever spoken in Oz? I don’t think he would get a good reception in the posh parts of the big cities as he doesn’t here in the UK in ultra liberal areas.
However he has managed to take votes from Labour and the Tories and also attracted some people that never vote. You cant win elections unless you have broad appeal.
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He has spoken but nearly didn’t get a visa.
Conservatives of the “controversial” nature of Farage are often denied visas to Australia, are removed early or are deterred by police charging large amounts of money for attendance at their events such as happened with Milo Yiannapolous.
See: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/01/25/nigel-farage-visa-home-affairs-nsw-police/
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/milo-yiannopoulos-and-tour-organisers-yet-to-pay-50k-bill-for-extra-police-at-show-20180716-p4zrua.html
Katie Hopkins was removed early when she visited. Recently a conservative former Israeli cabinet minister, Ayelet Shaked was denied a visa to visit Australia. Tommy Robinson is banned from visiting.
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We already have a number of pro-freedom conservative-oriented parties.
Australians have consistently shown they are simps for Big Interventionist Government and don’t love personal or economic freedom and thus those parties generally do poorly. They love their “free stuff” and being told what to think and do just too much.
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Think where two countries will be in three years.
The United States has TRUMP. That country will be free and prosperous and becoming more so.
Australia has at least another three years of Labor. By then the economy will be a disaster, the energy supply will be failing, there will be more taxes including wealth taxes, certain experimental vaccines will be compulsory, there will be more anti-family policies and more moral degeneracy, the standard of living will be much lower and continuing to drop as it already has been, we will have lost even more rights to free speech and other freedoms, the flood gates of violent, uneducated and anti-Western Third World immigration will be fully open and Australia will be well on the way to another Venezuela or pre-Milei Argentina.
Had people voted for the fake conservative Liberals, much the same thing may have happened but less severely so.
Australians also had the option of voting for the conservative freedom parties who ran in nearly every electorate and the Senate but by and large didn’t.
Those stupid Australians that voted for all that will deserve every misery that will be imposed upon them. Unfortunately we in the thinking freedom-loving community are going to severely suffer as well.
In another three years, Australia is unlikely to be easily fixable, if at all.
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David, David, you are absolutely right. It is worse than disastrous. The current Labor Party is run by old Marxists. Their view of the world is ideological. It is truly scary. The threat of new taxes on unrealised capital gain will capture many many Australians and destroy the nest eggs of all those who attempt to provide for their own retirement. It is very likely that this will move beyond superannuation funds and affect all investments, particularly property.
Voters obviously could not recognise that the rise in the cost of living was greatly increased by government policies. Worse, they failed to understand how the government’s energy policy will only exacerbate their cost of living and significantly affect their quality of life.
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If only…
Undoing a century of socio-economic damage won’t happen in one term.
It looks that way to the casual observer, but the USA, despite their perception of being the centre of the universe, is a key part of a dynamic global economy.
Playing school bully and trying to screw China and restore the glory days of US manufacturing is a well-meaning dream but can’t work in the modern world unless you pay pittance wages or raise the price of goods to unaffordable levels which in turn destroys industries.
You want to pay $50 for a basic toaster?
Cutting red tape, regulations and taxation WILL help US manufacturing, which is the real reason everything went offshore in the first place.
The US is like Argentina, albeit a small country with 10% the population of the US.
Milei also had noble motives, but the country now has a long history of austerity, contrasting the long history of fraud and corruption of the US, and half the population now is in abject poverty, manufacturing has collapsed, and deindustrialisation accelerating.
On top of that Milei has tapped the IMF on the shoulder for a $10-20 billion loan.
The IMF unlike the world bank, exists to provide emergency funding so Argentina is not in a good way, despite all the hype.
The US is FAR worse off in comparison and you couldn’t fix the problems in under 50 years. DOGE’s already running out of steam and it’s barely scratched the surface.
“All things end” and the US, doing its best impression of the final days of the corrupt and degenerate Roman era, is steering towards sunset.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions (and taxpayer money), but that’s not the way out.
It’ll all play out the way it always has…
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Jo, commiserations with the election result. The BBC attributes it to, guess who, the bad orange man in the White House. But look at the bright side. When the peoples of Canada and now Australia discover that they voted for fools then they can always blame DT as well.
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Although yesterday was an inspiring and beautiful day at the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally, the evening’s election news was dismal and bodes grimly ill.
Although they say if you go woke you go broke, it hasn’t dawned on voters yet and instead the words of H.L.Mencken are sadly apt:
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Glad you enjoyed the Rally Skepticynic.
I am going today – to let off some steam…
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Australia has voted for self-destruction.
So be it.
That’s what the National Socialists did in 1945 with the Nerobefehl (Nero Decree) when their leader decided to destroy the country as punishment for losing the war.
At least there was finally someone in Germany (Speer) who for the first time wasn’t willing to “just follow orders”.
Australia however has many willing to eagerly participate in its forthcoming self-destruction.
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The two REAL worries are:
What, if any, “reconstruction template” they actually have in mind?
And;who will “assist” in this?
Political “logistics” matter.
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The stupidity of the Australian people is the ultimate result of the deliberate dumbing-down and Leftist indoctrination of the education system and other institutions over many decades.
It’s Rudy Dutschke’s “der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen” (long march through the institutions).
[Dutschke was the German communist who in 1967 conceived of that plan to implement communism in the West because he believed that violent revolution was impossible because under capitalism, people had it too good.]
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Just remember.
In the current term, Labor was holding off from its more extreme policies so they’d have a chance of getting re-elected.
In this term, it will be “no holds barred”.
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So Australians voted to stay in the race to the bottom when it comes to the electricity grid. Spain is a new entry into the race that contains California, New York State, Germany, the UK and of course Australia.
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Peter Dutton’s article in the Spectator this morning is very gracious in defeat and succeeds in being both proud and humble.
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It’s all very well, but the problem with Dutton and the Libs in general is that they don’t fundamentally believe in anything, and certainly not conservatism. They just “go with the flow” depending upon what “polling” and “modelling” tells them.
In contrast, an actual leader like TRUMP has a core set of beliefs based upon a free enterprise philosophy and he defends and sells those beliefs and doesn’t care what his opposition thinks.
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“It’s all very well, but the problem with Dutton and the Libs in general is that they don’t fundamentally believe in anything, and certainly not conservatism. They just “go with the flow” depending upon what “polling” and “modelling” tells them.”
Absolutely!! Shown by the Right in all Western countries, the ideals they used to have are now politically incorrect, thanks to the Left, and they are too scared to reclaim them!! When did you last hear a politician say Capitalism is great and making a profit is successful? When did any say ‘be prepared to look after yourself, everyone else in society is not going to prop you up on a free ride”?
They believe in nothing except getting elected!
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It has been a VERY long time (four decades, or more) since the official receipts for Party Membership had “the principles of Liberalism” printed on the reverse side.
Maybe, the party legal eagles were worried about charges of “false advertising”?
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You can still find it on their website.
https://www.liberal.org.au/about/our-beliefs
False advertising for sure … but then again the ALP claiming to help the working class is just as fake.
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Is being gracious in defeat really such a virtue? Millions of poorer Australians will suffer badly from this election result, yet as Dutton was hugged by his wife and sons last night the implicit message was all about his personal loss; like ‘poor Peter won’t be PM after all’.
The defeat wasn’t his fault; but he must have known for months how the left of his own party were undermining his campaign. If he cared about our country he wouldn’t be taking this blow to Australians politely like a gentleman cricketer who’s just been bowled out. He’d be ranting, and naming the traitors.
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In all sincerity I wish Ali France long, prosperous and fulfilling life.
Something is personally unpleasant to me in this case, it is hard to name it but I know.
Looking back at all Dethroners from Howard, through to Costello, to Jeff Kennet, to Tony Abbott – can anyone remember their political achievements without Google?
Can you imagine Albanese leaving his seat before this election to that lady and challenging Peter Dutton’s seat?
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I wonder how long Green-Labor-Teal voting Australians think all the “free stuff” can last?
Australian total government debt, federal, state and local but not counting unfunded liabilities is now well over $2 trillion.
Sadly, most people including Uniparty politicians are too innumerate to know how big that number actually is.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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This election has shown that promises of “free stuff” paid for by tax payers apparently trumps 3 years of absolutely dismal governance riddled with wokeness, a failed referendum, lies, broken promises and a debt that has passed a trillion dollars.
I believe this is the first election where an abhorent government was able to significantly increase its majority. And add in all the teals, the left essentially have 100 out of 150 seats despite their combined vote not even being 50%. It just defies belief.
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“a failed referendum,”
Anyone see any reference to that at all in the campaign?? You would think Dutton would be all over it reminding people what Labor was trying to do. But no, he couldn’t even take a stand on that at the time, he was the same bowl of dirty dishwater he still is.
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Exactly! It was like they were avoiding all obvious winning stances on purpose. The result is a 32% primary vote which historically low for the Libs
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With the Albanese Labor Government easily being Australia’s worst Government ever, including Whitlam’s, one might have thought this election was impossible for the Liberals to lose, even given their poor campaign.
I find it utterly remarkable that:
1) Liberals lost the unlosable election.
2) There are enough low information voters to vote for Labor.
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Labor’s vote dropped but so did that of The Liberals and The Greens (in the lower house).
A simply dreadful campaign by the Liberals with no ideas except stupid targets for Labor (e.g. nuclear).
Perhaps they should split in Woke and Conservative.
I will be interested in how the minor parties went. It seems that One Nation have increased their vote.
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Wait until they really ramp-up the importation of a new “friendly” electorate, a la the unspeakable Harold Wilson in Pommyland.
In the UK, it took neatly half a century for that worm to turn. The children and grandchildren of that block of early imparts appear to be seeing the “light” for what it was and the damage inflicted in THEIR names. Some of the later “imports” may have different ideas, however.
We may not be so “lucky”
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‘Liberals lost the unlosable election’ because of the elephant in the room.
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FWIW – re the GM engine recall
“I found this guy’s discussion of the GM Motor Recall interesting. Why? Because he confirmed my biases, of course ;-)”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/w-o-o-d-5-april-2025-tariffs-talks-tomahawks-troubles/#comment-176798
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FWIW – more covid scene
“Four days ago, the most important covid shot study yet was published as a preprint on MedRxIV. It was blandly titled, “Twelve-Month All-Cause Mortality after Initial COVID-19 Vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech or mRNA-1273 among Adults Living in Florida.” In a science-following world, this study would announce the beginning of the end, the great unraveling of the big “safe and effective” lie.”
“If there’s one thing —just one thing— a “safe and effective” vaccine absolutely shouldn’t do, it’s increase your odds of dropping dead. Death is not a side effect; that’s the reverse-opposite of vaccination. It’s like a parachute that “works great” until you pull the ripcord. Aieeeeeeee.”
In conclusions
“If the Levi–Ladapo study is right, it implies catastrophic failure by the FDA for not requiring long-term safety data, the CDC for continuing to push boosters with no mortality data, the NIH for funding everything except what might challenge the narrative, and Big Pharma for withholding or obscuring adverse event data.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/safe-but-risky-saturday-may-3-2025?
And other things – including a look at the Ukraine situation
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And
“Is This The Man Who Created COVID-19 In Fauci’s US Lab?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/man-who-created-covid-19-faucis-us-lab
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An excellent analysis, it explains so many lies the Govts were pushing! Designed and made in America, sent to China to be tested on Chinese bats in Wuhan, escapes the lab over there, likely by infecting the American Dr who lived there, and the rest is history.. as are all those people it killed, plus those the vaccines killed!
Does anyone think that Govts have STOPPED this sort of research?? Then step outside and sober up! What’s a few tens of millions in a population of 10billion, all of whom are going to die sometime anyway?
“In DEFUSE, Baric proposed to create a virus that was, to most intents and purposes, SARS-CoV-2…Baric obtained a patent for such novel viruses in 2018, just as he was putting DEFUSE together. In DEFUSE he proposed to infect wild Chinese bats with his newly patented viruses…This would explain how the virus got to Wuhan…We know that SARS-CoV-2 readily transmits in the lab animals found in Munster’s Rocky Mountain Lab but not in the lab animals found in the WIV. From this we can further conclude that Dr. Anderson’s experiment to infect Chinese horseshoe bats with the new virus at the WIV presumably failed. This may be why she left Wuhan at the end of November, which was the deadline for the ‘scientific merit review’ for CREID.”
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As ALWAYS:
Follow the MONEY!
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What chance the red thumber is boosted to the hilt and now scared s-less?
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FWIW
“Truth, Myth or Both? Getting History Right in Battle of Britain”
https://www.steynonline.com/15260/truth-myth-or-both-getting-history-right-in
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This Youtube channel features animated bar charts showing the changes in different areas of interest over the years.
I this case it shows the source of electricity generation globally for the last 40 years, showing what a joke the “transition to renewable energy” really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8BC74Tzg0
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Thinking about Plant Food –
Wembley Stadium – https://www.wembleystadium.com – holds 90,000 paying spectators. With all those that work there – on the turnstiles, in the bars, cafes, shops and restaurants, working the lights and providing security, picking litter and playing music, plus the Press – and VIPs, it holds about 100,000 on a big match day.
If we liken Wembley on Cup Final Day – packed to the rafters – to our planet’s atmosphere, we see that – proportionally – CO2 can be seen as just the two teams – eleven a side, plus seven subs, manager and physio, plus the referee and two linesmen – 43 out of 100,000.
Or 430 in a Million.
And how much of that is anthropogenic – caused by human? Two or three percent – so, roughly – just the referee.
And this is supposed to be changing the planet – so in the UK, we’re getting rid of fossil fuels, virgin steel-making, reliable power and almost all the advances of the 21stCentury [and 20th and 19th], and spending many hundreds of thousands of millions of pounds, to go back to the 18th Century!
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Nice analogy.
So if we got rid of VAR we’d be well on the way to getting rid of all human causation, (whatever it happens to be/not be).
Where can I vote for that?
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FWIW
“Dear Bicyclists: The Roads Were Built for Cars”
https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/05/03/dear-bicyclists-the-road-was-built-for-cars-n4939455
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FWIW
“China Now Controls Australia’s Elections
Will America be next?”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/china-now-controls-australias-elections/
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Coincidentally with the election result, 2GB presenter Luke Grant reported that a relatively new anti depressant, a ketamine nasal spray is going on the PBS. Could be a lot of prescriptions.
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FWIW
“Vive La Goddess”
“Few people have inadvertently done more for French exports than Frederick Forsyth. For his The Day of The Jackal did for the Citroen DS (or Goddess in France), as The Italian Job did for the Mini Cooper. Now in its 70th year the Citroen has been elevated to a place on the freshly minted €10 coin.”
More at
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2025/05/03/vive-la-goddess/
Via SDA
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From The Spectator Australia.
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Dean might be correct, but we are all ignoring the elephant in the room; Australians prefer safety and trinkets to freedom PERIOD.
So, the conservative parties need to play the game and start to offer free stuff. If that means ditching their ideals, so be it. Stop playing the 1950’s game and start playing the future game. Capitalism only worked when we had a large middle class and only so long as it was constrained to be non-exploitive. Neither of which apply today.
I would start by offering the people free water and power so long as the people don’t interfere with how it is achieved.
The states should re-nationalise those two “industries – read monopolies” and in exchange for delivering free power and water the bargain would be that the states can use whatever technologies they like to do it.
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Joe, I disagree but at least you have ideas and not afraid to express them.
There was a note on this blog about achievable method for free power along Nullarbor highway
On my part, I say – free Internet, as information is as valuable (to some…) as water and it is already half free today..
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“Australians prefer safety and trinkets to freedom PERIOD.”
Generally, that is true of all the West, a comfortable life just muddling along dreaming about being rich while firing up the barbie beside the big Landcruiser and off-road caravan… what else is there to need?
The thought of not being backstopped by the Govt and having to actually make their own way in the world gives them the shivers! The real people died out a generation ago.
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This is undoubtedly true.
However, if you might forgive me for observing?
Why is that a bad thing? The every effort of man has been to alleviate hardship and make life easier.
If that is being achieved, is that a bad thing?
The real trick of civilisation is to provide all these things and also preserve the dignity of man to speak his mind whilst not imposing on others.
The real trouble is those who want power (enforce their will) over others. They are the problem and have always been.
How the “comfortable life” is delivered is immaterial, state or private matters not to us, just that it is available to all.
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FWIW
Re “The long and the short of it” with dogs
“WATCH: Friendship Blooms When World’s Tallest and Smallest Dogs Meet for Playdate in Idaho”
https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/05/03/watch-friendship-blooms-when-worlds-tallest-and-smallest-dogs-meet-in-idaho/
Happens here every Wednesday afternoon at Men’s Shed Beer O’Clock with my chihuahua X owner, (about 8 kg and one hand high) and the host’s dog (a wolfhound X).
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This election shows where Australia is headed. It further embeds government and its sycophants in a virtuous loop that disguises its real impost on the productive community.
It will continue to be a government of inflation where savings are eroded, sycophants rewarded and producers condemned.
Will there be load shedding by the next election? Will there be any operating smelters in Australia.
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If Bowen is still Minister for Electricity then we will certainly have “load shedding”.
I presume you mean aluminium smelters? No, they use too much electricity and there are limits to what the Federal Gov. can do.
Steel makers (Whyalla) are already subsidised by the owner – SA Government. I think that some in the Labor Party think that hydrogen will work.
It won’t.
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The direct involvement of the Chinese Communist Party in the Australian election again is worrying, one of many examples the couple who were handing out election material who naively admitted they were answering a request via an Australian Chinese organisation to assist the candidate.
As far back as the 1990s was when I first became aware of that foreign interference when a company employee replied to my light hearted comment that I hoped he was voting for John Howard (he did not live in his electorate) and a surprise response was no because he will force Asians to leave Australia. He told me the information came from a Chinese language Sydney newspaper. At that same election 2007 the Chinese son in law of Labor Opposition Leader Rudd and others conducted a very well organised door knocking campaign in the Howard Bennelong electorate and elsewhere targeted Asians.
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This is an excerpt from George Christensen’s newsletter. Link below.
“ Let’s not sugar-coat it—Peter Dutton was never meant to win this election.
Peter Dutton’s campaign was deliberately undermined by internal factions in the Liberal Party who feared his conservative leadership.
A clear and strategic campaign plan from Dutton’s office was sabotaged by party insiders through delay, message dilution, and refusal to fund ads.
Leaks and internal betrayals by moderates, Photios loyalists, and even elements of the NSW Right were coordinated to destabilise Dutton.
The party’s focus on winning back Teal seats alienated the conservative base and ignored the desires of suburban and rural Australians.
The loss was not due to Dutton’s ideology, but to a calculated effort by internal rivals to ensure his defeat and preserve their own influence.
Not because he lacked the leadership. Not because Australians didn’t want change. But because his own party made damn sure he’d lose.”
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/the-sabotage-of-peter-dutton?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=454182&post_id=162767613&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=tyhmx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Look up the Who’s Who of behind the scenes Climate 200, major donors and founders of the Masquerading as Independents “Teals”.
One former Liberal Prime Minister, one former Liberal Opposition Leader and even Labor former politicians, no doubt all renewables so called vested interest investors.
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$2.2B Ivanpah solar farm to close
11 years and $2.2 billion later, the Ivanpah solar mirror array in the Mojave Desert is on the most waste projects in American history.
The 5-square mile site barely exceeded 50% capacity and is now set to close; having not fully repaid the loans.
https://x.com/Keech74L/status/1918800106238648785
Close down and then what?
Garage-sale the solar panels?
Leave it all to rot?
Turf it all into landfill?
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Salty chicken stew for a socialist
In this tale, a coalition government of rogue coyotes plagued with ethics violations, scandals, fiscal malfeasance, and foolishness slowly comes to an end after a long reign of tyranny. The political landscape and power dynamics begins to shift as illiberal timber wolves move in and take over the north.
After the lead wolf, named Lord Carni, and the entire pack of timber wolves arrive at the henhouse, they bring their new woke agendas and policies.
https://www.amazon.ca/Salty-Chicken-Stew-Socialist-Henhouse/dp/B0DY14PRP8/
Read extract here:
https://read.amazon.com/sample/B0DXQDZRVQ?f=1&l=en_US&r=ee88ba41&rid=D3MC016DMHJQS2V1WJAV&sid=132-4383143-0679726&ref_=litb_m
Must find a copy! 😁
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Apparently a paperback available in Canada from Amazon.
Amazon Aust. lists it as a Kindle version.
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Institute of Public Affairs Chief Economist Adam Creighton discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelling himself an economist.
“I think it’s very funny that he said he’s an economist,” Mr Creighton told Sky News host Steve Price.
“Look at the economic outcomes of his government, they are literally the worst on record in generations.
“He doesn’t understand economics properly in my view and it’s sad seemingly that he’s going to be re-elected.”
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Old Punch joke – very old, and it stuck in my memory
“Gloomy (solitary) Diner to Waiter “Which of your beastly wines will cause oblivion fastest”.
Don’t know if that helps, but remember Labor will be faced with “difficulties” as the debt balloons, taxes hurt more and more people, and unemployment rises faster than they can be employed by the “Public Service” along with the likely chances of a long blackout because we don’t have interconnectors (like Spain) and don’t have a means of generating from a black start (something that was supposed to be a great idea with Snowy 2).
All those who want their EV’s to start up will be disappointed. Nor those who want to cook electric, or use refrigerators, or TV’s or the internet are going to be disappointed. Just as well that most politicians will (probably) be in Canberra and safe from the mobs of those who can’t follow their favourite sporting clubs etc.
Current talk is that Albo could be a triple PM, but I reckon that he will be gone before the next 3 years come.
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Also look up the background of non-government organisation Smart Energy Council and relationship with Climate 200
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