An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon.
By Jo Nova
Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite him
Dear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because if they were in government Australia would be drilling for it ourselves…
Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.)
One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) and had made it impossibly hard for explorers to drill. He’s knows this is true. After the crisis, his government has already bought at least one cargo ship, is talking about building refineries, and has promised to build up our strategic fuel reserve.
Labor and Anthony Albanese on the slide in three states, Newspoll finds
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian
The surge in One Nation’s primary vote in Newspoll over the past three months, hitting a record 31 per cent last month before edging back to 29 per cent in the most recent poll, has dented core backing for the major parties across most key demographics and states.
The Prime Minister on Friday took aim at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for pushing for Australia to dump multiculturalism and embrace a monoculture. Mr Albanese, who is increasingly being forced to turn his political attacks onto One Nation given its poll surge, said Senator Hanson’s approach would have made her unable to secure fuel from Asian trading partners at the height of the oil supply crunch. “I reckon they (Asian leaders) probably remember what she has said about them,” Mr Albanese said.
And in the interim, while Australia restores its own oil and gas industry and builds back the refineries that the Uniparty have destroyed, a One Nation prime minister could easily ask the culturally aligned USA for oil and gas.
In any case, the Japanese Prime Minister would probably be pretty sympathetic to an Australian leader who was concerned about the rise of China, and one who understood why Japan chooses not to allow mass immigration, and wanted to have a similar policy.
The Labor Party have no idea what’s coming, and sadly, nor do the Liberals.
One Nation are now the Party of the long forgotten workers:
Newspoll looked at nearly 5,000 voters in polls spread across the last 3 months. Just as many women as men supported One Nation, and there is a strong move in young voters towards One Nation.
One Nation dominates the non-university educated voter cohorts, with the quarterly analysis showing the party holding a commanding lead over the major parties in both the no tertiary (33 per cent) and TAFE or technical qualifications (36 per cent) categories.
University-educated voters are sticking with Labor (38 per cent), ahead of the Coalition (20 per cent) and One Nation (17 per cent). Support for One Nation among university-educated Australians has more than doubled since the end of December.
Among those with a household income over $100,000, Labor was the most popular choice, with 30 per cent of the vote.
And so it is, that the Labor Party have become the party of the academics and the wealthy, and the workers of Australia are realizing that they’ve been sold out.
Socialist parties nearly always represented the interests of wealthy and powerful Elites and faux “intellectuals”, it’s just that the allegedly “downtrodden workers” never realised it until the MAGA movement and the propagation of those basic ideas around the world.
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‘ … until the MAGA movement …’
Its not a universal phenomenon, Australians are not really into that. In the 21st century Labor should be rebranded or become irrelevant, because AI robots don’t pay dues.
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I was referring to the ideas behind the MAGA movement as a movement of lower and middle income rational people, anti-Elite and anti-faux-“intellectual”.
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Its a broad church.
‘Sky News’ YouGov Pulse Poll revealed One Nation’s support is broad, covering different education levels, classes and home-owning status.
‘Analysis of the exclusive poll shows Pauline Hanson’s party is the most popular party in the country for male, rural and working-class voters.
‘It is also the most favoured party among Millennials, Gen X and those living in outer metropolitan regions.’ (Sky)
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The fact that university trained people are more attuned to woke ideas and opposed to practicalities is really no surprise. Their teachers have already been infected by the socialism bug so pass it on. It will be interesting to see if they still vote that way when their houses are devalued and the expected inheritance is much reduced due to the socialist policies of Albo and his communist mates.
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Sadly, the LNP had the chance to become the ‘workers’ party … but then they installed Turnbull and Morrison and all that momentum was lost.
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Turnbull was the best PM labor ever had.
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Correct.
Their ABC also agree.
They love his viewpoints….well they would wouldn’t they!
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Milton Friedman would like argue as follows:
Friedman repeatedly highlighted the “iron law” of bureaucracy and concentrated interests.
Socialist policies involve heavy regulation, nationalisation, redistribution and price controls which create winners among politicians, bureaucrats, “intellectuals” and favoured industries who gain power, jobs and rents.
Workers and consumers bear the costs through inefficiency, shortages, inflation and lost opportunity.
“Intellectuals” which Friedman and Hayek would call “second-hand dealers in ideas” tend to be drawn to socialism because it flatters them with a communist-style central planning role and social-engineeeing role and self-identified moral superiority.
In Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman noted how academics and media Elites promote interventions that expand their influence while ignoring unintended consequences.
Soviet-style systems created a privileged new class of party officials. Even “democratic” socialism leads to regulatory capture where big business and government collude. E.g Friedman criticised corporate welfare and licensing that protects incumbents.
Friedman accepted that early trade unions delivered genuine gains via voluntary cooperation and market pressures but he emphasised that once government becomes the main tool of economic decision making, concentrated interests (Elites like powerful unions and industry interests like wind and solar subsidy harvesters who lobby effectively) dominate small ones (ordinary workers/taxpayers).
Friedman knew workers would respond to incentives so when socialism promises “equality” and delivers stagnation, they eventually notice (e.g. Eastern Europe after 1989). That’s what happened in recent years with the MAGA movement beyond this early recognition in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR in 1989.
Friedman stressed that economic freedom correlated with prosperity for the masses.
Capitalism, despite inequalities (not necessarily a bad thing, people are entitled to a greater reward for greater effort), raises living standards for workers far more than occurred in socialist experiments (e.g. Hong Kong vs. Maoist China or U.S. vs. Soviet Union).
Friedman might view MAGA-style populism as an understandable backlash against Elite overreach such as globalisation, excessive regulation and cultural imposition by social engineering “experts”.
However, unlike MAGA he was against protectionism or centralised industrial policy which just represents a centralisation of power which repeats the errors of socialism. (To be fair, MAGA-style protectionism is a response to unfair anti-free-market policies of others.)
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thankyou, beautifully stated.
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Trumps tariffs should not be viewed as long-term policy.
Installation of Industry and infrastructure requires more favourable economic conditions than Ongoing operation and maintenance.
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I would question whether Labor should get all the blame for getting rid of our home supplies of energy, in that this was also the policies of the Liberal Party (cue here Dennis!).
You might say that our politicians haven’t the brains of a raspberry seed, and you might well be true. But these are heavily influenced by our bureaucrats (who don’t get any adverse consequences unless it is more pay and better conditions) and the rabble rousers in the Unions and elsewhere who don’t see anything wrong with their rhetoric because they cannot see further than their noses.
All of them believe that there is a never ending source available from the taxpayers. The taxpayers are revolting.
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Yes. It was Howard the started Australia on the road to economic destruction with the introduction of “renewables” under the auspices of the Kyoto Protocol in 1998. He didn’t ratify it but that was irrelevant because it was all the excuse needed to introduce renewables. And Lib/Labs have been destroying Australia’s energy supply ever since.
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Margaret Thatcher once was a ‘believer’ in global warming, too. She had an epiphany that took her over into the sceptics camp. I have no problem with those who believed in AGW decades ago – I did myself for a short time. Did Howard ever disavow his early support?
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People have forgotten that Howard had to get his legislation past the greens in the senate
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” One Nation are now the Party of the workers, and Labor the party of wealth and academics” AND ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS. Which is why Australia has the highest ratio of public servants in the world. You vote for your employer. Victoria under Dictator Dan hired every journalist who criticized him. That stopped criticism. And as governments take over all Education and Health, that includes doctors and nurses and administrative position in universities and the health system.
The ABC, CSIRO, SBS, Chief Scientist, all bound to the Labor party and Green parties. This was demonstrated by the persecution of Prof Peter Ridd. Infinite university money to destroy one individual who dared suggest fraud. What mattered was that the fraud was permitted and not to be criticized. That was ‘uncollegiate’. Rule of the mob. Everyone votes for more taxes. And this does not bother government employees as they can just strike for more money to pay the taxes and cover inflation caused entirely by printing money to pay them.
In Victoria 90% of new hires are into the public service. It totally hides rapidly growing unemployement, plummeting productivity and the government has infinite money. They just have to increase taxes on productive workers. The slaves just have to work harder to support the management.
There is increasingly an argument that people who work for the government should not be in a position to vote for their employer, universally seen to be the Labor/Green governments.
Consider that in 1870 universal education was finally law. And governments in the UK and Australia started building schools and taking over functions left to church bodies, social services, hospitals, education. These were never the function of any government. And since Whitlam’s National takeover of university funding, univerities have exploded in size and number 5x. And up to half the total are now administrators, huge businesses with a profit motive. And HEX because there is really no funding, so taxing all students, something not done before Whitlam.
All this is socialism. And that means more taxes, more public servants all wanting more money and more taxes. Labor/Greens are the party of the vast public service now as the workers have been pushed out of apprenticeships, technical schools and learning life skills as teenagers. Everyone has to have a degree, not a skill. Except there are few skilled workers left and no one wants to be a plumber, so the government in their wisdom imports skilled people. Except now a socialist government employs unskilled and often socially incompatible people who are on social security from the first day and vote for who let them in.
Australia has to adopt Argentina’s solution. Half the public service has to get a real job. And we need to train people in real life skills, not philosophy of the workers. And we need to make our own stuff, not import it from China with Alibaba.
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Because this explosive public service growth in size, power was an invention, the takeover of education, health services that they were never in the Australian Constitution. States retained these powers. So the Federal government controls them through ‘gifts’ which bypass the Constitution and give direct control.
Also not in the Constitution was a National Grid, electricity, gas, oil, coal except that all minerals belonged to the state. Which is why the Federal government wants to have a National Grid, run from Canberra. And they have to get rid of coal, because it is a state asset, not Federal.
The explosion of a rights determining Labor/Green government has been the biggest part of the last half century. It’s not only cancer cells which can metastasize. As the ‘workers’ find they are made uncompetitive and manufacturers collapse, there is always room in the Government because the government has all the money or can grab it. That’s creeping socialism, now rampaging through the Australian economy.
And who is going to have the courage to reduce the size of government? At the current rate, there will be no workers in the sense of the 20th century. No plumbers, electricians, laborers, builders, factory workers, tradesmen, engineers, doctors, nurses. No problem, we will just import them and they will all vote Labor/Green as we will pay their wages.
And there are thousands of public servants on wages of $0.5Million in departments which make no sense, like Human Rights which has no place in Autralian law or the Constitution. Or Chris Bowen travelling around the world pushing carbon taxes at our expense of hundreds of millions a year.
We need a real economist like Javier Milei. And we need bounds on the size and reach of government and on the solo ability of Anthony Albanese to blow a cool billion on a speculative and failing Californian Quantum Computer company because someone wants the cash? How much of Australia’s runaway spending from Snowy II to a $1Trillion National Grid is completely outside parliamentary oversight or even accountability or explanation or cost benefit? All of it.
Fire half the public service. And get out of our savings, our houses, our education. None of it is constitutional. It’s a runaway socialist cancer, feeding on itself and growing at the expense of the rest of Australians.
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Great rant, TdeF! How about also putting some of these arguments in a letter to the Oz? Not enough explosive dissent in the national newspapers…
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TdeF we see this is in a simple way when we travel our local rural highways. There are frequently crews of Council workers trimming shrubs and cutting grass on the road verges. It is superfluous work ( it is not overgrown or detrimental to road users) and there are huge crews involved. I say to my husband that this is emblematic of communist countries when work is created to employ people.
There are now over one hundred thousand Public Service workers in Canberra – husband reckons twice that number. Virtually all of them will be voters for their current employer – the Labor Party – as are the bulk of the current immigrants to our country.
We are in the grip of a socialist experiment led by a man, an old Trotskyite, who is enacting the philosophy of his youth. It appears that the majority of those who recognise the danger are the very workers who he purports to support. Thankfully the old Aussie characteristic of common sense still exists. Pauline Hanson has always represented that spirit. It may save this country from the scourge of socialism.
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There was a time everything was private. Governments had no businesses. Transport. (Remember TAA? All public servants travelled TAA). Politicians received Gold Passes on Government airlines. I suppose they still do but at least there are no government airlines.
Trains, trams, bus lines all private. Telephones. Schools. And those huge networks of monasteries? They looked after the sick, the poor, social services. St. Vincent de Paul, the Salvation Army,..
How many areas of daily life are now run by the ‘Government’. And few realise that until 1870 in the UK, schools were all private. Now we the absurdity that Public schools are private vs Government schools. Ladies colleges were common. There were many in our area, privately owned, staffed and run. The Catholic system remains huge, although many attemtps have been made to take over.
And then the disgrace in Canberra recently when the ‘government’ legislated the forced sale of Calvary hospital to the ‘government’. Canberra could not tolerate a better system, privately run and one where abortions were not performed. Even Daniel Andrews in Victoria ordered the Closure of St. Vincents hospital and that it be moved to his area. Until someone pointed out that the government did not own it!
The very presumption now exists that the government owns everything. But we have sold off Australia Post/Telstra/Commonwealth Bank/CSL and most of the power system, except that goverments have now forced coal power stations into bankruptcy by legislation.
As for taxation, the Federal fuel excise was explicity to fix the roads. Miners demanded exemptino because their trucks ran on their roads, not public ones. This is still called a lucrative subsidy when it is not a subsidy at all. However it escaped attention that now fuel taxes are all Federal, the Federal government pulled $4.5Billion from road repair. So more taxes to pay for debt while the roads you mention will be left unmaintained. It’s not only the roads that will fall apart, killing Australians, but is symptomatic of a metastasing public service which exists only to feed itself and sucks the life out of the rest of the country.
Labor party? Democratic Socialists? Greens? Communists all. Total government control. Of everything. And all for international communism, the ladder to the top. While Chris Bowen cruises the planet, a legend in his own lunchtime.
Nothing like a rant, eh?
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And reminiscent of the fall of the Roman Empire, caused by irrational greed within and enemies inside the gates, fifth column. Like the ABC, CSIRO and so many more. Never enough of other people’s money.
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I still wonder why the government owns The BOM, CSIRO, SBS and the ABC and now our state (Vic) reinvented the SEC – what woke joke. Gee everything else (the railways, public transport, electricity, water, gas, telecommunications, employment services, licence and registration, roads, etc etc were all sold off years ago to pay down our debt. Why does the government still hang onto these elephants?
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Except they put in the Constitution that the SEC can never invest in fossil fuels. So it’s the wind and solar SEC. In otherwords, useless.
” to develop and invest in strategic renewable energy generation and systems and facilities and strategic renewable energy storage systems “. Sir John Monash must be on a rotisserie.
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I thought the Constitution could only be changed after a public vote.
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“There are frequently crews of Council workers trimming shrubs and cutting grass on the road verges. It is superfluous work ( it is not overgrown or detrimental to road users) ”
Lucky you Vicki, here in Victoriastan, in my rural area, we often have fallen trees just trimmed back to the edge of the bitumen, then a lovely bit of the type of plastic tape that warns of a hazard wrapped around the end. Often staying that way for months. Probably waiting for the next crew that works for a different dept to come and “fix” the problem.
Its much the same with burnt out or crashed cars.
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Crikey, Sambar. I suppose that is the ultimate destination of socialist governments – total decay and incompetence. And this is because the discipline of private enterprise has disappeared.
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Yes, well, that’s one thing.
The other is all the road kill (wombats, roos, etc) that gets a red cross spray painted onto them by a frustrated graffitiest in the pay of “somebody” and left on the side of the road for the dead body pick-up crew to retrieve sometime in the next month.
Mack’s Reef Road is a classic as is the King’s Highway.
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Similar in Socialist Labor WA, in the south west as least, after the recent high wind storms, we have piles of broke trees and branches littering the road side, some as you say up to the road edge or even the LHS white line edge. The wealthiest state in the commonwealth, with growing unemployment and prisons yet we we don’t have road service crews doing basic clean up, and when they do, its 3 doing very little for one doing actual work.
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“… a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!)”
Had to look this up.
AI says you have 12?
You’re surrounded by big water.
I would get more boats.
I don’t think they have merchant marine DoorDash yet.
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Computer says:
[AI]
According to real-time modelling from the Last Drop fuel security dashboard (calculated as of June 30, with daily depletion):
Jet Fuel: ~25 days (In-country) — Critical Warning Level
Diesel: ~32 days (In-country)
Petrol: ~38 days (In-country)
When including fuel currently in transit on verified tankers approaching Australia:
Total Effective Cover: Approximately 26.5 days for Jet Fuel, 33.7 days for Diesel, and 39.2 days for Petrol. [AI]
As noted by Vicki (comment #7) the general populace (aka lotus eaters) with their gold fish attention span think but that old problem has been fixed all the headlines talked about more supplies achieved, Trump signed/suspended/signed peace deal give me news on the world cup soccer and bird flu. Cheers
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My goldfish remember feeding schedule from day-to-day and even with a week or so break, still line up every day.
They also suffered some trauma from a marauding little pied cormorant that raided the fish pond and it took them months to come out to feed again.
I am certain there are many people with shorter attention spans than my goldfish. Probably a result of an easy life without trauma.
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Yes, pet fish in a glass tank have memory.
Friend of mine has 4 goldfish in a moderate-sized glass tank, properly aerated.
I might visit two or three times in a month. If I walk towards the fish tank (even though I’ve never fed them), all four line up in a row with their mouths at the water/air horizon, angled at 30o so their gills can still breathe, waiting for the fish flakes.
They correlate the approach of some human figure (what they actually perceive is impossible to know) they can see through the glass sides of the tank with being fed. That is, they remember feed is a likely corollary of figure approach.
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“I might visit two or three times in a month. If I walk towards the fish tank (even though I’ve never fed them), all four line up in a row with their mouths at the water/air horizon … “
They sound like politicians awaiting the result of an election.
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And that’s suggested by the fact that newspapers and other media outlets feel the need to now indicate how long their article will take to read e.g. “1 minute read”, so the uninformed classes can decide whether one minute will exceed their attention span. Perhaps they should also start adding a suggested minimum IQ to be able to understand the article.
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Definitely only two refineries, for 28million, Honk.
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You need to press AI on the so-called 12.
I suspect she has fallen for yet another Albanese lie.
He promised twelve ships for the Australian coastal trade.
As far as I know not one has materialised.
The ghost ships of Captain Anthony Liar. The Flying Liar.
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Honk – it’s all desperately obvious, even without AI, isn’t it? Yet, the lotus eaters here all think everything is fine.
At the moment all commentators are worried about is bird flu!
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I have yet to hear, or see, anything positive about these “suspected” bird flu cases.
No history about how they came upon these single birds, where they were “found”, what happened to them
and if they were segregated or put down.
What method are they using for testing.
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We’ve seen over the last 5 years the VERY dubious methods they use for “other” things.
I would not trust any of this as far as I could kick Electricity Bill.
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Bird flu is not a thing here the US that I’ve heard.
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Speaking of “avian” disease carriers:
When will some eco-nazi notice the “tick-birds”; found in abundance in, particularly, the Northern Territory
EVERY year, MILLIONS of them shuttle back and forth between the seasons. Apparently their Northern Hemisphere playground is in SIBERIA. They are “trans-national” birds and not much is known about their activities in the Top-End, before the introduction of WATER Buffalo and other assorted cattle, horses, donkeys, etc..
There has to be an open-ended research grant in there for a lucky few.
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“At the moment all commentators are worried about is bird flu!”
My thoughts are bird flu of one type or another has always been here, just simply not an issue. Lacking a “new scare” its suddenly news.
The analogy, a few years ago Sydney water suddenly had new equipment and techniques to test the water supply. First thing they discover is cryptosporidium and giardia .
Always been there just either no interest or no ability to look for them.
Suddenly “discovered” and all sorts of questions about the safety of the water supply, a class action was launched by people with claimants wanting compensation for stomach upsets caused, probably by the same people that don’t want chlorinated water. Can’t remember the outcome.
Its a fair bet that these two bugs are still there, just now they will fall into the “acceptable levels” criteria.
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It was a beat up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Sydney_water_crisis
Yes I know. Wikipedia. But on this it’s pretty spot on.
Just before the Olympics.
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Bread, circuses and FEAR.
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Bird flu is another distraction. We didn’t have bird flu until someone discovered it. Those dead birds all died of something but as far as humans were concerned they were just dead. Nowadays we have to find the reason, then we find a department, then we appoint a chief officer and then we create a panic that can only be settled by government intervention. The trouble is that they started it. Since we allow morons to vote and since the socialists rely on the moron vote then the morons attract taxpayer largesse so the morons vote for the socialists. Really is simple. Trump showed that the opposite can also be true; real workers vote for their jobs not handouts.
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BTW II am sorely tempted to think this bird flu thing is an attempt to use a Covid-like scare to divert attention from more serious matters. There are always dead birds on beaches during migratory periods. Yet, they are all out diligently testing them for bird flu. Even so, there are only a handful diagnosed with this disease – a disease that is of questionable danger to humans. Yet every broadcaster on TV is heralding some sort of disaster…..
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Labor ministers are certainly the party of wealth, none of it earned. Heavily short on intelligence but quite academic in funneling money their way.
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Shy Ted,
I imagine they all have a “Laundry Operators” Ticket.
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Brown paper bags are their thing.
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Minister Conroy is a perfect example of a socialist politician. While slandering Menzies he forgot the wharfie strikes in Townsville. The wharfies demanded danger money to load ammunition for the troops fighting in New Guinea. Eventually the ships were loaded by soldiers. Typical of the Left they want you to spill your blood and treasure for them. The Left never spend their own money, only ever yours.
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Australia has morphed into a full blown kleptocracy. Those in authority are making rules that transfer wealth from producers to government sanctioned theft.
The Howard government established the mechanism for the original rampant theft from poor households to wealthier households. But it has become so engrained now that Australia has shifted from public servants to the entitled kleptomaniacs; all out to feather their own nest. And it is blatant.
Victorian government has sanctioned union control on government worksites so the unions can rip off the public and then send dues to keep the kleptomaniacs in office. It is now very much third world system of rampant corruption and ever burdensome bureaucracy on the reducing number of producers.
If Jacinta Allan gets rolled in the no-confidence motion at the end of July, she will likely resign to protect the value of her pension.
When the opportunity arises, vote ONP.
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Hi Rick, long time Pauline voter here, go QUEENSLANDER. As ON has until now been a noncontender and something of a punching bag/amusement for the Uniparty,ABC,SBS and like-minded dogs droppings, the tactics of smear and denigration have not yet begun.
The ON candidates are going to have to be vetted up and beyond the whaazoo,one slight blemish one misspoken word and the full resources the State,ABC,SBS, Public Service, leftie press etc are on hand to be unleashed to destroy ON once and for all as the threat to the cosy Uniparty rule just got real. Going to be very illuminating to see the depth of denigration/dirty tactics they will sink to over the next two years.
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One way to get their ABC on the back foot is to neglect them and suggest they look for a new funding model because there will be no government funding for them under an ONP government. So One Nation is already on the money there.
Defunding their ABC has to attract a lot of support.
There is no public service. I think that ended with Menzies. It has morphed into a horribly bloated parasite sucking the life out of the Australian people.
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Once a Penal Colony; ALWAYS a Penal Colony?
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Once up on a time they drank the currency.
Now they steal it.
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“His government has already bought at least one cargo ship, is talking about building refineries.”
So we’ve paid x for a 15 year old Malta registered container ship, woopy doo, how long until the MUA knackers this idea, just like they did to the ANL of old.
As for building a refinery or two, forget it, a large proper refinery would cost many billions and cost a fortune to run.
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“As for building a refinery or two, forget it, a large proper refinery would cost many billions and cost a fortune to run.”
No so Ronin, in the past these things would have been built by private enterprise, now with our all giving government, it will probably cost much more , all guaranteed to be supported by grants and guaranteed profits. They may never make a true profit, just like Snowy 2 but unions will be guaranteed work at exorbitant rates and all will be well!
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Ronin:
Perhaps if we told our politicians that it was an Artificial Intelligence way of making people more mobile in their opinions?
Should be good for $1,000 million subsidy.
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This country is run by a bunch of fools, nay, morons. Every country to our north believe in preserving their cultures and prevent other races from migrating there. Just think China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore to name a few. They would likely respect us more if we stood up for ourselves.
Australia is making Lee Kuan Yew’s prediction “Australia will become the white trash of Asia” come true, with our chief bundle of trash Albanese accelerating the country into the composter.
Poor buggar my country.
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Never attribute to “Incompetence”, that which is CLEARLY MALICE.
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This has been mooted before – under Keating. It was embarrassing how Asia saw us then. Keating never saw it, so content in his narcissism was he as the PM. Kind of like today with Albanese.
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Multiculturalism
Pauline Hanson dived straight into the fire when she brought up the issue of failed multiculturalism in her address to the National Press Club. Both Angus Taylor and Albanese have struggled to defend multiculturalism, partly because they can’t define what is is.
Likewise Pauline Hanson has not properly explained what she means by Mononculturalism.
All sides have pulled back for the time being, which is a pity.
The conversation needs to be had because we are going to be voting on it in Victoria in just 5 months time.
John Anderson and Konstantin Kisin have a go at the subject here and Konstantin makes some valid points but again he is a bit superficial.
Just 4 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDF3QO40VIQ
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Yes – neither the pollies nor the MSM will actually define “culture”. My understanding is that a nations’ culture is the product of the historical development of a society as a result of factors such as geography, social, religious and economic developments. These developments produce the beliefs and traditions of the people within the confines of a particular place.
As a result, “culture” is quite intrinsic to specific areas. Whether “culture” transfers to other geographic areas depends entirely on its affinity with the existing culture.
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And a single language across rhe whole continent helps.
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And, a single flag representing one people.
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Pauline Hanson presents as pro-aspiration in the mould of a small businesswoman who understands life outside the public sector
‘Shared culture’:
Pauline Hanson’s reasonable wish for Australia weaponised by those who resent the idea our nation should have a common social purpose
The word of the moment is undoubtedly ‘monocultural’
In her take-no-prisoners speech at the National Press Club Pauline Hanson said it was time to axe “multiculturalism”.
“We cannot be a multicultural society,” she said.
“We are a multi-racial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.”
A reminder from the great Philosopher of Language Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), who famously mused that we shouldn’t let a word hold us captive.
In other words, don’t become so fixated on a single word that you miss the idea behind it.
And the idea behind the word “monocultural” is “shared culture”.
When there is a “shared culture” that covers a territory or a population group that is a “monoculture”.
Part of the panic-stricken response to Hanson came from people who seem to despise Australia and dismiss any notion that an “Australian culture” should exist.
But they are just the latest iteration of “cultural cringe” – the memorable phrase coined by literary critic A. A. Phillips in 1950 to name this cringing sense of inferiority that infects the elitists.
One radio host joined the panic by pleading with his listeners to ring and tell him what Australian culture could possibly be.
Here’s the answer – Australian culture is “the common pot”.
It’s “the common pot” that we all contribute to, and that feeds us all.
We all share what we have with each other, and the resulting “common pot” feeds our Aussie spirits.
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And if a mostly Christian democratic white English Speaking society is very objectionable, repulsive, unwelcome, don’t come.
If you don’t like a world where men and women have identical rights, don’t come.
If you don’t want to work and be part of a functioning peaceful society, don’t come.
If you don’t want to contribute, help, assist, support this society, fit in, join, don’t come.
And if you want to transform what is here into the broken violent intolerant world you are escaping, wreck what is here, don’t come.
It’s all very simple. Australia reserves the right to determine who comes and under what conditions. John Howard said so. He was not trying to wreck the joint.
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Caveat from Lewis Carroll:
“”When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
Also Lewis Carrol; from; “Through the Looking Glass”, Chapter 5:
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
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Yes, she HAS explained what monoculturalism is.
Basically, you can come from any other country in the world, keep your culture, your food, your language, etc., but you must commit to the values of Australia and integrate into OUR culture.
It’s not hard.
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I only came for my Dennis explainer on why the LNP is the way. I leave dissapointed.
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Nice.
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The multicultural experiment started in the 1770s. When is she leaving?
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An experiment that has obviously failed given its focus now on importing some of the world’s most uneducated, violent, anti-Western, misogynisic, anti-Christian and antisemitic people. But they are being imported in record numbers and placed in critical Labor electorates as Labor voters to help embed Labor in power forever.
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How many of those became “eligible” for citizenship after Burke exercised Ministerial discretion to reduce eligible residency periods?
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Simon:
Was that when one native speared the Governor?
Should I suggest to the Government that you want to be speared as a gesture?
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Simon
And has produced a nation of mutually antagonistic tribes.
There have always been internal differences, but with broadly common national goals. That has changed since the 1970s. Now we are being pulled apart.
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Multiculturalism came to Brigantia (Yorkshire) in 69AD, when the Romans imposed a ‘male warrior’ dominated culture on Yorkshire, after Queen Cartimandua and her ‘pregnant female’ dominated culture was overthrown. But since the collapse of the ‘male warrior’ dominated culture, we have had a ‘female abortion’ culture imposed on us by left-wing men.
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The answer to your question Simon is to be found in a 2024 report to the Labor Government: ‘ Towards Fairness: A Multicultural Australia for all.’
You may have had a part in writing it. Your single sentence would seem to indicate you have an understanding as to why not only will multiculturalism persist. It will actually be ‘perfected’ as a social reconstruct of Australia. Decades forming a complete multi. framework including new commissions, departments, Advisory Councils (the voice?), Grants, language policy, Public Service Training, identity services.
Government ‘guided’ by experts, activists and bureaucrats.
‘Whiteness’ and English language so out these days.
(Thanks to George Christensen and his online resource.)
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Simon, when are you leaving?
You appear to be of the typical leftist, Labor / Greens voting, Australian culture hating ilk. If our predominately British, white, anglo heritage offends you, if you see Australia Day as “invasion day”, move to Palestine.
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Not only would I be drilling, baby drilling (were I king of Australia) but I’d be building dual purpose coal —> liquid fuels/power generation facilities too. Crazy not to!
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It has long been acknowledged in the UK and elsewhere that new governments might be ‘in government’ but they are not ‘in power’. The real power lies in the permanent public service. Cue shorts from Yes Minister.
I assume that is also the case here in Oz and, like the UK, this means that whichever party wins the election, our leftist public service actually rules.
So how do you think an inexperienced ON will fare against such powerful and entrenched opposition?
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Possibly like Trump in his first term. But then when they get a second WOW. However, I don’t think Pauline or Barnaby are all that inexperienced.
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Senior Commonwealth public servants are in individual contracts. Terminate a few contracts, and watch the change in attitudes.
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Individual contracts!
That should make it easy to make changes at the top when the time comes. So long as the term of the contracts is not too long.
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Donald Trump has just this week won back the right for President to fire top public servants. Trump says these rights were removed from FDR and every president since has fought to get them back. It was a Constitutional matter finally decided by the Supreme Court. Otherwise it is near impossible for the head of the executive branch of government to actually run the executive branch of government. The only exception is the head of the Treasury/Federal Reserve which the Supreme Court says is historically independent.
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Perhaps as important as the right to fire individuals in the public service was the Supreme Court of the US’s decision that “Major Questions” were a matter legislative decision., and
not executive decision. In simplistic terms, the legislature can say the executive shall do X, or it can say the executive shall do Y, or, in some cases, may choose between X and Y, but cannot decide what X and Y are if congress is not explicit. Thus mast all discretionary “green new deal” initiatives by our agencies and ministers were wiped out, and contracts and rules are being reversed to great public economic benefit. It is telling that there is no move in congress to reimpose….congress-critters would rather eat a dirt sandwich than be directly and personally responsible for higher energy prices. SO, with the executive having less power in general, and the apparachniks who lord over the rules and regulations we must follow now being subjecting to firing if their boss isn’t pleased with them, the US economy is doing a bit better. In particular, energy prices are back to the pre-covid trend lines,
with hope the 2027 farm season can produce actual deflation at the grocery store, fuel and nat gas based fertilizer being larges part of crop costs..
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Election analyst Antony Green agreed with Raue broadly, but said without those state-by-state polling breakdowns, speculation over the potential make-up of the Senate would be difficult to discern.
“It is highly likely that Labor and the Greens are not going to lose much at the next Senate election,” Green said. “If One Nation does particularly well, the question is where their seats come from if all they do is cannibalise the Coalition’s holding.”
Joyce, who previously said he would run for the Senate, is reconsidering the move on the premise a bloc of new One Nation MPs would need guidance in the lower house, for fear the party would “look febrile, or worse, chaotic”.
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I wouldn’t worry to much about the wealthy ie those earning $100,000+/year. That’s not a high enough figure
to be classed as wealthy these days. It’s barely enough to pay off a home and raise two kids in a marriage; if that. But it’s certainly higher than the barely $70,000 average annual wage one sees in country services. $30/hour or less seems the going rate in a thriving south west country town in WA. It’s reported that tradies can earn amongst the highest wages in the nation outstripping many of the professions.
Commentary opinion seems to be Albo’s new tax laws are going to kill investment in the building industry. That itself would create an unemployment catastrophe, forcing a radical change of government again. It’ll take years to repair the sovereign risk damage done to investment both nationally and internationally by Labor.
Whatever. The wealthy big businesses that followed Labor tend to be fair weather mates. They will follow the biggest buck. If One Nation – or even One Nation in coalition with the Coalition, keeping the unreliable Coalition in check – offers better conditions to businesses toeing its line, then that’s where they’ll go.
The centre right Parties need now to attack Labor. All is silent as people suffer. Liberal conservatives have to put it to their wets that their support of Labor’s climate policies makes them as liable for that suffering as Labor. They need get with the program or get out of the way to resuscitate the nation.
Or are they just Labor weeds ie plants out of place, or Malcolm’s facile hubris riddled fools that have destroyed the Liberal Party? Political Parties are there to serve the people; not vice versa. And the people are hurting due to their politicians’ social and economic recklessness.
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Doc, see my comment at #24, what do the Liberals stand for ? Nothing but their own existence in my view.
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Excellent news.
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Don’t expect any change to come in one election. This is a long war!
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All that is true! What some forget is that albanese , and some others in the Labor party have made some pretty personally denigrating comments about Trump, yet crawled back to the same Trump when they needed to. Pauline said nothing denigrating about Asian people as such. She referred to relative numbers of populations in our neighborhood.
[An excellent point. Apologies moderation was so slow this morning! – Jo]
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So if Labor are now the Party for the wealthy oligarchs and academic white collar crowd, and One Nation are the party for the workers -ie, the people that actually create and produce, ie all blue collar workers, farmers, miners, small business and entrepreneurs, who and what are the other parties for?
Liberals? stand for nothing and no-one but themselves, as shown by the constant in-fighting, they’re like seagulls squabbling over a scraps.
Teals? stand for their well to do virtue signalling, toff nosed inner city crowd, they act like they’re in an inner city council but accidently ended up in Federal parliament voting on issues that affect everyone.
The Greens? Stand for every radical anti humanistic cause from radical Islam to Trans rights but not saving the environment from actual harm.
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20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Meaning?
The shoe has yet to drop.
The decades long experiment with progressiveness/socialism/enlightrnment is shuddering and creaking.
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Australia bans social media for kids but gives free reins to AI for use in politics. Yeah right. Brave stupid world.
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