When the time comes for me to scratch away at the voluntary postal plebiscite, I will be voting no. And I say so presuming the question is “Do you approve of the Coalition government spending $122 million of taxpayers’ money to save it from itself?”
Really, that is the question. Or it should be.
The Turnbull government is acting against its own interests. This nationwide opinion poll runs contrary to everything the Liberal Party believes in. Even the party’s manifesto says so. Not that they call it that in order to avoid any ideological misapprehensions. They deign it a platform and in that document, replete with more motherhood statements than a 10 minute harangue from Mia Freedman, there sits this rather incriminating phrase: “…that government exists to serve people and not the reverse.”
But here we are engaging in an unproductive and divisive exercise for no good reason other than the Coalition government will erupt into terminal brawling unless the people bail them out for a couple of months before the next round of fussin’ and feudin’ begins.
Full column here.
Ho hum. Another one for the High Court. Barnaby could be a Kiwi it seems.
One way and another this joke of a parliament is keeping the High Court busy…..
oh well..make parliament indigenous only…simples
Question: Why hasn’t Joyce resigned yet?
Answer: The LNP believe they’re above the Constitution.
Seems Brandis thinks they are.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-protests-white-nationalists.html
Governor McAuliffe also defended the police response, saying, “It’s easy to criticize, but I can tell you this, 80 percent of the people here had semiautomatic weapons.
“You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army,” he added. “I was just talking to the State Police upstairs; they had better equipment than our State Police had,” he said, referring to the militia members. “And yet not a shot was fired, zero property damage.”
Any thoughts, Jack, on how the next episode could turn out and what could be exercising the minds of Mattis, Kelly & McMaster?
I find it really unhelpful to try and pin the Klan and the various ultranationalist groups like Vanguard America on to some point on the political spectrum. Many people get confused about these things. If you call neo Nazis right wing, people who identify as right wing find some desperate rationalisation, some excuse, some apology. Ideology is almost entirely irrelevant. They’re fucking Nazis. Australia fought against them. Back then the only good one was a dead one.
well well..everyone likes a profit
http://reneweconomy.com.au/its-absurd-but-consumers-may-be-better-off-quitting-the-grid-21860/
The article in today’s paper regarding the high level of stress and attempted suicides in Victorian schools was very disturbing – but not really surprising.
Every day these poor kids get to achool, the notion of who they actually are, or indeed might be – other than just a normal kid having fun – is being rammed down their throats.
Ideas are being force-fed to normal kids – no doubt giving rise to increased grounds for bullying, rather than decreasing such grounds.
A social experiment going horribly wrong in my opinion.
If I had a kid at a achool using this “safe schools” crap I’d be seriously thinking about getting them out of that psychological cesspit.
I’m not sure we could draw too many lines between youth suicide and safe schools, no matter what you think of the program. It is tough to be a kid these days, much tougher than it was in previous generations. They are online almost constantly at a time when one is uncertain about identity and how and where they fit in. There is no escape if one should be bullied or ridiculed. When I was a kid everyone made mistakes but if you were ridiculed for making them, you could always go to another group for some respite. Now those mistakes get amplified on the internet and within minutes everyone knows. The first step for us adults is to understand how bloody hard it is for them.
Yes agree, Jack. Social media has a lot to answer for too.
Texting, sexting and so on are pretty full on.
Strikes me that kids just don’t have much of a “real” childhood any more.
Down here in oaky oaks it always makes my heart sing to see parents out bushwalking with their kids – of all ages – it’s a common sight. All of them having fun.
Sorry but I don’t agree. I see many fine examples of parents, both here and overseas (and I include my family members in this ) who ensure that their kids are having a great childhood. They aren’t worried about the safe schools program either. Bit of a long bow to draw there. Youth suicide is an alarming problem but there are a number of reasons for this including social media. However blaming the schools and parents is glossing over the very real societal problems that kids are subjected to every day and sometimes parents are powerless to help. It breaks my heart.
Yvonne you continue to highlight you have no FN clue. Hey! look over there another shadow for you to jump at. I suppose you support the catholic schools almost identical program though don’t you because the Vic. libs support it.
Do you have to be a foul mouthed grub to all the ladies or just the ones who do not agree with your cherry picked ideology?
Haha. Doesn’t worry me, Razor. All of a sudden I’m now a Catholic Lib! Hilarious. What a fool.
Oh dear, Usain has snapped his bolt in his last competitive appearance. Not the way he’d like to go out after the last start loss.
Meanwhile good girl Sally Pearson, who many had written off after multiple injuries, pulls off a World title after taking her coaching internal so to speak. Go that good thing, she is a shining light in Australian sport. Not bad for an old fart at 30, in athletic terms that is. Us real old farts can’t make it up a ladder, let alone a daunting series of hurdles.
Wonderful win from Pearson. What a great athlete she is. The best not only win consistently at the top level but come back from injury and adversity to do so.
It’s a shame Bolt didn’t retire after Rio much as I loved watching him run, he just didn’t look fit at all.
Think one of the commentators mentioned that his sponsors wanted him to hang on for the worlds.
Woo hoo full house in tipping, one point behind you Milt
I seem to be ahead of you in the EPL, Tracy. Burnley beat Chelsea? WTF? What even is Burnley?
It’s a little town up north and probably ex cotton mill territory, now they beat Chelsea at footy😀 just thought I’d mention the last bit in case people had missed it.
Jesus, that chick who reads the news on NKorean TV is one scary lady. Send her to deal with the Don I say.
I’m sure she’s well paid and looked after though Boa……for the time being that is.
I love her. She’s over 70 apparently and had to be dragged out of retirement.
“Dragged” probably going the operative word Triv!
had a Gekko at the. Stats and the beagles are just lucky to win. Uninspiring
No surprises. the coalition looking after the super profits of the banks and continues its ideological attacks. It should be noted K. Odwyer receives hundreds of thousands $$$ in “donations” from the bank she previously worked for.
http://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/financial-services/super-amendments-favour-for-profit-funds-20170813-gxv5bq
Big decision coming up in the next week for Fat Boy Kimmie of North Korea, Mr Insider. Does he press the “fire” button for a missile launch on Guam and face extinction shortly thereafter from POTUS Trump’s Military that is “locked and loaded”, or does he sit back instead and order another big bowl of strawberries and ice cream? Tough decision Kimmie lad!
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