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Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 7:52 am
by @Cicada3301AU
Wokism is the terminal cancer of Australian politics.
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:43 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
Australia is in the Asia-Pacific, and is not a member of NATO.
So why is Australia injecting more resources into NATO?
https://www.afr.com/world/north-america ... 711-p5jsos
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:52 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
While the Australian Defense Force pulls navy ships out of the water because of lack of enough sailors to operate them, and does nothing to increase our defense capabilities, defense bureaucrats splurge $150m dollars on a computer system that was neither needed, will not benefit the ADF or improve national security, overall.
What a bunch of incompetent chumps.
https://www.afr.com/link/follow-20180101-p5jqyc
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2024 11:15 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
To be quite fair to Albo, there's absolutely nothing he could have done to prevent the defection of Senator Payman.
When a Senator chooses religious and ideology-driven politics over the interest of the nation wholly, then ultimately they will end up on the path of going rogue.
We've seen it happen before and it will continue to happen, until the loophole is closed which allows elected Senators to remain in their seat if they defect from the ticket they were elected.
I firmly believe Senators are abusing this loophole and it needs to be closed, ASAP, or ideology-driven politics will become the key motivation for entering Parliament.
Perhaps it already is.
Perhaps it's too late.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquir ... e0bb310c7a
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:33 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
Claire O'Neil is correct, democracy is eroding and the democracy experiment is failing.
Unfortunately for Ms. O'Neil, she is a Minister of a government which is only ensuring the freedoms, rights and values that underpin democracy are eroded even further.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/de ... 715-p5jtom
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:22 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
Excellent piece.
Very reflective of many of the things I've been talking about on social networks, for the past couple of years.
The only issue that seems to be consistently ignored by reports like this is that of political disenfranchisement.
In Australian, it's a massive problem.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquir ... ead5a4c10f
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:49 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
No matter how one views the latest Newspoll, it shows an absolute crisis of confidence in Australian politics.
Both leaders of the two major parties only received 28% support, each.
That's less than a third of the nation and even less than what Anthony Albanese was elected on, to become Prime Minister.
There's no way to spin this other than to say it's a completely dire situation and I've never seen such lack of confidence in Australian politics as I'm seeing right now.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation ... f94d651370
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:13 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
It's this left-wing nut case ideology that is destroying all rational political debate, not just in Australia, but around the world.
Re: Australian Politics
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:50 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
New RedBridge polling shows a regenerated shift towards supporting Peter Dutton.
Interesting, however even a big swing to the Liberals at the next election probably still won't be enough to regain most of the seats they lost at the previous election slaughter.
No matter the result on election day, I think it's inevitable we'll end up with a hung Parliament, which will then definitively result in the minor (yet influential) far-left, green-left bloc supporting the Labor Party to govern with a minority.
The irony is I predicted all this.
The most obvious signs of a permanent political shift in Australia started way back in December 2021, when I wrote;
"Traditional Liberal voters are panicking, just a little, because they no longer know what the Liberal Party stands for.
Traditional Liberal values - small government, free market, individual freedoms - no longer apply in an increasingly complex and unorthodox pandemic-riddled world.
The increased uncertainty is certainly on the minds of Australian voters, as disgruntled voters take their concerns straight to the fringe parties."
Then, in a June 2022 Editorial titled "The Potential for Far-Left Government and Shift in Australia's Political Landscape Could Have Permanent Consequences", I said;
"We warned about the potential before the election.
Albo may not be a far-left politician himself but the influence and pressure from some senior ministers, particularly pro-China defense minister Richard Marles, and pressure from the green-left bloc, might prove too much for Albo to resist.
It's true that Labor does now hold the majority in the Lower House, but with such a large unprecedented bloc of green-left members of parliament, Albo will be doing very well if he's able to push back from the pressures of the far-left.
With the incredible power The Greens and the Teal cult have, the bloc is effectively an extension of the Labor Party, creating the perfect storm for one of the most far-left governments Australia has ever had.
This is all no accident and Australians must not underestimate how significant this massive shift in the structure of the House of Representatives really is."
ICYMI the real kicker is this line;
"With the incredible power The Greens and the Teal cult have, the bloc is effectively an extension of the Labor Party"
And that is what is currently unfolding, in 2024, and will most likely continue into the coming election.
Don't underestimate the unity and political arrogance of the green-left bloc, as they will do whatever it takes to retain their influence and to put the Labor Party back into office for a second term.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... ef54c6a79d
Re: [Australian Politics] Australian Politics
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2024 8:38 pm
by @Cicada3301AU
I think the removal of Claire O'Neill from Home Affairs was a mistake.
I also think guttering the Home Affairs department and removing key national security responsibility is dangerous, at the current time in history where social cohesion has fallen apart and community tensions are extremely high.
This is just a continuity of the same incompetence demonstrated by the Albanese Government.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/al ... 728-p5jx5b