Big day in Labor history today. 50 years on but everyone I know remembers where they were when Gough was sacked. In my MMBW workplace back then, when the news came through the whole staff of close to 300 walked out in protest, including all Senior Managers.
While the Liberals struggle for relevance, their act that day was endemic of their culture, and it does not seem to have changed. While I can criticise our Labor Government for a lack of ambition and for a conservative approach to progress, I cannot criticise the strength and quality of the Caucus. Quotas were absolutely responsible for the numbers of women in our Parliament and while it taken many years, today with the Federal Cabinet having a female majority of high quality and high achieving Ladies which is a boon for our Nation.
The only way the Liberal Party will move forward is to set Quotas, and ensure that the best and brightest women get supported. It will not happen as they are stuck on ideology and not accepting what is best for their Party and our Nation. Susan Ley will get shafted, and Hastie will take over, hopefully leading them to oblivion.
Gough , should have listened to Haydenâs suspicions.
And fxck kerr and his entire lineage.
Lickspittle of the highest order.
And stupid people were only too eager to believe the bullshit âsupplyâ lies.
Disgraceful chapter in Australiaâs history.
Labor needs to find their socialist fibre before we turn into Australiaâs version of the democrats.
She wonât.
She canât.
The courts donât want to put kids in jail. The county courts are overstretched as it is.
There is no evidence that it will holistically make society better. Quite the opposite.
It makes some people feel good to say lock the violent brats up, thatâs all.
What actually makes things better is woke stuff that those people would hate, and unfortunately costs a shedload of money.
There is no quick fix with this.
No-one is going to say what really turned my life around is when my older brother went to jail for three years, and he was so much better when he came out.
Nobody is pretending this is about rehabilitation. Itâs the opposite of that.
Having said that, youâre right, whatâs happenjng now isnât working.
Iâd say this proposal is treating the symptoms rather than the cause, but itâs not even doing that.
Itâs life on earth, nothing is ever safe and okay. Why is Victoria suddenly the â â â â â â â Bronx in 1975? Because itâs the only scrap of bullshit the Libs and their news org can get any traction on. JFC
The funny thing is, I feel like Melbourne was waaaaay crappier and more dangerous when I was in my youth.
How do I put thisâŚI guess the intensity of the violence was less, but the commonality of it was far, far more.
Your mileage may differ, of course.
Edit: what Iâm trying to say is that perhaps I feel like Iâm a little more likely to be stabbed now, but I was way way way more likely to be beaten the crap out of for looking at someone wrong in the late eighties/early nineties.
