Australian Policies -- from October 2024

Let’s be honest here. Nobody has any confidence in either party to deliver sustainable and affordable energy.

The choice is between two scenarios that aren’t achievable, subject to massive cost blowouts and ultimately higher prices.

They’re both hopeless and we can’t trust either of them to deliver what they promise. So there’s no point criticising those nasty Liberals when Labor has proven it can’t deliver its plan either.

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Yes, there is a deranged madman who has the nuclear codes, but hey, I’m relaxed about that.

The difficulty was that people vied for Government positions unsalaried, they were expected to earn an income by virtue of their positions.
A big different, but Indonesian high ranking officers used to be granted concessions of palm oil plantations as salaries, leading to environmental degradation.
There was a story that the more irregular Indonesia militia during the Timor Leste referendum were earning their income from peddling drugs, with consequences for drugs circulating and drug addiction in Timor Leste after Independence

as a professed non voter, you don’t speak for the public and you’re irrelevant

thanks

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While that is true, the comment you have quoted is pretty fair.

some people obviously will

a lot will probably be misplaced

but we are well down the road of changing the energy to grener sustainable , why would you trash that for a 20 to 30 year pipe dream that won’t even go close to being enough. for better or worse the course we are on is well unse way and advances in tech plus price reductions on storage should see it get there eventually . ther is a cost for these things it’s never free but it’s nearly impossible to argue that nuclear has any hope ever of lowering prices , quite the reverse , once the major network infrastructure is delivered only renewables has a chance to eventually lower prices . every major project in the world post covid has had price blowouts , renenables have too too .
energy prices around the globe have all blown out, it’s not just and Australian thing .
the only dumb thing you could to to make things even worse now is to throw the baby out with the bathwater and do something really dumb like nuclear

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That a nice change from reading whining comments about property values.

Rent and mortgages have gone up materially

This is also the dude who a little while back referred to his clients as “stupid Indians”.

Of course he’s racist.

Frogshite !

It says more about those who offer the bribe than those who accept them.

And I guess all those CFMEU and Construction Companies are all Asian and Middle Eastern as well, or maybe Eastern European or those bloody French ! Or maybe the AusTrade Public Servants who gave us advice on how to approach the matter.

In any case, it is not about race at all, it is the way business was conducted and the lack of controls. I could give you examples but you are looking through blinkers,

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Finally, we agree on something dmapes.

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Please don’t challenge them to come up with an even dumber thing, or they will. (They will anyway)

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Make a sarcastic post on the absurdity of being literal to nth degree and the two main culprits like it :man_facepalming:

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For those not following Canadian politics, the two main parties have united in response to the tariffs threatened by Trump. Here is a message from the Conservative Premier of Ottawa, Doug Ford:

Do any LNP supporters here think what Doug Ford is doing is better than what Dutton has?

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We’re in a slightly different situation, but I think it’s awesome that leaders of opposing parties are able to come together like that.

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Won’t happen here.

Labor declares sky is blue, Dutton says it’s cobalt.

Hanson said it should all be white.

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Journalists of every stripe insist that labor agree sky is cobalt in the interests of bipartisanship.

Labor adopt liberal policy on sky colour. The same journalists now agree unanimously that this is a sign of Labor weakness.

National party MP Bozo McHitlerpants gets himself whanged on the head with a 9-iron while at a branch meeting at his local golf club, after trying to feel up the bartender when 14 pints the worse for wear. Bozo experiences vivid concussion hallucinations and now insists the sky is made of a million-mile long lavender-striped camel called Harriet.

Bozo is invited on Dancing With the Stars and gets a regular gig on Sunrise, where he talks about Harriet Theory and also expounds on the necessity of grinding up brown and trans people in large mincers and using the resultant goo to lubricate oil drills. Because he wears an Akubra, media coverage fawningly lauds his ‘retail political’ skills.

Fearing they might lose votes to One Nation if they don’t, the Liberal party wholeheartedly endorse Harriet Theory and announce they’ll be taking it to the next election. Moderate liberals say nothing about this, but still somehow claim to be moderate.

Journalists of every stripe insist that labor agree to embrace Harriet Theory in the interests of bipartisanship.

Labor adopt liberal policy. The same journalists now agree unanimously that this is a sign of Labor weakness.

Repeat.

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I’m in the Hawke electorate. Just got got a letter box drop highlighting every bad thing Dutton has done or wiil do on Heath, more sophisticated than Mediscare. We can’t afford Peter Dutton as Prime Minister.
Starts with ‘PETER DUTTON CUT $14.2 BILLION FROM VICTORIAN HOSPITALS. INCLUDING MILLIONS FROm MELBOURNE’S WEST’
Sheer speculation on my part that Bacchus Fox has scripted this election campaign material.

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