I agree Perce. He’s a likeable guy and not afraid to go onto Q&A and speak to a range of different voters. He’s not aggressive, he’s calm and seems like a conviction politician. Impressive background.
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the under sea railway was a good idea until they realised they could not modify the trains to force the windows shut
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This is how China plans to do it: a high-speed, 13,000-kilometer (8,078-mile) train from China, up through Siberia, under the sea through the Bering Strait into Alaska, across Canada’s Yukon and British Columbia, and into the USA.
Cost: just $200 billion.
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And they wouldn’t be able to construct the railway station car parks.
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Ah, but is it a core promise ?
The proposed route is unclear from the map you provide, but I presume for several reasons it won’t go via King Island, but will take full advantage of the chain of small islands stretching north-westwards from Flinders Island to Wilson’s Promontory. Piece of pish.
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^That was the stupidest fkg movie I ever saw. (As part of a captive audience on a Qantas flight)
Where’s Chris Bowen gone? Have they hidden him during this election?
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He was on 7.30 last night explaining what a nonsense the Dutton gas “plan” is.
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I know you don’t get out much, but you don’t have to watch the movies on planes.
Do they have TV in Perth yet ?
And said he expected to be back on the program during the campaign.
It would be a core promise for the Apple Isle.
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The article is dated May 13, 2014…
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In those days you did have to. As I said - captive audience. There were only a couple of screens for the whole plane. (Still are on many 737s). At least I didn’t have the headphones on so did not have to put up with the banal dialogue.
You would have been flying J so would have been well distracted.
So?
We know China plans very much further ahead than Western countries whose pollies rarely look beyond the next election cycle.
Are you sure you weren’t watching the tv series? The Bong Joon Ho film is bonkers and brilliant, literal and allegorical class struggle on a train to nowhere with Tilda Swinton channelling Chad Morgan. But if you were trying to watch using the complimentary headphones that can ruin any movie.
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Outsourcing and privatisation have been disastrous and expensive in many areas, but Dutton needs easy targets so now has to literally make up cases for redundancy not only in those areas where public servants have been employed to clean up the Morrison mess, but thousands of pre-existing jobs servicing the community. People with families and homes forced to relocate in many cases such are the nature of their jobs and availabilities. Worse results for society at large. Then what? Ah, jobs for mates and sons of mates.
“ Just 7000 new public service jobs have been created in Canberra under Labor, forcing the Coalition to cut 34,000 jobs from the rest of Australia or gut the capital.” the age
Second’d.
Loved the movie, yet to check out the TV series.
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It tries hard, and I’ll tune in if there’s nothing else because there’s some quality actors and a big future train, but it’s all a bit self serious, American, maybe even a bit Canadian, and misses the humour. All the grimness and none of the surreality. That said, admirable staying power, willingness to take the concept places over the ‘long haul’, and pretty serious production values. Sean Bean and Jennifer Connolly also.
Also very political, which is why this review is in this thread😉
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