Australia General Discussion 4.0: It ain’t easy under Albanese

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The LNP has held Federal power for nineteen of the past twenty five years. The left’s offering of a mix of old time socialism and new time identity politics is voter repellent.

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Jodi McKay was hosting the NBN late edition news when the first word of the September 11 attacks reached Australia. She should be remembered for that and not as yet another failed Labor leader.

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I meant the comms and Trots in the greens

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If Labor loses another Federal election the federal level of my party will be back to the dark days of the fifties and sixties before Whitlam became its leader and modernised it and made it electable again.

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Given he’s sabotaging my beloved ALP at every turn and boasting about how he’ll force us to bring back the toxic in the electorate carbon tax, can someone unable to be traceable to our party please do an Airey Neave to Adam Bandts car, or failing that, remove his voice box?

(Swiftian enough?)

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Dear the Hobart “Mercury”:

please use the headline TWENTY BRAVE DAYS.

Matthew

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I’m not usually one to offer advice to my political opponents, but if Eric Abetz etc want to sink the forthcoming indigenous referendum, a thirty second advert with footage of people saying always was, always will be, aboriginal land, and sovereignty was never ceded, will work *excellently*.

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Pacifism is a suicide squad. The conchies got exactly what they deserved during WWI

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My great grandfather who fought on the Western Front would regard your defeatism with rightful contempt…

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I see the Greens want to bring back union closed shops and legalise sympathy strikes. Nope!

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Left wingers who try defamatory No Platform crapola against political enemies haven’t got much time left, either. The Wild West nature of the internet was eventually going to run into the libel and slander problem.

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The Greens once again prove how unhinged they are, now advocating environmental personhood, thus giving the Coalition an easy campaign theme of “the Labor-Greens coalition government will give your house the same rights as you. It will be against the law to wee in your own toilet!”
https://greensmps.org.au/articles/greens-announce-767m-caring-country-plan-prevent-another-juukan

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More in the Greens being complete nutcases: https://greensmps.org.au/articles/greens-announce-plan-peace-demilitarisation-and-rejection-aukus-submarine-deal

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I see that Cleo Smith has given the grubs in the media a new excuse to wheel out photos of Jane, Arnna, and Grant….

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Sri Lankan Boat with economic migrants onboard intercepted, and the people immediately taken from their boat to Christmas Island then to the airport and sent back to Sri Lanka.



Christmas Island to Colombo express service.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10898865/Sri-Lankan-asylum-seekers-sent-home-Colombo-Christmas-Island-Australian-Border-Force.html

Albanese with his first test of immigration policy. Australian's are overwhelmingly against illegal boat arrivals, and Labor have not adjusted the policy from the Liberal Party.

Sri Lanka is currently in economic meltdown, so travelling people are paying boat smugglers to take them Australia. Just like England, US and Australia with stronger currencies compared to third world countries, the monetary difference means small amounts of Australian dollars make a big difference when converted to Sri Lankan dollars and sent back home.

I would personally prefer genuine refugees from Ukraine. Some 15 and 17 yo's orphaned from Mariupol with a genuine need for assistance should be brought here. Australian's don't like economic migrants from Iran and Sri Lanka jumping the queue pretending to be refugees.

This stops genuine refugees from getting help.

Why can't we get more people from Norway? (...and Japan)

Ignoring the thinly-veiled racism in this post, these perople are genuine refugees.

Such belligerent self righteousness on the part of boatists has failed to sway the minds of the majority of Australians despite twenty years plus of campaigning.

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Doesn't change the fact that over twenty years of campaigning has failed to shift the view of most Australians that unauthorised immigration by boat should be unlawful.

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Doesn't change the fact that over twenty years of campaigning has failed to shift the view of most Australians that unauthorised immigration by boat should be unlawful.

Because they're bombarded by right-wing rhetoric from NewsCorp 24/7.

that's complete cr-p but it serves the emotional needs of the boatist minority ("Yes, we are a minority, and we *know* we are a minority, but that is OK because other Australians are racists and xenophobes")

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boatist = someone who supports unauthorised boat arrivals. Or, less charitably, the illegal immigration racket under the guise of asylum seeking.

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I support increased humanitarian intake of those in need - which are mostly those in camps iin Africa, not those who can pay people to get on a boat.

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Exactly. The refugees in the camps in Africa can't pull together 20 dollars, let alone the money you need to fly to Jakarta and then get on a boat

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Disclosure: I am myself a university-educated professional living in an inner city. How then have I been inoculated against the biases I criticise my fellow commentators for? I believe the answer, paradoxically, is my membership of the ALP, and more particularly the ALP Right. Since my political affiliation is formal and widely known, I have to guard especially carefully against partisanship. And since I support a faction dominated by hard-boiled pragmatists and generally hostile to the views of the inner urban cosmopolitan elite, I am better equipped to avoid the trap of elite group-think into which many others have fallen.

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Leftist activists have little to no connection with what the "oppressed" actually want or believe. I cannott be the only one who was hoping that freak Bob Brown would get his own taste of mob justice when he came with that freaking convoy. I hate him almost as much as i hate Bandt and Richard di Gelato.

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It's 2022. Religion matters as little to most Aboriginal Australians as it does to most white Australians - not much at all in day to day life and concerns.