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Retired Tree-changer living a hermit life in Anaiwan country. 316.79ppm 🎲🃏🐨🦎🐵🌳🥖🍺🍷♻️
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Every few years, we get the chance to change things for the better.
And every single time, the majority of voters say "Nah! We'll have more of the same tired old shit that has failed us for the past 50 years".
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Murray is actually playing Blood on the Clocktower and he's clearly not one of the townsfolk.
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From memory I paid $9.50 for an asthma inhaler here in Australia a few weeks back.
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I think these people heard a story about civet cat coffee and didn't quite understand it.
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But that would deny so many Aussies pleasure from their greatest pastime - punching down on those less fortunate.
The very same aspirational dullards defending the wealthy with $3 million in super, commonly delight in sinking the slipper into the poor and disadvantaged.
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Every billionaire is a public policy failure.
No individual ever needs to have that much money.
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Our governments have written ludicrously generous tax laws specifically for the corporations.
They get to claim all capital expenses, for years and years (exploration, construction), as losses against future earnings.
Any profit they make is offset against the losses, meaning they pay no tax.
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I wouldn't expect anything less from the duopoly. They are virtually indistinguishable nowadays - meat puppets of the multinational corporations that own them and who dictate policy to favour themselves.
What irk me the most is the ignorance of the voting public who continue to support them both.
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Dr in Homeopathy? WTF?
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I thought it was fine. Got it in 4.
What irks me most is the American spelling of words.
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What the fuck?
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Lols….and if journos reported the science and not the contest there wouldn’t be ‘climate wars’
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China are transforming their nation, housing, healthcare, jobs, science, tech, renewables, millions of EVs, 600kph maglev trains.
In the US, a million Americans are homeless, thousands of jobs are gone, healthcare is crippling, billionaires get tax cuts.
Which country should we align with?
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For a couple of grand, Labor will approve your request.
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The LibLab duopoly can't be trusted to govern without the Greens and indies functioning as a conscience.
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After a drug-fuelled month of debauchery and crime.
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More of Timmy's delusional fantasy stories that are as plausible as him possessing integrity and humility.
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Labor weren't "canny" to delay the announcement. They were deliberately deceptive.
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Warringah was a blue ribbon seat for the Libs, until Abbott proved so unpalatable they turfed him out.
Clearly his $300k pa lifetime pension isn't comfortable enough to keep him occupied, he's still running around scrounging on the RWNJ speaking circuit and causing trouble.
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Insurers will abandon the market and the govt will have no choice but to step-in.
The hit to the budget will quickly dwarf spending in other portfolios, like welfare and defence, and the situation will worsen with each disaster.
Nobody wins here, except for the fossil fuel industry.
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What hope of that happening?
Our governments can't even tell them 'No", when they demand mine openings and expansions.
There is absolutely no way the two major parties will have the balls to tell their mining industry masters to be responsible and to pay for the climate damage they have wrought.
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Uninsurable also means un-mortgageable.
If you can't insure your property, no bank will loan you money against it.
Which means you can't sell it, because nobody will buy it.
Whole areas will have to be abandoned, and the displaced demand will make areas that are "safer" completely unaffordable.
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It's hard not to become jaded.
When I was young I really thought we were striving and heading toward the bright Star Trek type of future, of science, knowledge, exploration, technology, equity, equality.
As the years have worn on, I fear we're on the slide toward Idiocracy.
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Trump has zero charisma.
He's simply a narcissistic scam-artist who, for decades, has made use of bluster and blasé to promote himself and his image.
And because he has money, he's been able to get away with it.
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Every election I hold-out a faint hope that things might finally change.
-When a minority govt passed record legislation
-When an influx of young voters registered for the SSM vote.
-When the entire eastern seaboard was aflame.
Yet, nothing seems to sway voters beyond narrow self-interest.
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Me either.
But the majority did. And they don't seem capable of recognising their mistakes and learning from them.
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youtu.be/5bLy1gQ1r6w?...
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Who are we? Clearly some of the dumbest people on the planet.
We could have been the wealthiest nation on earth. The envy of the entire world.
Instead, we kept voting for two major parties who sold us out.
Even though it was obvious for years, we just kept voting and hoping they would change.
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That's an instant block for this cunt!
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Haven't you been listening? It's all about "firming".
Australians need firming.
They crave it.
They plead for it.
They're gaggin' for a good hard firming.
And thanks to Albo, he'll make sure we all get well and truly firmed all by his mates at Woodside, every day for the next 45 years.
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Here is a prediction.
Watt will resign before the next election for "health reasons" and to "spend more time with his family".
Shortly thereafter he will take-up a lucrative consulting role with Woodside.
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Promise? The only thing they've done for the environment over the last 3 years is an attempt to turn it into another shonky capitalist scam with the "Nature Repair" market.
Investors can buy dodgy (carbon credit-like) nature offsets to conserve nature. Bullshit!
www.crikey.com.au/2024/10/15/n...
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We shouldn't have to go to court against our own government.
It is their job to act in OUR best interests.
I've yet to see a single skerrick of proof that demonstrates any benefit for the Australian people.
As usual, the LibLab duopoly just doing the bidding of their fossil fuel puppet masters.
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Just like the M2, our idiot govt takes the cheapest option every time.
During planning, the M2 builders told the govt they could build it 3 lanes wide for an extra $40 million. The govt said "Nah!".
Years later it cost over $1 BILLION to widen the road, plus all the delays and inconvenience.
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The ABC seem to have mysteriously forgotten about the previous the 70+ year displacement, occupation, slaughter and genocide of the Palestinian people that happened before 7 October.
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Ever notice how so many politicians leave politics very wealthy?
Maybe they are just good money managers and astute investors?
Although, Occam's Razor implies a simpler, more obvious, cause - bribery and corruption.
Why else would you so willingly sell-out the people you are paid to represent?
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So, if Japan don't need the gas, who exactly are they selling it to?
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Which bank is going to issue a mortgage against a house that is virtually uninsurable, and increasingly, more likely to be hit with disaster after disaster?
Whole areas will soon be uninsurable and therefore, unliveable.
The cost of government acting as insurer of last resort will be astronomical.
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Bribing politicians is the best investment ever.
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I'm pretty sure, if you asked both major parties, they'd say the NACC was a complete success.
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Every election, I live in hope that voters might think about our environment and our children's future, only to have those hopes dashed by ignorance, apathy, and self-interest.
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Most voters are disinterested in politics and have swallowed the propaganda from the major parties - that voting is binary.
That you can only vote for one or the other, and anything else is a wasted vote because indies and small parties can't hold power.
They also have short memories.
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Anyone who is politically aware knew this decision had been made well before the election, but hidden from view during the campaign.
And with Watt the (laughable) "Environment" Minister, expect even more coal and gas approvals, as they put corporate interests ahead of our safety and wellbeing.