netnurse.bsky.social
Adelaide, South Australia.
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And I’m so pleased we do!
Compulsory voting and preferential voting makes it incredibly unlikely we’d ever elect a Trump or Farage type figure here. Thank goodness for that!
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Why not apply them all at once? Why the trickle? Ridiculous!
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Good luck today. The world is following along.
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FWIW I think we should cut our losses on AUKUS.
Trump’s trying to extort Zelenskyy now, and what do we do if he tells us we need to pay more if we want any subs?
And UK will focus on NATO, not us https://shorturl.at/Vl0wi
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We need to cut our losses and dump AUKUS now. He’ll be trying to extort us next telling us we need to pay US more if we want their subs.
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Good. Let’s hope he sticks to this.
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Please can we cut our losses and dump AUKUS now please! We may be the next country he wants to extort, he’ll tell us we need to pay US more if we want subs. Then do we just hand it over to this convicted felon?
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Thanks. So I guess it’s which country is assessed to be our most concerning adversary. What a choice. It may be time for my country to have this discussion however. Maybe it’s time to also review Five Eyes and the Quad partnerships.
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Australian here. Could Australia withdraw US access to Pine Gap? It’s on our soil after all. Some people now starting to think US is an adversary. TIA.
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Bit late for your first discussion (just waking up in Oz) but our Former PM, Malcolm Turnbull, stood up to Trump during his 1st Admin, and says don’t give in to a bully. I’m proud of him.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/malcolm-turnbull-makes-call-global-leaders-advice-trump
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Well I’m in Sturt so this is excellent news! Thanks for posting!
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I read your first book and you said, when you wrote it, that you loved America, so do you still?
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Kim Beazley would have made a really good Prime Minister of our country. It’s sad it never happened. A good person IMO.
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Don’t forget about your international audience!
I listen most days from Australia and love your work Simon.
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Done! Thanks!
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It’s time all Western diplomats state the obvious that we no longer share US values.
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I couldn’t agree more! In fact if Coalition were to have a policy to cut our losses and quit this absolute crap of a deal I’d vote for them. Biggest own goal in #auspol history IMO. It makes Abbott’s plan to buy 12 subs from Japan look genius by comparison.