Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "National security ‘front and centre’ in election campaign" video.

@oldbloke204 And for many families I know it's not being able to work that has the biggest effect on their standard of living and access to funds. Even jobs that were not mandated for existing workers such as working for Australia Post, or cleaning the towns public toilets have mandates for any future staff. As for food shortages the government has a new precedent for dealing with "emergencies" they can just lock people up, issue curfews etc. I cannot in good conscience rank economics above human rights. For example China can manufacture more cheaply than the west by using slave labour. Excellent economics, horrendous human rights.
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@Mikelennon78 The federal government had the opportunity to vote against state mandates and refused. They are responsible.
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We need to fight to restore our freedoms and human rights before we worry about foreign enemies.
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@Mikelennon78 Under the constitution when state and federal laws are in conflict federal government is to prevail. This was discussed in full on Sky, Paul Murray I believe, at the time the bill was presented. Schwab praised Morrison personally for using covid to advance their aims, this was also shown on Sky. With a couple of exceptions, the federal government and the opposition are complicit.
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Well said
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@pwillis1589 Governments told us it was the UK joining the EEC in 1973 that got us trading with Asia. But that is no excuse for governments selling assets to China.
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@pwillis1589 I disagree. There are many countries Australians could not buy farms, and electricity companies in. I have always been against globalisation, and one of the more promising recent events has been the first real discussion for decades on the dangers of depending on global trade.
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@oldbloke204 There is no normal now we know our government can successfully become evil tyrants in an instant. As for our international position, if the politicians were serious they would be interning people from Chinese heritage and confiscating Chinese owned property, especially farmland. They are not serious, it's election fluff and distraction from real issues.
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@pwillis1589 That's not true, I know many young people who lost jobs to mandates and any new jobs require proof of vax. But even that is not my biggest concern on this issue which is that the government and opposition have shown how willing they are to abuse emergency powers and ignore basic human rights. Until this is investigated and legistated against we cannot afford to ignore the issue. After the election they have no reason to behave slightly better than they've done for two years.
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@buildmotosykletist1987 In addition the federal government did not have to give the states access to medicare information on vaccines, without which they couldn't have discriminated.
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@oldbloke204 How can you tell me what policies I should vote for, or advocate. As for numbers they are increasing as more and more Australians experience vaccine regret, especially those who suffered injuries, but also all those people who didn't want it and did so under coersion. And I do believe that being forced to participate in a medical experiment by your government is worse than poverty. Even Jesus said the poor will always be amongst us.
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@oldbloke204 And what percentage of Australians are homeless voters. Poverty can be temporary, and even a time of growth. But the 12 healthy people under 40, including a 12 yo boy, that I know who now have permanent heart damage do not have hope of improvement. The 12 yo collapsed in the hardware shop, and the entire town was upset. I only know what I know. You are predicting things as well, gloom and doom, economically, but the huge reduction in immigration has led to low unemployment amoung those allowed to work. My goodness there's literally a car race in my street, porsches and all sorts. Quite distracting.
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@Mikelennon78 My comment on the federal government and Medicare disappeared.
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@pwillis1589 I've not only thought about it, I have lived through the period of transition from protected manufacturing, and government ownership of electricity, etc, to that of globalisation and privatisation. I assure you we had plenty of biscuits to choose from, and in important areas like home ownership, the cost of living was lower, and wages were high, and unemployment virtually nonexistant. If Asian and European countries need to be bribed to trade with us, it is a bad deal for us and our sovereignty.
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@pwillis1589 Biscuits is a bad example, my Woolworths stocks Arnott's, homebrand, kookaburra biscuits, a brand with an Italian name but made in Melbourne, and digestives, which is the only brand they stock that is imported. Food is a bad example, very little imported food is stocked in my supermarket, there is little market for it. It was always possible to buy imported manufactured items, but they had tarriffs, to protect Australian manufacturing. I was not around in the 1950s. My town is hosting a car race, and there are literally racing cars in my street which is more than a little distracting.
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@pwillis1589 * Arnott's do produce a large variety of biscuits. And I live in a small town, which has no real multicultural element beyond our Italian restaurant, and has a very small Woolworths. But I don't remember any other brands of biscuits in Woolworths when I last lived in a city
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@pwillis1589 At the moment with luxury cars doing laps at least 200 KMPH past my window I have little sympathy for fancy cars lol. The issue of globalisation is much more complex, I actually did a unit on it at university circa 2000, certainly Australia was exporting pig iron to Japan under tarriffs in world war 2 when much to the chagrin of the government Japan bombed Australia. But added to that, my region has some of the first electricity plants in the world. I'm speaking about the nineteenth century. They were used to manufacture Woolen textiles, which were a major export. Even Britain imported them. The workers could afford comfortable electric powered homes, with a bay window in the parlour, and coloured glass windows. This continued for a century, until it could no longer compete with foreign slave wages. (Oh now we have tv helicopters, sorry.) And eventually they closed down, and now we have intergenerational joblessness, and housing unaffordability. Certainly a worse outcome. Immigration and globalisation has made housing, which was once affordable with one man's working class income, whilst supporting a wife and children, now a plaything for foreign investors and artificially driven demand. I speak of freedoms but I am not a libertarian. I'm a social conservative, who believes the best welfare was when we were a manufacturing country when you could leave a job in the morning and secure a new job by lunchtime. When I speak about freedom I speak about the bodily autonomy to refuse jabs, and for protection of Christian belief and expression and education. In the same way that conscription to Vietnam was widely viewed as immoral in my childhood. Ultimately the urban / rural divide is becoming more apparent around the anglosphere, and France. We don't like global things, the WHO, the UN, especially the WEF, and in the UK, the EU. And the government actively works to alter our demographics. But that's another story.
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Yet another example of how much our governments hate us, on every level of government. The car race my left leaning local government begged to host despite the opposition of the actual people. Resulted in a car driving through the fence of primary school, destroying the sports field. I pray no children were injured. Yet more evidence that the globalists protect the rights of the very wealthy to destroy what the working class value.
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* primary school.
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