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Gladys has said the EXACT same thing previously. You can't trust anything this woman says.
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No mater how its spun, these people on 'temporary protection visas' were ALWAYS going to be allowed to stay permanently in Australia. It was always a government 'slide of hand'.
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How did we accept all of this you ask Shari? Try people in the media like you, who in early days was one of the worst offenders for hyping up non existent problems and encouraging government to be even more extreme to 'protect my children'. I've a good memory, you Shari were one of the worst offenders. The media completely failed it's supposed role of holding government to account.
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The very idea that there would have been some relatively uniform 'welcome to country' ceremony used by aboriginals across Australia before white settlement, under any circumstances, defies common sense. There were hundreds of different languages and dialects spoken. A relative small population was spread out over a VAST distance, with no means of written communication, and the only means of travel was on foot. It's the equivalent of say everyone in Europe or Africa two thousand years ago used a common greeting when meeting strangers from another place.
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Ironically, if you look at the makeup of Chris Bowen's electorate (Fairfield, Merrylands, Blacktown, St Claire, etc), as a generalisation, these 'battler' western Sydney suburbs would contain one of the highest percentage of people in Australia unable to afford rapidly escalating power bills. Chris Bowen, certainly looking after 'his people'.
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Well just imagine what it would have been like if 'the voice' would have got up, and 24 radical activists had unlimited taxpayer funds to legally challenge/block/change just about EVERY government directive in the woke High Court. Truly frightening that such a stupid and dangerous idea got as far as it did.
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The most positive thing about this announcement is that it opens the door to an informed and mature discussion on nuclear energy for Australia, the ONLY alternative for base load power if Australians truly want meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Only one problem, current Labor leadership is incapable of having a "informed and mature" discussion on the subject.
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Even if Bowen did come up with a cost for his renewables plan, it'll be as accurate as his $275 reduction in your electricity bill claim. Anyone with half a brain should be able to figure a couple nuclear power plants located on the site of existing coal fired stations and using existing infrastructure MUST be significantly cheaper than renewables projects scattered all across the countryside (and stuck out in the ocean).
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There is an old stock market saying, attributed back to the 1929 crash that started The Great Depression, which seems equally applicable today .... "When the shoeshine boy starts giving stock tips, its time to get out of the market"
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"Droughts ranging from a year or two to more than a decade in length (e.g., the Millennium Drought of 1997-2009) have tended to be broken by widespread heavy rains (such as in 2010-2012, when rain also brought devastating floods to Queensland) rather than simply a return to average rainfall conditions." The role of Climate Variability in Australian Drought , Professor Pittman et al, February 2020. What is occurring now is completely consistent with the 120 year long term rainfall record, and NOTHING to do with 'climate change'.
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The equivalent US media is PBS.
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I agree with your Kerry, its truly amazing there is 13% of 5-11 year olds who have received their first dose. That there are so many irresponsible parents (prepared to jab their kids thinking it will protect the adults) will never cease to amaze me.
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Australians are already in a major recession. Its pure semantics that the overall number is or isn't propped up by massive immigration.
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I worked in many different fields before retiring. One thing I certainly noticed is that in general people in lean organisations that actually produce something tangible are much nicer and happier people than those who have 'intangible' jobs, especially large organisations. People take far greater pride and focus on the task at hand when they closely associate with a physical tangible product being produced. In intangible organisations such as life insurance and government most people are generally miserable, can't wait to go home, and spend most of their time engaging in turf wars.
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If Dutton gets it right then the LNP can win in 2025. The Albanese Labor government WILL self destruct, nothing could be more certain. It's just a question of how long that self-destruction takes. Based upon the way they have started out, should take long.
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No Meryl, a large percentage of Australian didn't want to know the government "had their back" in relation to covid. They wanted the government to get off their back.
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It's actually quite frightening if you think about it, that someone with so little technical knowledge and understanding as Albanese can be in charge of Australia's energy destiny.
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Glady' going to have holidays with Dan Andrews, classic. Glady's don't come back. And just where is Dan Andrew's on holiday?
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Regardless of Pauline's motivation, it is a good thing for the LNP to find they can't just assume minor right-wind parties or candidates will automatically preference them. Because they have assumed they will, it has created a mentality where they simply ignore the conservative base thinking they'll pick up their vote either directly or indirectly. So they focus on trying to attract more 'marginal' voters toward the left. The LNP needs to be taught 'go woke, go broke'.
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Well the 'voice' if it gets up will do a LOT. Not for grass-root aboriginal people, but for climate extremists (no future oil or gas project will ever be approved), and even in relation to defence, a proposition that supporters of the voice scoffed at in the early days. People can kiss the AUKUS submarine deal good-buy. The project requires a high level nuclear waste site to be developed, which would have to be on aboriginal grounds somewhere in Australia. The national 'voice' will make certain that NEVER happens. Virtually every aspect of Australian life will be directly or indirectly adversely affected if this divisive madness were to succeed. Even current grass-roots aboriginal organisations will be worse off with not one but 3 added layers (local, regional, national) of bureaucracy between them and government, and the national voice will have zero interest in their grass-root level issues.
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"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty. " John Basil Barnhill, Indictment of Socialism No. 3, 1914
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@creditelectric If you think Australia has handled the covid situation well over the past 2 years, sorry no other way to put it ..... your as thick as two short planks. It has been a total DISASTER!
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Same deal here in Australia with Peter Garrett. People have had a gutful of him lecturing the audience with his politics during his shows. And Garrett has even had a chance to 'make a difference' having been elected to office, where he turned out to be just a complete failure.
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@iris657 It is true, I've seen the longer video clip. At one point she even tells Lidia Thorpe that because she's lecturing the Northern Territory on what is "right for them" without any hands on experience of the problems, Lidia Thorpe is acting exactly like the parochial colonists she is so critical off. It's all classic stuff. But this highlights to me an even bigger more important issue. And that is the county has indigenous leaders of the quality of the NT AG, yet where is the MSM and especially the ABC showing these role models to the rest of the country. All they run endlessly is either 'woke' hard left inner city crew like Linda Thorpe, or hopeless and oppressed indigenous communities. Constantly pushing "The soft bigotry of low expectations".
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The man was NOT an Australian citizen as he didn't qualify for citizenship due to routinely flying back and forth between Australia and India to 'manage' a hotel (owned a hotel would seem more likely). It would appear he wasn't lacking medical attention, passing away in a "small private hospital".
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I'm a bit confused, seems I've come to a CNN website thinking for some strange reason it was SkyNews.
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Oh, you just forgot to mention that the 'study' finding the vaccine remained effective after 6 months was conducted by Pfizer, the makers of the vaccine. Totally impartial and no conflict of interest in the study I'm sure.
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Yes, he's mostly acting. Sky News only has him on to play the 'village idiot'. Same role as Juan Williams plays on Fox News in the USA. No one can really be as stupid in real life as these people make out, and earn money for doing so.
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So he is "highly infectious" but a household member, clearly someone who would be in greater contact that a passing stranger at a supermarket, tested "negative". Okkkkkkk.
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That a lightweight pop singer is 'person of the year' says a lot about the world today.
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Penny Wong may be arrogant and nasty, but she is not stupid. She knows full well how to provide a reasonable answer to this very reasonable question. The reason she doesn't want to give an intelligent answer is because that would highlight the absurdity of the very idea. Exactly the point Pauline was getting at.
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Utter crap. Putin enjoys the support of the vast majority of Russian people. This isn't saying I support or otherwise current events. It's just a simple indisputable FACT.
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As soon as this woman said "this virus IS 70% more contagious" she again shows she has either little understanding of the science, or is a straight out liar. A proper statement would have been something like 'while there is no firm evidence, it is believed by some that this new strain MAY be more contagious, however the jury is still out at present'. There is a VAST difference between unscientific fear mongering, and providing accurate information to the public.
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I truly don't understand the motivation of Jill Biden, allowing her husband to remain in a position that can only bring humiliation. Surely if she cared one bit for him she'd be saying it time Joe, you got to be President, now it's time to ride of into the sunset and enjoy our final years.
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@stewheelie7874 ANY idiot can say, someone should "just fix it". Doesn't matter the problem .... "someone should just fix it" and then be critical if others don't/can't to your satisfaction. It actually takes REAL intellect to come up with true practical and viable solutions, sell those ideas to others, and then lead the implementation of those ideas. Greta is just full of 'blah blah, blah', no different to those she criticizes.
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Unbelievable, trying to slander someone based upon what their GRANDFATHER may or may not have done.
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And the idea that someone shouldn't be able to withdraw part or all their superannuation as a lump sum when they retire is OBSCENE. If in retirement I decide super returns suck, and I want to transfer my money into an investment property, or privately held shares who the F is the government to tell me I can't. It's my money, I should be able to place it wherever I want.
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When I turned on the TV today it was on SkyNews Extra. The World Health Organisation were doing a Q&A session, and one of their answers involved the importance of being guided by the science, and that there is currently NO evidence on the effectiveness of 'boosters' in the general population. This program was interrupted (it was actually interesting) and the station cut to the Prime Ministers news lecture. It in turn was cut as they went to the NSW daily update. From this I got .... the WHO clearly state there is currently no scientific evidence booster shots are effective in the general population. However both federal and state politicians know way more than the WHO and they know with absolute certainty that booster shots in the general population (including children) are what is going to save Australia. So I'm confused, wondering which is right, and who I should believe????
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I wouldn't use the ratio of people defending someone being wronged as a guide. How many people stuck up for people loosing their jobs due to pointless covid restrictions. The mob actually cheered this stupidity. Get attacked these days in a public place, and just like this video, people will stand around saying nothing, just filming it on their stupid phones.
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YES, we should care about an Australian citizen, being pursued for nothing other than exposing some of the horrors of the US war machine.
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'The Voice' is nothing more than a power grab by a small group on inner city elites who identify as 'aboriginal'. It is not only a total con job on the wider Australian public, it is also a con job on aboriginal people. Aboriginal people will have no say on who sits on 'the voice' (all members being 'appointed' not voted in) and no means of getting their voices heard through the bureaucratic structure being proposed. P.S. yes, the Langton model IS what is being proposed, despite Albanese saying no model has been finalised (purely to avoid the highly flawed detail being critiqued).
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It's not the daily case number that are important. It the number of deaths, and the detailed circumstances surrounding those deaths e.g age, health status, vaccination status, where they caught the virus if known (aged care home). Without that just saying 15 people died is misleading, fear promoting. If we are informed 15 people all in their 90's died in a nursing home and were on end of life care, we have 'understanding'. So far, from what I've see, not a single otherwise healthy person has died in NSW in this outbreak. I'm not expecting that trend to materially change.
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I used to believe I belonged 100 percent in Australia. But have to admit that sense of nearly unquestioning pride has dwindled significantly I don't think I'm drifting away, it's the country that is drifting away from me. If you'd told me how government would treat me during COVID 30 years ago I would have laughed and told you are nuts.
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Any mature industry that can't find sufficient skilled staff...... whose fault is that? Only one mob to blame.
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@gavinpearce3846 Donald was actually ASKING the medical professionals is there something that can be injected that works "like disinfectant" to kill the virus. What do you think chemo therapy is in relation to cancer?? They inject strong chemicals into the person to attack and destroy the cancer cells and 'cleanse the body'. Only a complete fool or someone deliberately lying for political reasons would actually believe or state Donald suggested actually injecting household disinfectant.
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I worked in numerous large organisation, both private and government. In no place was a woman paid less than a man for doing a similar job. If anything, woman with less ability were being unfairly promoted over men in order for the organisation to met a quota. As it stands its actually women who have an advantage over men in the workplace.
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What the pandemic showed in relation to mRNA vaccines was just how utterly irresponsible and dangerous the medical establishment and government could be.
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Not sure why someone with a face full of Botox would be worried about it.
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If a club doesn't want to let me at some time in the future if I'm still undecided about being vaccinated, fine.... the food is generally crap anyway. I'll just go patronize a small restaurant who I'm sure will be happy to take my money, and really prefer to support anyhow.
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@JaraBond007 We are not getting 'the technology'. All the complex engineering work will be done by US or UK contractors. All Australia will be doing is paying the outrageous invoices.
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