Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "ABC News In-depth" channel.

  1. I can buy 100 grams of loose tobacco for 25 bucks from a local chop chop shop. If I want to buy that and pay the govt excise from a legal tobacco shop, it will cost me about $250. Where do you think I'm going to buy my tobacco from. I feel sorry for legitimate tobacco retailers, but they should be directing their anger at the extortionist tactics of the government. Halve the excise (at a minimum) and I think you'll find people like me will return to legitimate retailers.
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  2. This series should have millions of views.
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  3. I'm nearly 61. I'd organise myself to head over there and become a station hand to support these people if they asked.
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  4. What concerns me is that very little has been said about the victims other than sensationalising their pasts. If I was living in Snowtown, I'd advocate for a memorial to the victims to be constructed after demolishing the building.
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  5. We often ridicule maverick land regeneration projects. Permaculture was considered hippy madness decades ago. As was restricting cattle access to natural waterways.
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  6. I look at this as a father. I would want my children brought back to Australia to face our Laws. Yes, most of these girls willingly went to Syria and beyond. But they were arguably children when they left and were arguably groomed for their roles. Bring them home and treat them as Australians in the courts.
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  7. Media Watch never fails to reinforce my negative opinion of mainstream media. As a 17 year-old (nearly 40 years ago), I worked in the industry and it was just as slimy then as it is now.
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  8. @markienorvelli5004  A brilliant way to help the creeks and the rainforest recover.
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  9. YouTube was built on the shoulders of small time individual creators. The powers that be seem to have forgotten their roots.
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  10. At 4:20, as you describe the media frenzy, I realised that I really don't watch much tabloid media, nor read it. This is the very first time I have heard of this supposed debacle. Oh, and just sayin' this happens every bloody day in countless households across Australia. It ain't news.
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  11.  @ABCNewsIndepth  Awesome! Thank you. I'm really enjoying the In-Depth content so far.
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  12. Trump talks complete drivel, blatant lies, and contradictions, and he alone believes his drivel, lies and contradictions.
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  13. Yeah. Much overload for old woman. Uncle jack deserves more attention.
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  14. @thomasw.5344  Well, yeah. That's what Trump would do to boost the algorithm if it was pŕo Republican.
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  15. Human influenced Climate Changed was warned about by scientists back in the mid-30s. Three-parts-of-F-all has been done to mitigate our pollution since then. Very very few countries are actually doing anything constructive, perhaps least of all Australia, a country that urgently needs to cut its reliance on the coal and LNG export industry and make use of the vast tracts of open land we have that is ideal for not only wind farms, but also solar thermal plants. Oh, and if you raise the panels a few metres off the ground on a solar farms, you can grow stuff under them. You know, like fodder or food crops. Or even biofuel crops. We have solutions, we just need political parties that work for the people, not corporations.
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  16. Weapons manufacturers sponsoring a war memorial. Yeah, we've devolved as a society. Really? The same industry that profited from the death of soldiers...
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  17. 4:37 This part is interesting. It seems (in my uneducated opinion) that 'The Department' is saying, "Oh yeah, but the unused flood water will help the river systems." I would want to see proof that the property was being reprofiled to allow overland flow to reach the river systems. Remember Cubby Station? It was holding back more overland flow water than there was in Sydney Harbour.
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  18.  @nicholaslibertyrx5322  You mean people of Middle-Eastern appearance, don't you? Mate, in the 70s people like you, whined about the Asians. Before that, it was Greeks and Italians, long before that it was Chinese. Give it a bloody rest. If you're not Aboriginal, you come from immigrants that arrived here less than 300 years ago.
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  19. I'd argue that 'write what sells' is the mantra of gutter journalists. Real journalists report the truth.
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  20. When you have construction companies under threat of penalties for running overtime on projects, there will be faults inadvertently (or otherwise) overlooked that could potentially lead to something more horrifying than forced eviction and plummeting property values.
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  21. @paulcallicoat7597  That's very cool, mate.
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  22.  @nicholaslibertyrx5322  'They'...It's not 'they' mate. It's all of us. There are many, many more Australian-born people rorting the system than immigrants. I have worked and I've used welfare various times between the 70s and a few years back. Some claim honestly, some don't. 'They' have nothing to do with it. The system was designed to help those in need so that people didn't die from starvation or turn to crime to make ends meet. It's failed us on many levels.
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  23. @fold2victory  I also (sadly) think inherent racism in many states in the US may also hinder her chances.
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  24. I avoid over monetised channels. I tend to find they also have commercialised content.
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  25. Oh, Vines.
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  26. Oh and just sayin', I've always liked Costa Rica. Not that I've been there. It has a romantic attraction.
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  27. Courtney has the biggest Adam's Apple I've ever seen on a woman...(I'll wait for the triggered comments). Lub ya, Courtney. You're a gem.
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  28. This cuts deep.
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  29. Spike Milligan was a legend. I am old enough to have been introduced to his earlier comedy, and had read his books in my early teens. In the late 70s, I auditioned for what was to be an environmentally focussed Kids TV series in Australia that was going to be hosted by Spike. I'm not sure if they made a pilot episode but I didn't get a part. I seem to recall the pilot being shown though. Any Aussies remember something like that in the late 70s?
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  30. @thomasw.5344  :)
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  31.  @ashsmitty2244  Yes, and enough sunlight makes it between panels to grow things.
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  32.  @ashsmitty2244  I hear your doubts, but it has been done. The issue with most solar farms today is that the panels are too low to ground. Cheaper for maintenance and construction costs. Three to four metres works and enough sun gets in. Panels aren't installed horizontal.
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  33. @Jack Bornholt and I said WAS. Or didn't you read my comment fully?
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  34.  @nicholaslibertyrx5322  It's welfare. You, me and every other citizen is entitled to it if circumstances deem it appropriate. Welfare is not racist.
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  35.  @tubester4567  I stand by my argument. Bring them back, then charge them. IT's arguably treason, which, last time I looked has you locked up at Her Majesty's Pleasure. That is, Life unless you're really lucky.
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  36.  @happyme3556  I'm Atheist, so I ignore the religious side of it. These girls committed crimes against our Country's laws. Yes, they were more than likely groomed or coerced, but they did the crime. Therefore they need to be brought home to face our justice, not the 'justice' of a foreign country. They could well face life sentences for Treason here. So ge it. If it was my daughter I'd want her back here so I could kick her arse too, but that's purely hypothetical. My daughters were raised to fiercely think for themselves and have good hearts. And so far (36 and 22) they're going okay.
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  37.  @queenz0707  Full of what?
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  38. Why can't Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez run? Is she too young? I'm not up to speed with the rules for potential presidential candidates.
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  39. The US needs to amend its Constitution to prevent anyone over 60 from running for the presidency. Biden looks like he might be living his last days. He looks gravely ill.
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