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Australia's global 'exit': tribalism and international institutions : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 16/9/2016

Hanson and Roberts hail from a long line of populists suspicious of the 'international institution', which they regard as something of a meddling, threatening Frankenstein.

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Binoy KAMPMARK...sounds to me he likes to find imperfections, both imaginary and genuine with everything and everybody in this great Nation of ours. Therefore one wonders why he even bothers to remain here ? Surly there must be some other dysfunctional Country that could employ his great intellect to show them the way to resolve all their national difficulties.

As an uneducated 'dumb-bum' I'm quite content with my country with all it's problems, secure in the knowledge we have both the personnel and the necessary wherewithal to fix it, without some intellectual lightweight from Selwyn College, in Cambridge, coming here criticizing and whinging about every damn thing this great Nation has to offer !

Your recent commentary on 'Long Tan' day contained in your 'OZ MOSES' Site didn't escape me either. As a veteran myself, who was badly treated upon my own repatriation, your audacity to even criticize those events touching on that special day, a day that's held sacred by all Vietnam Veterans, is utterly egregious and disrecpectful. Still what can you expect from some superficial intellectual, of so little merit.
Posted by o sung wu, Friday, 16 September 2016 8:37:26 PM
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Most Australians, unless they turned on the telly and were told on Sunrise, or via the MSM, would not know a buffalo was up them until it pulled out and then turned around to see the horns behind them.

Global Exit - 'Glexit'...what a great name for Australia and Australians generally!

Sad though it is, Ms Hanson & her buddy David Ettridge became Australia's first political prisoners since the crew at Canada Bay - see: http://www.concordheritage.asn.au/concord-history/french-canadian-exiles-1840

Herr Abbott and his cronies are probably, as we speak, somewhere lurking in the shadows whilst Clive Palmer is being stitched up...wait until this one gets into the High Court !
Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Saturday, 17 September 2016 11:02:53 AM
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Lego...more's the pity there weren't a few more 'Rats of Tobruk' still left alive to challenge the "Rats in Armani Suits" we see infesting society today.
Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Saturday, 17 September 2016 11:07:28 AM
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There is but one planet earth and we are all citizens of it!

When it comes to trade and commerce there aren't any real borders; ditto terrorism, where a portion of a sovereign nation can winter/recover/rearm on home territory, with complete impunity? Then slip across porous borders to continue their murderous activities with every spring thaw!

We hear all this talk of sovereignty, by the offenders, expecting possible reprisals, but none when they are the trespassing offenders?

Moreover, our toothless tigers/international institutions seem powerless to enforce international law, save by cooperating nation states!

This bring me to the Hague, the international court and the nomination of a new crime against environment? Where CEO's, politicians and corporate lackeys can be held to account and prosecuted for any number of things leading to environmental harm?

Some of which could be achieved by the promulgation of false or misleading information; or the human Toll caused by coal fired power?

13,000 deaths annually in the US alone and 100,000 per for the rest of the world?

Most of which would seem to be the result of the inhalation of particulates as small as 1.5 microns, created by burning environmentally damaging coal?

Currently nobody seems to be held to account for mineral dust/smoke related harm or tragedy, dusted lungs or death?

Virtual fly by night operations change hands frequently allowing those responsible to abrogate any semblance of it, with spurious excuses for obnoxious business practice or management shortcomings, with nonsense like, I had a sore foot, and that consumed all my attention!?

Bound to happen when it is placed far too frequently in the oral orifice?

Personally I can't wait for the court of international justice to put the purveyors of false and misleading information contributing to ongoing environmental harm, in the dock!

Even if that takes years and they have to cool their heels in a jail cell? Getting thinner by the minute?

If released on account of insufficient conclusive proof, may well return to find themselves a liability to former friends and virtually unemployable/destitute? And poetic justice?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 17 September 2016 11:22:53 AM
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@runner: "we know Thomas you would rather the righteous lesbians, feminist and gw zealots indoctrinating our kids with perversion and lies."

And you KNOW this how runner? You do Tarot readings or are you channel from God speaking in 'Tongues' - where thou get all this 'secret knowledge' from?

More likely is that you are a Chinese Spy who has bugged my home. That ain't true either. You're just another delusions liar imo.

@LEGO: "Thank you for demonstrating your racist bigotry of white Christian people"

What 'bigotry' was that Lego? I displayed none. Can you not handle satirical irony nor grasp the concept of context when people say things to you? Apparently not.

re: " I feel "insulted,intimidated. offended, and humiliated". But don't worry, you won't get sued by me."

Oh no please, if you feel I am breach of 18C please please DO take me to court and sue me. You might learn something in the process. If not suing you for making false statements about me which is known as Defamation. Get your facts right and you do not have a problem.

You're not as smart as you give yourself credit for LEGO. Dunning-Krugar Effect in live on OLO!

Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1999-15054-002

re: "Sort of socialite socialists." HUH?

For your edification:
I have never supported a Carbon Tax or ETS

I don't support $4+ Billion a year in Tax rebates going to property investors who operate their business on a 25% Loss year on year - that's a welfare entitlement and not a targeted strategy to boost employment or grow the economy.

I don't support Socialist Tax Rebates to the rich to indulge themselves in $10,000 per child per year in Childcare fees.

I don't support the LNPs Socialist Welfare handed over to Corporations as Direct Action to reduce their carbon footprint.

Energy efficiency is a net positive to ROI strategies and Shareholder Profits already.

Pollution is a killer and destructive of the Commonwealth of this nation. Unnecessary pollution is an unnecessary killer.
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Posted by Thomas O'Reilly, Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:00:02 PM
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Socialist? Huh?

Ever heard of James Hardie or asbestos?

Government of the State is there to protect The People from such abuses and harm - not enable them. Politics is irrelevant.

Meanwhile Taxpayer Funded Medicare continues to pay for the harm done by those JH Shareholders who profited by their immorality for decades and became richer on their harm done.

I do not support Welfare for the rich in Private health Insurance Rebates so that I and every other taxpayer can subsidize their $300 runners, Gym membership and weekly massages.

Especially when those Rebates do not save one penny in the costs of Medicare or the PBS payed by and demanded to be Universal by almost all Taxpayers (at least those with functional minds who don't suffer from Anti-Social Personality Disorder or Narcissism.

Politics is all about and only ever about Morals and nothing else.
Australia is not a For-Profit Corporation, it is a Non-Profit Commonwealth country and a society of real living people with basic needs.

I totally agree wit Hockey's mention of those who have a sense of ENTITLEMENT but who are actually LEANERS upon the public purse provided by the Taxpayers of this country. Past and present.

The problem I have is that the current Political lunacy in this nation is targeting the wrong leaners who are GOUGING the system with their RORTS and their FRAUD upon the Taxpayers via the ATO that was setup by the Howard/Costello Regime.

The fascist Regime of how to speak with forked tongue, look after your powerfully rich voter base and get away with it while pissing up this Commonwealth's wealth up against a wall.

Perhaps you and those like you might feel much more at home in the Court of Henry the VIII's Castle?

Oh, the good ol' days.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21/

If you cannot work out what that little video is about then try reading a bit from some of these authors one day:
http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
http://www.biography.com/people/lewis-carroll-9239598
http://www.biography.com/people/george-orwell-9429833
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/about/bio.htm
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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Posted by Thomas O'Reilly, Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:01:53 PM
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