The Greens are a bunch of nut jobs, and most of the humanities department at our UNI's are as well.

The election of another Green to a lower house is a frightening reminder of the hothouse of extreme Leftism that Victoria is. Add it's newly acquired ability to legally kill people, and it certainly becomes a 'fly-over area for non Victorians. The growth of government is truly appalling.

What a truism is: "Where government advances, liberty retreats.

Thanks to the author for telling it the way it is.

In the interest of fairness though, if the leftside can build its institutions via the taxpayers, then obviously the right should as well.

Well, While I'm no fan of the green movement and their capacity to get into bed with the devil himself, if that gets them more marginal seats? Even where they as alleged progressives go up against other alleged progressives and in favour of demonstrably regressive candidates? Even as they trot out glib denials?

Which underlines their only real political obsession! Power and winning it!

That said, not the only economic illiterates occupying public office? President Reagan, routinely critigued Democratic spending and debt levels, and then while in office, routinely and massively exceeded it? And managed to virtually bankrupt the USSR, while so engaged?

John Howard managed a similar feat as he irresponsibly, I believe, squandered mining booms one and two, with welfare for the rich, vote buying, pork barrelling?

That said there is a way to reduce government spending and government duplication and that is by successfully removing the middle tier of government, and without sacrificing so much as a single service or public amenity, save around 70 plus annual billions!? Even more, (30+%?) if regional autonomy and a direct funding model that excludes all the usual middlemen, predominates or prevails!

And it's regressive conservatives more than most, who refuse even consideration of reform in this area, but would rather see local government, removed first!

Every western style economy rests on just two support pillars, energy and capital!

And privatising either or both has not only added to our financial burden, but could bankrupt us as well! As the profit curve is all that dominates the thinking of corporate boards and their handpicked CEO's!

I mean, why do you think both energy and housing are unaffordable in our major regional capitals!

And bound to get worse before it gets better, if regressive conservatives, and or greens, get the nod!? TBC.
Alan B.

We confront a future where many occupations will be automated, be they truck drivers, teachers and lawyers? And as climate change deepens and it will! Our ability to feed ourselves could be compromised?

Particularly, if we follow the green rational of decommissioning dams and coal fired power in favour of vastly less reliable, vastly more expensive renewables? And wild rivers!

Have they got shares in wind and solar technology?

That aside, they seem to want to open the flood gate of migration, even where it includes migrants of questionable character, who've destroyed confirming documentation and were able to find $5-15,000.00 as boat fares to organised crime syndicates!

Who didn't give a dam if the boat crew and passengers perished, once they were packed to the gunnels with fare paying passengers. Who to a generic man, had already found sanctuary/political asylum, inside transition countries!

Nobody is shooting them there, and regardless of their preferred destination? They are in no way as intentionally, undocumented intending migrants, our responsibility!

As lamb chop chewing Sam Kickovich would say, you know it makes perfect sense!

We don't need more people, just retraining the ones already here!

And we need affordable carbon free energy and the affordable water. Which alone makes affordable energy possible along with the expanded food production. Which in turn, makes both possible and doable!

And affordable if we get our act together and finally embrace self terminating, thirty year, tax free, infrastructure bonds! ENERGY AND CAPITAL, DUMKOFF! IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID! TBC.
Alan B.

Short and sweet...