Well cobber, old mutt that was a typical dog of a comment; now at the risk of invoking the old adage that if you lie with dogs you'll catch fleas I must ask you to point out how my 'rant' was "fact free".

'Only with Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard was there any sense that we could step up and play with the superpowers. '

Sophia living in the dream world. She obviously did not see Gillards almost faint in the presence of Obama. No mention of the 1000 plus dead woman and children due to their faulty ideology and pig headedness.What a sickening leftist rant.

Ugh, the usual litany of progessive wishful thinking.

Progressives: Precisely the reason Australia is going downhill fast.

"What if they had 'turned back the boats'?

I bet if they could have they would have.
They couldn't, so didn't.
We can and we will.

"overturns the wishes of its citizens"

The citizens didn't vote for gay marriage.
The politicians did.

You want the citizens' wishes? Have a plebiscite.
Then shut up forever when it fails.

You don't love "Australia" or "Australians".
You are one of the very people stabbing them in the back.

What has happened to our proud pioneering spirit, our Aussie battler mentality and sheer grit?
Sophy love,
Two generations of the likes of you have seen to that with PC, womens' lib & do-gooderism.

"should be leading the world in renewables, not keep kowtowing to mining magnates"

This is a non sequitur. Solar and wind use (per kWh generated) 15 times more concrete, 50 times more iron, copper and glass, and 90 times more aluminium than other low-carbon energy sources like nuclear (not to mention huge quantities of rare earths used by wind in particular). Thermal energy storage, if it ever becomes viable, would increase these resource demands by orders of magnitude. Rest assured mining magnates would be delighted to see renewable energy generation rolled out on a massive scale.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/renewable-energy-needs-huge-mineral-supply-16682

Hey Sophie,
Your priorities were voted on at the recent federal election.

Your lot lost.

Btw the only place in Aust to have their gay marriage laws fought and overturned was the ACT. The last time I looked ACT wasn't a state. Accuracy is Important I my world.