missiles from Australian submarines will rain on their cities
Yuyutsu,
The Chinese would already have the equipment in place to make those submarines self-destruct !
We have already provided them with literally everything they need to kick our butts !
Everything we have & use is produced in China so, in-built spying is in your Chinese made phone, computer, car, Tv etc etc.
Thanks to our 'concerned for the workers' Unions nothing is off limit to anyone as it's all made offshore !

It took 3 pages for Paul Collits to tell us he was flogging yet another right wing party for Australia. This time its the re-badged Australian Conservatives, masquerading as the Australian Federation Party. This mob push the same old right wing rhetoric; The "powerful force", that will "protect and serve", "represent the needs of all Australians." Please, we have about 70 or 80 political parties in Australia already, everything from The Together Party to the Love Australia or Leave Party, we have no shortage of parties. Calling it a coalition of the micro loony right parties is an understatement. Its bad enough to have one headless chook in the form of the One Nation Party running around the yard, but half a dozen of them tied together, absolute bedlam! Another political party born to failure.

Dear Individual,

Please do not despair: whatever was done in the past can be changed.
It is time to turn around and produce everything we need ourselves.

produce everything we need ourselves.
Yuyutsu,
The Unions will again put a stop any such effort !

Paul Collits is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland and is Research Director of the Economic Development and Enterprise Collaboration at the University’s Fraser Coast Campus.

"The Australian Right's big mistake" - Wednesday 1 July 2020.

If this fellow is in any way representative of the calibre of Oz' academia (judging solely on this piece of egocentric rubbish), then we, and very many serious students, are in big trouble.

E.G Calling the Covid-19 Pandemic a virtual 'joke' as he sees it - judging by his assertion:

"That is, to have been spooked into thinking that they need to do anything much about Covid, a mostly mild, if unusual, virus that affects most people, including those it infects, not at all. The big mistake is to take Covid seriously,..."

Well, what do you think?

And, to suggest that Donald J. Trump is a model to be followed and emulated - if we could be so "lucky' - in Oz politics??

Sheer balderdash and drivel, the lot, and only fit for lining the Cockey's cage or straight to landfill. (Not even fit for recycling.)

Out, damned Spot!

ttbn: “Something in Morrison's favour is the announcement that our defence spending will reach the recommended minimum of 2% of GDP this financial year.”

Usually it is the quality of defence spending that counts rather than the quantity.

A case in point: the $80 billion Future Submarine Program is "dangerously off track" according to a new report that urges the Government to ditch the controversial project and consider a nuclear option (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-11/australia-urged-to-embrace-nuclear-submarines/12043444).Even the Government's own advisory body recommended the Government should consider walking away from the project.

If the present program is retained, estimates of the final costs over the life of the submarines, including maintenance etc, would be around $225 billion, and availability of the first operational submarine would not be until 2036 or later.

Undoubtedly, it was one of the worst decisions of anti-conservative PM Malcolm Turnbull’s government, involving high-risk and high-cost design conversion from nuclear to obsolescent diesel technology, and with South Australian content aimed at enhancing re-election of leftist Liberal Christopher Pyne who retired three years later.

It remains to be seen whether the high-debt-laden Morrison Government will act in the national interest by cancelling the project and considering a much more cost-effective and shorter-delivery nuclear option.