Hi LEGO:- Lying "for the good of the party" is "in their DNA".

Leftists are beyond any hope of redemption or rehabilitation.

A better title for this article might have been...

"What sort of nation does Australia NEED to become or return to being, in order to have some hope of surviving both radical, extreme leftism & radical, extreme islamism? : Comments"

ttbn, makes a very good point. Our most prosperous period came when we had cheap energy! And is the way forward today! And given w can reticulate MSR thorium at around a cent PKWH! Always providing it isn't asked to carry unproductive elements or incompetent governments. And if privatised? The only privatised model that cannot carry profit demanding passengers, is the cooperative capitalism model or energy co-ops!

Co-ops that will need to be financed and facilitated by Government! And as the preferred paradigm, would be the template for all other social amenity and utilities, reticulated water gas etc! And a rejuvenated manufacturing sector!

And the only way to guarantee an economic recovery on steroids along with full employment and another period of unprecedented prosperity. Given this economic model make every one dollar in the domestic economy do the work of at least seven!
Alan B.

Hasbeen. Handouts mate, like welfare for the rich, negative gearing and reduced capital gains, all paid for one way or another by the taxpayer.

And let's not forget those who land bank then wait for until rezoning to provide an entirely unearnt bonanza that they acquire will sitting on their broad backsides. What are any of the above handouts by another name, to folk already very comfortable thank you! And have the nerve to critique abandoned single mums and the poor and downtrodden as if they chose that lifestyle!?

I mean would you chose to swap with any of the aforementioned! None of who would necessarily be poor or even need government handouts, if we but adopted win/win, cooperative capitalism as this nation's (fair go mate) economic template going forward!

You're pretty good at kicking them while they're down, ain't you pal!? Victim blaming gets your rocks off for you, does it?
Alan B.

For a change of pace, what I want is an homogeneous country, like the one we had in the 50s. One where almost everyone wanted the same thing, an opportunity to make good from their own efforts. But not only make good, but to feel part of something, part of the whole.

After years in the Pacific islands I was planning to go to Tahiti. I had not been that far east, & many I met who had come from that direction said it was great, & & the people nothing like the French of New Caledonia, a place I found unpleasant.

I had spent months researching the best route for a yacht sailing very much to windward in the trades, & arranging the availability of cash in the places I was likely to stop off. But a growing need to go home changed all that. I had developed a need to walk down a street where I disappeared, where everyone looked, acted, & probably thought basically like me.

I did not want to stand out in the crowd, as I did in island communities, I wanted to be part of that homogeneous community that was my Oz.

I came back into Cairns, & it felt like home. And for a while it was. Townsville, Gladstone, Bundaberg OK, but Brisbane had changed, & Sydney was much worse. Sydney was as much a foreign place Suva.

A train in Sydney could be a train anywhere in Asia. How anyone can think such a disparate mob of people can be good for the future of a nation state I can't believe. It suits only those who was to change Oz for ever into a conglomerate pile of god knows what.

At least my country town is not too much effected, yet. I can still find the old Australian spirit, but for how much longer, is a nasty question.

Hasbeen,

I'm with you. Multiculturalism, diversity, same sex marriage, indecipherable foreign accents on the 'phone, anti-white racism, the climate change scam, people telling me I shouldn't be saying any of these things. Bugger the lot of them. Glad I'm on the way out. The only thing I regret is not being around to see them all getting screwed for their stupidity and freezing in the dark.

Alan B,

The Nazi's or national socialists were true socialists in the very definition of the word. The main reason they and the Soviets didn't get along was because they were competing in the same pool.