Australia has been ruined by incompetent big government and uneducated employees since red ink was banned in schools.

How are they going to deal with this:

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the US, we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the USA won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!” (President Donald J. Trump)

They won't be able to deal with it seems to be the answer.

Meanwhile, the ADF's fuel ‘reserve’ is the same one as the average motorists, farmers, and transporters are relying on. We can't defend ourselves anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.

All this, at a time when the idiot posing as Prime Minister has gone out of his way to insult our only real ally, suck up to Communists, and fill the country with poisonous people and cultures.

Right on cue, the weekly lament from this bloke, that horrible Labor government of 30 years ago ruined me business, get over it, move on and stop crying in your beer! Maybe the business failure was due to incompetence, and not the Labor government. It easy to blame others for ones own short comings.

p/s Even the Boer War gets a mention in this weeks run, how appropriate!

I am bemused.
I almost don't know how to respond to this article.
I can only comment that we shouldn't blame government.
We are the ones who choose government.
We are the ones responsible for bad governance.
The problem is that our ability to correct any mistake we make is limited.
So a bad government can steer us off the road before we can object to the way it is driving.
We need to make wiser choices at election time.

Yes I agree that the ALP and Greens have no idea of how to run a business. The sad thing is the workers won't have jobs.

The majority of Australians have the government they deserve: they voted for it; therefore they are as much my enemy (and that of the like minded) as the Authoritarian Labor Party is.

Our nasty preferential voting system makes it harder than it is in most countries to punish rotten governments; statistics show that only about half of voters use their ability to make their own choices on preferences: the rest just follow what the how-to-vote cards tell them to do. The ‘reported’ disaffection with the main parties is BS. The Coalition and ALP should be put last if you are really sick of them.

In the SA election, it was decided that, after all the formal votes were counted, what used to be informal votes - ticks and crosses, just one square numbered - would be salvaged if possible.

Hopefully, this could be a signal that we might be able to rid ourselves of the compulsory preferential system. One wonders what would happen if we all just put a tick or number in one square.

I suppose there is the risk that the party in power would just stay there. And let's face it, the average Australian voter is pretty disinterested or cowering in multiculturalism and the current trend to rule for minorities, not the majority that used to exist.

ttbn said- "The majority of Australians have the government they deserve: they voted for it; therefore they are as much my enemy (and that of the like minded) as the Authoritarian Labor Party is. "

Answer- Yes, the many Australian's don't seem to take elections seriously, they don't seem to see how their paper decision translates to their well-being or not. Essentially all Australian's need to protect their interest, and their primary interest is in their family. One measure of where your interest lies is where you spend your time. Elections shouldn't be a flight of fancy, a trip to a foreign land of novelty, but a hard nosed defense of your families future. If you do it right you will be immortal through your descendants. You must take care to fulfill your duty, and nurture the nation to a stable future, it requires sacrifice, priorities, principles. Where there is life there is hope. Don't let the blood thread of your family die, in favour of "the other". The principle of growth requires that you leave some things behind, when you become a parent you have to give up childish things, you can't do everything, but you must do the most important things, your children are your immortality, be a source of stability for the future. Don't let yourself be distracted by pretty lights, from your future. Find novelty in the mundane, the everyday, the tasks of your life. Don't just seek novelty, because it leads to a hidden cost. Seek quiet enjoyment in your creation and the creation of your burgeoning ancestors