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

You want your purchases to contribute to the future or present employment of your children, even if it just reduces intense competition in the employment market. This means we need to produce our own consumables within our community, which is an extension of our family. Any community needs to manage it's balance of trade, including our family, our local community, and on up the hierarchy. We need to keep our money in the family and avoid it leaking out. The same for other resources.

Often when people make a mistake they blame others, the same with elections. Marxist's create scarcity, blame the capitalist's, and double down on the scarcity. People often self sabotage.

I agree with ttbn- if you vote Marxist you deserve the outcome.

Every culture needs it's own nation

CM,

I fear that Australia is on the way out. Managed decline has been replacing growth and security since John Howard lost the plot. The Turnbull/Morrison circuses were bad enough, but Albanese Labor seems to be hellbent on deliberately finishing us off.

Greater countries than Australia have gone under throughout history, as have entire civilisations. Given the downward direction of all Western countries except the US, with idiots like Albanese spruiking "strength in diversity" nonsense, the wind and solar debacle, multiculturalism and mass immigration, and Australia being now an ally too unreliable for the US to 'consult' before striking Iran on its own, indicates that we are back to where we stood with the US on two occasions, the 1940s and the 1990s, when America didn't trust us enough to share intelligence.

Trump has not been shy about telling us that he is not impressed with Australia - to put it mildly. He, and the U.S, have no real reason to waste their time and resources on Australia. And we sure as hell can't look after ourselves any more.

Ttbn said "Greater countries than Australia have gone under throughout history, as have entire civilisations."

Answer- Yes, that's my fear. When I see the average Australian flirting with dangerous ideas, and don't see the heavy train of "cause and effect" full of enormous momentum, coming down the track, to kill them, and still don't get out of the way. Just to call them "dangerous idea's" is attractive. I suppose that for those of us who see people building systems to destroy themselves, we can just prepare ourselves for the wreckage, something has to break at some point and 90% of the people will wake up and go through the grief process, and realise that they should have flirted with truth rather than novelty, before it died.

Then we'll tell them the truth again, and they'll start the long journey back through purgatory, and finally to the light.

They have to realise that supporting cultural tradition with small changes is the bedrock that will support themselves, and civilization will destroy them if they try to destroy civilization, and if civilization doesn't destroy them, the outcome is much worse. Because it creates a reality that opposes existence.

Brian Cox calls this "the great filter".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

Civilizations need to pass through many gateways of truth, many traps along the path to the future. Sometimes we just outrun our failures with our successes, as they pursue us. All civilizations need to refine themselves to meet challenges, but change is bad by itself, and some will refuse, in spite of appeals, to travel with the civilization and they will be left behind. Sometimes it isn't that civilizations have walked away from minorities, but the minorities have walked away from civilization.

Perhaps this is what Nietzsche saw when he talked of the Übermensch in Zarathustra, the knightly vs envy, the life vs death. The hero's journey through the tunnel of darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

We stand on the shoulders of giants!

There is a narrow path of life, I hope the nihilist's don't block it.

Yes ttbn you did something cool back there when you said that (paraphrasing) "we need to see the reflection of ourselves in our friends (the US)".