However stupid it was of Morrison to fall for Net Zero at the COP before the last one, it is Albanese who has actually LEGISLATED a 43% (silly number to go with it) reduction in emissions, accelerating the closure of coal projects across the country, expanding the scope of green activist lawfare against critical resource projects, increasing power prices, and causing a gas supply shortage.

We got rid of Morrison but replaced him with an economic illiterate who thinks price control is the way to go.

If Bob Hawke was still alive, he would call Albanese a 'Whitlamite'.

Reaction to Albanese's Soviet-style price capping from major gas producers is to threaten moving out of Australia. The ideological obsession with solar and wind will not cover up this little dictator's stupidity - or should that be ideological vandalism.

Albanese is ignorantly - or deliberately - driving us towards higher energy bills, insecure power supply, loss of manufactures, and lower levels of employment.

And, I think it is Albanese, not the Labor government per se. We all should have observed by now Albanese's style of leadership - presidential or dictatorial; worse even than the Morrison version of 'bullyship".

Foxy

Yes. You did misunderstand, but were gracious enough to say so.

If you are interested, I'm in my 80th year. David f is 97. O sung wu is around my age. I suspect that there are a lot of 70 pluses who would rather not let on, so great is the disrespect and sneering at older people in modern Australia.

I think that people younger than 50 wouldn't know if their arses were on fire. I know that because I remember what I was like and what my generation was like when we were younger. It's nothing new. And it's hard, if not impossible, to convince people who think history began with their birth, as we all did once.

That's why the piss and vinegar has gone out of me, and I'm an observer rather than a doer. Given the average life expectancy, I might not even be here in 3-5 year's time. I've seen the best of Australia, and I won't be bothered about what is clearly coming.

ttbn,

I know that under all your bluster there is a
man with very strong principles and values there.
I'm sorry that you're disappointed in many things
nowadays. Because obviously you've seen a lot
in your lifetime and I imagine have so many stories
to share. Every thought of recording some of them?

Just for you Paul, I'll have my 21St birthday next year, if I live that long.

As we are talking about economic vandalism, here's what we are paying these vandals/country stuffers. Allowances and perks not included.

Albanese $549,250
Marles $433,575
Chalmers $396,093
Wong $332,720
Bandt $315,000
Dutton $401,000

Most Ministers get about $370,000, and the poor old backbenchers have to grab spots on totally useless committees to eke out their miserable $217,000.

The PM gets 10 times the median wage, and the others are doing very well: certainly well enough to be affected by the policies they force on the rest of us.

Should read NOT to be affected, obviously.