Dear Steele,

Thank you for your comments.

It becomes difficult playing whack-a-mole with trained
snipers. (Joke).

To be serious. I try to focus on the positive.
I try to keep in mind that negative comments are only
a small part of the Forum so I try to focus instead
on positive inter actions with others and not allow
the negativity to bring me down.

People get joy out of different things. For me it's
always been small things - like a kind word. Making
someone smile. Helping someone. And that doesn't
cost much but it can achieve a great deal.

I was raised in a family where good manners mattered.

Of course it becomes more challenging when the negative
attacks and insults increase and are allowed. When
the standard of discussion develops into insults
instead of well reasoned arguments - than it becomes more
difficult to communicate.

I am so grateful to have people such as yourself, Paul,
and so many others posting. You are pluses. The minuses
are a minority.

You would think that someone as heavily dependent on third party opinions for her posts as Foxy is would be able to present them in one go, instead of all the 'oops' and 'pardons', and looking like a fool for something that we all know is where she got her 'opinion' in the first place.

CM,

I have no doubt that communism is seeping back. I'm not saying that some people are Communists; I leave that for people who are actual Communist Party members. I am referring to the political ideology of communism that most people these days, certainly the young, don't understand, and don't know that it is the doctrine they are adhering to. Nor do they know about the horrors of communism.

I like your idea of "localism". Communistic ideas have been part of another hideous doctrine, globalisation. Trade with China, which is NOT OK just because rich people want to be richer, and to hell with human rights, freedoms, jobs and local manufacturing of vital things, including medicines that Beijing can block anytime they wish to in their ongoing war against the West.

The Albanese government is madly trying to change the population - with little resistance from the Opposition. Our only solution is to change our political class. (and make them fear us as politicians used to fear the voting public) Voters must learn to use the preferential system intelligently, and not leave it to their preferred candidate to tell them what to do. They need to take more interest in politics generally, and learn more about the minor parties and independents, instead of taking notice of what the mainstream politicians say about the options. It's only the possible success of these options that frightens Labor, Liberal and the Greens.

Dear Foxy,

You say "To be serious. I try to focus on the positive." and so you should.

And you have been remarkedly good about things, particular with fixated poodles.

So feel free to leave it to me to pop in every now and again to give them a clip around the ears.

I see Steele believes his superiority, and dictatorial stand- he would make a good Communist. He promotes half-truths as facts and misrepresents other people's posts with Left wing views.

Estimated expenditure per person in 2012-13 was $43,449 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, compared with $20,900 for other Australians (a ratio of 2.08 to 1 — an increase from a ratio of 1.93 to 1 in 2008-09) yet it does not yield benefits to the disadvantaged.

We sat down with the Productivity Commission. We looked at the Indigenous space. $30 billion is spent in this space annually. $30 billion on 500,000 people and you still see the problems.

Fact check warren Mundine 2011 -2012,
Quote "I have reviewed this FactCheck. Mundine was right on the figure of $30 billion; total direct expenditure on services for Indigenous Australians in 2012-13 was estimated to be $30.3 billion, as detailed on page one of the Productivity Commission’s 2014 report. Based on the 2011 Census, the Indigenous population was approximately 550,000 people, with most living in urban areas. Researcher Sara Hudson’s August 2016 report, published by the Centre for Independent Studies, outlines the continued waste and duplication of government funding as raised by Mundine. – Dennis Foley."

"Warren Mundine’s broader point that current spending is not yielding results needs further attention. The government’s Closing the Gap targets are nowhere near being met, and in some cases, widening, suggesting that these programs are, by and large, failing. Policy logic underpinning spending should be examined. – Elise Klein."

Jose'

"Closing the Gap targets are nowhere near being met, and in some cases, widening, suggesting that these programs are, by and large, failing."

AND people like YOU, at the very least want more of the same, but we know your real belief is that our indigenous brothers and sisters are undeserving and should be left to their own disastrous fate.

Josephus

You are only encouraging these idiots.