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Posted by Armchair Critic, Monday, 18 November 2024 7:45:01 AM
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While Trump offers a better deal for America, the Albanese government offers only managed decline for us. A tired economy, hardly growing at all, despite record mass immigration. Most new jobs in non-productive bureaucracy. Per capita recession. Receding net wealth. Declining GDP. Increasingly expensive electricity. Threat of censorship and loss of freedoms/democracy. Real wages are declining. Housing and rents too high ($1.1 million for a ‘studio’ apartment that is one room with a few dividers in it). Green tape blocking billion dollar industries. Clinging to Net Zero. Still believing the climate hoax
But, ‘that's not all’, as they say. It's just too much effort to list all of the ways that Australia is being rooted - by Australians and the trash they keep voting for. Posted by ttbn, Monday, 18 November 2024 8:37:28 AM
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The United Nations Committee has voted, and Australia
has voted with 158 other countries including the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany, and Japan, to recognize the permanent sovereignty of Palestinians to natural resources in the occupied territories. It asks Israel to stop confiscating Palestinian homes and farms and to stop destroying key infrastructure like water, sewerage pipelines and electricity networks. A spokesperson for the Foreign Minister Penny Wong said: "While Australia does not agree with everything in the resolution, this vote reflects international concern about Israeli actions that impede access to natural resources and on going settlement activity, land dispossession, demolitions and settler violence against Palestinians". Such acts worked to undermine stability and any prospects for peace and a two-state solution. A two-state solution has had bi-partisan support. Israel and the US voted against this resolution. The United Nations will now be asked to consider the draft resolution. Posted by Foxy, Monday, 18 November 2024 8:37:36 AM
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Talking about the governments we vote for?
Interesting article in "The Conversation". The link is given below. We're told that Albanese went to the 2022 election with a "new politics". A collaborative style agenda that "sought to bring all Australians together including business, labour, Indigenous and non-indigenous together". It was meant as a strategy of unity rather than division. Apparently it was a great election strategy but was harder to implement in government. "The old Liberal politics of culture wars and denouncing Labor's policies - were still very much with us". The emphasis on Labor's lacklustre performance was regularly emphasized, especially its economic and climate change policies. The government argued that "it has been providing extensive cost of living relief in the form of tax cuts, energy bill relief, rental assistance, wage increases, cheaper medicines, and reduced child care costs". It's pointed out that "the problem is that such government measures are continually undercut by inflation, price increases, high interest rates, and the housing affordability and supply crisis". "The housing affordability and supply crisis has been aggravated by decades of poor housing policy that long predates the Albanese government and Labor's attempts to address the problems are currently being stymied by a combination of Coalition and Greens opposition, once again sandwiching Labor". From the look of things politics appears to be a divisive terrain that the current government is finding very challenging and difficult to negotiate. There's more at the following: http://theconversation.com/failure-to-launch-why-the-albanese-government-is-in-trouble-239730 The question boils down to - who do we give the boot to - those that want a collaborative style of politics or those that perpetuate culture wars and division? I guess it's a question of one's values and beliefs. As we've seen from the recent American election. Posted by Foxy, Monday, 18 November 2024 1:55:26 PM
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old Liberal politics of culture wars and denouncing
Labor's policies - were still very much with us". Foxy, Labor policies are not being "denounced' per se, rather attention is being drawn to their general unworkable nature ! Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 6:14:08 AM
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Positive move on defence. Japanese troops will be deployed to train with Australian and American troops in the Northern Territory. A tick for the government.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 8:02:59 AM
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If you offer to murder some women and kids, that will surely help your chances.
You lament over the march into insignificance of the LNP.
I lament over one of the two majors acting like a foreign agent, whose foreign interests in Israel seem more important to them than anything in Australia.
LNP are exactly where they deserve to be and you helped them there.
They made it a one-horse race.