80% of new mine approvals never get off the ground, stopped by red and green tape, and aboriginal myths. This needs to change next year after a change of government.

Australia's GDP per capita in the second quarter of 2024 remained below that of the first quarter of 2022. During that period, the US grew 5 per cent and the OECD as a whole was up over 2 per cent.

Mismanagement and woke ideology has brought “just about the worst economic outcome in the developed world”. (Economist Alan Moran)

Productivity has fallen 3% since 2022. “Job creation” has seen the non-productive public sector increase by three times more than the productive, revenue-providing private sector.

There have been constraints not just on gas production and mining, but also on farming, fishing and timber felling. Indigenous claims continue to hit gold, coal mining and gas. The judge in the EDO case said, “I have drawn conclusions about the lack of integrity in some aspects of the cultural mapping exercise, which undermined my confidence in the whole of it.’

The NSW government has just declared a temperature of 30 degrees a “heat wave”, and asked people to think about not using air conditioners and to postpone the laundry because of the precarious electricity supply situation, thanks to Bowen's ‘transition’ to unreliable, grossly subsidised by taxpayers attempts at electricity generation, that the rest of the world is backing away from.

This ‘transition’ to unreliable energy and the nonsensical banning of mining and industry at the whim of a couple of aboriginal activists is seriously undermining the Australian economy.

Speaking of activism and opposition to government;
- At what point do things go too far that an elected government has the right to do whatever necessary to restore order?
Take a look at this - Pro-EU activists using a fireworks shooting gatlin gun at police / government forces, after Georgia Dream announces it does not wish to be a part of the EU anymore.

http://x.com/SprinterFamily/status/1862974097405174179
Protesters in Tbilisi use fireworks against security forces.

I actually wondered if it was fake footage, but there are other videos showing this incident.

Tbilisi: Protesters shoot firecrackers at police.
http://x.com/SenoreAmore/status/1862863752015565021

'In general, the template from the color revolution manual - to provoke the police into a harsh response, so that the video can be shown on the news later'.

And this is the democratic values we claim to support?
EU threatening and bulling other nations into submission?
If I was running the show this would be enough for martial law, curfew and rubber bullets for everyone, which is an escalation the EU probably wants.

Were getting close to a point where WW3 is becoming not just unavoidable, but in some ways a necessity.
If enabling a genocide wasn't enough, I think the West has probably gone too far this time.

If you were the government in Georgia, how would you react to this?

Speaking of saviors of the environment...
Anyone heard about Bovaer?
Apparently its a drug used to reduce methane emissions, but contains 3 NOP which apparently is known to have caused cancer in rat trials.
People are now boycotting supermarkets in UK and Europe, because they don't trust the safety of food products where Bovaer has been used.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14143559/arla-foods-cows-bovaer-additive-tesco-aldi-morrisons.html

Given I passed on the Covid vaccines, I'd like to also opt out of this crap until it's been proven safe as well.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-12/dutch-feed-additive-bovear-cattle-methane-emissions-australia/102905724

So much for the seaweed...

Coles boosts sustainability in beef production with expanded use of supplement
http://www.colesgroup.com.au/media-releases/?page=coles-boosts-sustainability-in-beef-production-with-expanded-use-of-supplement
Three beef suppliers now using Bovaer that is proven to reduce cattle emissions by at least 50%

"If you were the government in Georgia, how would you react to this?"

Perhaps if the government held transparently free and fair elections, the people wouldn't feel like they'd been duped and robbed of the future they want.

The ill-Liberal Party's alternative to Albanese, Peter Dutton, is in favour of using facial recognition in conjunction with the social media ban on under 16s.

Wet Senator Dave Sharmsa fobbed off the question, ‘when did the Liberal Party become a fan of Big Brother’ by gabbling (with an embarrassed look on his face) about information they already had. The atrocity “does not have to be perfect”; “the law doesn't require it to be perfect”, he stuttered, Adam's Apple bobbing furiously.

In South Australia, the Premier is in favour of cracking down on kids after his wife ‘read a book’ on the subject, and told him he should do something about it. I kid you not.

No serious, aware person, capable of common sense thinking, could possibly say that either of our two Left-wing, increasingly totalitarian, parties deserve our support. They both want to rule with fear because they fear the people and the family unit as all dictators do.