Gotta give it to the old fella, Family First indeed, we had a FF candidate in our state seat here in Queensland in October, of the 5 candidates the fool ran last with lest than 2% of the primary vote. Maybe the voters heard the bloke had been chasing a local woman around the neighbourhood while the good wife was home getting his dinner ready. Family values from a hypocrite.

Albanese is a “dithering incompetent”, even with 16 personal advisers.

Dutton can't make a decision until “he has the results from at least four focus groups and the backing of the Party Room”. (Ron Pike)

Its a marketing campaign where facts don't matter ttbn, and it's reaching its inevitable conclusion. The way they are fig jam campaigning reminds me of the way John Daysh was engaging in discussions here a while back. I think that Labor has toned down the antagonism since losing the Voice, and probably learned more from the Trump win, but the Greens seem to be as bsc as ever. Won't be long to see how the strategies work for them.

There's never been a more exciting time to be
Australian - than right now. So says Ben Pobjie.

He tells us that:

" It is only by looking at where we have been that we
can understand who we are, what we stand for, and
why at times nothing seems to work".


Ben Pobjie points out - we're a young nation that
"has spent many years seeking its place in the world
and almost as many years not liking what it has found".

I strongly recommend reading Pobjie's book - "Error
Australis" The reality recap of Australian history.

"Savage, provocative, hilarious, deeply depressing
and brilliant - should be required reading for
secondary students".
NONI HAZELHURST.

"Remember how you made a big fuss about Israel didn't bomb that hospital Hamas did it."

Well of course I never said that. I did say that a rocket Hamas fired had failed and fallen on the hospital. Video proved it. Investigations proved it. Most news organisations finally came around to acknowldeging it. Struth, even the manically anti-Israel UN acknowledged it. Only fact adverse bozos like AC still hold out.

So since I didn't say what you claimed, the rest of your post is clearly rubbish.

"We expect our governments to do so much for us. Yet many
will go on and complain about the "Nanny State".....

But where would we be without accessible hospital
services, good local schools, childcare, aged care, public
transport, and so much more?"

Every one of those things, absolutely every one, can and are provided by non-government entities. There are private hospitals. Private schools. Childcare used to be handled by non-working women and/or retired grannies. The aged used to be handled by the family.

Over the past century government has inserted itself into all those areas and not in a good way. They increase taxes to pay for it, screw it up and then demand more taxes to fix the screw-up.

There is absolutely no reason government ought to be involved in any of those things. All would be cheaper and better provided if government got out of the way.

That's why we complain about the nanny state