Before we hang someone for what happened to the synagogue shouldn't we find the perpetrator's first.
The job has already been handed over to the anti terror dept; I am not sure what precisely albo can do about anything until we get some meat on the bones first. Rush in and destroy someone to find out they had nothing to do with it at all, then albo would be in trouble.
All the inuendo in the world is just wishful thinking until something concrete has been found. Leave it to the persons trained to do such things. What do you think Dutton would do linch first and then worry about it later.

Hi doog,

The man for the job! Straight Shooter Pete of course, he was an officer in the Queensland Police Force. In a meteoric rise in the ranks Pete went from Constable Pete, writing parking tickets, to Senior Constable Pete in just 10 years! Unfortunately Pete's career was cut short when according to reliable sources, Pete was doing the stations late nigh Macca's run when he rolled the squad car. Pete then tried to sue the Queensland government for $125,000 for all the pain and suffering he caused. Fortunately, Daddy Dutton had a lucrative building business, and employed Pete in a top job with the family firm, since no one else would. Maybe a struggling worker with a family was sacked to make way for Pete, who knows!

"The thing is I think people vastly overestimate the influence the government really has."

What about Sri Lanka? It sounds like something you'd learn in Venezuela or at the Robert Mugabe University. If Bowen keeps on with his wind and solar lunacy you will fast realise how wrong that statement is.

Its been almost a century since Australia threw out a first term government and that was over a minor kerfuffle called the Great Depression. Even though the comically bad Whitlam Government only lasted 3 years, that was still a two term government.

So the probability (there you go Banjo!!) of us turfing out a first term government this time is low to nil. While Albanese has been about as ineffectual as was expected, Chalmers has been a major disappointment.

Nonetheless, there is nothing in what the Dutton opposition is saying that suggests that they know what do do about the current economic malaise. Actually everyone knows what to do but there's nothing to suggest that either side is prepared to make the hard decisions required to address the economic problems or even to tell the electorate what those hard decisions might look like.

This is all as I forecast back in May of 2022 (http://tiny.cc/0pozzz) when I said that the problems wouldn't be addressed, that even though they were caused by failures of government prior to the election, the present government would eventually get the blame.

It is basically unfair to blame the current government for failures and decisions made during the WuFlu debacle, but it is fair to blame them for not doing the hard yards required to address these problems.

The government's plan seems to be to sit tight, try to garner votes from populist things like the social media ban and hope to hell something will come along to save their bacon. Unfortunately that's the Liberal's policy as well.

Nations get the government they deserve. Whoever wins next year, we can be assured we deserve it. Things will need to get much worse before the electorate is prepared to hear the bad news about what needs to happen, and it'll be even longer before we have a party on either side prepared to deliver that bad news.

The only certainty is that things will get worse.

By all means lets bring back the "good old days" of
climate denial, backflips on migration, more cuts, and
uncosted policies, and much more.

Then see what we've got.

Hi Houellebecq,
Welcome back to the forum.