ttbn,

You said I don't exist and that you will ignore me.
It seems that you are not able to do that.
I must be doing something right.

Your efforts are appreciated.

Enjoy your day.

Cheers.

Another conservative Dutton will probably ignore is Canada’s opposition leader, soon to be PM, Pierre Poilievre. UK Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has already visited him, looking for tips, but Australian politicians of all stripes seem to think that Australia is an isolated bubble - except for their addiction to the mass immigration of inappropriate foreigners, and the corrupt UN.

We have had a lot of naive people wondering about what influence Trump will have on Australia, when the answer is obviously bugger all with the dimwits in our political class. We will have to be smacked around the ears with tariffs and threats to alliances before any “leader” in the foreseeable future gets off his arse. One of the few things in our culture not threatened - still going strong - is the ‘she’ll be right mate’ attitude.

So, some conservative leaders will bond with others internationally. But we don't have any conservative leaders. Dutton is a mixture of something too peculiar to define. Stand in front of our one national flag, but continue wrecking the economy with Net Zero.

Poilievre is a fair dinkum conservative who raised $AU 40 million in the year of his first appearance as a candidate, from small donors, not self-serving moneybags. He is attracting younger voters.

Poilievre ignores the mainstream media, and talks to his audience via social media, as did Donald Trump. Dutton is as frightened of the mainstream media, particularly the ABC, as the other goat is. Just imagine them casually eating an apple and looking totally disinterested while being yelled at by a media goon.

Poilievre was the first political figure to recognise the Covid atrocity and the unheard of removal of human rights. The muck-spreaders laughed that the spending to ‘save us’ would generate inflation.

Polls suggest that he will win a record 226 seats out of 338, a record for the right.

I wouldn't swap Australia for quids. But I would swap our politicians at the drop of a hat.

There are some politicians who deserve support.
The federal Liberal MP for the electorate of
Menzies - Keith Wolahan, is such a politician.
He's out to make a difference - not a career.
And works so very hard. Perhaps one day he could
become our PM. We need more like him.

I was never into protests or public demonstrations.
However I see from the news reports that tens of
thousands of people have joined marches across
Australia in protest of January 26th being used
as the national day.

Apparently in Melbourne alone, police said that
25,000 people were at Parliament House. They said
that the vast majority of the demonstraters both for,
and against Australia Day were peaceful, arrests were
made in Adelaide, including a man displaying a Nazi
symbol.

I guess this day will continue to be controversial for some.

For many, the day will be spent privately at home with
family and friends. We're so lucky to have this freedom.
So lucky indeed.

It goes round and around but ultimately when the first fleet dropped
anchor in Sydney Cove it was the biggest event in 60,000 years.
Can anyone deny that ?
It jerked the whole aboriginal culture into the modern world.
Remember only those in the very North had any idea that there was a
world of people and countries anywhere else.
When Cook first arrived the aborigines thought they were the ghosts of
their ancestors arriving in giant canoes.
Only took a day or so to realise they were men like themselves.
As far as I know perhaps Cook took some on board and showed them maps
of the world.
The local elders must have very quickly realised that there was a world
out there of which they knew nothing.
Can someone recommend a book about the Cook encounters ?

There was one report of some people along the east coast saw a big
canoe under a cloud past by and never seen again.
Such a siting may have been a Spanish ship that went missing years before Cook.

Hi Bezza,

I suggest you get hold of two books by author, comedian,
and satirist, Ben Pobjie:

"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie".

And:

"Error Australis".

Both are Australian histories and great reads.

It's only by looking at where we have been, that we can
understand who we are, what we stand for. Both books are
scholarly and hilarious accounts of a young nation that
has spent many years seeking its place in the world.

" Savage, provocative, deeply depressing and brilliant -
should be required reading for secondary students".
(Noni Hazelhurst).

" Freaking hilarious, had me gasping with laughter".
( Julie Goodwin).

"It's as if Manning Clark had a lobotomy and rewrote
his "Short History of Australia with a crayon. I
enjoyed it".
( Shaun Micallef).

BTW:

Did anybody know - it's Mozart's Birthday today?