The sheeple should be grateful however as they have live cricket and thugby to distract them.

Don't forget the footBRAWL !!

As for 'we don’t need a civil war, all we have to do is stop feeding the bastards', note that I have in fact proposed the sheeple (if they can be attracted away from 'Days of Our Drearies' for a few minutes) demand total and irrevocable control of the Parliamentary Renumeration Tribunal. Note that the bloodsucking parasites in Canberra are actually our SERVANTS. It therefore stands to reason that we as the employers have every right to dictate working conditions and renumeration. Funnily enough, not one of the bloodsucking parasites I've contacted re this matter have ever responded. Hmmmm

praxidice, it's caused HANDOUTS, as every swing dick has their hand out for support.

It's not rocket science, but if a government over spends, much of which has been wasted, what else can we expect.

Given enough time, perhaps the libs can ONCE AGAIN pay back the debt and accumulate some savings.

But boy that's a tough ask, this time around.

Producer, I would hardly describe the billions paid in royalties, combined with the combined income and payroll taxes, generated by the miners, scraps.

Furthermore, if the royalties are out dated, then surely that's not the miners fault.

Producer "we don’t need a civil war"

It's not a matter of "need", but of inevitability.
Our leaders will persist with their head-in-the-sand, pie-in-the-sky policies until everything just falls apart.

No people in history have ever voluntarily allowed their own destruction.
A backlash is inevitable.

"all we have to do is stop feeding the bastards."

Are you referring to the Third World?
Yes, we should stop all foreign aid, but it's not population growth elsewhere that is a threat to us.

It's the radical changes within our own demographics through immigration that will destabilise us.
All we have to do is close the door.
But that will never happen.

Shockadelic But that will never happen.

thereby guaranteeing our going down the gurgler

Rehctub – What the Australian people get from the mining boom is DISPROPORTIONATE and as you say scraps compared to what all other interested parties receive. Based on your rhetoric you are a blue sheeple and I suspect a parasite as well.

Shockadelic – I wasn’t referring to the third world, I was referring to a far worse group, the PARASITES. Those who receive a DISPROPORTIONATE share of our countries wealth and produce nothing. They include the majority of lawyers, advertisers, bean counters, Ickydumic’s, politicians, professional sports persons, celebrities, etc. etc. They are screwing the third world as well. Because they produce nothing, if we didn’t feed them they would have to become producers or starve.

Here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QHJ3Ho4QQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTQFtNLvcl8

Until people see government for what it is, a disease that masquerades as its own cure, this is our destiny.

If war breaks out between the BRICS nations and the west (Very likely) and the way Australia is positioned at the moment, many Australian regions will become just like this!