While the rest of the world, sick of the Left, is moving to the Right, Australia is moving further Left. The apology for a conservative party, the Coalition, is indistinguishable from the Labor right. We have the most Leftish PM ever. The only groups remotely conservative are One Nation, Family First and, just scraping in, the Nationals. Cory Bernadi is clucking around the edges but, so far, there is nothing to indicate that he is not all mouth and trousers. Even the 'mouth' seems to belong to speculating reporters and a few urgers; not much is heard from the man himself.

Michael Davis (The Spectator 6/2/17) seems to think that Bernadi might lead “...his people out of subjugation in Malcolm Turbull's Egypt”, but I doubt it very much. If Bernadi is our only hope, I think that we are well and truly stuffed.

I am a proud and patriotic Australian who will not tolerate anybody but another Australian criticising my country. But I really believe that we must be the weakest, most apathetic and downtrodden civilised people on Earth to put up with the way we are treated by our third rate political class.

People get what fits and wear it. If pollies are crackers then public policy debates are weak as. Slogans are not policies.

ttbn
It's simply not true that the rest of the world, sick of the Left, is moving to the Right.

What the rest of the world is sick of is people on the right pretending to be on the left. Hence the unpopularity of Clinton and the popularity of Sanders.

We may have the most leftish PM ever, but we may not - and judging by the policies his party try to introduce, I'd say we don't. But we're thoroughly sick of him anyway.

"The only groups remotely conservative are One Nation, Family First and, just scraping in, the Nationals"
What about the Bobcats and Lambs?

"I am a proud and patriotic Australian who will not tolerate anybody but another Australian criticising my country."
Why the intolerance? Surely the source of the criticism doesn't determine the validity?

IMO nobody, no organization and no country should be above criticism by anyone, because without criticism the problems get ignored.

Still, I believe and love Australia.

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"I am a proud and patriotic Australian who will not tolerate anybody but another Australian criticising my country. But I really believe that we must be the weakest, most apathetic and downtrodden civilised people on Earth to put up with the way we are treated by our third rate political class."

Aiden, I can't speak for ttbn, but I find the idea of foreigners coming here and disrespecting our culture and way of life by demanding that we not only reach into our pockets to pay for them but also respect their culture at the expense of our own is one the most lowest and disrespectful form of behavior possible.
I wouldn't go into their countries and tell them how they should live and when they do it in my country I think it's despicable.

ttbn,
Speaking of 'the most apathetic and downtrodden civilised people on Earth'...

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/mother-of-dead-backpacker-slams-trump/news-story/016ca8963265e933296a7b4ddfc73c6b

What a disgusting mother, her daughter's killed by someone screaming "Allah Ackbar" and she wants to blame everyone but Islam.
To her I'd say it's not about you so shut the hell up, I'm sure if it actually was you getting stabbed numerous times like your daughter was you'd have a lot more to say (probably in-between blood curdling screams for help whilst coughing up blood) than 'Move along, nothing to see here'.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Coward.

What it actually is about is the next one that gets killed by some Islamic nutjob who stabs everything in sight screaming "Allah Ackbar" dumbass.

Then we have this:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/police-slam-trumps-terror-claim/news-story/b2fda0f4d770d96301ef9abc7854d19a

"At the time of the attack, Queensland Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Joint Counter Terrorism Unit were in Home Hill and investigated any links between Ayad and radical organisations, and they did not find any evidence of radicalisation."

So foreign Islamic nutjob runs around stabbing everything in sight screaming "Allah Ackbar" for several hours witnessed by many people, and they can't find evidence of radicalisation...

What are they?
Deaf, dumb and blind AND mentally retarded?

AC,

A disgusting mother and disgusting human being.

I could not begin to understand how such a creature could use her daughter's murder to (a) make a polticial statement and (b) defend the Islamist terrorists who murdered the girl. It's very hard to believe that the balance of a normal person's mind could be so disturbed so as to do what this female has done and said. I say 'female' because there is no way I can accept that 'woman' and 'mother' fits this freak.

As for the Qld and Federal police not 'finding' any connection between Islam and just-about-anything, we have to accept that those in the police are not all that bright these days and worse, not capable of protecting the public from an evil they do not want to recognise and face up to.