SteeleRedux,
Good news, now let's hope unions & pseudo Academics don't throw a spanner in the works !

The Morrison government (which seems to mean just Morrison theses days - who needs a republic) has pledged to spend four times what Labor spent on the GFC (The Age). The $200 billion spent so far is more than the defence, education and health budgets combined.

Can anyone see a plot here caused by Communist China by the release of Covit-19, so that unwittingly we become totally dependent on Government for income, governed by movement and association control laws. That way to introduce Marxist Communist principles.

I watched a Left wing nutter on Sky News telling us "we are all socialists now", referring to the Morrison big spend. Is be right? Could be. After all, should it not be the first thing to make sure that there is no panic buying, so that that everyone has the essentials?

Morrison couldn't care less if you've got nothing to wipe your bum on. No, he rushes in and flings someone else's money around when there is no financial crises; it's a health crisis.

Sure, the poor buggers who have lost their jobs need money. But that should be it.

Peter Jennings (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) says that there is no doubt that China has a biological weapons program.

While the China virus has killed relatively few people, the economic impact on the West will be massive; and China looks like coming out of the crisis ahead of the West.

China is now offering to help developing countries to gain strategic advantages for the future- as they always do when they provide ‘aid’, which can be regained by taking over territory when the receivers of aid default.

Jennings stresses the need for Australia to stop being “so naive” about China. China is looking to have an advantage over us. There is no thought of a ‘partnership’ of the sort we have with most of our trading partners. The Chinese Communist Party has blatantly directed Chinese in Australia to by up supplies in Australia and ship them back home.

As far as strategy goes, the elites in the Pacific Islands are happy to have ‘help’ from the Chinese, with the money going into the pockets of that elite, whether their people benefit or not.

This is bad news for Australia, which needs to look after the region better, and stop wasting our money on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (thanks to Julie Bishop) - areas remote from us, and of no value to us.

Only Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have had the guts to condemn China.

Hey ttbn,
"China is now offering to help developing countries to gain strategic advantages for the future- as they always do when they provide ‘aid’, which can be regained by taking over territory when the receivers of aid default."

Well that's not so bad, arguably better than how the US acts.
America survives directly off of the lifeblood of other nations.
Look at the recent announcement regarding drug cartels in Mexico.
It's not about drugs, it's about the recently discovered lithium deposit.

As for COVID-19 and claims regarding China's culpability, please watch this, and find out the other sides of the story.
http://youtu.be/O26Lsxs6USI