ttbn,

I think you are the one with the reading disability (a result of your low level education) because the topic is called 'What Hope Is There For Australia?'.

It's not 'What Hope Is There For France?' or 'What Hope Is There For Samoa?' or something else.

Asking 'What Hope Is There For Australia?' opens a wide range of responses.

And given the current war of words between Australia and China I think it is more than appropriate to answer the question with recourse to that situation.

No wonder you and others couldn't get through an Arts degree in things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc. Obviously you just don't have what it takes.

Mr. Opinion,

You have no idea of my educational qualifications because, unlike you, I don't talk about myself all the time. I have no desire to impress other people, particularly strangers on a computer screen.

You are always going on about your degrees, but I repeat: there is no evidence of 'higher education' in your posts, or in your reasoning. Like the average person, you are able to write to Year 8 or 9 standard, and your reading skill is a bit iffy.

ttbn,

I can tell you are not a scholar.

I suppose that you are just a regular vocationally trained person like most other people in life.

Nothing wrong with that. I even have a vocational degree (engineering) and make my livelihood from the engineering field.

What I'm emphasising is that like most people you do not have any training and skills in the Arts things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc.

Nothing wrong with that ............... You can't all be like me.

ttbn- I think Steve Marshall's issue stems from his being from the out crowd and not having the confidence that comes with being on the in crowd. If you check out his background you may get a sense of what I'm referring to. He like many leaders seems to have been sent in to create universal appeal in the electorate. I don't think he is necessarily a bad person. South Australia has been luckier with it's leaders than many. At least Steve Marshall's family seems to have a long history based in South Australia and Adelaide and so he is loyal.
At least he doesn't participate in sitting around in a circle talking about the euphoria they had the first time they read Das Capital because it's the only point in common that they have.

For the record I think the Labor Party will drag us to hell much faster- they are much more communist than the Liberals and have moved even more to the left in the last 50 years since Comrade Whitlam.

I guess that the Liberal party keeps trying to superficially appeal to the electorate based without really trying to actually do anything. They need to grow a bigger pie rather gaining market share. The problem is those with power generally want to use that over other people so relative power is more important. The communists want a power hegemony too for different reasons. I am suspicious that Communists such as Stalin only want to destroy the family so they can have sex with others wives. While they claim to live on a higher plane above human failings they in fact swim in failings that others find repulsive. Similar to to Schopenhauer vs Nietzsche. So much for tabula rasa.


Mr Opinion- Perhaps ttbn's choice of title was like many headlines not completely accurate. I guess it's hard to respect OLO when you've written so many serious journal articles. Anyway I find you both have interesting contributions and I feel you both benefit from each other. You are both brave.

Mr. Opinion,

Don't be so bloody childish. You can't tell anything about anyone unless you actually know them. I think that you are a liar, but I can't prove that without actually investigating you as a real person, not some anonymous shite-stirrer on the internet.

CM,

You have probably gathered, I am a genuine conservative and, therefore, have nobody to vote for, federally or statewise. I am still waiting to see any difference between the Marshall government and the 16 year old Labor government it replaced. I would not be surprised if the Liberals were kicked out after only one term. The Labor leader can run rings around Marshall for personality and presentation. He has taken over from a real ratbag, ex-taxi driver who used to do most of the spruiking for Labor under the pathetic Jay Weatherill leadership.

Three Liberal ministers have been caught out for not being careful enough with their expenses. Marshall looks as though he has pooped himself when he is on TV, when he was defending the ministers, when he stuffed up the latest unnecessary virus panic, in parliament and when wearing a hard hat standing near some over-budget, over-time freeway or new building.

Getting rid of all state governments might be one solution to the hopeless situation we seem to be in.