It is rumoured that Morrison could call an election as early as October this year. And why not? Albanese is a dud, and Morrison has pinched all the Lefty policies: adopting fundamental Labor or Keynesian policies of public stimulus, and handing out taxpayer funds just like any good Socialist.

He also seems to be collapsing on climate change, and embracing the Leftist zero emissions target by 2050 mantra after a "warm" conversation with old Joe.

With no real opposition, we are heading for a virtual one party system, and a Lefty one at that.

ttbn, Oh, pleeeeaase, don't scare us like that.
After the slight of hand that went on in the States, we can only wonder what will happen here.
Your assessment of the situation is pretty much on the mark.
BUT, it's a long way between here and October, and he could still flip on other issues which will make his chances slim at best.
I hope he stays the course and holds back that moronic old doddering fool's attempts to woo him and Australia, into the same swamp Biden resides in now.
It's becoming more obvious with more info being released about the truth on GW and CC, that it's not, as I have been saying, the fault of humans and/or fossil fuels, that is to blame or that it is alleged to be THE major contributor to this exaggerated event.
I think the govt's are much better informed than they let on, and they know the truth about GW and CC, and that's why they are not moving so quickly to waste money on a very good snow job/lie.
Yet from a public stand point, and because they are mostly un-informed or mis-informed, for political security, they have to be seen to be on board with this GW CC nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMF9aMI-9ek

This is only one of many explanations by a broad range of experts/researchers that I'm posting.
I will post others in the appropriate discussion.

ALTRAV,

Glad to see that you are still alive and kicking.

ttbn, glad to return the thought, thanks to you too.
Don't worry it will take a lot more than some PC plebs to even make me raise an eyebrow.
I notice my favourite femme fatale is nowhere to be seen but all the other pains in the proverbial are mostly still there.
What happened to her do you know?

ttbn,
Geez Mate, you sound suspiciously like a panicking Leftie !

ALTRAV, my dear forum Il Duce welcome back following your enforced exile to the Cyber Siberia for being a naughty little chap. I look foreword to some "meaningful" discussion with you on all of todays pertinent topics.

Foxy's husband has been very ill, and Foxy is providing care for him.

ttbn, the fact is Good King ScumO', is top of the pops these days, particularly with a few of us more conservative lefties. I was the first on the forum to question the mad cash splash by ScumO' and treasurer Friedbrain when the pandemic struck. A trillion dollar, no exaggeration, debt set up by this government makes anything Labor done in the past look like small beer. Although 'Jobkeeper' and other spending's, first proposed by Labor in the very early days and rejected by the Coalition, was then embraced by ScumO' wholeheartedly to the point where it looked like the government was trying to outdo itself in splashing the cash, I think even Labor was astounded by the governments level of spending. BTW another few billion for Aged Pensioners next month in the form of a $250 gift, shown to be a total waste.

I of course did agree that a high level of government spending in a true socialist way was necessary under the circumstances, but I did not agree that cash into the hands of Capitalist in the form of profits and bonuses was the way to go.

Albo who? Totally irrelevant these days. Boot Albo bring on Penny.

ttbn,

There are some scholars who argue that capitalism will collapse in the face of continued anthropogenic global warming and adverse climate change and that socialism will be the only viable system in an overpopulated world of harsh environments and depleted natural resources.

Global warming, my arse! It's the middle of summer, and here in the driest state in Australia, it's cold and wet. The climate hysterics have nothing to say about the fact that the climate continues to do nothing that they said it would. Like the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages, the climate religionists threaten doom and gloom if the serfs don't toe the line. Well, the serfs are bit smarter these days, and they aren't listening to the 'by 2030', 'by 2050' crap from people who won't be in power, if they are even alive, in 20 or 30 years.

The planet is over-populated BECAUSE of 'Experts" & it's that what's causing pollution !
Climate change is too slow to measure for the silly experts to can't tell the difference between climate & pollution !

ttbn & individual,

Putting aside your arguments against AGW, you still have to accept that the planet has been getting hotter over the past two centuries (for whatever reason) and that this warming is resulting in adverse climate change.

This is irrefutable. We are all witness to a planet getting hotter and weather patterns that are becoming more adverse. We see reports of it on our TV just about every night.

Even the leading opponents on AGW and climate change action such as Soot Morrison and Barnyard Joyce will accept the science on these two aspects. (But I think they resist taking action simply because they don't want to do anything about it).

Climate is always changing, not much we can do about that. What we can do but don't is to drastically curb polluting the planet with the by-products of too many people !
Birth control & a less frivolous way of life by consumers will have a positive impact but will it save wo/mankind ? hard to say. Some will survive & go on to becaome just like our silly generations & repeat all the mistakes all over again. Why ? Because "experts" will push themselves to the front as per usual to feather their own nests.
Just look at the tearing apart of the ozone layer, condoned by the experts.

individual,

The planet is getting hotter and causing adverse climate change the effects of which are causing harm to people.

What do you intend to do to mitigate the adverse effects?

Why don't you do what Soot did and go on vacation to Hawaii?

Village Idiot,

Yes, the planet is getting hotter: by around 0.5 degree in 80 years, here in Adelaide ! In barely 500 years, it would have risen more than 3 degrees ! Since nothing will be done between now and then to mitigate temperatures, how will they cope ?!

And the sea-level has been rising ! Around 2 inches, 8 cm, in the last century alone ! In barely a thousand years, the overall sea-level rise will be almost half - half ! - as much as the twice-daily tides !

And since nothing will be done, it means that some coastal areas will be occasionally threatened with flooding !

The sky is falling ! The sky is falling !

Joe

Foul-Mouth,

I didn't ask what anyone would do about stopping the temperature from rising.

We all know that the temperature is rising and changing the climate adversely.

What I'm asking is what will people do to mitigate the effects of the increasing adverse weather patterns.

I assume people like you would do what Soot does: go for a holiday to Hawaii.

Village Moron,

No, for one thing, I would plant more trees, by the thousands, and - with others helping - millions of trees. Although I've already done my knees in, planting trees :)

All along our coasts, where there is potentially decent soil inland, small nuclear power stations (about the size of those currently in nuclear-powered submarines, i.e. pretty harmless) could be built in their hundreds, to power desalination plants.

As well, other small nuclear power plants to pump water inland, to irrigate forests and orchards on drippers, hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of them - at around forty million trees for every thousand square kilometres. With our four or five million square kilometres of 'empty' land, there's 160-200 trillion trees. That could suck a huge amount of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

And of course, carbon, ash, etc., ploughed back into the soil. And developing the most suitable forms of algae to soak up CO2 in the oceans. And building structures which minimise the need for artificial heating and cooling.

You could probably think of other means of reducing CO2 ? I wait with baited breathe.

Joe

Foul-Mouth,

I'm NOT asking you how to sequester atmospheric carbon or reduce carbon emissions.

I'm asking how you would mitigate the adverse weather patterns associated with climate change.

how you would mitigate the adverse weather patterns associated with climate change.

Mr Opinion,
I'm not even trying to change the climate but I'm doing my utmost to convince the not-so-bright to stop breeding like rabbits & be Leftists i.e. willing slaves to consumerism !
That's the only way to ease the pressure on the environment ! Everything else will fall into place.

I have to laugh.
I have been away with the fairies and not followed OLO, during this period.
But I am surprised to see that some of my traits have rubbed off on some commentors.
Especially the ones I would never have thought it possible.
Here's hoping that the horses arses who do the adjudicating, are beginning to learn about being Australian and the Australian vernacular.
I am quite buoyed to see that some of you are beginning to talk Australian, OR like an Australian, and moving away from this censored PC crap they are attempting to force upon us.
Glad, and relieved to see it.
There is hope yet, for the truth and the righteous.
And remember; "The Truth Shall Set You Free"!

"The Truth Shall Set You Free"!
ALTRAV,
Old Adi thought it was work that set you free ! Didn't quite go that way did it !

ALTRAV,

What sort of Australian are you talking about.

We have Bogan Australians, Chinese Australians, Italian Australians, Italian Australians, Indian Australians, etc., etc.

What type are you?

Mr O, I am a proud ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN!
As I've attempted to convince many, many times before, if your parents are Italian, then you are Italian of blood, but Australian by birth, and by law.
So even though your blood is pure, un-adulterated Italian, your passport says you are Australian.
So according to certain media, I am an Australian born Italian.
Go figure?
It makes sense so whether I like it or not, I am Italian first and foremost.
As for those of mixed blood, if they are born here, it is not possible to highlight one race over the other because they both rate equally, they are therefore, if only by birth, can only and should only, be referred to as, Australian.
Their blood is neither one nor the other!
If you remember I have expounded on this previously, and to that end, we were talking about aboriginality.
In this case, if one parent is black and the other is not, but because the child is born in Australia, they are Australian, and not aborigine, as so many wannabee's are attempting to con their way into the benefits allocated to the blacks.
As is the similar case with those claiming to be black, who had a black ancestor, somewhere in the distant past, too distant to even have any knowledge of them, yet insist on being recognised as black.
So much for respecting the other races in their bloodline along the journey that got them here today.
Bloody shameful and disrespectful.
But I suppose that's just another couple of words that sum up these, so called, wannabee Aussies of today!

This hyphenated-Australian business must stop. Born here or naturalised, we are all Australians who need to stick together against the political class if we are to retain democracy and avoid one-party politics. Keeping people in different groups is the politicians' idea; we should be rejecting it.

ttbn,

I like being a hyphenated-person.

For myself, I am a Bogan-Australian which is what a lot of people would also call an Australian-Australian.

Today Paul Collits sums up the politicians ruining the country in “Ode to Margaret”: they

“ …. seem now to think that one of their job requirements is to insult their citizens. They know not how to shut up. They think their views are important, interesting, relevant. They are not. Not able to govern even moderately competently, they resort to abuse and invective in an effort to score points with a media and ruling elite only too ready to put the boot into Australians with whom they disagree”.

Altrave,

We tend to take our culture - and identity - from our mothers. I'm sure you might relate to that ?

So my Aboriginal wife took her Aboriginality from her mother - not to mention the simple fact that he never knew her father, just that he was a Calabrese.

And her mother ? Both of her parents were Aboriginal, and the parents of those were also Aboriginal. Back in the mists of time, yes, there would have been blow-in and -out whitefellas, but not the people who raised the kids.

Well, one whitefella, I suppose a gr-gr-gr-grandfather who married a Kaurna woman, who took out a lease of land on Kangaroo Island in the 1850s. In those days, if a whitefella married an Aboriginal woman and they wanted to farm, the lease was made out in the name of the wife. Happened quite a bit: www.firstsources.info , on the Protector's Letters Page, Letters: check Indexes.

So generally, the only relations my wife ever knew were Aboriginal. Uncles and aunties would pass through their place in a small country town all the time, on their way between the city and the home-community.

So she was Aboriginal. End of.

Joe

Foul-Mouth,

And what about you?

I assume you are a Bogan Australian like me.

Loudmouth2, (Joe).
I can only beg to differ.
What you say might be a personal and/or cultural description of your understanding of the situation.
BUT, I must remind you of the FACT that, referring to your example, the mother and father are of different ethnicities, or as I put it 'blood lines'.
So you may choose to be referred to as what ever you wish, just the same as someone changes their name by deed-poll, but it in no way changes their blood line.
The example you give is a perfect one in explaining my point.
Similarly all the wannabees who claim to identify as aboriginal, when in fact they are Australian, WHY?
Because as I said previously, it is, at the very least, disrespectful to choose to identify as one parent over the other.
Both parents are equal in every way, so therefore the deciding factor can only be the off-springs country of birth, and in the example you give, it can only be Australian.
I understand that in your example the wife or maybe the culture allows one to take the mothers blood line, although I've never heard of that in the aboriginal customs.
Joe, you can't say "she was aboriginal, end of".
You can only say she "chose to identify as an aboriginal woman".
Either way, my point still stands, because my proposition explains and caters to all the factors involved, such as but not restricted to, legal and social, to mention but two.
The fact that your submission is one of culture, is merely seen and practiced within the aboriginal community, and even then, not sure if, it is recognised by ALL the different black communities, or whether it is a localised belief/practice.
So according to what would be regarded as common sense, the lady in question IS Australian, but with Aboriginal and Calabrese blood, end of!
Just for fun, I thought I'd throw the last couple of words in as a follow up to your little slip of humour.
Cheers.

Village Idiot,

Yes, English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh (convicts and workhouse refugees, almost invariably from hamlets and villages), with maybe some Gypsy. Australian.

Joe

Foul-Mouth,

And I'm my roots are Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Gallic-Nordic.

Yes, we are definitely Bogan Australians.

Maybe we`should secede from the Commonwealth and create a Bogan Australia.

Village Idiot,

The Commonwealth IS Bogan, with civilizing influences from all over the rest of the world, mainly Asia.

Joe

'Bogan': in Canada, a sluggish side stream. In Australia, a fool, a hooligan. I can't see why anyone would self-identify as a stream or a fool and a hooligan. It has always been a derogatory description in Australia. Pretty close to moron, actually.

Foul-Mouth and ttbn,

You are missing the point.

But I'm open to suggestions so what type of Australian do you call yourself? White Australian? Fair Hair Australian? Outback Australian? Australian Australian?

Unless of course you want to be Chinese Australian. Is that what you want to be?