Cost of living is more important to voters than one word coming out of Morrison's mouth. Popular food is becoming unaffordable. The government's recent budget has been blown out of the water, and things would be worse under a Green Labor regime. The lack of 4 ply toilet paper two weeks running is of more importance to me than all this petty, bed-wetting Leftist ideology and whining about about what a politician says - particularly when it has nothing to do with running the country. Get a grip! Come to terms with the nitty gritty of real life. Get ready for hard times, no matter which group of drongos is in government. Start thinking about what influence Communist China will have on the drongos, who have let our defence dwindle to nothing ever since World War 11. The Japanese were beaten off in the Solomon Islands and what is now PNG. Red China is moving into both places now. Will we be able to beat them off, while we whine about the PM's choice of words; fuss about transgenderism, our supposed racism, ruining our economy over a pretend 'climate crisis', and all that hard left shite? I doubt it. We need more than "positive thinking" to survive what the drift to the left has brought down on us for the past 50 years.

It'd be much more sensible to discuss ways of reducing the insane bureaucrat salaries which are as an indisputable fact the cause of all the economic imbalance in Australia. In a nutshell, too many excessive salaries for too many people doing nothing worthwhile.
I'm fine with competent professionals receiving good salary but I draw the line at the masses of incompetent bureaucrats working full time against the Government to the detriment of our society.
Don't blame the Govt, kick out those useless chair polishers !

For the likes of mhaze who want to put all this debt on both Labor and the pandemic.

"When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, gross debt stood at about $280.3 billion. That level of debt was largely the consequence of borrowing undertaken by the former Labor government to help cushion Australia from the global financial crisis, which according to the Reserve Bank began around mid-2007. By the end of January 2020, as Australia began to record its first cases of coronavirus, gross debt was $568.1 billion. On July 22, 2020 ... gross debt stood at $723.4 billion."

Link for mhaze as he has problems googling.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-13/fact-check-budget-debt-coronavirus-pandemic/12545628

Government debt;
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReview202122/CommonwealthDebt

Islands are a dreadful defensive base, as was proven in WW!!. You can't reinforce them unless you control both the sea & air in the vicinity, & you can't run away from them.

Yes they are an aircraft carrier you can't sink, but that is only of any use if your air arm is stronger than any opposition. China are either showing their naivety in wanting island bases, or are simply stirring for the sake of it. Probably the latter as they know how inner city twits so easily get their knickers in a knot.

Time for people to worry about something meaningful, if they can get their noses out of their phones long enough to put 2 thoughts together.

individual,

Nobody is going to cut public sector salaries (they even raised them while those in the productive private sector lost their jobs). But, they could, with little comment from most Australians, slash the public sector - starting with the ABC. The only workers that the public should be paying are those in essential services: health, defence, treasury, utilities, police, fire services.