Next Federal Election
You are exactly right Andy .
Australians are also a great bunch of people , the best .
People all around the world , like and admire US .
With living in Australia , WE have a responsibility to make the MOST of it !
Its like getting an education , U have to use it to not only help yourself , but also your Community .
The World needs a Place like Australia 2 Lead !
We are NOT a Country where kids should have bits chopped off , or added on , due to Gender or Religious views .
We are not , generally a Woke Nation .
We are smart and CAN build Stuff !
We have Fun and have a Crack .
We don't like BS or throwing money away .
We are friendly , but don't fuck with US .
We love getting suggestions from others but hate being Told , what to do .
We will make up our OWN minds on important Stuff !
Worth a look,
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/billboard-highlights-90-of-was-ga...
Should make most sensible people disappointed with our politicians.
soggydog wrote:Worth a look,
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/billboard-highlights-90-of-was-ga...Should make most sensible people disappointed with our politicians.
National disgrace.
Hey Albo SLEAZY,
its good on your watch...
highest interest rates and inflation in 12 years...koont
more homeless than ever in Australia history
Highest poverty rates ever
CRIME up 21%
Unemployment UP and rising,
Hows your tent factory?....HUGE and growing market, all the front bench crowd funded while you were down the pub with your failed chook raffle...
BUT YOUR NUMBERS ARE DOING WELL IN THE WORST PRIME MINISTER EVER SECTOR 88%...
^^^ excellent source for facts and figures, that’s it ! I’m voting for Mr Potato Head .
The Gas that is going out of WA , Royalty Free , MUST have been in the Original Contract 2 Fund these Projects , right at the beginning .
If SO , these Contracts MUST B honoured !
Honourable Countries honour Law and Order .
Woodside would NOT B allowed , by Australian Law 2 do this Tax Avoidance Gas Play .
No way , they pay tax at 30% , just like any company ,
Australians CAN get A Better Deal , IF we fund and build our OWN Project , right now .
The Premier that probably signed the agreement , probably need to give WA a boost with Employment , maybe ?
15 years ago , after the Original Contracts were signed , sealed and delivered , no one wanted to buy Woodside ( or BHP or Oil Companies ) , as the prices for their Raw Materials were low .
Since Global Warming came along , all have Flourished with the extra CO2 .
Must B like plants ( some people want to cut them down ) ffs !
Pop Down wrote:The Gas that is going out of WA , Royalty Free , MUST have been in the Original Contract 2 Fund these Projects , right at the beginning .
If SO , these Contracts MUST B honoured !
Honourable Countries honour Law and Order .
Woodside would NOT B allowed , by Australian Law 2 do this Tax Avoidance Gas Play .
No way , they pay tax at 30% , just like any company ,
Australians CAN get A Better Deal , IF we fund and build our OWN Project , right now .
The Premier that probably signed the agreement , probably need to give WA a boost with Employment , maybe ?
15 years ago , after the Original Contracts were signed , sealed and delivered , no one wanted to buy Woodside ( or BHP or Oil Companies ) , as the prices for their Raw Materials were low .
Since Global Warming came along , all have Flourished with the extra CO2 .
Must B like plants ( some people want to cut them down ) ffs !
What about Chevron and Exxon? 0 tax in the last 5 years. What compels you to defend them Pop? We raise more government revenue through the collection of fees from students than we do from gas. The deals have been done, then connect the dots on the politicians who did these shonky deals and the new jobs they hold with the benefactors of these laws.
""Australians CAN get A Better Deal , IF we fund and build our OWN Project , right now .""
Very Marxist of you Pop....
Or maybe just tax them properly/ fairly like Norway does with its resources.....
soggy
I am not trying to defend Chevron , at all .
I want to tax the crap out of them .
As I said , this shit must have been part of the Contracts 2 originally Fund these Projects .
Otherwise , Stop it NOW ffs .
When these Original Contracts were signed , there was NO Gas industry in WA .
The Contracts were probably the Best the Politicians involved and who wanted development , could GET !
The North West Shelf , a Mighty Gas Field that could B doubled , was then Built .
With High gas prices these deals look Crap now .
Well bad luck , that shit happens .
Can't cry over split milk !
This shit shouldn't STOP us building our own NWS !
We can find , Fund it and Build IT , within 5 years if Fast Tracked imho .
Then ALL the Gas can be kept here and NO fn Foreign Multi National Oil company , can can advantage of US again .
I hate those guys being involved !
andy-mac wrote:soggydog wrote:Worth a look,
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/billboard-highlights-90-of-was-ga...Should make most sensible people disappointed with our politicians.
National disgrace.
And that's the side of the country that actually does reserve some gas for it's domestic use!
I looked at a Tube Clip last night , it blamed Martin Ferguson , the Labor Resources Minister , for changing the Petroleum Tax and causing this mess .
It then named a group of Politicians that had got jobs as Lobbyists .
The next Liberal Resources Minister also got a job in the Oil/Gas Industry and Joe Hockey who will work 4 anyone !
Martin worked 4 British Gas , after retiring .
It's a Pig's fn Breakfast !
I have been completely Wrong again !
Another Job 4 a PM with True Grit , 2 fix ffs !!!
Pop Down wrote:I looked at a Tube Clip last night , it blamed Martin Ferguson , the Labor Resources Minister , for changing the Petroleum Tax and causing this mess .
It then named a group of Politicians that had got jobs as Lobbyists .
The next Liberal Resources Minister also got a job in the Oil/Gas Industry and Joe Hockey who will work 4 anyone !
Martin worked 4 British Gas , after retiring .
It's a Pig's fn Breakfast !
I have been completely Wrong again !
Another Job 4 a PM with True Grit , 2 fix ffs !!!
^^ Ferguson was the last minister in a long line that signed off on those contracts Pops
If you want to see what soft corruption looks like check out how many former National Party leaders, ministers, members and office party holders leave parliament or their party positions and work for mining companies. A simple google search should do it Pops.
Pop Down wrote:I looked at a Tube Clip last night , it blamed Martin Ferguson , the Labor Resources Minister , for changing the Petroleum Tax and causing this mess .
It then named a group of Politicians that had got jobs as Lobbyists .
The next Liberal Resources Minister also got a job in the Oil/Gas Industry and Joe Hockey who will work 4 anyone !
Martin worked 4 British Gas , after retiring .
It's a Pig's fn Breakfast !
I have been completely Wrong again !
Another Job 4 a PM with True Grit , 2 fix ffs !!!
^^ Ferguson was the last minister in a long line that signed off on those contracts Pops
If you want to see what soft corruption looks like check out how many former National Party leaders, ministers, members and office party holders leave parliament or their party positions and work for mining companies. A simple google search should do it Pops.
LNP clearly ahead for first time in a Morgan poll since last election:
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/coalition-enjoys-its-largest-two-part...
No joy in reporting that as I feel they would throw vulnerable people under the bus again without a moment's hesitation in the next medical happening. But ALP are losing people as people get squeezed, and in the background we're killing off our productive base rather than building one. Fwiw I've been watching announced ALP policies and their clamp down on the visa rorting, their green industry policy - sound good. Defence is good for continuity, I'm wondering how the uncrewed missile ships will go given they are very much still prototypes. The house building goal will never be reached as of limitations of labour and hyperinflation in building costs. Have never seen a time in Australia when increasing homelessness and rental/affordability of housing has been like this. Homelessness was always something overseas. It's also apparent we run a population ponzi economy to juice GDP, rather than a productive economy. How did we end up here, with such a rich amount of resources and an educated population? And the gas/energy situation in the east is a massive wtf and you might as well be a shareholder to get any sovereign wealth going.
+1 Seems bizarre to be cheering for the mob who played a large part in creating the problems in the first place
How did we get here?
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/05/27/alan-kohler-market-fai...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/vested-interests-self-interest-an...
On housing and Dutton's solutions
"The most recent statistics from the Foreign Investment Review Board tell me that foreign investors purchased 1,339 established dwellings in 2021-22, the latest year for which data is available.
"If stopping foreigners from buying 1,339, 2,500, or even 10,000 properties would make a significant contribution to 'restoring the dream of home ownership', how much greater a contribution to that worthy objective might have been made by preventing the 171,727 domestic investors who were granted loans for the purchase of established dwellings in 2021-22 from having done so (or even reducing that number by, say, 20 or 50 per cent)?"
"For example, by abolishing negative gearing and reducing the capital gains discount for investors purchasing established (as distinct from new) residential properties," he said."
Dutton is still keen to let immigrants buy new homes even though there is a shortage of people to build them. His solution? overseas tradies will be given precedence to immigrate so they help relieve the problem, basically, let more tradies in so they can build new houses for new immigrants. What about letting them build for Australians and restrict foreign purchases? What ever happened to "look after Aussies first"? Basically he doesn't give a rats about the problem, it's all just smoke and mirrors to get elected only to maintain the status quo. It's perplexing that people actually believe what he says
Smiley
It's the Last Minister that Counts the most !
The Next Minister that Changes these fn Shit Contracts , and YES We can Change ANY fn MESS , will also B the Last .
Call a fn Royal Commission ffs !
Qatar is an Example of How an Export Market of Gas should be taxed .
Use THIS as an International Standard and COPY it ffs !
Then WE look at Pollies selling their Souls , after completing their political careers .
Don't give them their Pension , until After they STOP working , maybe ?
^^^ what sort of imbecile are you Pops? We had arguably a decade of successive government ministers signing off on these contracts, mostly Howard ministers, contracts with no domestic gas reservation, but it’s the last one you’ve focused on. No fan of Ferguson but he was only one of many who sold the country out.
BTW did you google the good ole boys in the Nationals and their mining jobs?
^ Pop Down is not Pops.
Just wanted to put that out there.
"what sort of imbecile are you Pop Down?"
The kind that does his own resurch on Youtube?
Pops wrote:^ Pop Down is not Pops.
Just wanted to put that out there.
Hahaha.
Pops wrote:^ Pop Down is not Pops.
Just wanted to put that out there.
Apologies Pops
Chalk and cheese
Boiled lollies and chocolate
Noice!
Scotty from deep sea mining
https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-ex-pm-the-treasure-hunters-and-th...
- “And [on the climate change question] we don’t have another 10 years to argue about where to get these battery metals. Rome is burning.”
....squeeze the juice scumo, it's natural ;)
https://m.
Hey Pops
Sorry for u being confused with a Pop Number 2 mate .
A shitty spot 4 u perhaps ?
I don’t think u are a Boiled lollipop!
As I’m Popping Up so often ( not always successfully :) and stinking up the thread , I will consider changing names !
Any suggestions ?
Confused Confucius ?
^ Divine Madman?
(assuming I was correct as to your intended perambulations)
John Laws
^^^ Caspar Jonquil
Haha very good Guy. Caspar was a great character.
GuySmiley wrote:^^^ Caspar Jonquil
Haha Gold!
This should be top of the pops at the next election
https://x.com/TheAusInstitute/status/1795988819633701296
https://x.com/R_o_d_C/status/1795988785886269465
https://x.com/R_o_d_C/status/1795988781721342015
So the gas cartel gets $150B of our common heritage, owned by all Australians, for nothing. Not one cent paid in royalties, by companies that pay no or virtually no tax, trash the environment, employ few Australians and funnel all the profit overseas.
What do these people have over our political class?
Surely it can't just be the political donations, they are only in the tens or few hundred thousands.
This happens across all our resource sector.
Is it just a coincidence that the last ten federal resources ministers, on both sides, went on to work, for big money, in the mining and fossil fuel sectors?
Is it just a coincidence that the Murdochs, who own a big hunk of our media and control the political narrative also own huge gas reserves?
Why is our media pretty much silent on this Godzilla of rip offs?
Whoever says they are going to stop this bullshit and tax these fuckers like the Norwegians and Qatari's do will get my vote. Until then I'm not voting for any of them.
It's not the lucky country, it's the fucking stupid country.
Aussies are asleep. What a sad state of affairs.
Yep, crazy.
https://m.
&pp=ygU2am9obm55IHJvdHRlbiBldmVyIGdldCB0aGUgZmVlbGluZyB5b3UndmUgYmVlbiBjaGVhdGVk Only 620,000 over 2 years for Shitens speech writer, hes only practising though.Getting ready for next year when Bill gets his old job back.Leader of the Opposition!
Oh yeah, bills going on holidays to singaPoor..Standing in for defence minister who buries helicopters.That Kount hasn't the balls to talk to Zelensky!
The big question is- how the blazes do people get these jobs?
I reckon I could put speeches together on practically any subject with lashings of bias to suit for waaaaay less than $620k.
Something pretty fishy about this.
It's a big club sandwich and we weren't invited to eat any of it, Zen.
I'd be happy with a few leftover chips based on the price of that sanga VJ.
Btw- never thanked you for the vid the other day regarding the difference in thought between eastern and western minds. It was very interesting.
Oh yeah, I could ask you examples on that one - truly interesting! Loved my time there, it's such a different way of thinking. The woodwork in that vid was stunning.
Have always been fascinated by their ship design too.
As far as us, I can only think our pollies lack true appreciation of what we have, or are infected with an inferiority complex that sees them sell the place out cheaply. Times haven't changed from my grandfather busting his back working to be selling cane at 4pence a tonne then importing the refined sugar from the UK for my Nana's cakes. Only the country where the refining goes on, changes. It's nuts when you consider how educated Australians are.
zenagain wrote:The big question is- how the blazes do people get these jobs?
I reckon I could put speeches together on practically any subject with lashings of bias to suit for waaaaay less than $620k.
Something pretty fishy about this.
If you are a shit radio announcer( like AJ) and get the bullet, you can be a political speech writer...My mates son is doing it for Sleazy, I dont know what hes getting paid but if its less that Shitens guy, he should be asking for more....Nobody listens to those 60 minute guys(40 minutes of lies, 20 mins of BS).
VJ, just in regards to the difference between Western minds and Eastern minds in terms of art and Westerners tend to have an object (beit a person, fruitbowl etc) as a focal point and how Eastern art is more scenic for want of a better term.
I have a picture mounted on the wall done by my wifes son @ 6 years old and it's exactly as the presenter said- he basically drew what he saw out the window and I think it reinforces what the presenter was talking about in that it's almost in his DNA. I love the pic btw- it's pure innocence.
Beautiful Zen, did he draw the entirety of the scene?
Have posted this before:
https://x.com/JapanTraCul/status/1634250011381755905?cxt=HHwWgsCzqcHugq4...
It's profoundly calming.
Edit: and ship design:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/nxdqz7/1103x699_ijn_fuso_l...
The tripod masts were developed into 11 separate pagoda levels of fire control equipment feeding into early mechanical computers, shells designed to hit underwater at extreme range. Very complex thinkers! British battleships diverged from the shared tripods into castle-like superstructures, very Saxon.
velocityjohnno wrote:LNP clearly ahead for first time in a Morgan poll since last election:
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/coalition-enjoys-its-largest-two-part...
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That's amazing really, seeing how unpopular Dutton is even with LNP voters, just goes to show how on the nose Albo is.
It's a huge rabbit hole to dive down to VJ. But I thank you for the heightened awareness. Just after watching that vid, so much more made more sense. I used to think the Japanese way of thinking and doing things was at times incomprehensible and often totally illogical. Now I just see it as different.
Edit: here's the pic. Sorry about the reflection. I just think it's so sweet what can come from a childs imagination staring out a window. As for Japan- I reckon he nailed it ha ha!
Awesome! Look at the perspective, and the levels of detail, colour theme.
It's a really profound difference in viewing the world, that so much can be learned from. I'll go and post up an absolutely classic east/west children's series in the Vids other than surfing theme as getting a bit off topic.
I know- great chatting though. I love this stuff.
Now, better get my linial thinking brain back to work.
that's epic @zen, and leaving blank space outside of the visual story is very japanese..
@vj, that Takahashi Shotei pic reminds me of being a kid and pouring over the end papers of rupert the bear annuals:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.545471342147942&type=3&comment...
- yep, the attention to detail in that painting is impressive ;)
I first travelled to Japan as a youngster nearly forty years ago and it left an imprint that remains today.
....returned last year and loved it again.
& @zen, the 'eastern mind' development of one pointed focus is a building block of zen philosophy, art and meditation (pretty sure you're aware of that!)
& @vj, it's also a foundation principle of chi gong and taoist breathing practices and forms ;)
- all impressive cultural influences that nurture and develop skill and intuition that can then translate into artistic mastery...... (something, by the way, severely lacking in the candidates for the next federal election in our wonderful kakistocracy)
Might as well put this up in the politics subforum, to spare the front page. It's 18 months away or so, but here we go.
This is how Dutton wins:
https://www.afr.com/politics/enter-the-liberal-party-working-class-heroe...