@JacintaAllanMP You truly are a horrible repugnant despicable woman, your leftist policies put Vic into the worst debt in history. You are going to be voted out in November by a landslide like we have never seen before because you are hands down the worst state premier in Australian history.
Donald Trump’s war is still putting families under pressure. As Premier, I’m determined to use Government to help. That’s why we’re taking 20% off rego.
@Ryandally08 I am a fan of Pauline, don’t agree 100% on this.
It is way too left though, very biased.
We need a government to come in and reverse wokeism and bring back neutrality.
Pauline Hanson says that she would “defund the ABC” of their “$1.2 billion” dollar a year funding and make it “subscription only”
“if people want to pay to watch the ABC, so be it”
“I wouldn’t fund it anymore I’d shut it down”
“Let the people who want to watch it subsidise it”
@earthtoroseyta@2worldsPodcast Too polite and generous like Canada…
And the politicians want more consumers and more competition for jobs to keep wages low - this is what big business wants, but there needs to be a rethink in what makes a strong and cohesive nation.
@2worldsPodcast Yeah, its pretty hard to ignore or shrug off at this point. I just cant tell if Australians genuinely dont care for nationalism or if theyre too afraid to say something
I think this is a bit tough. I know so many Italians who came here and couldn’t read or write English. They have contributed massively to our country over many decades.
Would you allow the world’s foremost nuclear or AI scientist to enter Australia even if they couldn’t speak English? The obvious answer is yes.
In short, the key criteria should be the capacity and desire to make a significant contribution to Australia, not English skills.
If you want to call Australia home, you should speak its national language.
We will make learning English an obligation for permanent visa holders - not an option.
@Steff441369@AlboMP I don’t completely disagree with your sentiment to Albo, but Bondi junction doesn’t appear motivated by religion, the attacker was an Aussie (Joel Cauchi) from Queensland with mental health issues who was targeting mostly women. Glad the police took him out that day.
@AlboMP Fuck off you traitorist flog. You are the reason these things happen and you have done nothing that makes any common sense to prevent it.
You allow extremist Islamists into our country and actually pay them to preach their hate.
With the other hand you blame far right dark forces
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli holds up a jar of the first oil from the Taroom project as he vows : NEVER AGAIN.
Never again should we surrender our sovereignty.
Never again should we be forced to rely on foreign fuel whilst sitting on our own vast resources.
Crisafulli laments that we spent the last 25yrs celebrating the destruction of our refineries. The destruction of assets that control our destiny.
‘ I just think that’s horrendously stupid.’
Let’s hope this is the turning point where Australia finally takes back control over its destiny 🇦🇺
@2SM1269 I don’t know enough to comment on the case, however:
1. Why isn’t this being investigated by military court martial?
2. What implications does this have for higher ups in military?
What a hot mess.
Chris Smith has weighed in on Ben Roberts-Smith, reflecting on the harsh realities of combat.
“On the war front — it’s kill or be killed. I know which I’d choose,” Smith said.
@MurrayWatt Inflation, inflation!
Maybe address the cause of affordability instead of increase business cost which will flow to consumers and push business to automate low skilled work.
I was completely ok with lower wages when I was young and had a professional job at 20.
Congrats Labor!
18-21 year olds don’t get discounted bills, why should their wages be discounted too? That’s why Labor’s delivering a pay rise for workers on junior wages.
@PaulineHansonOz Our gov (uniparty) has considered oil and gas as a bad thing, and followed the green suicide agenda, and never had the intellect to understand oil & gas underpins everything in our economy, and now we’re screwed.
Squandered our opportunity, and put us in a risky position!
5 years ago, do you think I was right?
The Senate on 22 June 2021. Senator HANSON (Queensland—Leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation) (13:07): I rise to speak on the Fuel Security Bill 2021. When I came into the Senate in 2016 I raised the importance of fuel security for all Australians.
This and previous governments have continually failed to meet the internationally mandated 90 days stockpile of fuel for the people of this nation. That means this government has put at risk the fuel security of our daily transport needs: our defence, our aviation industry, our mining and our commuter needs.
Without this internationally mandated 90-day stockpile of fuel, Australia risks coming to a grinding halt. My concerns were echoed by Senator Jim Molan when he entered the parliament in December 2017. What has happened over the last five years? Nothing.
If we go back to the year 2000, Australia had eight refineries that literally met the entire needs of our domestic refined fuel requirements. That is the same year Australia was manufacturing more than 320,000 new cars and over 23,000 commercial vehicles.
Fast forward two decades, and Australia's self-sufficiency in the fuel space is going the same way as manufacturing. It's almost dead. Shamefully, in the space of four months, Australian oil refineries in Altona, owned by ExxonMobil, and Kwinana, owned by BP, announced they were closing half of this nation's remaining oil refineries.
They suggested the facilities were no longer economically viable. How is that possible?
When I looked at the consolidated income statements of each of these oil companies operating in Australia, I saw that each of them is pulling in tens of billions of dollars of revenue each year from Australians.
They drill the oil and gas. They send the bulk of it overseas to Asian markets that have cheap labour. Then we're forced to buy it back from foreign markets, where the oil companies have extracted the bulk of the jobs and profits that should belong to Australians.
Successive governments have squandered the opportunity to negotiate better deals for Australians off the back of these highly sought-after resources.
And here we are today expected to pass legislation that will pay these same multinational oil companies $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money to continue refining activities until 2027 and, if we're lucky, until 2030.
Well, I've got some bad news for this government: I'm not going to help pass a bill that takes us down the same path as the car industry, which received billions and billions of taxpayers' money only to close. I make no apologies for looking out for the best interests of Australian taxpayers.
If we're going to pay $2.3 billion to secure Australia's fuel supply, the government should buy the Brisbane refinery in Lytton and let it become an asset owned by the Commonwealth. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper, and this government could then claim it has secured our refining capabilities well beyond 2030.
John F Kennedy was famous for saying: 'Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.' The truth is this government fears proper negotiations, because multinational companies have walked all over Scott Morrison, just as they did with Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
I'll say it again: these overseas corporations come here, they drill and mine our resources, and then they pay little to no taxes. Paying oil refineries $2.3 billion to keep operating in this country is hardly in Australia's best interests. We don't get a single share in these facilities. Instead we hand over the cash and simply kiss it goodbye.
Again I remind Labor and the Liberal and National parties what happened to Australia's car industry after they had been given tens of billions of dollars in subsidies. They took the cash and buggered off when it suited them. (1/3)
Diesel 3 bucks a litre ,electricity prices out of control ,housing shortages ,rates rises and this Galah is pretending to cook snags . That’ll do me , what a fuckwit .
@GBNEWS They don’t appear to be officials, just dudes who were wearing temu high vis with some words out on the back with a Cricut, but no offical badge or anything like that.
'The Islamic Human Rights Commission today showed their true colours. They tried to shut down free speech on the streets of Britain and I’m exposing them now'
Alex Armstrong demonstrates the 'aggravation the free press get for reporting a story' critical of Islamism.
Violence like this shocks our community. Stronger consequences and early intervention is how we respond. The Violence Reduction Unit has now deployed in Mernda to stop this violence spreading.
@NathanielSami How refreshing and enlightening is it to have a strong leader at the helm of the USA?
Trump is a legend, I can’t believe Biden ever got in!
Wish other western nations would
Emulate the USA.