Dan Meehan

@JillMarinelli1 Regardless of what empire colonised Australia, the indigenous people should have been treated much better than they have been.

The facts that people seem to forget are: 1. Australians did not colonise Australia. It was the British Empire. 2. If the British did not colonise Australia it would have been the French, Dutch, Spanish or the Portuguese. At the time of Australian colonisation, the major empires were all out expanding their territories in Africa, south east Asia and the Americas. It is therefore incredibly naive and fanciful to say that the Australian Aboriginals would have been left to themselves. If not the British then they would now be speaking Dutch (you only have to look at Indonesia) or the Philippines (Spanish conquest). This is not taught at school - history must be taught in context. So in context - the major powers of the world at that time were all out expanding their influence and colonising lands with natives inhabitants who weren’t as technologically or militarily advanced. Is it right? By today’s standards no. By the standards of the day it was deemed appropriate. 3. Many Australians have ancestors that arrived here as convicts in chains. They had no choice and they do not have any visa rights to go and repatriate to Ireland or Scotland or England. 4. Given the above - the end result is that a nation was created with an Anglo Saxon origin and a Christian heritage. 5. Post the white Australia policy, Australia opened its arms to settlers from Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe, Chinese, Vietnam, India. And - we are the more richer as a nation because of it. 6. It’s not immigration that most Australians are against. It’s the uncontrolled immigration. Immigration from extremist Muslim cultures and war torn African countries that do not have cultural compatibility and this is patently evident.

@realRick_AUS Albo. He’s never been implicated in a murder. For me not murdering people is a key Australian value.

It’s a simple question with only one right answer And we all know it.

@JohnAndersonAC A major contribution to the debt were LNP COVID payments made to corporations without a claw back clause.

Twenty years ago yesterday, the Howard government paid off Australia's national debt entirely. This month, that debt crossed $999 billion. Seven in ten Australians say they are worried about where this ends, as projections estimate a continual rise throughout the next decade. Link to article in comments below.

@JillMarinelli1 No

The apathy of Australian voters in handing them the top job is the biggest threat to this wonderful country. Big time!

@magataotao The country is going just fine

If you think these senators are a disaster and a problem for Australia, you’re only half right. The other half of the problem is the voters who put them there: a large bloc of indoctrinated, brainwashed, and intellectually lazy people who know little history, have scant life experience, and lack the habit of independent, critical thinking skill. They neither understand what’s happening in their country nor particularly care, yet they keep electing these women to office. That combination — incompetent or ideological politicians and an electorate too disengaged or misinformed to hold them accountable — is what’s dragging the country down.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Of course there’s a male version of these.

@ElaineM11584892 A very significant contribution to current debt is the COVID payments made by the LNP. These were paid without any thought to clawing back even a potion of payments from firms that did not experience a drop in profits.

What time in the past is he talking about?

@robynbryant33 Don’t worry about it Robyn; they’re a bunch of ignorant c#nts!

I will never understand why some people on here want to tear other people to shreds just because they don’t agree with them. In the past 24 hours I have been called stupid, an idiot, a ret**d, old and useless. I have been told it’s a hoo thing I don’t teach any more. I have been

@Peter_Fitz Mike Carlton calls a spade a shovel and I agree with 99% of what he tweets. It’s good to have another man’s man, in addition to myself, on the left side of politics. Add David Pocock as well.

Mike is as healthy and happy an older man as I know. Highly accomplished, great family life, a great Australian.

@SandiHLogan @BelindaJones68 @Shell She probably did know. It’s arrogance not ignorance.

Appalling performance by @Shell’s most senior Australian executive managing its revenues and exports. She has no idea. None. Before a parliamentary enquiry. What did she think she’d be asked — how much a paddle pop costs in a Shell servo in Dubbo?

@xskinn She should not make that commitment. It’s excessive.

So Jess Wilson MP claims if she becomes Premier of Victoria in November she will train and recruit 3000 Police in her first term. I know it’s bullshit and here’s why. Ian

@stats_feed Fossil fuel companies and a general lack of education across much of the population

Why do you think there is so much resistance to high speed rail in the US?

@amittalwalkar @ElaineM11584892 If you don’t want to be called a dickhead don’t behave like one.

How to win friends and influence people, by Ian Chappell. 😉

@theheraldsun The Angry Paper!

Regional Victorian MPs, including Premier Jacinta Allan and several of her ministers, are each pocketing tens of thousands of dollars every year for privately owned inner-city pads — thanks to a scheme set up by former Premier Daniel Andrews. > bit.ly/3QqpYj5

@GrahamY Graham, why would you be such a proponent of the fossil fuel industry? An industry that would jeopardise the future of humans in the interests of their massive profits. They are the cigarette companies of the 2020s.

Richard Dennis lies. The fossil fuel industry is not subsidised in Australia. Interestingly it is in Norway, his ideal country for oil and gas exploration. He must know this. The National Press Club should be ashamed for lowering their standards to host a deep Green propagandist as a speaker.

@JoJoFromJerz @HQNewsNow He’s not a psychopath, he’s a sociopath 😀

@HQNewsNow Yeah. We fucking noticed, you psycho.

Trump: I only like the states that I win

@JaneCaro Imagine no religion, it’s easy if you try …

No one can hate as blindly as the religious. Hideous bigotry.

@philmupp1 We’ve heard this bs for years. Victoria is a great place.

Entertainment reporter Peter Ford is not Holden back. After 40 years he is leaving Melbourne for the Gold Coast. And the general consensus among many Victorians is ' don't let the door hit you on the way out'.

@realRick_AUS @bingewatchers1 Yep, I reckon. Do you know how badly the Anglos treated them? Watch ‘The First Australians’ on sbs.

@bingewatchers1 @Dan1963Dan You think the Chinese or Indians would’ve been better for the indigenous peoples than Anglo? 🤣🤣

30% of all immigrant arrivals coming into Australia are from India 30% India is invading Australia and it’s the government who is allowing it to happen I’m not sure if you’ve seen the living standards in India, but they do not reflect Australian standards We’re in trouble

@HarryFromSyd @TimWilsonMP @AustralianLabor Independent report. I had friends who run businesses such as accounting practices telling me cheques turned up in their letter box and they didn’t know what they were for. I promise you one thing though; they banked them. One of them bought a new family car.

@Dan1963Dan @TimWilsonMP @AustralianLabor Chalmers? That guy would know how to count to 10 without using his fingers

Sadly, @AustralianLabor will never fix the fraud and corruption in the NDIS, because it is their supporters profiting from NDIS fraud and corruption. This is the economy Labor built, and it is for them, not you. Always remember: Labor governs for Labor, not Australians.

@HarryFromSyd @TimWilsonMP @AustralianLabor news.com.au/finance/econom…

@Dan1963Dan @TimWilsonMP @AustralianLabor No it’s not, but for the large majority, the payments were well targeted. The payments were to ensure that employees remained employed throughout the pandemic, so workers were ultimately the main beneficiaries. The scheme was designed by the ACTU