Old Dynamite

When Australia is one of the largest LNG exporters in the world, only a compete sociopath would seek to ban Australians from connecting gas to their homes for cooking and heating.

Fifty reasons to vote no Roger Franklin Quadrant Online August Special Edition 2023 Unless Anthony Albanese, taking note of the rapidly declining support for the Voice, decides to cut his losses by postponing the referendum, Australians will soon be asked to authorise a pointedly unexplained addition to the Constitution that opens a host of possibilities, none of them good. That’s one key reason to oppose the Voice. Here are fifty more: 1. Because you still can. 2. Because you’re sick and tired of woke. 3. Because BHP shouldn’t have opinions on anything except digging stuff out of holes. 4. Because Wesfarmers has no business giving $2 million of shareholder cash to the Yes camp. 5. Because every Yes-backing sporting code in the country has been bought with grants and handouts. 6. Because Albanese & Co can’t or won’t explain what they have in mind. 7. Because you don’t approve of Melbourne being renamed Naarm. 8. Because, sooner or later, the High Court will get involved. 9. Because the High Court has been known to indulge in judicial ratbaggery. 10. Because Australians need their very own “Bud Lite moment”. 11. Because the National Press Club tells us we should. 12. Because the ABC and Nine newsrooms will be awash with tears if Yes loses. 13. Because a No victory will prompt the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments at the Guardian. 14. Because you’re sick and tired of being called a racist. 15. Because Dan Andrews wants it and so does Victoria’s empty-suit opposition leader. 16. Because you’ve never given an Aborigine infected blankets. 17. Because you’ve never distributed poison flour. 18. Because the Massacre Map isn’t history, it’s elements of truth larded with a lot of agitprop. 19. Because you’ve been silent about too much for too long. 20. Because you don’t need welcoming to your own country. 21. Because, if you’re a New Australian or recently descended from such, what harm did your ancestors ever do an Aborigine? 22. Because Bruce Pascoe. 23. Because it was fun to hear Linda Burney’s slurred mispronunciation of “Aborishnial”, but the novelty has worn off. 24. Because a No victory will do serious harm to Anthony Albanese’s leadership. 25. Because Anthony Albanese will have a target on his back. 26. Because few things are quite so amusing as watching comrades counting numbers, sharpening knives and lopping heads. 27. Because a No win will make Marcia Langton more irate than usual. 28. Because, unlike gender fluidity and other noxiously fashionable memes, the Voice is the one woke narrative you can stomp. 29. Because your blue-haired niece caused a scene at the last Christmas dinner. 30. Because, if you have no black blood whatsoever, you’ll have only slightly less than some Voice campaigners. 31. Because, as Salvatore Babones notes, at this rate we’ll all be Aborigines by 2080. 32. Because scholarly, accurate but unsettling accounts of Aboriginal life and customs are being removed from library shelves. 33. Because we shouldn’t be having this referendum in the first place and, Yes or No, race relations and resentments will be worse in its wake. 34. Because Noel Pearson’s constant insults deserve a ballot-box rebuke. 35. Because Noel Pearson is always ready for his close-up. 36. Because a Voice won’t stop what’s happening every night in Alice Springs. 37. Because Aborigines don’t trace the bulk of their lineage to Malaysia, the Philippines, Niue, Vanuatu and Singapore. 38. Because you’re weary of being told how to think. 39. Because your kids are being taught what to think. 40. Because Pat Dodson refuses to remove his hat in the Senate. 41. Because bar associations, undoubtedly aware of the potential for lucrative litigation, are backing Yes. 42. Because the voting booth makes you immune to doxing, cancelling and workplace retribution. 43. Because of the newly legislated shakedowns by Western Australia’s “indigenous cultural consultants”. 44. Because you’ve endured enough politically correct lectures from self-righteous dills to last a lifetime. 45. Because a clan pursuing a subsistence existence is not and never was “a nation”. 46. Because “a story the aunties told me” isn’t reliable primary-source material. 47. Because you’re unfashionably normal. 48. Because normies are no longer found in newsrooms, on government benches, in academia or amongst senior public servants. 49. Because you remember the waste and disgrace that was ATSIC. 50. Because those vending lies know you recognise them as lies but insist you become complicit in their charades and falsehoods. Roger Franklin is the Editor of Quadrant Online, where he invites readers to add their own reasons to this list.

@AlboMP Insincerity writ large.

Today every Australian family is thinking of the four families of the missing aircrew. Our thoughts are also with all those they serve alongside. Friends, brothers and sisters in uniform who even now are aiding in the search effort.

@CharlieJGardner Only on windy days.

Regardless of your position on climate change, politics or anything else, you can't argue against the fact that fossil fuels are the energy sources of the past, and renewable will power the future

@Biggy1883 Rather be on the right side. Vote NO.

@RedmondMargret On chicken? FFS!

@DynamiteOld Nooooo! No tomato sauce mate😂😂😂

A very good friend has brang over roast chook & veggies for tea tonight😬😬Can you see what my problem with this meal could possibly be🤔😂😂

Good job it wasn't in WA. Might have had a bloke turn up demanding $2.5m.

@chrisboettcher9 That's a bit more than one per day!

I've completed 10 Ironmans and treated over 3000 patients over the past 10 years. Here's every fitness tip I could think of: 1) Kids will only move as much as their parents do.

Can we join this tribe? Once the voice gets passed many Australians will be entitled to join this tribe and will take everything that they can get, and more. We can just be the MUNNI-Givers tribe!

EVs are an environmental time bomb. The US Coast Guard has issued an alert to not allow them on ships ctif.org/news/coast-gua…

@Marcus78216830 The Aboriginals attempt to remove the Demon Drink from cutting down the White Man are momentous.

@r_riordanmp @LilyDAmbrosioMP failed 1st year science. What do you expect?

How does banning gas cut power bills? Forcing more people to use an energy source that is rapidly increasing in price will only accelerate its price increase! What emits more CO2 electricity at 60 to 70% coal or gas? It seems an interesting transition

@Malarndirri19 Free beer.

@szabosolicitors @Matt_Camenzuli Obviously maths is also not your strength.

@DynamiteOld @Matt_Camenzuli Not what I said 🙄

I say do it Albo! #auspol msn.com/en-au/news/aus…

@Marcus78216830 Only if we pay to fly her and dildo back from Geneva First Class. Or @AlboMP could send his plane if not using it for another jolly.

@ProlResistance Wrong. It will mean the power going off.

@ProfStrachan Sorry. 9. Move to cave 10. Grow veggies 11. Bin phone.

Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateCrisis 1. Stop methane emissions 2. Stop deforestation 3. Restore degraded land 4. Change what we eat 5. Go #RenewableEnergy 6. Use energy more efficiently 7. Stop burning #FossilFuels 8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/20…

@__TEAM_USA Yeh. She's got nice tits too!

This is who I'm voting for in 2024. Who's with me?

@simonahac @BCAcomau From a bloke who wants Feals to put windmills on Bondi Beach this is a bit rich.

this is the biggest piece of 🐂💩 i’ve seen from the business council in years. wtf @BCAcomau… your claim is plain wrong. embarrassing.