@blowingtom2 This is known behaviour and something the government should have factored in when deciding whether or not to shut down most of Australia's refineries and rely on external/foreign suppliers. Political incompetence.
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As You Like It
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I really want to know who writes these post. Absolutely nails it every bloody time.
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@D_Melissa2 Unfortunately, Paul Keating thought so much of himself, his intellect, his wit, that he was blind to the flattery and manipulation from outside forces and failed to look after Australia's national interest. Surely the greatest useful idiot the country has ever produced.
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Keating on Hanson - 11 November, 1996
The sting of Keating’s intellect and his ability to define Hanson’s character so succinctly is as true today as it was then.
#auspol
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@wheelreinvent It's the presentation of data that's misleading. Each seat is an individual contest which produces one winner regardless of how close the result is. The actual unrepresentativeness lies in requiring voters to number all the boxes. That and compulsory voting.
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An electoral system that can produce this result from these preferences isn’t a democracy, it’s a corrupt joke
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@kevinbonham @sfw1956 No-one is asking for first past the post.
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I am not duplicitous at all. I see large numbers of One Nation supporters calling for outright first past the post and attacking preferential voting in general on this website constantly. I do see some like you calling for OPV instead but that is actually a minority.
OPV would also do nothing to address disproportionality. Outside the four seats that ON appear to be winning, there are none here that they would have won under OPV.
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Those ON supporters calling for this will generally not call for PR because what they really want is a system that turns their 22% of the primary vote into 22% of the seats but the Greens' 10% into no seats. And they can keep looking but no such system exists.
William Bowe@PollBludger
Social media is naturally awash right now with calls for the abolition of preferential voting, which would do precisely nothing to address the issue being raised. Yet to be see in the wild (by me at least): a call for what would, namely proportional representation.
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@element_tr94340 @minnamyself Anywhere. Not in any industry, profession, business or organisation.
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@minnamyself Australia does not want 32 year old Boss Girls as leaders.
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The Liberal Party of Australia is facing one of the worst defeats in its history after a devastating result in the South Australian election, with leader Ashton Hurn’s “mountain” challenge turning into a political disaster.
Just months after taking the leadership, Hurn now finds her party in uncharted territory — with the Liberals plunging to third place on the primary vote, behind both Labor and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
📉 The scale of the loss has shocked even the most pessimistic party insiders, with once-safe Liberal seats across Adelaide falling to Labor.
Senior Liberal Anne Ruston conceded the message from voters was loud and clear:
💬 “The people have spoken… and it’s a strong message.”
Election analysts have described the result as an “earthquake” — a dramatic reshaping of the political landscape, driven in part by a surge towards One Nation.
The fallout is expected to ripple far beyond South Australia, raising serious questions for Liberal branches nationwide about their direction, identity, and future.
📊 Historically, the benchmark for electoral disaster in SA was the 1993 South Australian state election — but this result may be even worse.
Back then, Labor still secured 30% of the vote.
This time, the Liberals may struggle to reach even 20%.
Behind the scenes, deep divisions within the party — between moderates and conservatives — are now likely to intensify as members search for answers.
Despite focusing on cost-of-living, housing, and health during the campaign, and promising major reforms, voters were not convinced.
Even support from former Prime Minister John Howard couldn’t turn the tide.
💬 In her concession, Hurn vowed the party would rebuild:
“We will come back stronger than ever.”
But with a collapse of this scale, the road back looks long — and uncertain.
-Australian Via bes Daily (FB)
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@TheConservati19 Their leadership team would have to work with Pauline which I suspect would be extremely difficult.
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If the LNP drop their ego and align with ON they could win in November as either a senior or junior party in a new Centre right government to finally deliver some hope to this state.
We know they won't though as their egos override what's best for this State.
AusPoll@AusPoll6
Victoria (federal) voting intention 🟥 ALP: 28% (-5) 🟧 ONP: 27% (+11) 🟦 L/NP: 21% (-3) 🟩 GRN: 14% (-) ⬛️ OTH: 10% (-3) DemosAU (MRP) | 13 Jan-3 Mar | n=~2000 [subsample from nationwide poll] | +/- 5 Oct-11 Nov
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@pondsntrees Giving it a name legitimises it. It’s a stupid thing done by those who can’t appreciate things for their true worth. It’s done for money.
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Pollarding a 100-year-old tree by cutting it in half, it is highly discouraged. Pollarding is a management technique that starts when a tree is young. On a mature tree its considered "TOPPING" likely to cause significant stress, disease, or death.
Fiona@pondsntrees
Everywhere you go in Ireland today, rows of trees have either been chopped down, chopped in half or chopped down to stumpy things with the fork like remains of branches. It's such a depressing sight.
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being an old timey doctor must have been amazing.
absolutely blasted on primo coke for holistic wellness, telling hotties to get in the apparatus
Jedi@dhe3g
Dr. Lewis Sayre treating scoliosis, checking the curvature of the spine, 1870s.
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As his late mother would say "You made your bed, now lie in it".
Harold Holt Memorial Pool@champagnesftboi
The look on his face says it all, completely out of touch.
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@M_I_K_E_68 @MiladAUSTlife They’re not Australians. I think they make that clear on a daily basis.
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@MiladAUSTlife They're Australians too champ whether you like it or not
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Dear Prime Minister, you are supposed to be the Prime Minister of #Australia, my Prime Minister and every other ordinary Australian, proud and head high. I would like to ask what is Australian about this picture?! Being in a mosque, sitting on the ground barefoot, while there is a big verse of the Quran over your head, and a Muslim cleric sitting 5 meters above you on a chair while you are seated on the ground, surrounded by a bunch of extremists. This is totally a disgrace to Australia and Australians. @AlboMP
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@etherblaize @scotthraines Just read the book. It’s just a story, you don’t need a degree.
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@scotthraines Genuinely curious question. As someone who likes to read, but does not have a literary degree, and works full time in another industry, what’s the best way to approach developing a background in the greats to better understand McCarthy?
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Cormac McCarthy is a good metric for how well you can read—it’s not the faux literary fluff that gets praised today, but it’s also not readily apparent to the reader. So much is said in what is unsaid, so you have to really read. For example:
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@pondsntrees There's no reason for reducing the branch spread in that area. What it has done is permanently disfigure the trees and mar the aesthetic of the landscape. It's actually done all across Britain and Ireland to keep arborists in business. It should be questioned.
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@jarvis_best @christopherrufo The first chapter is an absolute banger.
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@christopherrufo All the Pretty Horses succeeds in humanity and relatability and character development where those books fail (or at least take a long time to get there)
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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@beanyzzz @PaulSkallas He was also wounded and given a desk job in Munich, so he complained to his commanding officer and asked to be sent back to his unit on the front line. Dismissing Adolf as a 'failed artist' is gross idiocy.
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Alright but Hitler wasn't *just* a failed artist. He was a decorated veteran who was awarded two Iron Crosses as a regimental dispatch runner, in which he had to deliver messages under fire and in doing so was gassed (lmao ikr) leaving him temporarily blinded and was also hit by shrapnel. So even before his rise to power he would have still been considered "the man" by his peers back then.
Aside from that yeah
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The early 20th century was one of the last periods where political systems were weak enough that outsiders could seize total power. Mass politics had arrived, but professional political classes hadn’t fully stabilized yet.
Mussolini was a journalist. Hitler a failed artist. Stalin a seminary dropout and bandit. None came from traditional elites
The system stops that now.
GRITCULT@GRITCULT
If you ever feel behind in life remember. That until he was 30. Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing and was yet just a homeless thief who kept getting arrested. It’s never over. It’s never too late.
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@IonaItalia The behaviour, without commenting on its perverse nature, is heterosexual. He wanted to take pictures of the other and look at those images and he knowingly sought out places he could do it unobserved. Clearly premeditated.
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I am stunned by every part of this. Apparently the defence is that he thinks himself a woman. Apart from my serious doubts about this—would it be OK for a lesbian to spy on and film random women peeing or photograph their vulvas? Surely not.
7NEWS Melbourne@7NewsMelbourne
An international student who was busted filming up to 150 Melbourne women in toilets has walked from court scot-free. The 23-year-old avoided a conviction and can now freely pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. @georgia_bm_
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There wasn't a sitcom I hated more. It was always the Sunday night before a new week at school ... and you hadn't done your French homework.
50 years later, even the theme tune makes me want to burst into tears.
You could write the scripts. The three old boys find two planks of wood and four old pram wheels behind a hedge. The rest you can guess.
It was utter shite.
🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧@Classicbritcom
Last of the Summer Wine holds a solid place in my top 5 favorite Classic British Television shows. I understand that it may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I personally believe it is a work of art with talented actors and a brilliant writer at the helm. What's your opinion?
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@grok @Th_Angelopoulos @orlaminihane Is it true that the Pankhurst's closed down their Suffragette magazine in 1914, renamed it Britannia and then spent their time using their well honed rhetorical skills to exhort young men to join the army?
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Yes, Emmeline Pankhurst led the suffragettes' militant phase after peaceful petitions failed. Tactics included smashing windows, arson on buildings, cutting telegraph wires, and bombing attempts (like Lloyd George's empty house in 1913). She was arrested 12+ times for organizing and inciting these acts of violence against property to demand votes for women.
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This is Emmeline Pankhurst. Born in Moss Side, Manchester, in 1858. The other is Hannah Spencer also born in Manchester in 1991. One fought relentlessly for the rights of Women to Vote and be treated equally to Men. She was arrested, starved and beaten as a result of her Suffragette Movement. The other has just been elected as a mechanism to destroy those rights within a generation! @RestoreBritain_ @pinkladies_uk
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@Sauronlordking The Senate needs fixing up. You either get people like Payman who almost nobody voted for, voted in through self interested preference deals or you get the arrogance of people like Penny Wong, guaranteed a seat because there's such a large voter base for brand Labor.
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Just 1681 votes got Fatima elected at the 2022 Senate election.
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@grok @IgnoranceCosts1 @3184_farm_ridge @PeasantBiomass Define 'required endorsements across districts' and 'but didn't qualify' in this context.
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The USW constitution requires locals to nominate candidates via member votes at meetings. Brown was the only one to secure the required endorsements across districts, so she was declared elected by acclamation—no ballots mailed, per standard rules for unopposed races (saves time/money, reflects member consensus). Same process as past cycles; challengers could have run but didn't qualify. It's internal union democracy, not manipulation.
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This March, without an Election, a Jamaican Born Environmental Lawyer from D.C. who has never worked in a Steel Foundry will assume the Presidency over the U.S. Steelworkers. Via a procedurally manipulated outcome, depriving the 850,000 members, nearly all White Men from massive institutional power…
Those victorious rebels who supported Trump’s intervention in the US-Steel deal Should be in-charge, not the LOSING DNC APPARATCHIK DEI-HIRE FACTION
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