Australia - you're standing in it
basesix wrote:cheers, @a-m, all good people here, so I'm certainly not soap-boxing..
..immigration is not a pyramid scheme, as most know, or a golden goose, it has literally built our brilliant country, Australia. And should be discussed evenly and calmly.
[NB. those pissweak inbred c*&nts in their neatly pressed little black costumes are complete traitors to our country. They need to be put on a little island somewhere they can boof around on, bumrushing gannet rookeries]one such conversation could be around migrants being further encouraged to come to inland regional centres.. closest big town to me is Mount Gambier (28,000, making is SA's second largest city after Adelaide!), and new-migrants to the area (Congolese. Fillipino, Vietnamese, Thai, Argentinian, Myanmarese/Burmese... even New Zealanders) have revitalised the town, surrounding region's industry and agriculture.. anecdotally I hear regional areas all over have found the same, as the youth go chasing big city paychecks.
..tax the fucking RawEarth (sic), invest in 100% renewable tech now, protect the eco for tourism, invest in food security, distribute wealth, and stop gearing up for WWIII, and we'd be the richest country per capita in the world, and there'd be milk, honey and @Opti's $100k blocks fer all!
Very simple ey, but not easy.... :)
India in the running to build 1 million homes in Australia:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-in-talks-to-constr...
The logistics of how this will actually happen, how many labourers come over, how many then live in said homes - will fuel a lot more rallies.
A quick segue to Japan: Japan to get multiculturalism, 4 African 'hometowns' to be made in Japanese cities
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/08/28/2003842797
Vicious racist protests ensue.
OH! First Dog on the Moon back cartooning?
awesome.. Marlton still living in Tassie..?
hope he's sitting on top of the pile of life's various pillows!
velocityjohnno wrote:A quick segue to Japan: Japan to get multiculturalism, 4 African 'hometowns' to be made in Japanese cities
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/08/28/2003842797
Vicious racist protests ensue.
you read this article, I assume?
seeds wrote:Me too
Phone only internet
ps Syp I can’t stand fictional books either
Maybe we’re not so different after all
Seeds. Hi pal. I’ve never read a fiction book either. Non- fiction all the way for me. I don’t know what it is about fiction books, well, I suppose, it’s because they are, fiction. AW
Finally some good demographic news:
Hi AW.
Never much been into make believe.
I’ve read some fiction for sure now and then that were good reads but your predilection always wins.
Optimist wrote:I watched the posted footage of the various marches and it was all very civil.
Not much in the usual sanitised news.
People just blowing off steam.
All started by an 18 year old kid in SA on tik tok.
The crowds also booed the Nazis LOL
Can’t blame people for having a rant.
It’s tough out there for some.
As my previous post said,… I had my doubts…
But I think it was all OK.
People concerned about losing an Aussie culture the world loves and lines up to get here.
I’d be more worried about the other angry marches week in week out blocking up the streets about an issue we can’t fix a very long way away.
That to me is un Australian and radical.
That's how it looked to me as well Opti. Most people uncomfortable with Nazis getting up and trying to steal the mike, some pointing out that what they want is lessened immigration rather than what the Nazis were trying to sell. Some seeing their country as unrecognisable.
For everything all of us type here, it's best described as a giant anger just under the surface that will propel this movement forward. Ie, something with a lot of energy, not a lot of centralised direction, powered by a feeling of betrayal/loss. It's happening worldwide.
And I also found the Dark Nats, for a dose of wtf:
velocityjohnno wrote:And I also found the Dark Nats, for a dose of wtf:
What the hell was that?
Cartoon Clermont looks much nicer than real Clermont.
A local artist…
Really @AW.
I find it dis-ingenious that someone of your percieved intelligence would dismiss a whole branch of literature in such an off hand manner.
A lot can be learnt from fictional narratives.
For a trivial example, it was a novel that alerted me to the singular nature of a frigate-birds sternum.
Let alone what can be learnt about inter-personal relationships from fictional characters.
One further point: these were working class rallies.
Might not be your personal 'working classness', but they were about the first vestige I've seen of working class people protesting in a while, perhaps since the Vic construction boys protested in Covid and the govt caved and let them work.
2.4% unemployment in Mt Gambier.
In the bumfuck serial killer state of SA.
Working class is multicultural here as it should be.
We wouldn't survive here without immigration.
Industry, forestry, transport, agriculture, manufacturing,
viticulture, fishing.. Less than we'd like, but there you are..
(every week there's a couple houses under $350k, 6 units for less.
.. dozens of decent blocks in and around for $100k-$150k)
thread cleanse.. we got more than enough viccos moving over the border to Gambier, Penola, Naracoorte, Millicent after they got traumatised by Andrews bad times. Nothing to see here.
50,000 workers needed in Queensland to meet infrastructure expectations by the Olympics.
As long as their not qualified Indians bring them in.
basesix wrote:thread cleanse.. we got more than enough viccos moving over the border to Gambier, Penola, Naracoorte, Millicent after they got traumatised by Andrews bad times. Nothing to see here.
have you thought about opening a surf school ? I could point a few thousand euro’s your way .
..I've said too much..
"That's how it looked to me as well Opti. Most people uncomfortable with Nazis getting up and trying to steal the mike, some pointing out that what they want is lessened immigration rather than what the Nazis were trying to sell. Some seeing their country as unrecognisable."
not just that, I'd say 80% of the commenters on vids I've seen make a point of they are not blaming immigrants...
they are blaming GOVERNMENT!
a purposeful point made
seems a point lost on those that want to blame all australia's woes on... 'bogans blaming 'migrants'
most people know very well immigration is required and has served australia well
It's the rate that is the problem
it's outa control
and it's government that is to blame!
"(every week there's a couple houses under $350k, 6 units for less."
I was looking at property in mount gambler not much more than 2 years ago, on my poor man budget of less than $250k there would be about 20 properties available, with many decent, if not run down, houses in the mix... even houses around $170k (yes run down)
just had a quick look... $250k and under... 2 properties available... a 1 bedroom unit and a 2 bedroom unit... $210 - $250k
shoulda bought two of them 2 years ago!
seeds wrote:50,000 workers needed in Queensland to meet infrastructure expectations by the Olympics.
As long as their not qualified Indians bring them in.
SE Qld - a prime example of both how over-population can stuff a place and how infrastructure and services have no hope of keeping up.
The M1 motorway on the Gold Coast is at a standstill twice a day and now they're duplicating it so there can be a second motorway that's also a horror show.
Meanwhile, people keep jamming in to SE Qld, many of them getting away from Sydney and Melbourne where the population of each is now around 6 million, and growing at around 100,000 people per year in each city.
Sounds totes sustainable.
But as long as we're being inclusive, that's all that matters, right?
But it's all good because to ensure the new M1 Motorway/Coomera Connector is designed and delivered in an environmentally sensitive manner, the department has been working with a range of subject matter experts and stakeholders.
Extensive surveys have been conducted along the Stage 1 corridor since 2020, including:
-wildlife surveys to determine habitat values for native fauna, including koalas
-flora surveys to determine the presence of protected plants
-aquatic ecological surveys and water quality monitoring, including a 12-month survey within and adjacent to Coombabah Lake.
Sweet, it's all environmentally sensitive then eh?
try mount burr, tantanoola, kalangadoo, glencoe, kongorong, donovans, tarpeena or nangwarry..
..all nigh Da Gambier.. which has an airport to adelaide and melbourne.
and geez, @syp. the 'deplorables' victimhood again..
I assure you, we are all bogans in regional towns,
in my one, we happily support a boutique meth community
and a lot of lovely youth who can't get out their gaming chairs.
we love our 2.4%. But migrants (and some blowin viccos) pick up the slack..
(Heywood and the towns around Portland, Vic, are still a thing:
$170k, $260k, $299k, $360k choices atm in a cute town with an IGA, takeaways,
a pub, a primary school, high school and gov't services and council offices.
25km down the road from Portland, pop. 10,000 which has everything..
including some of the best surf, fishing, beaches, bush and wildlife in Vic.)
Reading last week about the Tantanoola Tiger.
Never knew driving through there couple of months ago. Explains the pubs name. It was too early to be open.
Caves were shut by the time I swung back in the arvo. Missed a couple of local sights there.
Andy M
SE QLD is stuffed
Close to it...
Ruby Princess Mick used to take out scomo's bins > that's how he sniffed out the Qld Forensic Labradoodle job..
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrison-port...
Top Cop cross contaminated Scomo's Upside Down Mask with his Ruby Princess Hillsong Pandemic Raid...
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqebUV390GIgaByvO0...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-09/nsw-police-seize-black-box-in-rub...
Qld Premier : "Hillsong televangelists are expert at mixing & masking DNA Rape Kits!"
"Clive is the new Qld Health CHO > Has the power to certify himself & that punk tbb...
(Ok! Pretty well stuffed now...bugger!)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-14/chief-health-officer-appointment-...
seeds wrote:Andy M
SE QLD is stuffed
Yep my area is getting re zoned higher density living by looks of it.
Would rather a nice Indian family in neighbourhood than some bogan eshay petty crims that we have unfortunately had in the past.
Yep SE Qld is done....
The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.