Australia - you're standing in it
Why?
The idea to buy back old indo fishing boats was crazy, i don't think it ever happened.
But he did get results and got things under control, but surely Scomo as minister for immigration and border control should also get credit??
The ends DON'T justify the means mate. What you've posted is an incredibly narrow perspective and has the same depth as those who believe we should take an endless stream of refugees. Different sides of the same simplistic coin.
Indo $2.2 million for atsi 1984 heritage act?
Ken wyatt fed min for aboriginal affairs, sits behind pm in parliament house all day just fidgetting and stareing around...bored.
Rio tinto gave 12mnths warning of mine destruction and 2mnths final warning of commencement of blast prep work.
All local state and fed bodies allowed this destruction desecration of world heritage site...money ain't gunna change nothin.
Sacking of all indigs in govt agencies who knew of rios intentions.
Blame rio haha not! Blame govt beauracrats...YES.
@JQ Let's just leave it there and agree to disagree, if i start talking about this topic, i won't stop.
@happyppl Politics is never perfect, but the fact remains Brad's statement is factually incorrect.
1/2 price cockwombling tonight
@Guy
Swellnet forums is not the place to advertise your half price sexual services.
Indo said.. '@JQ Let's just leave it there and agree to disagree, if i start talking about this topic, i won't stop.'
HA! WHEN HAS THAT EVER STOPPED YOU!!!!!
Indo i agree, and the guilt trip accademia lay on us "invaders" for the sins of our forebears, gimme a break.
Riotinto fiasco should of put spotlight on indigenous beaurocracy incompetence.
More monies won't change the system.
@bluediamond
Id jump right in, if either was current news/issue again in some way, but just not interested in going over done to death topics just for the sake of it.
happyppl wrote 'Indo i agree,'
Praise be, Info someone actually agrees with you! Pour yourself a shandy champ!
Darwin Port 2.0, a decision to grant a Chinese linked company a mining licence on a remote West Australian island, close to a military training area, is raising concerns inside Defence and federal government ranks.
"...little real perspective and understanding on the issue..."
#IndoComeOnDown
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/abbott-and-morrison-did-not-stop-the-boat...
Yep already covered that base Facto.
"And yes after Krudd made a complete mess of things, he also started the ball rolling on cleaning up the mess, so yeah deserves some credit, but lets not forget he was the one that allowed things to get out of control, almost every person in offshore detention arrived under his watch."
It's another case of you don't give medals to people who light a house on fire and then put it out, although it does seem Labor supporters dont get this concept as we have seen in Victoria with Dan Andrews..
BTW. As you can see in the graph from MW article, numbers didn't total drop and before Operation sovereign borders even had a slight increase.
Anyway instead of taking a small snap shot as old Michael West has let's look at the bigger picture here. (see graph below)
2001 Pacific solution introduced and situation is under control
Ideally common sense dictates you would stick with what works, but hey not Krudd he scrapped the program and numbers began rising, although technically it was at the end of Gillard's run that numbers really started ramping up, then Krudd gets back in and now decides hey okay i completely fucked up and does a complete 360 on policy, even going as far as saying anybody that arrives by boat will never be resettled in Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution#:~:text=The%20Pacific%20S....
He's called Haha Liu since it's haha fuck you
The good folk of NSW must be morons.
"Gladys Berejiklian -A scandal trifecta – a previously secret affair with a disgraced MP the subject of corruption inquiry, the Coalition’s minor party member threatening to quit the government over koalas, and pork-barrelling grants."
Yet they love her.
Aborigines must be shaking their heads in disbelief at Labor's latest propaganda campaign. What an embarrassment to hear the patronising BS that 'all Victorians will feel pride in knowing we are to acknowledge the past'. According to Labor, this is the type of social engineering we all so drastically need (and also to line the pockets of their commissioner and white aboriginal activist mates during a 3 year - that's right, 3 year, inquiry) to make us all feel guilty about past events. Funny how Dan couldn't get the hotel quarantine inquiry over quickly enough when that dealt with a real issue of community concern.
#A-Rex
#D-Bolt
#KeepShakingYaFuckenGronk
bloke!
Another intelligent response from the non-surfing but high priestess of the keyboard - cheers facto!
I think he’s a surfer but since when has that precluded someone from being a splenetic cnt ?
#ThoughtBlowinWasLloydChristmas?
#D-Olt&Dumber
Surely surfers aren't that miserable, blowie? Maybe he takes his Tommy Carroll doll to the lake and pushes him into a few ripples. Could you imagine what he looks like? I'm guessing a ladyboy or drag queen - what do you reckon?
#ThoughtBlowinWasLloydChristmas?
#DidSomeoneSayDragQueen
#D-Olt&Dumber
WA Elections, huge win for McGowan's ALP, borders + protect your people = victory
https://www.9news.com.au/national/wa-state-election-2021-live-results-up...
Edit: there's been times in the last year that have almost brought a tear of pride looking at the parochialism I know & love (and was subject to), having grown up there, being used on the rest of the country/world with borders up, barbed criticisms of the East, etc lol
Not to forget the utter train wreck that was the opposition. What an absolute mess they have been since Barnett too lost in a landslide. Good riddance I say.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/state-election-2021/state-election-...
"Premier Mark McGowan has urged federal Labor to learn from his centrist government’s stunning victory in Western Australia.
Labor is predicted to claim up to 53 of 59 lower house seats on the back of a remarkable 16.9 per cent swing in Saturday’s election.
It is a generational defeat for the Liberals, who are set to be reduced to as few as two MPs and lose their opposition status to the Nationals.
Mr McGowan says voters have rewarded his government’s strong management of the economy and the COVID-19 pandemic.
He believes the key to Labor’s success has been adopting policies that appeal to broad sections of the community.
“That’s the future for Labor as a political party,” he told reporters on Sunday.
“A lot of people may have come out of a job somewhere where they were once a rusted-on Labor party supporter and then they became a tradie or a small businessman or woman.
“You’ve got to always make sure you continue to appeal to those people and they don’t feel like they need to vote for someone else just because they changed their occupation or they made some money or anything of that nature.
“I’d urge the party all over Australia to go in that direction.” "
...and
"He listed creating jobs, expanding local manufacturing and building the new women’s and babies hospital as top priorities on the government’s agenda."
hooray for local manufacturing - this would be a total reverse of what is going on here in Vic
'hooray for local manufacturing - this would be a total reverse of what is going on here in Vic'. True dat VJ. Maybe 'the workers' friend' Dan will get onto that when he recovers from his tumble at Lindsay Fox's Portsea holiday mansion.
Meanwhile back on the frontline there's this bloke...
Poster at the rally yesterday:
“I’d call Scummo a c#nt but he lacks warmth and depth.”
Well, our 'oasis in a desert of redneck'* finally gets its voice heard above the usual electoral white noise.
Who'd a thunk it? Hope springs eternal, Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-17/legalise-cannabis-party-set-to-ga...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa/2021/guide/warr
*not forgetting Denmark & Balingup.
Who could forget Balingup? Being chased through the trees by a purple hippopotamus in the early hours of the morning leaves a lifelong impression.
Remind is of old Russian proverb.
"When hide from horde in top of church tower, do not ring bell"
Scomo today re covid disaster in PNG - ""We all know the Kokoda story: They were there for us and we will be there for them."....... He announces 8000 vaccines to be sent to PNG. All hail the great man.... But wait.......
This year ScoMo CUT $21 000 000! in aid to PNG. Yes TWENTY ONE MILLION. $491.1million- down from 512.3 million in 2019/20.
A covid vaccine dose costs $20.
So Scomo took away ONE MILLION doses & now brags about giving them 8000. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....
How good are useless journalists!!!!
Perfect opportunity for the CCP to extend their tentacles again, most probably already have
Australia- pick your poison.
Fcked by the LNP :
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-mps-urge-government-to...
Or screwed by the ALP :
“One year on from the pandemic and there are still tens-of-thousands of Australians stuck overseas and unable to return home due to: 1) prohibitive arrivals caps and quarantine limits; and 2) extortionately expensive airfares and quarantine costs.
For months we have witnessed our state and federal governments bicker over arrival numbers, quarantine costs, and whether quarantine should be moved from city hotels to the regions. Meanwhile, Australians stranded abroad are watching on in dismay wondering if they’ll ever come home.
In the ultimate insult, our governments have established special subsidised quarantine arrangements for migrant fruit pickers.
That’s right, while the Victorian Government has banned overseas arrivals into Melbourne following last months lockdown, it has paid the Tasmanian Government $7.8 million to quarantine 1,500 migrant fruit pickers:
The Victorian Government will… cover most of the cost associated with quarantining up to 1,500 Pacific Islander workers under its partnership with Tasmania through a $7.8 million funding commitment, with industry contributing $2,000 per worker.
Having stranded Australians return to their own country is clearly less important to our governments than providing farms with cheap migrant labour, subsidised by the taxpayer.
Why aren’t these quarantine facilities being used to house actual Australians desperate to return home? Why aren’t actual Australians being given priority? And why are returning Australians being forced to wear the full costs of their quarantine when taxpayers are subsiding the costs of migrant fruit pickers?
Quarantine facilities must be used first and foremost to return Australians, not to fly in temporary foreign labour.
When foreign fruit pickers carry more political weight than returning Australians, you know our governments have lost their moral compass.“
Was going to post the LNP side of that (hint: keep it up and you will get landslided like the LNP has just been in WA):
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-mps-urge-government...
The alternative seems little better. Someone form an ALP-of-old that looks after the national interest and the conditions/wages of local workers!
Here's one on population Blowin:
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/victoria-bears-brunt-of-popul...
lol at the difference in tone between the article and it's comments
Nine Fairfax is going balls deep in the attempt to generate support for the return to Ponzinomics.
The readers are ratioing the fck out of them.
Domain
Yeah but Harry Triguboff has a load of apartments to offload so guess who wins.
Basically after years of stripping the guts out of education and training facilities, funding dodgy private colleges and concentrating funding to independent schools so they can build a new gymnasium or what not instead of trying to lift up all schools to an even level, now employers are unable to find skilled workers. Who would have thought?
The whole LNP policy platform is being shown to be a farce and still only the spot fires are being reported on, not the reason for the problems.
About time someone gave Albo a kick in the ribs to wake him up. The LNP are laying it out an a platter for him and he’s still at the kiddys bar
Of note:
In the last twelve months, a significant chunk of the urban population has moved to regional areas and they'd all like their newly discovered nirvana to remain as it is. Pull up the drawbridge, thank you very much. Meanwhile, every regional area is undergoing a radical shift from the aforementioned nirvana-seekers, causing issues around rent, real estate, resources, and lifestyle amenity.
Has there been a better time for someone so inclined to prod the immigration and population buttons?
The iron is hot if Bernie Albanese cared to strike it.
The biggest problem with these nirvana seekers is that they love nirvana for it's beauty, that's why they moved there, but they then start to miss all the little creature comforts that they left behind and want to start to turn nirvana into what they escaped from. Nirvana then becomes paradise lost.
I think Labor just blocked a whole bunch of changes that would have supported Labor voters as well as all other workers...didn't even make sense.....Morrison gave up it seems....too hard basket...save it for Ron.
i think this regional relocation craziness would have a chance to calm down in a reasonable time.... if the immigration industry wasn't allowed to re-start their ponzi.
but that aint gunna happen no matter who holds the keys in parliament house.
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The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.