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seagullwedgee

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Aug 9, 2005
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Classy.

over the chance to make a quick buck. Off the top of my heads these would be: the environment; the needs of the people and the safeguarding and future proofing of the country.

many of our our investors care about these thing any more than foreigners.

How many do you have?
 




Audax

Boing boing boing...
Aug 3, 2015
2,945
Uckfield
Looks can be deceiving.

If ****wits would stop lighting fires the visuals wouldn't be anything near as bad.

Theres been some arson, but it wasn't arsonists who started most of the current fires as far as I'm aware. They've mostly been due to lightning strikes and maybe a bit of thoughtless dickheads throwing glass bottles away in the bush.

One of the major fires was started when a backburn to fight an existing fire got out of control.
 




Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
Classy.

I certainly wouldn't support turning it into a race/nation issue. There is no benefit in deciding who is more deserving of our resources based on....... well what ever you have based your decision on.

However I do not subscribe to the idea (as i see it) that our resources are for sale to the highest bidder/our politicians cronies. I would like to see a few things being prioritized over the chance to make a quick buck. Off the top of my heads these would be: the environment; the needs of the people and the safeguarding and future proofing of the country.

I don't really care where a person is from if they can tick these and similar boxes I would be happy to work with them. Sadly i don't believe that many of our our investors care about these thing any more than foreigners.

Chinese Government are utter *****.

Don't want anything associated with those turds in this country. Slime balls need to be banned from owning anything in this country.
 








SeagullinExile

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Sep 10, 2010
5,710
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Maty Ryan to donate $500 for every save made in ALL Premier League games this weekend.

Absolutely class Maty.
 


LowKarate

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Jan 6, 2004
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Maty Ryan to donate $500 for every save made in ALL Premier League games this weekend.

Absolutely class Maty.

It is.

However, as we know that Maty hates P*****, don't we think he should be incentivising their keeper with a different target (one which doesn't involve saves)?

Can we get a message to him?
 




nicko31

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Jan 7, 2010
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Gods country fortnightly
Chinese Government are utter *****.

Don't want anything associated with those turds in this country. Slime balls need to be banned from owning anything in this country.

29% of your trade and an AUD46B trade surplus. Do you sell them any real estate?
 


portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
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BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
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If it’s that big a crisis, how is he still PM? Or is he another BJ who has no shame and equally Oz politics and democracy is a busted flush and no longer matters, it’s more like a dictatorship?

Our last election was billed as a 'climate change' election until the Liberals offered us a few hundred bucks in tax rebates. Then it became the "we can buy you off for a few hundred bucks" election.

IMHO we have the same problems as the UK. Murdoch pulling the strings of the electorate with dubious/fake news is not, in my opinion, democratic. Throw in the likes of Cambridge Analytica and I am not sure we stand a chance.
 




portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
17,116
Our last election was billed as a 'climate change' election until the Liberals offered us a few hundred bucks in tax rebates. Then it became the "we can buy you off for a few hundred bucks" election.

IMHO we have the same problems as the UK. Murdoch pulling the strings of the electorate with dubious/fake news is not, in my opinion, democratic. Throw in the likes of Cambridge Analytica and I am not sure we stand a chance.

I thought as much from what you’ve alluded to on previous posts. The world feels a very depressing place politically right now, as if we’re waiting for something seismic to happen as a consequence of decades of rotten practices. Bit not in a good way. The calm before the gathering storm like.
 


Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
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Geelong, Australia
Our last election was billed as a 'climate change' election until the Liberals offered us a few hundred bucks in tax rebates. Then it became the "we can buy you off for a few hundred bucks" election.

IMHO we have the same problems as the UK. Murdoch pulling the strings of the electorate with dubious/fake news is not, in my opinion, democratic. Throw in the likes of Cambridge Analytica and I am not sure we stand a chance.

Actually it was more simply nobody liked Shorten. So the same problem as UK Labor.

They pushed leaders nobody wanted leading or liked that much.
 


BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
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Actually it was more simply nobody liked Shorten. So the same problem as UK Labor.

They pushed leaders nobody wanted leading or liked that much.

If Boris and Scotty are the leaders we 'liked' then the outlook is more depressing than I thought.
 
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BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
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I thought as much from what you’ve alluded to on previous posts. The world feels a very depressing place politically right now, as if we’re waiting for something seismic to happen as a consequence of decades of rotten practices. Bit not in a good way. The calm before the gathering storm like.

I find the political outlook heartbreaking at the moment. I hold onto a little optimism though. The good will out!

I am off to watch some music in the sunshine and forget about it all for a while.
 


Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
If Boris and Scotty are the leaders we liked then the outlook is more depressing than I thought.

That's no different to people looking at Labor leading them and they being depressed.

Partisan emotions.

Shorten wasn't a good choice for leader from the moment he was accused of rape.
 


BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
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That's no different to people looking at Labor leading them and they being depressed.

Partisan emotions.

Shorten wasn't a good choice for leader from the moment he was accused of rape.

Way too much of a simplistic explanation of my current political outlook, I don't think the binary red team V blue team will cover it. Thanks for trying though.
 




Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
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Geelong, Australia
Way too much of a simplistic explanation of my current political outlook, I don't think the binary red team V blue team will cover it. Thanks for trying though.

That's you.

We're talking about why Shorten got smashed and your reasons why Labor lost. They simply read as your way of belittling the people who don't agree with you as being less enlightened than you and incredibly easy to sway. Saying they were bought off and that Murdoch duped them all is the same garbage that's trotted out every time Labor gets beaten. It's always someone else's fault.

Maybe Labor just has a lot more unlikeable party members that don't connect with people in any shape, way or form.

Which says a lot if as it always stated the Liberals have so many unlikeable members.
 


BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
17,124
That's you.

We're talking about why Shorten got smashed and your reasons why Labor lost. They simply read as your way of belittling the people who don't agree with you as being less enlightened than you and incredibly easy to sway. Saying they were bought off and that Murdoch duped them all is the same garbage that's trotted out every time Labor gets beaten. It's always someone else's fault.

Maybe Labor just has a lot more unlikeable party members that don't connect with people in any shape, way or form.

Which says a lot if as it always stated the Liberals have so many unlikeable members.

There is a lot of assumption in your post and much of it unfair.

I wasnt talking about why Shorten got smashed I was talking about my thoughts on the current political process.

It is probably worth noting here that I am far from a labor voter. Full disclosure would show that I put them above the Liberals in my preferences as I consider them the lesser if two evils.

I am sorry you read into my posts the idea that I am belittling others as less enlightened than me. I disagree entirely. I am aware that I am as easily influenced as the next man.

The point I am making is that it concerns me how much influence we allow over the decision making of our electorate. The evident false and misleading reporting across our media is in my opinion undemocratic.

If you are interested I am happy to explain more about my current state of mind. Another time though I am off to A Day on the Green.

Sent from my Redmi Note 7 using Tapatalk
 
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