The Politics Thread - Sydney option

[dewayne]

Albo isnt great but Dutton is a total nonstarter. Little dimwit.

Trump doesn't have any ideas, he's just burning down that country so his rich friends can loot it.

Watch how Dutton complains about "woke" and other nonsense. He's just importing US "culture war" talking points that have no basis in real life. Just a bunch of BS to get the oldies angry enough to leave the house to vote, but it's not real and doesnt affect the average person in any way.

We need someone better than Albo who won't try to play both sides of the field at once. Someone who will both strengthen Australia AND the safety net, which would improve quality of life across the board. I don't think there's a good answer unfortunately.

We need to protect ourselves while the global economy collapses, basically.

[bistro]

Unpopular Opinion, i dont want to see any of these two candidates leading us.... most are all not so good and only based things by copying the old books.

I would like to see people from other backgrounds to lead us, Indians or Asians... we have CEOs of big companies across the globe who are from these two races, bringing different ideas...

Sadly, none of the Asian MPs are strong candidate at the moment, gotta wait a couple years more... hopefully one day Australia will be led by a PM with other colours but white... its been a long time, and people think Australian are racists because PMs is always white...

[personaa]

Shorten's daughter is a hottie. A babe!

[AHLUNGOR]

Unpopular Opinion, i dont want to see any of these two candidates leading us.... most are all not so good and only based things by copying the old books.

I would like to see people from other backgrounds to lead us, Indians or Asians... we have CEOs of big companies across the globe who are from these two races, bringing different ideas...

Sadly, none of the Asian MPs are strong candidate at the moment, gotta wait a couple years more... hopefully one day Australia will be led by a PM with other colours but white... its been a long time, and people think Australian are racists because PMs is always white...

If Albo loses the election, Penny Wong will be the new Labour leader and your wish may come true in 2028 !

Stay tune

Cheers

[AHLUNGOR]

Shorten's daughter is a hottie. A babe!

For a President’s daughter, no one is hotter than Ivanka !

End of discussion.

Cheers

[schloong]

Aaahhh - some sanity in this thread!

[GoldfishMan]

Shorten's daughter is a hottie. A babe!

Not his genes though. She's from his wife's previous marriage. But I agree, a total hottie!

[Vader]

If Albo loses the election, Penny Wong will be the new Labour leader and your wish may come true in 2028 !

Stay tune

Cheers

Nah, Jim Chalmers would get it.

[BongoMongo]

Lots of people in the US and around the world are currently resting upon the idea that as bad as the next four years would be under Trump, he won't be around when the next election comes, so hold on tight and things will get better. However, in a recent interview, Trump hinted that there are some pathways around in which he could seek a third term and that would bring on a whole new ball game:

Check out this article for the Australian Financial Review:



https://www.afr.com/world/north-amer...0250402-p5loel

Yeh I think there’s a strong chance that Trump will be around for a lot longer than just this term. Every act he is doing just seems to be out of the dictator handbook and I suspect all the things he is doing now is preparation and setting up the pretext to effectively stage some form of coup…take control of media (e.g. White House press), take control of military, take control of intelligence (e.g. CIA, NSA) take control of voting mechanisms (e.g. US postal service), cause internal division eventually resulting in violent rebellion such that he has an excuse to enact emergency powers…

[Double_Adapter]

Nuclear power is the only sustainable solution to energy efficiency. If you don't see that, then I can't help you. How it happens, what form it takes and where it ends up is something to fight over. But something that has a 60 to 100 year life span and will operate continuously, against something that suffers from wind droughts, or needs a battery to continue and both have 10 to 15 year lifespans.

Yep couldn't agree more! Renewable energy is like fucken fools gold and the juice ain't worth the fucken squeeze. Nuclear energy (and weaponry) is the only way forward and word on the street is that uranium ain't the flavour of the month - overtaken by a new kid on the block called 'thorium' - more efficient, more powerful and less toxic than uranium. In fact China has so much of this shit that it can power the whole country for another 65k years - it's fucken insane. While Oz has the largest deposits of uranium in the planet India has the largest deposits of thorium - and what are both countries doing about it? Arguing over a fucken cricket match - its fucked!

[HiredGoon]

Yep couldn't agree more! Renewable energy is like fucken fools gold and the juice ain't worth the fucken squeeze. Nuclear energy (and weaponry) is the only way forward and word on the street is that uranium ain't the flavour of the month - overtaken by a new kid on the block called 'thorium' - more efficient, more powerful and less toxic than uranium. In fact China has so much of this shit that it can power the whole country for another 65k years - it's fucken insane. While Oz has the largest deposits of uranium in the planet India has the largest deposits of thorium - and what are both countries doing about it? Arguing over a fucken cricket match - its fucked!

Thorium reactors are a long way off though, we can't just keep burning coal until they're ready.
And you really want to pay way more for your electricity with nuclear power? Dutton's not even serious about it, it's just a delay tactic and a distraction to keep supporting the big mining company donors and to make it look like they've actually got an energy policy.

https://youtu.be/HYNQEK_-WLM?si=gRrZNZS3AQBWtnb5

[personaa]

Nah, Jim Chalmers would get it.

I think Chalmers would make a much better PM compared to Albo. The least, he is very articulate and knows how to communicate effectively, something that Albo lacks as keeps mumbling most of the times.

[GoldfishMan]

Yeh I think there’s a strong chance that Trump will be around for a lot longer than just this term. Every act he is doing just seems to be out of the dictator handbook and I suspect all the things he is doing now is preparation and setting up the pretext to effectively stage some form of coup…take control of media (e.g. White House press), take control of military, take control of intelligence (e.g. CIA, NSA) take control of voting mechanisms (e.g. US postal service), cause internal division eventually resulting in violent rebellion such that he has an excuse to enact emergency powers…

Gotta agree with this. He wants to be a US version of Putin. Everything points in that direction.

[GoldfishMan]

Yep couldn't agree more! Renewable energy is like fucken fools gold and the juice ain't worth the fucken squeeze. Nuclear energy (and weaponry) is the only way forward and word on the street is that uranium ain't the flavour of the month - overtaken by a new kid on the block called 'thorium' - more efficient, more powerful and less toxic than uranium. In fact China has so much of this shit that it can power the whole country for another 65k years - it's fucken insane. While Oz has the largest deposits of uranium in the planet India has the largest deposits of thorium - and what are both countries doing about it? Arguing over a fucken cricket match - its fucked!

Nuclear power defo gets my vote. Actually some of the stuff Dutton is selling makes a lot of sense. The 20% gas reservation for the east coast makes A LOT of sense.

I've always thought that Australia is the perfect place to use nuclear power, we were just sabotaged by irresponsible groups in the past like CANE who left us in such a disadvantaged position now. I hope they rot in hell, them and friends of the earth fucken hippies.

But still, the negatives far outweigh the positives. Dutton must not take power or we will all be in trouble.

[Double_Adapter]

Thorium reactors are a long way off though, we can't just keep burning coal until they're ready.
And you really want to pay way more for your electricity with nuclear power? Dutton's not even serious about it, it's just a delay tactic and a distraction to keep supporting the big mining company donors and to make it look like they've actually got an energy policy.

See that's the problem with western democracies - too fucken soft, too fucken woke, too fucken spineless. Dictatorships like China, Russia, North Korea, Iran et al don't have those types woke problems - they just get on with it and do it regardless of whether nations get upset. What our politicians need, is to grow a set of fucken balls (so that rules out Penny Wong from the race).

Anyway China will have its first thorium power plant ready to fire up in 2030 (5 yrs to fucken build) and they've got plans for another 30 plants, yet here we are debating the time it takes us to build a windmill, the pros or cons of global warming, coal, gas, solar, wind, diesel powered submarines, EV, desalination plants, gender diversity, working from home, 3 day working week, carbon emissions trading, the voice, immigration intakes, and the latest MAFS episode.

https://resonantnews.com/2025/01/03/...actor-in-2025/

[GoldfishMan]

See that's the problem with western democracies - too fucken soft, too fucken woke, too fucken spineless. Dictatorships like China, Russia, North Korea, Iran et al don't have those types woke problems - they just get on with it and do it regardless of whether nations get upset. What our politicians need, is to grow a set of fucken balls (so that rules out Penny Wong from the race).

Anyway China will have its first thorium power plant ready to fire up in 2030 (5 yrs to fucken build) and they've got plans for another 30 plants, yet here we are debating the time it takes us to build a windmill, the pros or cons of global warming, coal, gas, solar, wind, diesel powered submarines, EV, desalination plants, gender diversity, working from home, 3 day working week, carbon emissions trading, the voice, immigration intakes, and the latest MAFS episode.

https://resonantnews.com/2025/01/03/...actor-in-2025/

Couldn't have said it better myself. Nobody achieved anything meaningful by being a coward. Time to drink a cup of concrete and be a pioneer for a change!

[HiredGoon]

See that's the problem with western democracies - too fucken soft, too fucken woke, too fucken spineless. Dictatorships like China, Russia, North Korea, Iran et al don't have those types woke problems - they just get on with it and do it regardless of whether nations get upset. What our politicians need, is to grow a set of fucken balls (so that rules out Penny Wong from the race).

Anyway China will have its first thorium power plant ready to fire up in 2030 (5 yrs to fucken build) and they've got plans for another 30 plants, yet here we are debating the time it takes us to build a windmill, the pros or cons of global warming, coal, gas, solar, wind, diesel powered submarines, EV, desalination plants, gender diversity, working from home, 3 day working week, carbon emissions trading, the voice, immigration intakes, and the latest MAFS episode.

https://resonantnews.com/2025/01/03/...actor-in-2025/

I don't know what "wokeness" and authoritarian regimes have to do with anything I said.

And I'd be very surprised if that thorium recactor will be operational in five years but I guess we'll see.

[Hedonisticfun]

With the next Federal Election only a month away, I was wondering if there was a thread about election or politics before and found this one. There were some bitching going on here but a few interesting and meaningful replies as well.

The original thread was 11 years old in the Brisbane GT section and talking about Tony Abbott at the time, gee, hadn't time flown !!

Looking back a bit, since the steady hands of Johnny Howard, we had 7 different Prime Ministers (with Kevin Rodd making a brief return but gone again when he loss to Abbott).

Personally I think the Labours had a good run with Hawke and Keating, then it's the LNP's turn with Johnny. They were all good PMs in my book, compare to the bunch we got today at Canberra, which is pretty ordinary to say the least. Our close friend the USA didn't do too well either, look at what Trump and Joe and now Trump again have done to their country !

So, what do we have here, Albo again or Dutton ?


What say you ?

Used to be a Labor voter but they're no longer for the working class .. C'mon $5 tax cut , no sign of the $275 power cut and borrowing to heavy spending with a billion to Ukraine , reminiscent of the Whitlam years.

Thought Dutton would be ok but Labor in another guise , still with the Paris Accord . I'm going One Nation even though they won't dominate, at least preferences will go to coalition and show that the 2 major parties are on the nose

[Hedonisticfun]

I think she did pretty well running NSW during the pandemic years but she’ll always have the corrupt tag to her.

I liked Gladys as well and remember her as Transport Minister pity about her corruption tag but love makes you do stupid things involved with that clown .She saw the railways as a incompetent service and told them as much and put them on notice , unions be damned .

[AHLUNGOR]

Used to be a Labor voter but they're no longer for the working class .. C'mon $5 tax cut , no sign of the $275 power cut and borrowing to heavy spending with a billion to Ukraine , reminiscent of the Whitlam years.

Thought Dutton would be ok but Labor in another guise , still with the Paris Accord . I'm going One Nation even though they won't dominate, at least preferences will go to coalition and show that the 2 major parties are on the nose

Mate, you are upset about the billion in support to Ukraine , how about the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. Let’s look at what ABC said about that :


Australia's decision to buy three nuclear-powered submarines and build another eight is so expensive that, for the $268 billion to $368 billion price tag, we could give a million dollars to every resident of Geelong, or Hobart, or Wollongong.


I certainly won’t be around to pay for that but spare a thought for my children and their children’s children !