The latest Newspoll from The Australian gives Labor a two-party lead of 54-46, in from 55-45 three weeks ago. This equals a result in March as the weakest Newspoll for Labor out of the eleven published since the Albanese government came to power, which have ranged from 54-46 to 57-43. On the primary vote, Labor is steady at 38%, the Coalition up one to 35%, the Greens down one to 11% and One Nation steady at 6%.
Anthony Albanese records his softest personal ratings since the election, down three on approval to 52% and up five on disapproval to 42%. We must wait upon the equivalent results for Peter Dutton, which are not featured in the report (UPDATE: Up two on approval to 38%, down one on disapproval to 49%), and also the preferred prime minister results, which we are told are the tightest since the election, Albanese’s previous narrowest lead having been 54-28 in late April (UPDATE: In from 55-28 to 52-32).
Perhaps most sobering for the government is a finding that 47% intend to vote no in the Indigenous Voice referendum, up four on three weeks ago, eclipsing yes on 43%, down three. This comes from an expanded sample of 2303, together with a longer than usual field work period from June 16 to 24, which has been further juiced with the results of the previous poll to provide state breakdowns with substantial sample sizes and a sample of 3852 overall. Yes has the lead only in Victoria, by 48-41, and New South Wales, by 46-41. No leads by 54-40 in Queensland, 52-39 in Western Australia, 46-45 in South Australia and 48-43 in Tasmania.
Taylormade says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:10 pm
Shellbellsays:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 6:05 pm
A monumental failure.
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Thats the Andrews govt for you Shellbell. They never wanted any police officers to face charges, but they just had to go through the motions to get there.
Anyone who believes the DPP has operated independently from the Andrews Govt has got shit for brains.
She did exactly what she was instructed to do.
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Support Service on 1300 22 4636.
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Important thing to remember about Morgan is that they use respondent-allocated preferences to get their TPP rather than the more accurate previous election preferences. Typically whenever smarter people than I have worked out the TPP per previous election figures, it’s been a point or two worse for Labor – so, more or less in line with Newspoll.
Steve777 @ #798 Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 – 7:24 pm
As I posted this morning – we do not have a housing crisis, we have an unsustainable rate of immigration.
Why? Because immigration is a quick and easy way for a government to look like it is achieving actual growth. You normally get the upside quickly, and the downside normally takes longer to appear. But this rate of immigration is so extreme that the downside is appearing sooner than the upside. Stupid.
”A 1 brm unit will cost you $327,500 there [Outer Perth]. A decade ago that was a whole house in the outer suburbs.”
That might buy you a cardboard box 100 km from Sydney.
‘sprocket_ says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:14 pm
BW, I must say I’m influenced by my 30 something kids – I do query them, and they tell me what their friends think, where they get their information from, and what they think is important.
A couple of takeaways. They are all employed. As are their friends, they have choices. Many choices. Some are in start ups, some in government jobs, some in service sector entrepreneurs.
Unemployment with a 3 in front of it means a lot (especially for those of us who lived through 10+ in front of the unemployment rate).
The social contract, including Climate Change, EVs, social justice and, yes, the good life means a lot to this cohort. They have it now.
Why would they threaten it?’
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I try to remember what it was like when I was young. I shared a bedroom with two other adult blokes in a flat that had two bedrooms and six people sharing it. My bedroom had three single beds. No other furniture. We had a stove and a fridge. There was no landline. No mobiles, of course. No air con. No TV. At 22 I got an old bomb that kept breaking down but my mates were that handy and kept it going for me. That is how I lived from 18 to 22. I could afford basic food. I could not afford to eat out or to go out unless it was free. Once a fortnight or so I could go to the pub for a few beers. Clothes were second hand. I went on to rent until my mid-forties. Some of those rentals were the most basic living conditions imaginable: one cold water tap to a dwelling, for example.
But somehow none of that bothered me at the time. At all. I would not have dreamed about whinging or whining about my condition. Not for a second.
Why, and what has changed?
I think the big difference was that we grew up really poor and tough but we expected that we could improve our lot by studying, saving and investing, and by being frugal. Which is what happened in my case.
It seems to me that today’s young people have higher initial expectations but, for a significant number, rather less chance of those expectations being met. Unless they get themselves into the knowledge economy and its permutations and dependencies.
The owner occupier rate of 67% tells us that the majority of Australians are still living that dream. IMO, in most of those cases young individuals or couples can expect to inherit the Mum and Dad. After all, four adults are, on average, now going to be raising around three children between them.
What has happened is the wealth gap between owner occupier Australians and renting Australians is growing to an astronomic extent – especially during and since Covid.
At the same time, I wonder what happens to the economics of renting when you go three to a room? All the examples I see assume a single person on a single income living one to a dwelling.
Steve777 says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:24 pm
”Net increase in Australia is a person every 47 seconds. As the post Covid demand surge hits, this average time per additional person will fall considerably.”
That’s over 1,800 a day, about 670,000 p.a. That’s a population increase of about 2.5% p.a. Even given that we’re in the post-Covid recovery phase, that’s a fair clip, a third world rate. Australia’s population growth has been mostly around 1.5% p.a. in recent decades.
Here’s the clock again: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
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Yes. It is a boggler.
400,000 in net migration in 2023.
Plus some sort of lag effect in our live births v deaths.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/10/australias-post-pandemic-surge-in-net-overseas-migration-temporary-federal-budget-predicts
‘sprocket_ says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:22 pm
BW, I was effectively denied landlord insurance for my mother’s properties. This from NRMA/IAG.
“We aren’t offering this anymore” was what they said.
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Hmmm…..
Boerwar @ #741 Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 – 7:47 pm
https://www.suncorp.com.au/insurance/home/landlord.html
And yet, I’ve heard no one so much as suggest this until now. Chris Merritt, Murdoch operative and no friend of the ALP, says Judd was “doing her duty” and “the evidence was not there”.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/merely-doing-her-job-legal-expert-backs-victorian-dpps-decision-not-to-lay-charges-in-lawyer-x-affair/news-story/d3644b5d0ddf747aff39a2a3fd2bd57b
John Silvester at The Age (formerly of the Herald Sun, if that bothers you) says Judd “did her job”: “It would have been easier for Judd to avoid criticism by authorising the charges and pushing them out of her office into court. The weak sort of decisions made too often in recent high-profile cases around Australia, with disastrous results.”
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nettle-comes-out-stinging-but-gobbo-is-a-case-of-no-case-20230622-p5dioh.html
On the subject of Housing. I have a low income home loan through a state government scheme.
When I got the loan, the maximum they would lend me 10 years ago, the cash rate was 2.5%, the loan at the time was 5.99%
Now the cash rate is 4.1% and the loan rate has increased to 8.39%
So in the down and up of the last few years the bank has added 0.8% to the rate it’s charging.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://youtu.be/SnAF2o5y63w
Rex Douglas says:
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The Prime Minister for landlords would do something about negative gearing if he was serious about the problem.
Removing negative gearing will certainly reduce the available rental stock. I find hard to see how this will help renters.
Sprocket said
“BW, I was effectively denied landlord insurance for my mother’s properties. This from NRMA/IAG.
“We aren’t offering this anymore” was what they said.”
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I got the same result.
Went to QBE, quite happy with the result.
People should remember when the Lawyer X things was going on, the gangs where killing each other and risking the life of the public in doing so. Lawyer X probable saved the life of her clients, the police the life of a few innocent bystanders.
Isn’t Terry Scheer the Landlord’s Insurance company? Or so their ads say. 🙂
Asha,
My son and his mates went to see (or are going to see, I’m not sure of the timeline), Weird Al. 😀
BW
Reminds me of the skit
https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
My memories of living in a share house in Rockdale under the flight path – dole was $35 a week and remarkably, the price of a deal of grass was the same.
It is amazing what a tertiary education can do for upward mobility..
the australian has never lliked andrews
sprocket_ says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:18 pm
BW
Reminds me of the skit
https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
My memories of living in a share house in Rockdale under the flight path – dole was $35 a week and remarkably, the price of a deal of grass was the same.
It is amazing what a tertiary education can do for upward mobility..
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I was quite happy share-housing for a while as it was the only affordable way to be in a decent part of Sydney, and at the time I was on entry level academic money supplemented with casual teaching/marking and a handy couple of evenings working at the Cat and Fiddle to cover the beer budget.
However, one night in ’98, watching the stage version of “He Died with a Felafel” at the Bridge Hotel” Rozell I came to the realisation that, a men without Babes household was less than ideal, finding a gorilla pube wrapped around the soap, the dont change your jeans competition, the Brown couch, moon-tanning in the back yard, it was all a little too close to home – luckily I scored a new job and moved back to Melbourne and eventually a share-house of my own.
[‘In response to Nettle’s stinging criticism, Judd said: “My decisions in relation to these matters should be interpreted as nothing other than the results of careful and realistic assessments of the evidence.” She found this was a case where there was no case.
It would have been easier for Judd to avoid criticism by authorising the charges and pushing them out of her office into court. The weak sort of decisions made too often in recent high-profile cases around Australia, with disastrous results.
Instead, Judd – whose independent office has the status of a Supreme Court judge – followed her statutory duty in not authorising prosecutions she believed had no reasonable prospect of convictions. She did her job.
The DPP routinely makes these decisions when police want to lay charges. The difference here is the investigator is a former High Court judge with encyclopaedic knowledge of the law. But make no mistake, it was Judd’s decision to make.’]
Nettle’s ego has obviously been damaged by Judd kyboshing his recommendation that charges should be laid, which was clearly within her remit. Time to close the book on this sorry saga, which has left such a toll on the lives of the police involved, not to mention the amount of public monies expended. From a public polity perspective, it could be argued that those criminally charged will be reticent to be forthright with their legal representative but they rarely are in any event. Moreover, in certain circumstances, lawyer/client privilege can now be legislatively waived.
Fumbles, I actually met my now wife of 35 years in a share house next to the Rose and Thistle in Evans st Rozelle. Taught her how to cook a meal for a household. A willing learner.
Used to go to the Cat and Fiddle to watch the Layabouts, and the Roger Janes Band at the Unity Hall.
Putin just held a minute silence for all his victims of the war….sorry for the faithfulness of his security forces.
Sprocket you old romantic kitchen supervisor.
nath, my wife is now an excellent vegan cook – 5 star haute cuisine in fact.
But when I met her she couldn’t boil an egg. A failure of the Catholic education system.
I always preferred nouvelle cuisine myself. Oui.
Nouvelle cuisine is rooted in simplicity.
I like my food simple, and my women complicated.
Nouvelle cousine has small servings on big plates
I’ve been getting into Indian vegetarian dishes lately. Some lovely food.
@sprocket_
I had the (mis)fortune to move into a beatnik household of failed/aspiring academics about 10 houses down from the Cat and Fiddle in Elliot St. At the time almost everyone I knew were share housing to some degree to enjoy the location on a budget. I did try to move to a house in Henry St but was rejected as i wasn’t an A list housemate – the guy they chose had a van and a microwave.
nath says:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 9:05 pm
I’ve been getting into Indian vegetarian dishes lately. Some lovely food.
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Better for your health keeping away from after dark Market Lane.
My son has a unit in Henry St – it is possible it has gone upmarket
[‘London: The Kremlin will drop charges against members of the Wagner paramilitary group’s armed uprising at the weekend and has announced that the mercenaries have agreed to hand over their weaponry.
The terms of the deal struck to end the Wagner mutiny are now emerging, and it appears the group of 25,000 heavily armed troops – who have fought alongside Russians in Ukraine – is set to be disbanded.’]
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/kremlin-drops-wagner-uprising-charges-mercenaries-to-hand-over-weapons-20230627-p5djyu.html
Putin can’t be trusted on any level. If I were in the Wagner group I’d apply to join the Foreign Legion.
http://foreignlegion.info/joining/
Prigozhin doesn’t meet the selection criteria. Thus his best chance is to cooperate with the CIA provided he has not yet met his maker.
Evening all.
I have just finished a trial which ran from the last week of February. It was a joint trial concerning some public place shootings down the south coast in December 2019 at the height of the black summer bushfires. I represented one of four defendants.
Investigating cops were ‘after’ the bikies, and it was my case that they had a preconceived mindset that precluded them considering other alternatives, including the most obvious one – that their key witness – an informer or ‘give up’ witness – given the nom de plume of ‘Mr Echo’ may have orchestrated the whole affair because he was off his chops on meth and then tried to blame shift responsibility onto one local bikie gang for really was an internal beef between himself and his up-line suppliers (who may have been members of a rival bikie club) occasioned by the fact he was consuming and not selling enough of the product he’d been supplied ‘on tick’.
My case theory was enhanced by the fact that after three months, the OIC ‘said the quiet bit out loud’ in her evidence, thus revealing what she and her colleagues, and three teams of police lawyers had been concealing for three years – hiding behind ‘public interest immunity’ privilege – namely the fact that dear old Mr Echo had actually being telling lies to police for months before he ‘got his story straight’ and made his induced statement. As it turns out THAT statement was the first time he mentioned my client as being involved, and his various other stories – hidden from both the DPP and defence lawyers for three years – exculpated himself, said that a bunch of different people were responsible – and they were not charged and indeed ruled out as suspects by police – and he also assigned quite different roles to other accused people than his sworn evidence. Despite their best efforts, police could not find a shred of supporting or circumstantial evidence tying my client to the shootings. They did however find Mr Echo’s DNA on the shotgun allegedly used in the shootings. Oops.
Scandalously, investigating police from the elite ‘criminal gangs squad’ in State Crime Command were monitoring their ‘source’ Mr Echo for THREE months in the hope that he might led them to implicating their targets – the national and south coast presidents of the Nomads OMCG. In that period they knew that he committing a series of frauds, including ripping off the Red Cross bushfire relief fund of $20,000, plus dealing meth. He came to their attention when he was on a bond for a domestic violence offence, and possessing a knife in public and was in the midst of a bitter access dispute with his former partner over their 3 yo daughter.
As it turns out, despite earlier police evidence to the contrary HE was always a suspect in the shootings, but they let him run wild in community as a one man crime spree, even though he also committed another act of serious violence early on in the investigations. Apparently this was ‘risk managed’ by ‘the higher ups’ (ie. State Crime Command officers of the rank of inspector through to chief superintendent) who decided to let him stay on the loose. That didn’t stop ‘the higher ups’ giving themselves a pat on the back and holding press conferences when everybody was arrested later on having ‘crushed the Nomads’ and ‘driven them out of Batemans Bay’.
Anyhoo, I wont bore you with all the details – and noting that there are suppression orders still in force regarding the identity of certain witnesses. However my closing address was came in five parts, and delivered by use of certain ‘visual aids’, as follows:
A. “Procrustes”: Investigating police tried to make the evidence fit a preconceived conclusion.
B. “Funky Town”: a tribute to Pseudo Echo – or, ‘10 reasons to reject ‘Pseudo’ Echo’s evidence.
C. “Major Tom”: the relationship between Pseudo Echo and his police handler, who I called (Major) Tom.
D. Chewbacca – the Crown case makes no sense.
E. Mind Frame – the police mind frame was to go after the bikies; This is quite the opposite “mindset” as is required to be used by the jury – sitting as the judges – ie. to consider the evidence of Echo and determine whether my reasons of inconsistencies, inadequacies or in light of the other evidence they should entertain a reasonable doubt and acquit.
Anyhoo. yesterday, after seventeen weeks of hearing and having deliberated for less than three hours the jury threw the Crown case out entirely and acquitted all four accused of all charges. We now have a costs application on foot against the State of NSW for this clusterfuck.
I’m now catching up on the H3 review of AUKUS and will post my thoughts on the same in the next few days.
According to the Australian the GOAT treasurer Chalmers is to announce a budget update with an even BIGGER surplus.
Makes the Coalition look even bigger GOOSES than they already did especially Frydenberg.
PageBoi at 8.44 am re article by Celeste Liddle about the Voice referendum
There were two articles by Celeste Little expressing her frustration about the referendum, the one in the Guardian today you linked and an earlier one in Eureka Street on 10 May, available at:
https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/voices-beyond-yes-and-no
A key sentence in that earlier article is her statement that:
“I want reassurance that the Labor Government will stay true to their pledge on rolling out the Uluru Statement in full, so the Voice does not become an endgame to them and progress is made on treaties and truth-telling too, as I personally believe these to be the more crucial items of business.”
This is the nub of the issue for Indigenous sceptics who doubt that the Voice will be part of a process delivering historical justice to First Nations.
For the first time since Bob Hawke’s fleeting promise about negotiating a Treaty with First Peoples in 1988, there is a Labor Government with a declared commitment to this outcome. Labor in Opposition (when Daryl Melham was Shadow Minister) have occasionally expressed support, but only under Albanese has a Labor Government committed to a Treaty.
Liddle also links an SBS report of radical Aboriginal activists, in particular Michael Mansell, claiming that a No victory in the referendum would mean that “Albanese has to come back to the table with Aboriginal people and begin discussions about seats in the parliament and the treaty.” See:
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/lidia-thorpe-has-declared-her-opposition-to-the-voice-shes-calling-for-blak-sovereignty-instead/8re90yy67
That is a nonsensical view, because a No victory would be taken as a victory for Dutton and Hanson and all such opponents of Indigenous self-determination. The radical Aboriginal activists lack any theory of how political change occurs in Australia.
The statement from Ms Liddle quoted above suggests she may realise that, as well as the comment in her article today that she utterly loathes the dishonesty of Dutton. Yes is what her heart says, as she comments that “voting no feels like giving in to rabid racists so the clock gets set back generations”.
The other article you recalled was by Ben Abbotangelo, in the Saturday Paper on June 10-16. While he made valid criticisms of federal and state Labor governments for disregarding Aboriginal rights, he demonstrated ignorance of history in claiming that the 1967 referendum achieved nothing, and he abused a metaphor about spearing that he openly borrowed from Ngalia anthropologist Kado Muir.
Muir, who is a member of the Referendum Engagement Group from WA, has carefully explained the background to the Voice proposal in a podcast:
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/my-culture-story-with-kado-muir-152c0/episodes/episode-32-politics-is-yuckity-yak-but-why-the-voice-68ff7
Dr Doolittle @ #836 Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 – 9:46 pm
That is an excellent article, and thank you for drawing it to my attention. I subscribe to the view that the Voice has become far too politicized, and may end up as little more than an isolated political “win” or “loss” with little if any commitment to implementing the real substance of the Uluru Statement, of which the Voice is perhaps the least significant component, but which attracted the most attention because it should have been the easiest to deliver. However, even that is now looking a whole lot less certain.
It is about time the Yes campaign put their goddam skates on.
Stuart Robert is first off the rank at the new NACC. Not a surprise.
Socrates on Mon at 11.37 pm + Tue 2.35 am, Late Riser at 7.09 am and Eston Kohver at 7.33 am
It is not only Putin’s regime that has been a mafia state, though it is the fullest expression of that type.
Throughout most of Russian history, including all the Tsarist period lauded by Putin, a form of mafia state was dominant, with brief exceptions, such as for a few years from 1917, and from the late 1980s, until Yeltsin rebuilt the mafia state in the 1990s and handed it to Putin.
This was the key theme of a very original course on Russian history taught by Dr David Christian at Macquarie Uni in the 1980s.
Christian subsequently, from 1989, founded a new approach to the history of the planet, called big history, which puts human history in its geological context. For his Ted talk in 2011 see:
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_christian_the_history_of_our_world_in_18_minutes
Snyder’s essay was largely accurate but it is wrong to see Prigozhin’s mutiny as any sort of coup.
There have been very few coups in modern Russian history. The only two failed, the Kornilov coup in the early autumn of 1917, led by the man appointed by Kerensky as the Army Chief and supported by Britain, and the coup against Gorbachev in August 1991, when part of the KGB sided with Yeltsin.
The removal of Khrushchev in 1964 does not count as the military were not involved.
If a real coup occurs in Russia, its aim would be the same as Kornilov’s coup, to tighten repression, but Putin is already doing that. Meanwhile Putin’s henchmen give themselves fake gold stars:
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/06/27/russian-national-guard-head-says-his-forces-to-receive-heavy-weaponry-and-tanks-blames-wagner-rebellion-on-west
Well it was coming I suppose
Just got hit with our first ever land tax bill in the glorious state of VIC
The daughters land tax bill has gone over 10k Ours not some much.
And in breaking news last night our 2 yrs fight will council to remove heritage listing on our house ,was resolved in our favour ,with council voting to remove it. 2yrs and 100k it has cost us .
Now for the demolition request
If the Voice is lost, it and Reconciliation more generally will go the way of the Republic.
Nope.
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William Bowesays:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:55 pm
Anyone who believes the DPP has operated independently from the Andrews Govt has got shit for brains.
And yet, I’ve heard no one so much as suggest this until now. Chris Merritt, Murdoch operative and no friend of the ALP, says Judd was “doing her duty” and “the evidence was not there”.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/merely-doing-her-job-legal-expert-backs-victorian-dpps-decision-not-to-lay-charges-in-lawyer-x-affair/news-story/d3644b5d0ddf747aff39a2a3fd2bd57b
John Silvester at The Age (formerly of the Herald Sun, if that bothers you) says Judd “did her job”: “It would have been easier for Judd to avoid criticism by authorising the charges and pushing them out of her office into court. The weak sort of decisions made too often in recent high-profile cases around Australia, with disastrous results.”
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nettle-comes-out-stinging-but-gobbo-is-a-case-of-no-case-20230622-p5dioh.html
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Maybe Taylormade posted that comment on Ms. Judd because maybe TM side of politics works like that.
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Been Theresays:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Sprocket said
“BW, I was effectively denied landlord insurance for my mother’s properties. This from NRMA/IAG.
“We aren’t offering this anymore” was what they said.”
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I got the same result.
Went to QBE, quite happy with the result.
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I am with Comminsure. I am not unhappy till now.
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Holdenhillbillysays:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 9:41 pm
According to the Australian the GOAT treasurer Chalmers is to announce a budget update with an even BIGGER surplus.
Makes the Coalition look even bigger GOOSES than they already did especially Frydenberg.
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Frydenburg was always a goose.
What is that saying “once a goose, always a goose.
Remember he never really congratulated his opponent Dr. Ryan for winning the election.
Dr Doolittle at 10:33 pm
“It is not only Putin’s regime that has been a mafia state, though it is the fullest expression of that type.
Throughout most of Russian history, including all the Tsarist period lauded by Putin, a form of mafia state was dominant, with brief exceptions, such as for a few years from 1917, and from the late 1980s, until Yeltsin rebuilt the mafia state in the 1990s and handed it to Putin.”
Yes upon reflection I’d have to agree. I have done a little study of Russian and Soviet history.
If you focus on the institutions, events and rulers a lot changes through various revolutions. But the underlying political culture – a mafia of boyars or oligarchs dominating public life – has not changed much at all.
Whether the ruler has been called a Tsar, General Secretary or President, the power has remained the same. Russia has never really gone through a renaissance and the underlying human rights of peasants or workers has not improved much since Ivan the Terrible.
What proportion of the Nommos on here do you think own multiple investment properties. Plenty, I reckon.
I met my husband at Fisher Library in Sydney Uni. I noticed that, as he worked to restock the shelves, he was always around when I was there. He told me later that was on purpose because my arse looked amazing in my tight purple vinyl pants. 😉
The 2022 election indicated that enough voters realised the Morrison LNP government was not representing the voters with the best intentions.
Revelations since the election have shown the Morrison government to be much further “down the rathole” of dishonesty, deception, fraud, crime and self-interest than previously imagined.
The sunset tree industry right wing media, Dutton, the Nationals, Sky, the token middle class indigenous and the menagerie of social commentators have hijacked “the voice”.
The Greens have demarcated between themselves and “their supporters”.
The housing fracas highlights the plight of indigenous Australia and their prospects.
For all of you with no close indigenous friendships and no experience of an indigenous town or settlement please refrain from “whitefella” opinions together with the security of being a ‘whitefella”.
It’s was, is and will be indigenous genocide for a while yet.
Someone suggested earlier that Chalmers challenge Albanese for the leadership of the Federal Labor Party! Get a brain!
How quickly voters, commentators and the media have forgotten just how well developed Australia had become as a “banana republic’, governed by a right wing jaunta, with homeless in every shade of grey, poverty stricken, migrant dependent for labour, elitist, tribal and racist.
And I can’t remember it ever being so good! Except for those……………………..
The mass exploitation of AI has begun…
“Junk News Sites Are Abusing Ad Systems With AI-Generated Content”
https://gizmodo.com/study-junk-news-sites-ad-systems-ai-generated-content-1850578259