The Australian reports Newspoll has the Coalition with an unchanged two-party lead of 51-49, from primary votes of Labor 32% (up one), Coalition 39% (up one), Greens 12% (steady) and One Nation 7% (steady). Despite the stable voting intention results, Anthony Albanese records much improved personal ratings, up four on approval to 41% and down five on disapproval to 53%, and increases his lead as preferred prime minister from 45-40 to 47-38. Peter Dutton is down two on approval to 39% and up two on approval to 53%. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1255.
Tricotsays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 8:44 pm
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(a) It is debatable just how “democratic” the voting system is in the US. It’s their system but there are plenty of holes in it and,
(b) As far as I am concerned – as are a number other “free” world countries, Trump is becoming a US dictator, does not give a toss about anyone else, or the country they come from and does not represent me, in this democratic country.
I believe him to be a degenerate person who is not fit to be in office let alone “leader of the free world”
He is currently selling Ukraine down the river, he is no “friend” of Australia and cares even less.
Give Putin his due when asked: ‘What do you think about Australia?” He replied by saying: ‘I never think of Australia.’
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Tricot,
Seeing as you insist upon post tricrap on this site, lets go through your silly points.
Point (a) – is it only “debatable” when a Republican wins? Was the result “debatable” when Biden won in 2020?????
Point (b) – Your opinion only. “As far as I am concerned” mumbo jumbo crap. Check out Boer’s post at 8.46pm – two minutes after your clueless contribution.
Your “tricrap waffle” post point (b) –
“I believe him to be a degenerate person who is not fit to be in office”.
Well OK, that’s your puny opinion. You’re entitled to it. Once again, refer to Boer’s 8.46 pm post.
The trouble with “war memorials” and “war museums” is the fact that the obscenity of war is kind of mixed in with the pride of serving for what, at the time, seemed like a Just Cause.
Our National War Memorial in Canberra seeks to do both tasks.
The Shrine in Melbourne is clearly a memorial rather than a museum.
Of the places called War Memorials/War Museums, I think the Imperial War Museum in London ranks as one of the best in the world and is constantly being updated and offering new takes on conflict.
There was a rear turret from a Lancaster bomber available to people to actually feel what it was to be a “tail-end-Charley” as the rear gunner was described.
It was, to say the least, one of the most exposed spots in the plane.
What struck me was how thin the aluminium was which made up the outer/inner skin of the Lancaster.
I have no issues with the museum part of the Canberra building being brought up to date for a new generation mainly lucky enough not to have lost their lives at war.
The fact that you don’t understand your own posts is hardly surprising.
As for you Allocated Pension, if you understood investment management, you’d be holding 3 years of future pension payments in cash so that you could ride through market fluctuations, whatever the cause.
Sinodinos and AWH!
Those were the days!
If only we could remember what it was all about.
Was the plan to make a killing at the expense of the taxpayers.
I can’t recall.
Cornering the sydney water market? Was that it?
Brilliant thinking if it were true.
I just can’t remember a thing. Me and Artie can’t remember a thing.
Well we couldn’t then.
All above board, I am sure.
And then there was all that vast amount of money someone made out of water up north!
Tens of millions!
Those were the days!
Taylor reckons he completely missed out on all that!
Nothing to do with him.
He was nowhere near it.
Taylor did not make a brass razoo out of it.
So a guy who could not make a quid out of water is given the job of Shadow Treasurer! And just lately Taylor’s chief contribution, along with that of Ley and Hume and Trump Lite, has been to sow confusion about what the Opposition’s policy is on insurance.
Pick your populist lines du jour. Any old crap will do. Grab the headlines and the rest will look after itself.
At least Dutton, like pal Trump, knows how to make a quick quid from a crisis when Australians are facing mass suffering. When will the first Dutton meme crypto coin hit the airwaves? Dutton Tower on the Riviera?
And Dutton will not be liking to pay all that insurance on his property empire. Got to bring down his business costs somehow.
Conflict of interest? hoo ha.
How to make a piece of paper worthless. Have a signed USA free trade agreement on it.
Peter “C”.
Great to see you drift by the site again.
I always wait for your contributions, especially coming from a real working class labor stalwart such as you.
How’s the :
1. Overnight cash rate going,
2. “Accruals” on your super balance. C’mon, let us all know how wealthy you are. You love it, and we’re all envious of what a fabulous chum you are.
3. … and how’s your bow tie. Not taken by a normal tie are you? Open neck perhaps. T-shirt maybe.
…Oh no, not a torn blue singlet. That would be vulgar.
Love your contributions here Peter ” Big C”.
You really personify all that is Labor is 2025. You are a real good sort. Thanks Sir!
Tricot you offer a balanced and pragmatic assessment of the AWM. Sadly many other contributors cannot
I’ve been out of the industry for a few years now and trailing commissions went out while I was in. I never took them except on a the Cash Management Fund we recommended which were a pittance. I charged a fee for service based on portfolio size. Any fees we received for placements and raising a were fully paid to the clients.
Every client is different so there’s no set allocations – that depends on the clients needs and goals.
Tricot says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:26 pm
The trouble with “war memorials” and “war museums” is the fact that the obscenity of war is kind of mixed in with the pride of serving for what, at the time, seemed like a Just Cause.
Our National War Memorial in Canberra seeks to do both tasks.
The Shrine in Melbourne is clearly a memorial rather than a museum.
Of the places called War Memorials/War Museums, I think the Imperial War Museum in London ranks as one of the best in the world and is constantly being updated and offering new takes on conflict.
There was a rear turret from a Lancaster bomber available to people to actually feel what it was to be a “tail-end-Charley” as the rear gunner was described.
It was, to say the least, one of the most exposed spots in the plane.
What struck me was how thin the aluminium was which made up the outer/inner skin of the Lancaster.
I have no issues with the museum part of the Canberra building being brought up to date for a new generation mainly lucky enough not to have lost their lives at war.’
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There is a good book by an Australian author called ‘They hosed them out’ by John Bede Cusack. The reference is to rear gunners. Cusack knew what he was writing about. He was an air gunner in WW2. Until visitors get to hose the blood and entrails and bits of bone out of a gun turret, smell burning flesh, hear screams of terror and pain, experience the fear of imminent death, grind away for months and months when every step could lead to their legs being blown off, they will have no idea at all what wars are really like.
The AWM sanitizes all of this. So does the IWM.
paulA
Boy, you are really riled up tonight. And just this once………
It don’t give a toss of your opinion of me or my contributions as you are just another nobody on the site to me.
You are somewhere out way beyond nebula rabid right and the further away the better.
As my old boss you to say when you point the finger at a person, look to see which way the other fingers are pointing.
Your response speaks for itself.
When Trump finally bites the dust, we certainly won’t see you for dust here anyway.
And if you can’t see degeneracy in Trump you must be blind as well as lacking any insight at all.
Other than stir, why do you bother?
And for the future, I will try to resist lampooning your crap and use the scroll button.
Boerwar would you prefer we go the way of the Japs? Grown men in their late 40s being oblivious to the wars their grandfathers participated in ??
FUBAR says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:15 pm
TPOF says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:01 pm
You’re right , what would someone who worked as a Financial Advisor for over a decade know about superannuation?
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You? Expert on DBFs were you? Advised your clients on accessing them? I call bullshit. You seem to have had more careers than Bruce Lehrmann.
Edited with the afterthought that you didn’t actually address the points I made, you just strutted your claimed expertise as though that was the killer blow.
Tricotsays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:26 pm
The trouble with “war memorials” and “war museums” is the fact that the obscenity of war is ……….
….What struck me was how thin the aluminium was which made up the outer/inner skin of the Lancaster. I have no issues with the museum part of the Canberra building being brought up to date for a new generation mainly lucky enough not to have lost their lives at war.
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Do you read your posts before you press “enter”?
You want to set up a new war memorial to acknowledge those who “have not lost their lives at war”, albeit made of thin aluminium, and something to do with the outer skin of a Lancaster.
WTF are you on about?
Tricrap
NASA chief scientist fired in first round of Trump-ordered cuts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/nasa-fires-chief-scientist-in-first-round-of-trump-cuts/105044394
Paul A what a deplorable parasite you are
Australians have mourned and commemorated ww1 and ww2 soldiers for long enough. It’s time to move on. We should turn Anzac Day into a national day of dance parties, watermelon throwing competitions and assorted silliness.
When I see a young person looking solemnly into the eternal flame trying to conjure some emotional link to people who died over a hundred years ago I think, well isn’t that absurd.
Dave, from earlier. There’s no such thing as free trade, it’s like clean coal, a made up term. One side will usually have a comparative advantage and leverage that as much as possible. Usually resulting in flooding of one country’s market by another, with the end result of driving local businesses out of business. Some form of regulation is required.
The AWM should be turned into a video game parlour to teach the kiddies about war. Starting with “Minesweeper” (boom!) and “Game of Drones”.
lol and to think ‘dave’ thought I was incorrect with my assessment that nath was a nihilist
MI. do you want to build back the domestic textile industry or are you happy with the $10 t shirts from Bangladesh?
Tricot,
You are rambling tonight.
There is a “late night ” poster on the site called Been There. A real good sort here, and after a heavy evening of knitting, he’d be up for a chat, although i think he’d even struggle with your nonsense.
TPOF says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:47 pm
I didn’t advise people with Defined Benefit Pensions because the risk free rate of return couldn’t justify rolling out of them.
I understand them far better than most posters here.
Boerwarsays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:13 pm
OTOH, Japanese visitors sometimes get a very unpleasant surprise. Their education system does well on Hiroshima but almost completely fails to acknowledge a near-decade of their own barbarity
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I adore getting thr opportunity to visit Japan … but the Hiroshima bomb memorial was extremely weird. For all the horror of the event, there was not a single reference as to “why” it happened.
Paul A , for A-Hole
leftie I don’t think a nihilist would advocate for watermelon throwing competitions.
FUBAR, you say I was inaccurate re SMSFs, then give no examples. You query why the income on half a $4 million Fund is tax free. Half would almist certainly be in Pension mode, zero tax on the earnings.
If you knew how to calculate the tax on a $100K unrealised gain, you’d conclude you’re manning the ramparts over a tiny amount only for a huge gain.
And losses would reduce profits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/government-shutdown-trump-republicans-house/
Thank goodness Democrats did the sensible thing and left Republicans to it. They own the congress, they can surely sort themselves out in times like these and don’t need Democrats to save them.
That’s a bit nasty leftiebrawler at 10.04pm.
Another nasty Labor voter are you? Must be in your DNA
I could have used the term “Capital” C, because that’s how that snob identifies himself, but I thought the term “Big” C harmonised things a bit.
FUBARsays:
I understand them far better than most posters here.
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For a white nationalist you are quite well informed on financial matters. Usually these people have just enough intelligence to open their mouths to eat.
Captain arrested over UK ship collision is Russian, owner says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/12/captain-arrested-over-uk-ship-collision-is-russian-owner-says
Looks like a T.D.S. groupie has logged on at 10.13 pm, so I’ll leave you be this evening.
“Trump lives in your mind rent free”.
The result of that is going to be very interesting Confessions.
Jonathan Landay/Twitter via Threadreader:
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to block the ability of Congress to quickly challenge tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that have rattled financial markets.
The 216-214 vote, largely along party lines, delays lawmakers’ ability for the rest of the year to force a vote that could revoke Trump’s tariffs and immigration actions.
Reuters link
dave says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:15 pm
How’s the Share House going, Champ?
The high court has dismissed an appeal from the Commonwealth today in a long running case brought by Arnhem communities that will have earth shattering consequences for Native title legal interpretation and precedent in this country.
Just as Eddie Mabo before him the late Dr Yunupingu- tribal elder and initiator of the filing has been vindicated in his David and Goliath pursuit of the commonwealth to right over a century of wrongs.
The decision paves the way for the government to be legally liable for its actions in allowing the economic exploitation of tribal lands in north east Arnhem land without consent or compensation for the past century.
The total bill payable could reach almost 1 billion AUD.
This is a great day for our First Nations people and one that will help in righting the wrongs of 2 centuries of pillaging and wholesale genocide.
Australia has lost its way- the high court having to be the guiding light in decency and fairness- forcing a government to cough up a pittance of compensation in a court of law. The same government that is more interested in the fate of the Palestinians and opportunistic economic migrants to appease foreign governments.
SwingRequired says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:13 pm
You did not mention that you were giving an example of when a fund rolled over from the accumulation phase to the pension phase at the maximum Transfer Balance amount which is currently $1.9 million.
leftieBrawler says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:30 pm
The quantum of potential is far from settled. It could be hundreds of billions.
The High Courts ruling is not definitive. The matter has to return to the Federal Court for further rulings based on their decision.
Your claim of Australia having lost its way is a load of bollocks. The High Court has continuously ruled on matters relating to the interpretation of legislation and legal decisions. Your hyperbole is ridiculous.
Not a lawyer but I expect this to have a long road to finalisation. The economic risks to Australia are immense and Federal Governments have a responsibility to protect the National interest, which isn’t being held to economic ransom.
FUBARsays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:26 pm
dave says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:15 pm
How’s the Share House going, Champ?
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Cmon FUBAR, don’t hide your light under a bushel. Tell us all about The Great Replacement Theory.
What is going on? The Australian is saying Albo could not have avoided the tariffs even if he was Houdini, but The Guardian is saying he is facing criticism for not avoiding them.
I’m confused.
dave says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 9:54 pm
I am unsurprised by your inability to connect or comprehend.
Just think, if Albo’s referendum had succeeded, there would have been an indigenous Voice that the commonwealth could have ignored before it appealed to the high court.
FUBAR how about I come over to your house and chuck you out ? And then what if I decide to start renting it out as a brothel without your consultation or permission and keep the profits ?
Diogenes says:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:42 pm
The Australian offers fairly balanced commentary – despite what the posters here believe.
leftieBrawlersays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:30 pm
The high court has dismissed an appeal from the Commonwealth today in a long running case brought by Arnhem communities that will have earth shattering consequences ….
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Looks like Australia will have to go thru another “bucket loads of extinguishment” circus, circa 1996-1997. Thankyou, High Court.
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/social_justice/native_title_report_97.pdf
Does paul A get a skin full after work and come here to abuse people at night?
“Trump lives in your mind rent free”.
Mirror, meet paul A. Trump lives in your mind rent free too, but not in a good way, it appears to have poisoned your brain and removed any sense of humanity you may have had.
Epstein
You can’t appeal a referendum result to the High Court.
Diogenessays:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:42 pm
What is going on? The Australian is saying Albo could not have avoided the tariffs even if he was Houdini, but The Guardian is saying he is facing criticism for not avoiding them.
I’m confused.
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The Australian occasionally has pretensions to being a quality newspaper. Sometimes they live up to it, mostly they don’t.
Because Rio Tinto should have ALL the profits from the Gove Peninsula mining operation and the original inhabitants of the land, bupkis. Okay, got it. 😐
… and never forget… Albo fled QLD as the cyclone approached (obviously after a few choreographed photo ops of course), and Mr Dutton arrived back in the state to be in his electorate as the cyclone approached. Hope Albo enjoyed his tennis game, wherever he played. WA, or was it Lismore.