Essential Research reported this week for the first time in four weeks, though it has yet to resume voting intention polling. Leadership ratings recorded a one point drop in approval for Anthony Albanese to 49% and a two point increase in disapproval to 43%, while Sussan Ley was up two on both measures, to 35% and 37% respectively. Labor was dominant on two questions relating to economic management, leading the Coalition 42% to 25% as best party to ensure the economy works in the interests of everyday Australians, and 41% to 28% for managing the economy generally.
A regular national mood has a steady 38% holding that the country is headed in the right direction, with wrong track up two to 47%. Perhaps relatedly, there was a six-point increase since January in the view that the economy will worsen over the next six months to 35%, although there was also a three-point increase for improvement to 22%, with “stay the same” down nine to 43%. Thirty-four per cent supported and 30% opposed the recognition of Palestine, while 50% supported and 24% opposed the introduction of a four-day working week.
The Victorian sub-sample of 518 respondents (I’m unclear as to why it’s quite so much out of an overall sample of 1034) were asked for their view of the state party leaders, recording 36% approval and 51% disapproval for Jacinta Allan, and 40% approval and 35% disapproval for Brad Battin. The poll overall was conducted last Wednesday to Tuesday.
Monday’s Nine Newspapers had more results from last week’s Resolve Strategic poll, this time on carbon emissions targets, finding 17% support for a more ambitious target for 2030, 28% for the current 43% by 2030 target, 12% for abolishing a 2030 target while maintaining net zero by 2050, and 17% for abolishing both.
Shogunsays:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 4:38 pm
bc:
I came across a couple of Dilbert cartoons that seem strangely relevant some 33 years later:
Ironically (maybe) the cartoonist himself is a vocal Trump supporter.
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“If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”
newy boy at 4.35 pm
Thanks for the facts on population growth. I have to be honest, I don’t know what all the carry on is all about with immigration. Yes, it spiked in 2023/2024.
My understanding is that between 1/7/2022 and 30/6/2025, Australia welcomed 1,017,000 migrants, or roughly 335000 per annum.
We had an election recently where the LNP was going to drop it down to around 160000 p.a, and PHON was planning an even lower intake.
We also had an election result which provided Mr Albanese with a 2nd term, and I assume an endorsement of his gov’t’s arrangements. Voters had a choice, & I’m a big fan of the “voters always get it right”.
Here are some figures from the A.B.S. about inward/outward flows of migration into Australia.
Link: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/overseas-arrivals-and-departures-australia/jun-2025
Forget about the short term figures, as that probably covers Australian’s jet-setting on holidays to Bali etc. The long term arrival/departure figures actually show a net – wait for it – outflow.
A large part of this will be students who arrived in 2022, finishing their courses and heading off home.
And guess what, those students aren’t even on the electoral roll because they aren’t Aust. citizens.
I might be misreading everything, but the whole immigration debate atm, is to me, “hot air”.
Another agenda is being pushed to stir up the country
I wondered if I could care less about whether the Liberal party get their shit together and it turns out I couldn’t.
GA Live
“Zali Steggall, the independent member for Warringah, says Australia is on a “slippery slope” towards the US’ ICE-style approaches to immigration.
A short time ago, speaking about the government’s Nauru deal, she told the ABC:
It’s legitimate to want to keep our communities safe from a cohort that are criminals who have committed dangerous crimes. Now what we have before the Parliament is a bill where the government is seeking to retrospectively set aside requirements for procedural fairness that are key elements of natural justice and of our justice system. That’s really concerning.
She said she seconded a motion to have the legislation referred to the human rights committee – “and the government opposed it, which I think is really concerning”.
She said many groups were concerned the legislation “could apply to a broader cohort than just the ones who have committed crimes, and it could apply to other visa holders”.
To me, it brings to mind images of what’s happening in the US with ICE departments that just grab people, deport them, take away and the whole, ‘Oops, I’m sorry we made a mistake.’ That is why procedural fairness and natural justice are so important to make sure administrative errors don’t occur. And we are on a slippery slope.”
Mundosays:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 4:50 pm
I wondered if I could care less about whether the Liberal party get their shit together and it turns out I couldn’t.
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So you want be talking up their chances once we get closer to the next election?
Hm. No public appearances since Tuesday, and nothing on schedule for the Labor Day weekend.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/30/2341089/-Hm-Unseen-in-public-since-Tuesday-and-nothing-on-schedule-for-the-Labor-Day-weekend?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
“Trump hasn’t appeared publicly* since Tuesday, August 26, after a televised Cabinet meeting at the White House. That’s now the longest stretch out of view since he took office — including his first term. The previous “record” gap was around four full days in August 2017, when he stayed out of public view at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club during a working vacation. Even then, the White House released photos and statements, and he was spotted by reporters on the grounds, so it wasn’t a total disappearance.
He is “truthing” — or whatever — but the account is less active than usual, and, in all honesty, an AI language model could churn out Trump‑style posts. Tremendous + insult nicknames + all caps + 9/11…So who knows?
What I do know is this: he’s 79 years old, obese, with decades of poor diet and little exercise under, er, his belt. In recent months, he’s shown fatigue, swelling in his legs, bruising on his hands, and — during an August 15 summit in Alaska — a noticeably unsteady, zig‑zagging walk. The same hand bruise has been visible as far back as spring 2024, with Trump offering shifting explanations, from “over‑enthusiastic handshakes” to the current chronic venous insufficiency claim. His doctor blames that condition for the swelling and bruising — and you can believe him if you want to. There’s no independent confirmation, and it doesn’t explain all of Trump’s physical symptoms. “
Pegasus says:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Dr Abul Rizvi is a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration
Media misuses migration statistics to promote anti-immigration rallies
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/media-misuses-migration-statistics-to-promote-anti-immigration-rallies,20099
“THE FIRST ANTI-IMMIGRATION RALLIES, possibly since the start of the post-war migration program, are planned for 31 August 2025. To promote these rallies, many anti-immigration media outlets, think tanks and political groups have been caught out misusing Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data.”
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“Prior to the protests, organisers frequently repeated a claim that 1500 migrants were entering Australia each day, based on Australian Bureau of Statistics overseas arrivals and departures data.
But the bureau has said the figures are not a reliable measure of migration or population change, but rather represent self-declared traveller intentions.
Former Immigration Department deputy secretary Abul Rizvi said successive governments had failed to communicate their immigration plans to the public, leaving a void to be filled by conspiracy theories and “bizarre ideas”.
The Labor government is yet to release its planning levels for its 2025/26 migration program, which Mr Rizvi labelled an “unprecedented delay”.”
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/09/australia-institute-live-at-the-rate-journalists-are-being-killed-in-gaza-by-the-israeli-army-there-will-soon-be-no-one-left-to-keep-you-informed/page/3/#245746dfd6
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Whichever way you cut it:
(Both charts are number of persons, 12 month rolling sum)
Yeah, I agree that the peak of migration has passed – but if that is the argument IA, TAI and others are running, then the housing crisis is solved and the market will find equilibrium in a year or two.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/latest-release#national
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/overseas-arrivals-and-departures-australia/latest-release
This post made me chuckle.
PM Modi China Visit Live: India-Russia ties developing dynamically, Putin tells ‘dear friend’ Modi
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-live-updates-sco-summit-putin-india-china-visit-russia-tianjin-trump-tariffs-2779769-2025-09-01
“Modi, Putin meeting live: PM calls for constructive steps to end Russia-Ukraine war
During his bilateral with Putin in Tianjin, PM Modi welcomed recent peace efforts in Ukraine and urged all parties to move constructively toward a swift resolution and lasting peace.
Sep 1, 2025 12:14 IST
Modi, Putin meeting live: PM tells Putin he hopes Russia and Ukraine move to end war
Prime Minister Modi told Putin that he hopes Russia and Ukraine will move forward to end their war soon”
Putin backs PM’s peace efforts on Ukraine, dismisses US’s ‘Modi’s war’ narrative
Putin countered White House adviser and a top Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro’s claim of Ukraine being “Modi’s war,” instead blaming Nato and “Western interference” for the conflict’s roots.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/appreciate-india-efforts-resolve-ukraine-crisis-putin-counters-trump-navarro-modis-war-narrative-sco-2779865-2025-09-01
“Russian President Vladimir Putin praised India and China’s efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war at the 25th SCO Heads of State Council summit on Tianjin on Monday.
Putin countered White House adviser and a top Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro’s claim of Ukraine being “Modi’s war,” instead blaming Nato and “Western interference” for the conflict’s roots.
“In this regard, we highly appreciate the efforts and proposals from China and India aimed at facilitating the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation forum in Tianjin.”
Look, some very astute, combined with some somewhat dubious comments – all very serious subjects and quite interesting. But…
Oscar won.
AGAIN.
34 points clear.
About 200k appealing leaving even though their visas have expired.
Albanese gov globalist sellouts want them to stay too gutless to come out and say So just let them in the back door.
Go home queue jumpers!
Aussies need your accommodations!
So the Government, who are globalist sellouts who visa holders to stay, aren’t simply extending their visas, but instead are forcing everyone to appeal, which they will automatically approve, because they’re globalist sellouts… but not enough to just allow them to stay without the appeal in the first place?
We’re through the looking glass here people.
Re immigration, here is the Australian Bureau of Statistics population clock:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/population-clock-pyramid
In summary –
– Population of Australia approaching 27.7 million
– Natural increase about 104,000 p.a.
– Net immigration about 307,000 p.a.
The net immigration is still a bit higher than the trend pre-Covid. The surge in immigration numbers following the virtual shutdown of immigration during the Pandemic is still working its way through.
New boy 4.35pm & nadia 4.49pm.
Two of the most sensible fact based posts on the blog today.
The pair of you should be presenting the news to the country because our newspapers are fanning immigration hysteria and someone is going to get hurt soon. I see ‘they’ attacked a bunch of harmless Aborigines in Melbourne yesterday. Who’se next?
A_E, BB, Socrates
Irony of Two Democracies
https://orangenews9.com/irony-of-two-democracies/
“Democracy is the word both India and the United States love to brandish. Yet, while one lives and breathes it in all its messy, vibrant glory, the other often reduces it to a mask hiding the concentration of power. India, for all its imperfections, remains the largest and most participatory democracy on earth. America, despite the rhetoric, increasingly resembles a presidential autocracy packaged as a democracy. India’s democracy is not neat—it is argumentative, noisy, sometimes painfully slow. But that is precisely what makes it real. Every law is subject to Parliament, courts, and the court of public opinion. Even governments with a brute parliamentary majority cannot steamroll policies. The repeal of the farm laws in 2021, after months of public protest, showed that power ultimately bows to the people. That was not chaos—it was democracy’s corrective mechanism. Contrast this with the United States. The American president often rules through executive orders that bypass Congress. Wars are launched, immigration bans enforced, sanctions imposed—all with a pen stroke. George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion, Donald Trump’s immigration curbs, and even Barack Obama’s reliance on executive actions revealed how decision-making concentrates in one office. The irony is stark: the nation that delivers democracy lectures abroad tolerates, even celebrates, such unchecked executive power at home. India’s democratic fabric is stitched with dozens of regional parties, coalition compulsions, caste and community voices, and grassroots activism. This pluralism ensures power is always contested. It may look chaotic, but it prevents a monopoly.”
“America, the two-party façade hides a deeper capture. Corporate lobbies, Wall Street financiers, and the military-industrial complex drive policy. Elections are billion-dollar spectacles bankrolled by donors, and presidents, once elected, often end up serving those interests. In practice, the president looks less like a leader of the people and more like a manager of elite consensus. India grapples with poverty, inequality, and caste divides—but its system allows protest, reform, and constant self-correction. Movements like the Nirbhaya protests against gender violence or the anti-corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare forced governments to respond. This is democracy alive and kicking. The United States, meanwhile, faces rampant gun violence, opioid crises, and racial tensions. Yet it claims moral high ground as democracy’s global custodian. The contradiction could not be sharper: a fractured society exporting lectures on “freedom” while failing to safeguard it at home. India’s Prime Minister is answerable every day—through Parliament, the judiciary, the media, and ultimately, the voters. Narendra Modi may have won overwhelming mandates, but even he was compelled to withdraw policies when faced with sustained opposition. Accountability here is woven into the system. The American president, by contrast, operates with minimal oversight. Impeachment is rare and partisan. Congress deadlocks into irrelevance, leaving presidents to govern through decree. Even when questions about competence or age surface, the office remains shielded from real checks. That is the irony of two democracies. India, often dismissed by the West as chaotic, embodies democracy in practice—its mess is its lifeblood, its dissent its strength, its pluralism its survival. America, polished as the global “model,” increasingly wears democracy as a mask: projecting it abroad, diluting it at home, and concentrating power in the very way it warns others against. In the end, one breathes democracy. The other only performs it.”
HAHAHHAHA comedy gold.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ignorant-moron_n_68af882fe4b0d635adb3ace1
Putin backs PM’s peace efforts on Ukraine, dismisses US’s ‘Modi’s war’ narrative
Putin countered White House adviser and a top Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro’s claim of Ukraine being “Modi’s war,” instead blaming Nato and “Western interference” for the conflict’s roots.
Anyone who posts this here and believes Putin’s characterisation that the war has as its roots NATO and ‘Western interference’ is, by definition, a Putin stooge. Even if their glorified leader says it too.
HuffPost could be onto something there. To wit, in order to inform himself before he opens his weirdly-shaped cakehole, Donald Trump does a scan of the relevant Wikipedia page relating to whatever he wants to talk about.
It’s pretty pointless trying to argue with fascists with logic. They basically just want to see all of their political opponents and people they hate either lynched or sent to camps, they don’t care how they get there, that’s their end goal and by their cruel evangelical god they’ll get there one way or another.
Most of them are the type of people who if in private was confronted with a video of a child with dark skin playing with a puppy they would scream the N-word non-stop at the screen and then flinch and scream in sheer panic when the child looked directly at the camera.
The myopic Crisafulli Government has dumped stage 4 of the light rail project (Burleigh Heads to Coolangatta) based on local opposition & projected cost overruns. What major projects aren’t thus affected?
He sent his deputy out, the bumbling Jarrod Bleijie, to convey the news.
I’m starting to see some YouTube ads featuring what appear to be AI representations of people like Dick Smith and Twiggy Forrest, spruiking some kind of money making scheme
C@tmommasays:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 6:01 pm
Putin backs PM’s peace efforts on Ukraine, dismisses US’s ‘Modi’s war’ narrative
Putin countered White House adviser and a top Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro’s claim of Ukraine being “Modi’s war,” instead blaming Nato and “Western interference” for the conflict’s roots.
Anyone who posts this here and believes Putin’s characterisation that the war has as its roots NATO and ‘Western interference’ is, by definition, a Putin stooge. Even if their glorified leader says it too.
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The stuff written by partisan “Godi media” in India is just as bad as pro-Trump Fox media is in USA. Both are more propaganda spin than actual news.
I am watching 9 News.
What I noticed Bystander is this:
The Neo-nazis, who were part of ‘March for Australia’. are all young white males in their 20s and 30s, wore black and used racist language and resorted to very aggressive behaviour
So, Taylormade, I did not see people of other “races”.
And when 9News Mark Burrows asked Minns shouldn’t Police be involved when Neo-nazis gave hate speeches demanding non-whites to “F**k off”, Minns minced his words, which I can’t remember what he said.
I’d wager those men dressed in black would happily engage in violence against white skinned people that don’t share their views
15 October 2024 – Race Discrimination Commissioner condemns neo-Nazi rally in regional NSW
https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/media-releases/race-discrimination-commissioner-condemns-neo-nazi-rally-regional-nsw
“Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, has condemned the neo-Nazi rally held in regional New South Wales on the weekend, warning it is further proof of the urgent need for a national strategy to combat racism.
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“The neo-Nazi rally in Corowa was a shock to many, particularly residents. But to those of us who have been following the rise of the far-right in the last few years, it sadly wasn’t that surprising,” said Commissioner Sivaraman.
“This is what happens when we refuse to properly name and confront the extent of racism that is ingrained across our society. These rallies are a horrific manifestation of what happens when racism is normalised – to the extent that neo-Nazis are emboldened to be on the streets as a threatening force.
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“White supremacy is a threat that must be taken seriously. We should never forget that the worst mass murder in recent history committed by an Australian was a white supremacist in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019. Politicians need to be careful their language does not denigrate one community over another or embolden neo-Nazis to openly march on our streets. Australian media also needs to be careful about which ideologies it platforms.
“If we really want to target these and other similar threats, the only way forward is national anti-racism action that addresses the roots of white supremacy and all forms of racism in Australia. It is the ultimate antidote to racism and its violence. By taking anti-racism action, equality, dignity and respect may one day be a reality for everyone in Australia – no matter a person’s racial, cultural or religious background.”
On 26 November, the Australian Human Rights Commission will release its National Anti-Racism Framework – calling on the Commonwealth to lead national, urgent action on anti-racism. This Thursday, the Commission will also release the findings of nationwide consultations with people with lived experience of racism. Those findings will help inform the development of the Framework. “
January 2025 – Race Discrimination Commissioner condemns neo-Nazi rally in Adelaide
https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/media-releases/race-discrimination-commissioner-condemns-neo-nazi-rally-adelaide
“Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, has condemned the neo-Nazi rally held in Adelaide on Australia Day, warning a National Anti-Racism Framework is the only way to adequately combat the rise of the white supremacy movement.
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“The neo-Nazi rally in Adelaide, that pointedly began at the War Memorial, was shocking. The rise of far-right movements in this country and their influence cannot be ignored,” Commissioner Sivaraman said.
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“The far-right extremism of these white supremacists is a threat that must be taken seriously. First Nations peoples, Jews, Muslims, trans people, and migrants and refugees are on the frontlines of this hatred.
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“The National Anti-Racism Framework we released last year recommends Australian governments develop and fund community-informed early intervention solutions to address far-right extremism and white supremacy at its roots.
“These solutions must focus on prevention and community wellbeing as well as providing redress for the harms experienced by targeted individuals and communities. There is still time to act before even more communities are harmed.” “
From noted nazi organisation AMP:
https://www.amp.com.au/resources/insights-hub/olivers-insight-seven-key-charts-on-the-state-of-the-australian-property-market
“Australian housing is chronically undersupplied”
“This has been the case since the mid-2000s when immigration levels, and hence population growth, surged and the supply of new homes did not keep up. Our assessment is that the accumulated housing shortfall (the green line in the next chart) is around 200,000 dwellings at least and possibly 300,000 depending on what is assumed in terms of the number of people per household. ”
National Anti-Racism Framework
https://humanrights.gov.au/anti-racism-framework
“The Framework contains 63 recommendations for a whole of society approach to eliminating racism, with proposed reforms across Australia’s legal, justice, health, education, media and arts sectors as well as workplaces and data collection.
The Framework was launched in late November 2024 in western Sydney at an event attended by hundreds of representatives of Australia’s diverse cultural communities.”
Immigrates , will always be required in Australia whether people like it or not ,
example particular if the federal lib/nats got their way with the Nuclear thought bubble
Since there were no expertise on building or managing Nuclear power stations , the only way was import immigrates which had the experience
6 August 2025 – Greens: The Albanese government must end the hierarchy of racism and fund the implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework immediately
https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-albanese-government-must-end-hierarchy-racism-and-fund-implementation
“Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman’s, press club speech, supporting his calls for the Albanese Labor Government to fully fund and implement the National Anti-Racism Framework (NARF) and to tackle the root causes of systemic racism and hate.
“The Albanese Government has had nine months to respond to the National Anti-Racism Framework, but we haven’t heard a peep. How many more times will First Nations people and people of colour share their trauma of systemic racism before this government listens and acts?
“Rather than entrenching a hierarchy of racism, the Prime Minister must scrap the envoy system and use the funding to start implementing the National Anti-Racism Framework immediately.
“From parliament to the streets, politicians have neglected, and even denied, structural racism while hiding behind whitewashed buzzwords and gestures. They have gaslighted and punished those daring to highlight existing racism.
“It’s way past time to act on the ugly truth about racism and white privilege. Racism in this country is rife, systemic, and entrenched, and it must be challenged, dismantled, and eradicated.
“I urge the Prime Minister to heed the calls of Commissioner Sivaraman to implement the National Anti-Racism Framework.”
These are photos from the attack on the Indigenous Sovereign encampment. I swear that’s Thomas Sewell in the photos throwing a punch:
When it comes to emotive issues such as immigration data doesn’t rule hearts and minds, narratives do.
I’ll take this one from my own life as demonstrative, stating upfront I’m not swayed by this issue for my vote. But what does ‘destroying our life style’ look like to someone motivated by racial issues?
My aunt lived in a NSW government built and owned fibro house in Liverpool, out in western Sydney, at the time the edge of the universe. She brought up 4 kids through the late 60s, into the 70s and out of the 80s. All around her were other poor white families doing exactly the same. Some in fibro houses, some in timber, and the richer families in brick houses they owned themselves. This is where I spent my summers in the late 70s and early 80s.
I visited on and off over the following decades, until in the 2010s I got there more often as my job allowed more travel into Sydney. Over the years I noticed that slowly the white families moved out, and firstly Islander and NZ families moved in, then those families moved out, and middle eastern families moved in.
This next bit didnt happen to me or my cousins but it could have easily.
If I was one of the white poor kids brought up in Liverpool during those years chances are I wouldn’t go to university, I might have low paying job, and when I brought up my own family int eh 90s or early 2000w I might have to moved out an hour further out. I wouldnt be rooted to the neighborhood i grew up in, nanna might be an hours or more away from her grand kids, and I would see the change in the neighborhood I grew up in.
Over time I might become resentful that these changes took place, and see the very obvious differences in skin colour. It wouldn’t be hard for me to attribute my sense of not belonging to immigration that allowed all these brown people into the place I grew up in..
Thats how people fall into the ‘destroying our life style’ narrative.
Entropy says:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 6:09 pm
C@tmomma says:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 6:01 pm
Putin backs PM’s peace efforts on Ukraine, dismisses US’s ‘Modi’s war’ narrative
Putin countered White House adviser and a top Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro’s claim of Ukraine being “Modi’s war,” instead blaming Nato and “Western interference” for the conflict’s roots.
Anyone who posts this here and believes Putin’s characterisation that the war has as its roots NATO and ‘Western interference’ is, by definition, a Putin stooge. Even if their glorified leader says it too.
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The stuff written by partisan “Godi media” in India is just as bad as pro-Trump Fox media is in USA. Both are more propaganda spin than actual news.
I do not know why Ven doesn’t realise that we’re not stupid and we can figure these things out. Maybe Ven’s revering of Modi means he doesn’t care anymore about supporting Putin and Russia? If Modi supports Putin, Ven supports Putin.
newy boysays:
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 4:35 pm
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Over these eleven years, Australia’s population has grown by about 1.5% annually. 2024’s was 1.7% and on a downward trajectory back towards 1.5%. Barring an unforeseen circumstance such as a global pandemic, it looks like we’re headed back to stable 1.5% population growth. Is this really panic stations time?
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Sure is!
We have far exceeded our carrying capacity.
Successive governments (duopoly) have supercharged our population growth without any conversation with the Australian people.
The “big Australia” nonsense is a con job on ordinary working Australians and is delivering a lower standard of living for all but the wealthy few.
We actually need a serious reduction in immigration for an extended period.
Maybe take 50k refugees and 20k skilled workers per year for 5 or 10 years till we are able to digest what we have taken already.
The government should be charging employers at least $100k per visa for skilled workers to encourage investment in training which has been abandoned by Australian employers in recent decades. Australian employers would rather poach a ready-trained immigrant than train an Aussie these days. They should also be required to take on two trainees in the same role for every foreign worker they employ.
That is correct Cat …..that’s the coward that he is
Ven posted
Yes, and that’s why I referred to them as ‘despicable’. It’s just a pity that the news services choose to focus on the worst elements and ignore the people who are law abiding and decent, which was the majority.
Labor supports Putin as Modi is bankrolling Ukraine war by supplying oil to Russia.
Albo hugs Modi loves him he is a traitor!
Pro Palestinians are the Nazis for what they are doing to Australia’s Jewish community.
Maybe this time the courts will actually punish the nazi fucks, after Magistrate Stephen Ballek let Sewell off without any punishment back in 2023 for his racist assault on a security guard.
Caught on camera, there should be nothing short of a maximum sentence on as many counts as they can throw at him.
Intentionally causing injury: 10 years each.
Threats to kill: 10 years each.
And the big kicker:
Causing serious injury intentionally in circumstances of gross violence:
* the offender planned in advance to engage in conduct and at the time of planning
* the offender was reckless as to whether the conduct would cause a serious injury
* the offender in company with 2 or more other persons caused the serious injury
Penalty: 20 years maximum.
There should be more than enough charges to lock him up for life.
Fake news!
Cat, that is Sewell. I saw him in person today with three of his fellow brownshirts. He had a court appointment in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
I also learned that he has a criminal record and is from New Zealand. I guess he doesn’t want all criminals immigrants to go home, only those who have committed the crime of not being white.
Every time a politician on the right attends a racist rally they describe it as a respectable event hijacked by Nazis.
Perhaps if Nazis feel at home at your rallies you need to consider why.
If he’s a Kiwi the Government should strip him of whatever allows him to stay in Australia and he can be locked up on Nauru for life.
Sewell is just Australia’s Tommy Robinson.
Perhaps a lot of these right wing politicians need to check history as to what happens when they ally with nazis.
In 1933, Franz von Papen thought he was so clever convincing President Hindenburg to make Hitler the Chancellor and thought he could keep him under control. About 18 months later, Hitler’s mob murdered most of his political allies and staffers in the Night of the Long Knives, and he barely escaped the same fate himself by fleeing to Austria.
Nauru is only for people who come by boat.
Sewell might have been born in NZ but he went to Balwyn High School. And we all know about the mean streets of Balwyn.
You know you’ve made it as a neo-Nazi when Elon likes your work.
Elon Musk has shared a post on social media that wrongly claims 150,000 people took part in anti-immigration protests in the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane, despite police estimating the total of those in attendance was about 21,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/elon-musk-shares-post-on-x-with-incorrect-attendance-figures-for-australias-anti-immigration-protests