This is Dr. Lara Daley from the University of Newcastle. Her latest project, funded by taxpayers at over half a million dollars, is to design Aboriginal smoking ceremonies and Welcome to Country rituals for astronauts to perform on Mars. Yes, really.
Australia is slowly becoming a failing state. We can't staff our hospitals or pay our nurses, and our regional roads look like the surface of the moon. Yet, we've somehow found $528,491 to spend on making sure the first human on Mars feels guilty for landing on a barren rock. This is where your money goes.
No joke. 2 days ago the Australian Research Council awarded Dr. Lara Daley this insane figure for "Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy." The goal is to insert specific indigenous kinship and "sky country" concepts into protocols for planetary landings and asteroid mining to avoid "colonial harms" in space.
So remember this. While you struggle with soaring energy bills and the elderly skip meals, your taxes are ensuring that the first boot on Mars will kneel in the dust to ask permission from nothing. This is what you voted for. This is your future.
@JasonMorrisonAU If we must pay for it running you'd think someone would be clever enough to pipe the water to where we need it. Then you could use the land and immigration would be less of a problem if we all weren't jammed in Sydney
@JerrieDemasi@NBN_Australia@Optus I'm an IT tech, it's time to tell them you calling the telecommunications ombudsman. The attitude will change quickly
Dan Andrews legalised abortion-to-birth as “health” minister in 2008, including sex selection abortion against baby girls; as Premier he legalised euthanasia, made it a crime for parents to protect their children from 🏳️🌈 gender clinics (something sadly the Liberals support), stripped religious freedom from schools, criminalised the act of praying for someone with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion even if they requested it, introduced the “safe schools” gender fluid indoctrination program, brutally locked people down, fired rubber bullets at them, oversaw the deaths of hundreds because of his botched hotel quarantine program, left the state in more debt than QLD, NSW & TAS combined, cancelled a $1 billion road project, cancelled the commonwealth games, said he would serve full term to get re-elected but now says he changed his mind & oversaw the corruption of the Labor party organisation. Surely he was the worst premier in Australia’s history.
At the end of the fortnight I get paid - it gets taxed
I’m forced to pay into superannuation - that’s taxed
Phew now I can put fuel in the car - that’s taxed too
And we need a new sofa - that’s taxed
Electricity bill is in - that’s taxed
Quick look at my investments - they are taxed
Internet needs paying - taxed
Mobile plan - taxed
Get a haircut - taxed
Dog needs her annual jab - taxed
Grab some cooked prawns from Coles - taxed
Government, retirees should pay more tax