Life is strange. Used to mock religion and lean hard left. Now, seeing society struggle, I've shifted conservative and realized my values line up with Christians. Maybe the world would be better with more of them. Even thinking about trying church, just not sure where to start.
@AusNationalist I'm leaving Australia because of this shxt. I am an Occupational Therapist. I had a convo with another OT who is currently in Vietnam with his young family. He is wanting to escape this crap too. Welcome to the brain drain Australia!!
The era of gracefully ageing with loved family members, has unfortunately gone for most.
I think, if we can’t fix it, at least we can go closer.
At some point of time when your own children and partner (these days aging with partner is highly unlikely as opposed to a divorce or chronic disease), wouldn’t make you feel relevant any more,
it would probably be better to sort out the finance and move to a potentially-remote community or place that do care for elders and start a new second life.
Whether you get a new partner or your old partner chose to tag along with you, or whether you decide to open up a dog kennel or clinics run by partially by charity / government programs or mobile repair shop etc, it’s up to your specific situation and personality.
No matter what, low stress, health and an environment of love, have to be priority as we gracefully age.
Association with billionaires is common across parties, not unique to Hanson. Albanese attended a July 2026 fundraising dinner at the Point Piper mansion of Felix Lee, whose father Phillip Dong Fang Lee was pursued by the ATO over alleged $260–273 million in tax issues involving funds moved from China; Labor received about $100,000 from the event. Gina Rinehart has also provided flights, accommodation, and fundraising access to Coalition figures over the years.
Hanson’s Senate pay is the standard parliamentarian package (base salary around $233,000 plus allowances and super, totalling well over $200,000). Minor-party senators rarely get their own bills through the House; governments control the legislative agenda. The same applies to most crossbenchers. The “Gina privileges” point refers to overnight stays at Rinehart’s Brisbane mansion after One Nation fundraisers that were not declared as hospitality.
Albanese has repeatedly used his mother’s public-housing and disability-pension story as a central part of his political identity, including in his 2022 election-night speech. Once a politician turns a personal family history into a public argument about class, fairness, and “who the system works for,” that record becomes fair game for debate. Hanson’s February comments targeted the policy of long-term public housing occupancy and mocked Albanese’s frequent references to it; they did not invent the story he himself has told for years. Consistency would mean applying the same standard to every politician who mixes personal biography with policy and then accepts donor hospitality.
The OECD numbers line up with what ABS data has been showing for a while. Real household disposable income per capita has gone backwards while most comparable countries moved forward.