Missing the point. It’s not as if the jet were gift like a bottle of Penfolds Grange. It’s a campaign tool. The jet will get Pauline in front of more Australians.
I thought this was part of the playbook for all western nations. Import 3rd world immigrants that do not integrate and cause unrest. Like machete murders and beheading. Follow up with a two tier justice and social system that favours immigrants over citizens. Have police arrest anyone who speaks out against the injustice and have the intelligence community whip up violent protests. Eventually the media call for intervention and the government responds with martial law creating a totalitarian state.
Nothing surprises me any more but the blinkered responses to a contrary opinion of the left is coming close. While many of my conservative friends are willing to discuss politics those on the left just dismiss anything but left ideology as not worth discussing. What kind of considered opinion is brain dead, dropped on their head, stupid?
Like the “Orange Turnip” PH is a disrupter. Her politics about non integrating migrants, while dismissed as racist by the media and the entrenched political apparatus, has become the norm in Ireland, UK, Europe sand Canada. Australians are watching the government take us down the same path of open borders, green energy, censorship and the policies that have destroyed the cultures of those countries. Left leaning idealists point at any alternative view as Far Right and I don’t think those who are considering alternative ideas to the left like being cast in the light of Nazis ank KKK for simply questioning the left.
While RW media are floating the idea of Pauline Hanson as PM, considering our system of voting and the fact that it is compulsory - plus the fact that Hanson would have to run for a seat in the House to achieve it - it is highly unlikely.
To achieve this feat Hanson would have to not only run for a seat in the lower House and win, One Nation would have to field candidates in almost all 150 seats in the lower house. One Nation would likely target key seats and not allocate critical funding to those they thought had less chance of winning. The candidates would have to be prepared to elevate their positions positively in their communities to become known months out before an election and invest their own time and money into their campaigns.
From what I have seen from many One Nation candidates in the past, they rarely go the distance and One Nation are not prepared to take the time to do the extensive background checks to ensure no nasty surprises during an election cycle. We also know that One Nation have the undeniable capacity to attract opportunists and those that are likely to have alternative opinions from the mainstream population.
If One Nation do find enough candidates they would have to win enough seats to be the majority party - or coalesce with another party- or parties - to either achieve majority or minority government.
Personally I can’t see it happening. I also don’t believe that Hanson has the popularity that she and the media maintain she has.
It may be less of an ask if we had a similar system of voting that won the orange turnip the election in that far off land - but we don’t. The turnip won with less than 50 percent of the vote. If voting were compulsory, the outcome would have likely been different.
Is Hanson prepared to do the work to commit herself? Does she have extensive experience and knowledge of policy, procedure and legislation in the House? She has already proven she is unlikely to be in the Senate the majority of the time. While she works outside of the Senate as an A-grade grifter and a culture-war opportunist, this does not make her a decent and effective politician and it does not equip her with the necessary skills to run a country.
.. and whose seat is she likely to run in the lower House and risk giving up the security of her Senate seat?
She now has two seats in the House. Barnaby and her recent acquisition of Farrer with David Farley. Farley has already indicated that he will not be as keen to toe the One Nation party line. I give him 12 months before he becomes an independent. Neither seat will be a sure bet for Hanson - especially if Barnaby wants to contest the next election. He will now be unpopular in his seat because of his defection from the Nationals. Both seats have become a risk for One Nation.
We don’t live in the land of pipe dreams, a right to bear arms and orange-outrage authoritarianism on tap. It’s not going to happen. If folks stopped clutching their culture-war pearls for five seconds they might even see the wood in the trees and have a moment of clarity.
Like the “Orange Turnip” PH is a disrupter. Her politics about non integrating migrants, while dismissed as racist by the media and the entrenched political apparatus, has become the norm in Ireland, UK, Europe sand Canada. Australians are watching the government take us down the same path of open borders, green energy, censorship and the policies that have destroyed the cultures of those countries. Left leaning idealists point at any alternative view as Far Right and I don’t think those who are considering alternative ideas to the left like being cast in the light of Nazis ank KKK for simply questioning the left.
@craigkellyAFEE It’s extraordinary how helpful we can be to each other when confronted by catastrophe. It seems we need a real good catastrophe for unity.
He was looking at the obvious fraud the authorities were knowingly turning a blind eye to the outrageous fraud. Any republican fraud is well hidden and committed by intelligent persons capable of not operating restaurants without food, child care without children and hospice care without patients.
@RightScopee@ElephantSignal You're only interested in democratic fraud. You don't care anything about fraud until you can use it against a Democrat. Are you saying there's is no fraud among Republicans?
I’m must be missing something. While systematically removing our largest and reliable electricity power stations we are fast tracking the biggest energy using industries. AND the same supporters of the global climate change are behind it.
The 350-hectare hub, the largest ever publicly proposed in Australia would require more electricity than the total output of Victoria’s largest coal-fired power station.
That raises a critical question: how exactly do we intend to supply this level of reliable power while also managing the project’s substantial noise, water consumption, and overall environmental impact?
Before we green-light projects of this scale, we need honest answers and transparency.
@CraigSarg73 Let me get this straight. You reckon the media treats One Nation and the Australia Parties with favouritism compared to Labor. I think you are in some sort of left echo chamber or bubble.
Spanking your kids is teaching them to resolve their emotional conflicts with violence.
You’re not parenting them, you’re teaching them the same traumas your parents put on you. It’s time to evolve and teach kids to deal with their emotions in a meaningful and positive way.
Colbert was an echo chamber for Trump haters. Pure and simple. And those like him and their audience dismissed criticism of their views amplifying their anti Trump rhetoric. The comedy was second and viewers who wanted real entertainment turned off. No viewer, no advertising revenue. No job.