So we have a new Prime Minister. He has only been in parliament for eleven years. Right-wing and representing the electorate now the last known to harbour race riots and of course location of the television series "Sylvania Waters" exposing Australia's suburban nouveau riche. A series only outdone in its cultural cringe by its opposite in the socio-economic scale "Housos".
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Australia used be a 'Lucky Country' now we are sorely tested by having the likes of Scumo ( Scomo), Whiney Pynie, Scabbott, Julie Bitchslop, Wandering Dick Joyce and the entire LNP bought and paid for by the likes of Gina, the Immeasurable Bulk, Reinhart and the big end of town little rich-boy Leeches.
When will it all come to an end and the people actually wake themselves from the complacency?
Triphid
Level 9
Sep 20, 2018
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Good question and I don't have an answer. I've been trying to figure it out during the Hawke, Keating, Howard years and it is simply getting worse. I am beginning to suspect the cumulative effect over 40 years from fluoride in the drinking water and changed drinking habits resulting from the cessation of the six o'clock swill and move to drinking mixers and wine rather than beer. That and the snowflakes of the last twenty years.
@FrayedBear Oh yes, the " snowflake element," and if brains were gunpowder none of them would have enough to blow a hair off of the end of their nose.
It used to be that Labor was all for the Working Class, the Elderly, Families and the Unemployed, now they are so bloody lost that they couldn't find their own arseholes to scratch it.
The LNP now seems to be on the " Resurrect the Ideologies of their beloved Demigod, Pig-Iron Bob Menzies" with a very ' liberal' splash of rampant Catholicism and Evangelism mixed well into a large draught of the heady wine of " sucking up to the Wealthy" and of course the " let's fill our own pockets at the expense of the plebs and prols" ideology that has sustained that mob of 2 faced, lying, conniving, back-stabbing, scum-sucking bottom-feeders since the inception of the party.
I'm a firm believer that what Australia needs is 2 main things;
A) get rid of the archaic 2 Party System completely, become a Republic and have a President ELECTED by the People and the President need NOT be elected from the Party in Government, and,
B) a complete NEW and fully comprehensive Constitution.
There are other items I could add but those 2 will do for now.
@Triphid Doesnt matter which party - they are simply there for themselves and their cronies. Depends what is in the constitution. President? Do you really think someone could be found these days worthy of the position? I haven't seen a worthy role model in my adult lifetime and before adulthood was too naive, stoopid and ignorant to know!
The Australian Liberal party and all liberal European parties are center right wing. The over-ton window has just meant that in say the US far left and liberal are the same. Hell Australia has done very well under a traditionally socialist party Australian Labor Party. Why do you think we didn't have a national crash in 27 years? We would've had one if we were under liberal during Margret Thatchers reign and what that did to the UK. Of course John Howard did his best to get rid of socialist policies only created in the 80's such as the dole and free health care. John did put regulations on guns, bought back a 5th & made it more expensive. Labor has had 3 world winning treasurers and Liberal hasn't had one. Julia Gillard was unfairly attacked by media when she was PM but she got stuff done getting her first policy passed in 23 days and through compromise with the other parties. The dollar increased under Julia Gillard, stuff was going okay. Kevin Rudd was a decent PM first time around. I'm voting labor and support Bill Shorten. Quite frankly I'd support a great deal of labor candidates. They have a good track record. Liberal is what republican is in USA a business party that isn't even that good at that(and more attached to the UK).
DragonDust
Level 6
Aug 28, 2018
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So that is what passes for a Liberal in Australia. It turns out, t am not a liberal, by Australian definition . He sounds like he has more in common with the republicans here, and the Conservatives in Canada.
LB67
Level 7
Aug 24, 2018
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In Australia there is a massive difference between Liberal and liberal. They are almost polar opposites.
Yes, our Liberals are conservatives and our Labour party are liberal (and I know that they ALP now prefer "Labor", but that's just bloody wrong. That's just Murdoch/Yank spelling, and I will not be a part of it 
)
And a Hillsong evangelical moralising spineless ass kisser, spineless unless torturing refugees and welfare recipients, always the soft targets.
I'll tell you the truth. I spent the better part of a decade living and working in Thailand. Despite frustrations I was never happier. I'd be back there now, but my circumstances won't allow it. Should I win the lottery, you'll be reading my posts from there, very f-ing quickly. Part of my pleasure there was that it was not Australia, not our smug, self-satisfied, thinly disguised white supremacist culture. Somehow I manage to actually live here, but I'm not really here at all, at least in a sense of consciousness. Everything I do is abroad. The TV I watch, the income I earn, the interests I have. I manage to block out Australia to an extent that even amazes me. And then we have this shit today with the so-called Liberal Party and the right wing Christian loonies behind it, and the right wing loonies in the media behind them, and I'm dragged back to the brainlessness that is modern Australia. They'll probably win the next election. Even if they don't, we'll have right wing Bill Shorten and his right wing so-called Labor Government. How exciting. My lottery win can't come soon enough.
David1955
Level 8
Aug 24, 2018
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There has long been an Australian diaspora that far outweighs the half million Maori and New Zealanders living here. Some years ago I saw that one million Australians have forsaken their birthplace. Many seem to only return on their retirement to frequently resume their right-wing god-bothering self-righteous ways.
@FrayedBear yes I knew many in SE Asia, though my expat gang there were always Americans. Always gravitated to them. "Call me Yankee, they're my family" as The Engineer from Miss Saigon sang. 
@FrayedBear so much to unpack here. First of all, there is a belief that Australia doesn't exist, and we're all actors (my response to that is, well, we do pretty much run Hollywood). Second, there is quite a community of us here in Seppoland. And I surely am not the only one interested in coming home after retirement. Hopefully, though, I will be the voice of reason, and not some neocon.
@Ozman I don't know how long you have been away but the changes are frequently incredulous. The latest I was told of a few days ago was related by a senior hospital manager who told me that he is no longer able to tel subordinate staff they have made a mistake - that is now considered to be bullying!
In my book being told of your mistakes is the consequence of your own behaviour - "if the cap fits wear it".
@Ozman In today's paper the "new" philosophy will be to look after the elderly and the working man. Corporate tax cuts have been dropped.
@FrayedBear also, if you aren't told you made a mistake, how can you correct it and ensure it doesn't happen again?
i came for a 6 month visit to the States. That was 25 years ago 
Last time I was home was about 5 years ago.
@Ozman I cannot disagree.
this just exacerbates my current depressive state - but i wouldn't have expected anything less from aussie politics.
walklightly
Level 8
Aug 24, 2018
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Our president had zero political experience prior to becoming president. I think the 11 years in Parliament trumps trump.
TheGreatShadow
Level 9
Aug 24, 2018
1
It doesn't take long to learn the power of the party whip and entrenched corruption.
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