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I hate to admit I'm a Queenslander AND in the Dutton electorate. It's a strange people here, insular sort of people . Often, as is now the situation, we have a labor state government and yet the swing against federal labor. People are worried about their jobs. What they should've done was run a campaign promoting job growth in re-newable energy.
Also, no woman I know likes Shorten. He's a creep (rape allegations) and he was just more of the same. After the world attention on Jacinda Adhern, they should have put a woman as leader. A half arsed one woulda been better than Shorten. I'm 55 and I'm so tired of not being fairly represented by the people running this country.

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They're a Weird Mob, said John O'Grady. Still true, but not funny anymore.

Coffeo Level 8 May 20, 2019
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Well, I don't know about the poll, but I've been jaundiced about Australia for decades. We are a small minded people. We follow others, look for the big kid countries to pat us on the head and be their best buddy. Occasionally we show hints of being bigger. I saw it a bit in the Whitlam period, but maybe that was illusion. The Lucky Country reference was always misunderstood - it's dumb luck for uninspiring people who excel at boasting but not excellence and never independence. There are exceptions. There are inspiring people. There are enlightened groups, but they are overshadowed by the insular majority. I live here, but I don't really. I work online, globally. I have only perfunctory contact with Australia, and Australians, most of whom seem to watch channel 9 and show it. I never travel in Australia anymore. Have been to Queensland often but in the past. It's like visiting the Clampetts. The whole state. I could live abroad easily and never miss Australia. I have in the past. I don't have the money to do it at the moment. So I'll take this election as a confirmation of everything I've known about Australia for decades. That's why I was not surprised on Saturday. I'll continue to exclude Australia from my life, except where totally necessary. That's the truth.

David1955 Level 8 May 19, 2019

I have only watched it go downhill for 40+ years. The erosion of Australian spinal fortitude and exchange of one colonial cringe for another at the expense of all citizenry has been more than saddening.

@FrayedBear To my mind it's become far more than saddening, Our forefathers, some of them anyway, fought and died at the Eureka Stockade, some battled for better pay and conditions with the Shearers Strike and many fought here in Broken Hill in the Great Miners' in the first decade of the 20th. Century just so that they could leave better conditions, etc, for future generations and by our own Apathy, etc, etc, we've allowed their legacies to squandered away.
If those forefathers were here today they'd be collectively kicking our arses until they were up around our ear-holes I'd reckon.
Shame upon your heads People of Australia, Shame, Shame, Shame.

@Triphid I hear you Tony. I'm one of the few people who not only listened to the lyrics of the old Australian working songs but tried against a flood of commercial pap to get Australians to listen to the songs of their forefathers. As I said at a Senate enquiry "Only a fool discards his heritage without learning what it is for and why".
I was one of a handful in the UK who lifted the workers in my industry out of slave like conditions and into a more reasonable living wage. Not that it did me much good but tens of thousands since have benefitted.

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Oh Jesus fucking Christ! QLD Christians. Where did they sneak up from? I really thought that Australia was the last bastion of common sense in the world, the most pressing questions regarding the type of prawns to throw on the barbie and who should REALLY be the Australian cricket captain! Now we are fucked!

Geoffrey51 Level 8 May 19, 2019
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