And since he also didn't believe in empathy perhaps we should respect his beliefs and say FAFO Charlie. Good luck persuading St Peter that you are a meek, generous, caring Christian as Jesus commanded. I have zero fucks to give for him, and he'd respect that.

Grim news in Qld. Late 50s gent stabbed to death by his son it appears. The QLD LNP did not want Adult crime Adult time laws to apply to their own class of born-to-rule rent seekers. They'll be conflicted because of the colour if his skin.

If Iran wasn't going to strike mainland USA before, it sure will now. . . if it can. If they weren't intending to build a nuclear weapon before they sure are now. Well done Donald. I foresee a nuke smuggled into USA, say NYC or LA.

If Iran wasn't going to strike mainland USA before, it sure will now if it can. If they weren't intending to build a nuclear weapon before they sure are now. Well done Donald. I foresee a nuke smuggled into USA, say NYC or LA.

So the deal making peacemaker King of USA just bombed the shit out of Iran.

Alternatively, build them here and in the process build up our heavy industry manufacturing capacity. As a bonus, it's unlikely to cost much more, could well be cheaper AND would have an economic multiplier effect further reducing the real cost. Negotiate with the poms or the frogs for the tech.

It's rapidly approaching the time when Trumps tariffs will start to be felt by Joe Average in USA. His polling is already in the toilet. It will head into the cesspit over the coming weeks.

Wouldn't cost more to build here, plus we'd have capability to do further subs as needed.

Australia has an energy security problem to solve. Gas supply is not getting to consumers on the east coast in volume and economically. The security of Australia is thus threatened. There IS sufficient gas in Oz, no one disputes that fact, just that doesn't go to domestic users.

I cannot fathom the LNP's position on Israel. On one hand, they are always 100% racist assholes, on the other they are insisting that ANY criticism of Israel or Judaism is antisemetic. There must be BIG donor money involved. I can't see other reasons for the bizarre seesawing

More to the point, the inane lineup of Murdoch handpuppet "expert" commentators is just farcical.

Unfettered capitalism & libertarianism will rapidly lead to another age of Lords and serfs. Hopefully followed by a short guillotine Terror.

Yup. Every. Damn. Time. Regardless of the evidence from their own eyed.

Premier Rockliff: "We will also be changing the law so that a government business can only be sold in future if it receives a two-thirds majority in the Parliament"

You can't do this. You actually literally cannot. It. Does. Not. Work. #politas

I say it to all my white friends " If you were aboriginal you'd be bloody furious - and you'd be right to be that way"

An ever diminishing audience for him. He's trying to keep his job a bit longer writing this nonsense for doddering angry white men, all of whom have one foot in the grave.

#auspol #Robodebt #NACC

Libertarians who want all the opportunities but don't want to pay for anything. Next time you come across one ask him if he wants to pay well in excess of $1M for each employee. That'll be for the employees upbringing and education. And every time his vehicles hit the road it's $250 a trip for roads

Some US states

Surely the surname was "Drumpf"

There may be some justification for thinking NW Shelf may have a limited lifespan as demand drops rapidly in the face of cheaper renewables.

The smart money has always been on Trump not seeing out his 4 year term. I mean just for starters, he's 79, unfit, overweight and not especially clever. There appear to have been several attempts on his life already. Then there's resignation, impeachment, possibly jail. All possible causes

Another step is to make mortgages non-Recourse Loans where lenders can only seize the property if the borrower defaults, not their other assets. This making banks have greater exposure to risk. At the moment banks have minimal risk and happily lend away feeding the inferno in complete safety.

"If" the world decouples from fossil fuels as quickly as we all hope, the NW Shelf project may well be starting to shut down well within 20 years through lack of demand.

Also, this isn't just “Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions" without tipping off Russian intelligence, but also *US* intelligence, because they absolutely couldn't risk the current US admin betraying them to Putin
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Economics is mainly about trade offs, the costs of choices…

Politics is about the denial of trade offs, pretending ‘there is no alternative’

Australia must decide if it wants a 20 yr plan for gas expansion or reef tourism…it cant have both

Wherever our gas is burned, it harms our reef #climate

Lazy, performative government. Lock up children and throw away the key simply for the optics. Don't bother addressing the social & economic issues that are the root cause

The only Vance's I ever knew were German. Pretty appropriate, so is Drumpf, the orange man baby's real name.