It's a strange feeling to not consider seppuku when our Prime Minister appears on TV. It's even stranger to have a PM and government who are getting things done instead of holding endless press conferences about it and taking photos in costumes. Our leaders are leading. It's taking some getting used to.
Excellent, ‘legitimate’ opinion capturing the most critical fact - that the toxic Australian media cartels - Murdoch and Nine Entertainment - are well on the way to becoming of no relevance whatsoever to anything resembling informed discourse or considered discussion.
By passing msm is crucial and I am seeing fewer and fewer “free” courier mails and Australian I take them home to feed my compost bin if I find them to save the weakminded who peruse the gospels according to Murdoch Andrew Bolt The Divine. IPA dregs .👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thanks
it is good to see Murdoch's propaganda media having less influence on elections I hope Dan Andrews runs again in 4 years time just to see that grub Bolt choke
ALBO IS NOWHERE NEAR WHAT A GENUINE TRUE LABOR LEADER - HE HASN'T GOT WHAT IT TAKES..t is an insult for him to ride of the back of Gough Whitlam's "it time' platform... In no particular order..
Established Medibank/Medicare
Ended the death penalty for federal crimes
Invested in social housing, sewage systems, public transport
Increased school funding
Abolished Uni fees
Returned land to the Gurindji people.
Granted independence to PNG
Established diplomatic relations with China
Increased foreign aid.
Pulled the last of the troops out of Vietnam
Introduced multiculturalism as an official policy and put the last nails in the coffin of the White Australia policy.
Advocated against apartheid and atmospheric nuclear testing
Introduced no-fault divorce laws, the family court and the single mother's benefit
passed the trade practices act
Stopped the QLD libs from drilling for oil in the barrier reef
Established the Australian Heritage Commission, the Australian Council for the Arts, the National Gallery of Australia.
Kick started the Australian film and television industry (and started triple J)
Passed the racial discrimination act.
Equal pay for equal work for women and Aboriginal people. 1972.
Lowered the voting age to 18
Ended Gerrymandering
Established the Law Reform Commission and the Legal Aid Office
Allowed people from the ACT and NT to vote for the senate for the first time.
Ended conscription and freed draft dodgers.
And gave us our current national anthem.
He had his faults, but his government did more for this country in his three short years than all the Australian governments since.
Everything he has achieved will, and should be, overshadowed by his approval of more fossil fuel projects, even after we've lost towns to fires and floods.
Excellent, ‘legitimate’ opinion capturing the most critical fact - that the toxic Australian media cartels - Murdoch and Nine Entertainment - are well on the way to becoming of no relevance whatsoever to anything resembling informed discourse or considered discussion.
By passing msm is crucial and I am seeing fewer and fewer “free” courier mails and Australian I take them home to feed my compost bin if I find them to save the weakminded who peruse the gospels according to Murdoch Andrew Bolt The Divine. IPA dregs .👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thanks
it is good to see Murdoch's propaganda media having less influence on elections I hope Dan Andrews runs again in 4 years time just to see that grub Bolt choke
ALBO IS NOWHERE NEAR WHAT A GENUINE TRUE LABOR LEADER - HE HASN'T GOT WHAT IT TAKES..t is an insult for him to ride of the back of Gough Whitlam's "it time' platform... In no particular order..
Established Medibank/Medicare
Ended the death penalty for federal crimes
Invested in social housing, sewage systems, public transport
Increased school funding
Abolished Uni fees
Returned land to the Gurindji people.
Granted independence to PNG
Established diplomatic relations with China
Increased foreign aid.
Pulled the last of the troops out of Vietnam
Introduced multiculturalism as an official policy and put the last nails in the coffin of the White Australia policy.
Advocated against apartheid and atmospheric nuclear testing
Introduced no-fault divorce laws, the family court and the single mother's benefit
passed the trade practices act
Stopped the QLD libs from drilling for oil in the barrier reef
Established the Australian Heritage Commission, the Australian Council for the Arts, the National Gallery of Australia.
Kick started the Australian film and television industry (and started triple J)
Passed the racial discrimination act.
Equal pay for equal work for women and Aboriginal people. 1972.
Lowered the voting age to 18
Ended Gerrymandering
Established the Law Reform Commission and the Legal Aid Office
Allowed people from the ACT and NT to vote for the senate for the first time.
Ended conscription and freed draft dodgers.
And gave us our current national anthem.
He had his faults, but his government did more for this country in his three short years than all the Australian governments since.
Everything he has achieved will, and should be, overshadowed by his approval of more fossil fuel projects, even after we've lost towns to fires and floods.