The likes of Coles and Woolworths want to blame the war and local farmers for rising costs, but the big corporations have long shipped product in from Sth America and SE Asia in competition to our farmers and burned local supply chains.
That is the impact of fuel costs they do not want the public to identify, so they blame farmers and fertilizer, none of it impacts the foreign supply to the same degree. Local supply chains that aren't affected, at least not yet, still aren't being awarded contracts.
You're being setup / primed to be gouged, this is billionaire group think.
It will be interesting to follow the Liberals' response. On election night there was talk of reclaiming the centre, doing more to counter the rejection by female voters, and reducing the influence of non-parliamentary powerbrokers. Again, time will tell.
The Vic problem will be the Liberals selling their soul as is already being touted by the likes of Kennett, they will burn Vic to try and benefit the NSW dominated Feds..
The condensed schedule is going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, the good thing about this is that it's forcing Australia to rethink the age profile of it's squad, and it also hurts states that hoard talent, if you can think of any that do that!
Players with pace, can hit targets and don't fumble are also good to recruit.
imho, this is key to our slower list performing, when we start double grabs we lose the time and space that we struggled to create in the first place. We play like rabbits in the headlights more than any other team.
It only takes one or two players to make a difference, the inverse of the Swans losing Heeney and Gulden. Some are prone to tell you we need a slash and burn, doing that is utter stupidity. We just need one or two competitive types who can keep up with play and be clean with the footy, and the change will be dramatic.
If we have everybody, coach, players and assistants entering every game like it's a walk to the gallows, held at gunpoint to perform, improvement will never happen.
I don't get the media banging on about what Trump knows and doesn't know, I doubt he can remember what he had for lunch and he sounds like he pretty much has Maccas 3x a day!
What the media need to focus on what he does, because him not knowing is a completely valid claim in his current state of mind and health!
As much as I hate Kyle Sandilands, if he's fundamentally been terminated for calling out someone's destructive obsession with charlatan practises it's a disgrace, what is the world coming to?
Funny, I would have thought that treating any other human being with respect would be the first and foremost port of call, regardless of gender. And from there treatment of the other would be self evident. As for expectations... minefield!
Is there a problem when we use terms like respect, because what is respect and does it vary between specific individuals?
In the AFLW world at the moment, it seems those who feel they have been disrespected are being accused of being disrespectful!
Maybe too many eggshells have made it impossible to navigate a safe path.
It was good to read that AFL Vic has dropped the investigation into gender bias and discrimination. From what I can tell this was a case based on hearsay, he said, she said, or they said, them said, whatever your bent might be.
What a colossal waste of time and probably money, although I have no idea what it cost to investigate, I bet some legal eagle sent some rather heavy invoices. This happening when many regional and suburban clubs are struggling to survive every wasted dollar counts double.
The current generation needs to get some balance and perspective, they think digitally prostituting yourself on TV for a show like MAFS makes great entertainment and is smart marketing / branding, but they take offense at an opponent winding them up on the field of combat.
As an aside, I've noticed there is a bit of push back happening across the AFLW as well, with some blaming a "pigs at the trough" attitude for crippling the development of the competition. It's all become rather nasty, but if you have followed AFLW closely you won't be surprised to hear now players are finger pointing at those who reaped benefits but failed to sow any seeds. Those of us genuinely interested in seeing the competition develop, have been warning for some time that wage growth vastly exceeds earning capability.
Turnover merchant like Florent, not great under pressure either. I'd like to see Lucas Camporeale on a wing.
Hopefully the Campo kids live up to the name, but at the moment progress is slow and a name is all they have to show.
I hope they aren't another case of hype and expectation exceeding capability, they do have time on their side, but it's hard to see why the old man complains about a lack of opportunity. Campo should do a Peter Dean, and tell his kids to put their heads over the footy and go for it, instead of complaining about the lack of gifted games!
