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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: PaulP – on
Latest update on Helen Haines is pretty bad : she's lost one leg and surgeons are fighting to save the other leg. She remains in a critical condition.
She has indeed lost her second leg, just reported on the news. Awful, just awful.

Absolutely terrible ... and she's still in a critical condition  :(
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
The AFP commissioner said that they are charging close to one person every week with threatening a Commonwealth politician.  I suspect that many are keyboard warriors with no means or intention of actually carrying out their threat, but that's not the point.  Politicians of all persuasions should be be able to represent their constituents without having to worry about their safety.

Any number of factors may be motivating those making threats but I can't help but think that the language politicians use about each other, and the language that public figures use about politicians, plays a significant role.  For example, Lib MP Angie Bell recently said that Anne Aly and Anthony Albanese "should be shamed and stoned in the square.” Anne Aly subsequently revealed that she has had 19 death threats this week.  Then there's Alan Jones advocating for Julia Gillard and Bob Brown to be placed in a "chaff bag" and dumped "as far out to sea as they can".  All sides of politics are guilty of inappropriate language and threatening, demeaning language against female politicians is being used all around the world.

It's time that our politicians took a stand and eliminated violent, threatening and demeaning language from political discourse.



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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
An awful situation. Hope she pulls through.

Its beyond awful and never thought our once safe country would ever see crimes like this. 

Hopefully we can turn it around.

This is just the latest blow in the war against women that has been a part of our culture since the arrival of the first fleet.  If you don’t understand that, you must have your head in the sand 🙁
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: kruddler – on
Some people cannot learn by watching other people make mistakes, they need to make those same mistakes themselves.

Thats us, with ON. Sure, we could learn from Trump and USA, but no.....we 'know' better.

Labour and Liberals.....both have their flaws....and numerous ones at that.
However, it won't be until one nation get in, that we realise how bad things can actually get....and by then we'll be begging for labour or liberal to come back into power.

I think that's pretty close to the mark but, hopefully, we'll never get to find out how Pauline "workers are lazy" Hanson's party would govern ... and I use "govern" lightly.

You can probably say something similar about the Greens.  Although they do have actual policies and costings, they're relying on never being in a position to implement those policies, many of which could have disastrous consequences.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: PaulP – on
There's already too many of these Hanson types on the world stage, and they are taking an already struggling, teetering planet and making it worse. The track records of Orban, Milei, Erdoğan, Trump and others are appalling.

But I have been given assurances that if elected, she will close all borders and deport many brown people, which will see crime rates plummet to basically zero.

The problem is that, regardless of the flavour of government, the rich get richer and ordinary folk slip further behind. They are ripe for the picking by populist politicians with slogans rather than policies.  Ignorance and xenophobia don’t help 🙁
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
I’m sure that there have been politicians lower than Pauline “workers are lazy” Hanson but I can’t think of any.  Her disgraceful mocking of Jacqui Lambie’s condition and, by extension, women’s health generally, is lower than sharksh1t.

Lambie might be a loose cannon but she’s a veteran who served her country.  All Hanson has done is spend 30 years getting paid for hardly ever turning up for work.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Independent MP Helen Haines was attacked outside her Wangaratta electorate office this afternoon.  A white 4WD did a u-turn before pinning Ms Haines against the boot of her car.  Bystanders intervened and detained the 43 year old driver of the 4WD who was apparently armed with a knife and was subsequently arrested by police. 

By all accounts, Ms Haines is a serious, decent and grounded regional MP who is genuinely admired both within and beyond her electorate and by people who wouldn't normally vote for independents.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed that counter-terrorism police are investigating the attack.

Information is still sketchy at this stage but, if the reports are accurate, it is an appalling act by a person who doesn't deserve to live in our country.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
I’m p1ssed off!

I paid a joiner to build a double bed but he’s done a bunk!

It’s just one thing on top of another 😇
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: shawny – on


Opposite to the Labour here in Oz who back their appointment in and continue to while they build debt levels never seen and destroy essential services in the process.


Comparing Trumps decisions to the lack of decisions Aus politician's make IMO is very relevant to this thread.

No, it’s not because this thread will just become another forum discussing Australian or State politics.  Feel free to explore any such matters in the dedicated Australian politics thread.

There’s more than enough subject matter generated by #47 to keep this thread going.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: LP – on
You have to laugh when the feminist left come out and claim Katie Zacharia getting the chop is a clear cut case RedTrump misogyny. Now I hate RedTrump as much as the next person, but asserting he is anti-female in that event is a long stretch.

When RedTrump called that reporter Ms Piggy, yes misogyny for sure, but not in the case of Zacharia getting the chop as she was an incompetent fraud.

If there was any prejudice or bias in the Zacharia series of events, it's how she managed to get the job in the first place, which is ironic for an administration that has disassembled DEI.

You could probably make a stronger case that giving her the job was misogynistic  ::)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: Lods – on


Well that's a shame...she's gone.
I was hoping she'd last at least another week. :D  :D

Opposite to the Labour here in Oz who back their appointment in and continue to while they build debt levels never seen and destroy essential services in the process.


There’s a whole thread devoted to Australian politics just as this one is devoted specifically to the train wreck that is #45 and #47.  Try to keep on topic. 🙏
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Well, it seems that the world's condemnation of the barbaric proposal to livestream the execution of the convicted terrorist mass-murderer has convinced Taco to overrule Whiskey Pete.