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Australian Politics: The Albanese Times

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I can’t post a link because paywall, but the respected Burnet Institute has sent a submission to the ******** senate inquiry into the response to Covid showing the response of Australian states saved thousands of lives.

The Burnet Institute says Australia’s aggressive approach to suppressing COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic has been vindicated in saving thousands of lives, leading to a death rate 33 times lower than the United Kingdom and 46 times lower than the United States.
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State premiers, particularly Daniel Andrews, deserve abject apologies from news media (Murdoch in particular) and opposition parties. The COVID response was ******* 100% right.
 
lionking said:
State premiers, particularly Daniel Andrews, deserve abject apologies from news media (Murdoch in particular) and opposition parties. The COVID response was ******* 100% right.
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I think the states (read: not NSW) did a great job dealing with COVID, especially when the Federal Government decided to just fob off quarantining provisions to them instead of doing their jobs.

Murdoch isn't going to apologise for their actions, especially when they spent their time demonising Andrews while lionising Berejiklian despite the latter screwing up time and again throughout that period.
 
I’m starting to really like the Federal Court.

https://www.theage.com.au/business/...inst-santos-gas-pipeline-20240115-p5exam.html

Tiwi Islanders wanted to stop a gas pipeline that was to go past their islands. Many kilometers away, but never mind. And there are good arguments for ridding the world of gas pipelines, but this was not one.

On Monday, Justice Natalie Charlesworth lifted an injunction imposed in early November on installing the pipeline near the Tiwi Islands after finding concerns about its effect on a rainbow serpent named Ampiji and a song line about a Crocodile Man were not widely held among Tiwi Island traditional owners.
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Sanity prevails. Upsetting a Rainbow Serpent and a song line is not good enough. Unless perhaps more Tiwi Islanders believe it……
 
psionl0 said:
Since when is a call to boycott Woolworths enticing/inciting vandalism against Woolworths?
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The vandalism was just a coincidence? Nothing at all to do with Dutton’s idiotic rants?

How often are Woolworths vandalised with a flare thrown through its door?

You should know that fanatics respond to calls for action in sometimes extreme ways. Dutton is looking more Trump-like by the day.
 
lionking said:
The vandalism was just a coincidence? Nothing at all to do with Dutton’s idiotic rants?

How often are Woolworths vandalised with a flare thrown through its door?

You should know that fanatics respond to calls for action in sometimes extreme ways. Dutton is looking more Trump-like by the day.
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What rot! Dutton didn't say anything "Trump-like".

By your logic, politicians shouldn't say anything except "Major corporations are fine institutions". (Or is that "damning with faint praise")?
 
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lionking said:
Calling on a boycott of Woolworths is hardly temperate behaviour.
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It is a perfectly legitimate thing to say.

It's not as if Dutton called on members of the public to march on Woolworths headquarters or spray graffiti on Woolworths buildings. He never made inflammatory speeches such as, "We will never give up. We will never concede. ... Our country has had enough. We're not going to take it anymore" or to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" but also to "show strength".
 
arthwollipot said:
WTF are you talking about?
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I could ask the same question about your post.

Near as I can tell, you are trying to "prove" that Dutton is being "Trump-like" (and failing).

It seems as if the only reason why calling for a boycott of a firm is bad is because it is Dutton who is doing it.
 
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psionl0 said:
I could ask the same question about your post.

Near as I can tell, you are trying to "prove" that Dutton is being "Trump-like" (and failing).

It seems as if the only reason why calling for a boycott of a firm is bad is because it is Dutton who is doing it.
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Well it makes sense that the potato Hitler is trying to be like the mango Mussolini, but that's just me I guess.
 
psionl0 said:
I could ask the same question about your post.

Near as I can tell, you are trying to "prove" that Dutton is being "Trump-like" (and failing).

It seems as if the only reason why calling for a boycott of a firm is bad is because it is Dutton who is doing it.
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This has to be deliberate.

Your argument was that Dutton never told people to vandalise Woolworths.

My response was that Trump never told people to storm the capital.

Get it now?
 
arthwollipot said:
This has to be deliberate.

Your argument was that Dutton never told people to vandalise Woolworths.

My response was that Trump never told people to storm the capital.

Get it now?
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Exactly. I thought psion10 would recognise such an obvious dog whistle.
 
arthwollipot said:
This has to be deliberate.

Your argument was that Dutton never told people to vandalise Woolworths.

My response was that Trump never told people to storm the capital.

Get it now?
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Nope. I outlined the things that Trump did say which arguably encouraged the riots we saw and Dutton didn't say any of that.

Under your line of reasoning, politicians should never criticize any organization lest supporters take it as an invitation to lawless violence.
 
psionl0 said:
Nope. I outlined the things that Trump did say which arguably encouraged the riots we saw and Dutton didn't say any of that.

Under your line of reasoning, politicians should never criticize any organization lest supporters take it as an invitation to lawless violence.
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The problem with this line of reasoning is that the criticism of Woolworths was unfair, trivial and rediculous.
 
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