1/TBH I've read the thing, but if there's anything wrong with it, I'm unlikely to spot it. Until yesterday I'd never even read our federal Constitution from start to finish; I was only familiar with parts of it. I have no qualification or experience in constitutional law.
2/From where I stand, the UAP constitution appears to satisfy the Electoral Act's criteria of a 'complying constitution', although as might be expected, the Executive is restricted to Clive and various family members.
3/I reiterate my point that, notwithstanding what's in the party constitution, it is NOT one of the UAP's objects to promote the election of candidate/s to the Legislative Assembly.
Other than that, I can't comment. I just don't have the experience. I'm sorry. #auspol#QLDVotes
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1/I have always deplored Australia's aggressive stance towards China. We were right to call for an inquiry into COVID-19, but Morrison's sledgehammer tactics were a grievous error. The US can get away with it. But Australia is a small nation economically dependent on China.
2/I cannot fathom why Morrison sought to emulate Trump other than that 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery', in which case Morrison lacks an understanding of Trump as well as of China. Surely he didn't expect Trump to back him up or bail Australia out of this mess.
3/If he did, he has no business being the Prime Minister of Australia. That's no way to run your foreign relations. Any diplomatic advisor worth their salt would have warned Morrison against such aggression towards China w/out other nations' support. Pity he got rid of them all.
@tengbiao 1/Je suis entièrement d'accord!! ✊C'est précisément ainsi que je considère Trump. Merci de partager cet article, il clarifie plusieurs choses que j'ai eu du mal à articuler précédemment. J'ai parlé avec plusieurs amis du danger que Trump représente pour la démocratie.
@tengbiao 2/Presque tous rationalisent que Trump est un outil à utiliser pour s'opposer au CCP, auquel je réponds, Trump est un couteau sans poignée, il n'y a pas de moyen sûr de le saisir. La fin ne justifie pas les moyens; Trump lui-même est une menace pour la démocratie.
@tengbiao 3/De plus, soutenir Trump signifie soutenir les faux récits diffusés par les médias tels que Fox News. Comment cela peut-il être une bonne chose? Je suis australienne, j'ai vécu la majeure partie de ma vie dans une société démocratique, mais je sais tout de même de la propagande
1/I'll expand on this. My sons' primary school was able to build a new wing of portable classrooms and buy iPads for every class. The garden & cooking programs have been a huge success - for 10 years the kids have grown their own produce & raised chooks.
2/Each class works in the garden once a week and the kids love it. They harvest the veggies and learn to make nutritional recipes from them. Any surplus is sold to parents on 'market day'. Once every school in the area had a kitchen and garden program. Now, ours is the only one.
3/And the only reason we've still got it is b/c a number of parents generously volunteered their time & b/c we've paid out of our own pockets to keep it going. Other schools haven't been so fortunate. It's a real shame. I mean it. I see for myself how much the kids get out of it.
1/OK, I'll address this once more & then I'm done.
The concept of renouncing one's 'entitlement to citizenship' is not a simple one, because there is no provision for it under Australian law. It depends completely on the law of the country to which one is entitled citizenship.
2/The 26 other 'entitled' parliamentarians aside, I see no practical reason to go through the hassle of applying to Lithuania essentially to say 'Hi, just letting you know I will never, ever claim citizenship in your country. Can you acknowledge in writing? Ačiū, gražios dienos!'
3/A hypothetical: What if Australia becomes unsafe to live in down the track? What if I am forced to seek asylum elsewhere? There are two countries in the world where I have family: Lithuania and the US, and the US is proper fucked. I know, what a ridiculous question, etc.
I have ideas and I can make speeches but I can't organise an uprising. I can barely organise myself. I just got over a ten-year opioid addiction, I have MS, and I'm so tired. I'm working a demanding job that pays fuck-all at present because I'm still in training.
2/I translate Chinese for an e-publishing house. I taught myself to read & write it but I've only been learning for 2 years. Translation is not an easy job but I can do it from home, an important consideration b/c of my MS and being in the at-risk 10% for COVID-19 complications.
3/I could've got an easier job in academic editing, maybe, but after 8 years I'm fucking over it.
Seriously, I'm exhausted. I'm still trying to finish my report on #ClivePalmer. With no legal qualifications & a lengthy act of legislation I acquainted myself with a week ago.
1/Fuck. I knew this would open a can of worms. I'm not done yet. I said I held off commenting until I was decently informed. But there was one crucial thing I overlooked and I'm so sorry. It's to do with the BRI and its relationship to China's central government.
2/The BRI is critical to China's success on the world stage and to Xi Jinping's claim to the presidency for life. That's why it's so important to the CCP and why China's top brass are pushing it so exhaustively. But there's one thing about this that misleads everyone.
3/The impression we get is that the BRI is Xi's brainchild, centrally organised & executed flawlessly from top to bottom.
In reality, the BRI is neither centralised nor uniform in planning & implementation.