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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The same Canberra press gallery & 'friends of the ABC' who did not see Scott Morrison's reelection coming in May 2019 now doomsaying Coalition because of Barnaby Joyce. In #Realpolitik, only this map matters. Joyce sures up Coalition where needed. Smarter Labor people know this
Given the comically slow Vaccine roll out, had the ALP been led by Shorten (or anyone else) the slow vaccinations would have been hammered every day. Instead, Morrison was blessed with Albo, from the Sydney inner west, talking about electric cars, which mostly retail for ~$80K.
Australia is facing it umpteenth federal election in which most of the Australian Left (and its media apparatchiks) will campaign on making Australia into a more rugged version of Denmark. Tell me the first thing you notice here.
For all his faults, Scott Morrison gets that most Australian elections swing on 'Upper Left Quadrant' voters in outer suburbs/regions: socially more to Right/economically more to Left. Morrison should also know that Work Choices & similar libertarian idiocy finished John Howard

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21 Jun
1/ Almost two years ago, I said this on @ABCthedrum re the cancerous effects of politicians becoming lobbyists and influence peddlers on our system of government ..... at the time, I got some pushback & a lot of 'but everyone does it' .....
2/ "Nearly a dozen former federal ministers from the most recent Coalition and Labor governments are either registered lobbyists or providing “strategic advice” to companies...."

theaustralian.com.au/nation/push-to…
3/ Errr, that horse has bolted & is now out to stud ....

“We do have to be careful of this revolving door in Australia. There needs to be very firm guidelines on what lobbying involves … a five-year ban would give enough length.”

theaustralian.com.au/nation/push-to…
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20 Jun
The Kosciuszko brumbies are part of the Australian legend and anyone wanting to hurt these magnificent wild horses should be on a police register.
Good short history of the Brumby horse here

cerfhorses.org/brumby-horses/
This is good on the Brumbies as well. I cannot believe that there are not better solutions to the Brumby challenge than some mass cull for these equinphobic hippies upset they cannot grow weed or whatever in the Snowy Mountains

savethebrumbies.org/about-us/austr…
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18 Jun
This will help many of the very online canon lawyers here trying to understand why Catholicism (born 33AD) is at odds with your Left/Right (born 1789)
Where church A (or synagogue or mosque) says that Politician X is not welcome in A for publicly repudiating A's most fundamental doctrines - this is A protecting itself from public scandal & sin. X continues to hold the office they hold, albeit X's soul may be in grave jeopardy.
Christianity since it was in private homes & the Catacombs has preached against abortion. The earliest Christians rescued & adopted babies abandoned by the pagan Roman culture. Nothing has changed here since the times of Saints Peter & Paul. The deposit of Faith must be guarded.
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17 Jun
It is not anti-Putin as anti-Russia as a traditional society. It is also why elements of the Right will admit in private that Russia, like the Visegrad 4, has an admirable refusal to salute whatever this week's flag is .....
Traditional Russia, generally, and Putin esp, is a hated target for liberalism - as it was in Tsarist times. Russian welcomes this hatred & will use it. See this magnifcent piece by @20committee from 2014 which noted & predicted all this

20committee.com/2014/04/07/put…
The strangest part of 2021 is western liberals who were never too sure about confronting the USSR are now certain that Putin's Russia is a mortal threat. The liberal tendency to the hyperbolic comes from religious outrage - that the Russians refuse to kneel before 'progress'
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17 Jun
If ever you doubted that the WSJ, Bloomberg, etal, are mostly wrap-arounds for the press releases of private equity & REITs, then doubt no more.
Coming very soon in the WSJ:

"Workers say they crave job security
Employers want reliable workforces:
The case for Serfdom"
Conservatives either solve the housing problem or socialism will do it for you. On taking power in Japan, General MacArthur broke up the great estates & literally gave land away to former tenants. He ended communism in Japan over night. I think of this all the time now.
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15 Jun
Am simply astounded by media coverage of The Australian Club. Its membership appeal is not insignificant, ie club lunch is the food you could get reliably a century ago, eg roast beef etc, none of this poncy nouveau cuisine. Imagine membership worries women mean sushi, vegans etc Image
Napoleon said his Army marched on its stomach. In a less combative way, men eat in ways different from women. I suspect that the appeal of a specifically male club is less the chance to run into some guy who mattered 20-30 years ago & more lunch is roast beef & Yorkshire pudding
The dumbest part (of many dumb parts) of that SMH article above is one major reason men join a club is that they want to get away from the society outside it. They do not want esp the food & mores of 2021 which they can get outside it. Same way no man wants to drive a Prius.
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