Charlie Kirkwas happy for there to be a blood sacrifice on the altar of gun rights– I guess he just didn’t expect it to be him

To even make that suggestion is beyond contempt. Obviously, violence against anyone is deplorable. But all the evidence is that proportionally more violence in America is committed by citizens rather than by “illegals“

There is a perfectly good solution, which is to vote against the bill if you’ve been double crossed

Not forgetting that disabled people also need to enjoy themselves. We need to go out for dinner and to shows. too much emphasis in this thread about people needing to work and shop. We disabled need a life as well.

Can we get our kids to opt out of hearing stories that feature religious people as well? I doubt it.

The trouble with Tasmania is that the government is small enough to get captured by particular sectional interests. And those interests capture both parties – the bosses tell the liberals what to do, and the unions in that industry tell labor what to do. Hydro, forestry, salmon, AFL. On it goes

First there was “fake news“ and now there is this attack on science in general, because science produces factual results that are inconvenient to the Republican worldview

They would have Jesus off to El Salvador in a flash

Well, what I make of it is that Babet is a complete idiot and either believes anything he’s told, or just makes stuff up.d

Well, the USA just elected a convicted fraudster as president

I would add Leichardt’s grasshopper and the lamington crayfish to that list, amongst the terrestrial inverts I’ve been lucky enough to see, and that’s before I’d start on the marine ones

Yes, the “mandate” is completely specious. All parties have a number of policies, and I would guess that no voter who votes for any party agrees with all of those policies. Unfortunately, as in ecological competition, political parties compete most strongly with those most similar to them.

True enough, but the combination of compulsory voting and the preferential system means that the majority will end up with a government they like better than the alternative. Compare and contrast with the USA where 1/3 voted for Trump, 1/3 voted for Harris and 1/3 didn’t or couldn’t vote

Looked at Gina’s website and nearly vomited. All self-care, I won’t do so again.

Other than that, Greg Sheridan is a total knob

The undeniable conclusion is that Trump does not see the USA as being one of the “fellow democracies “

Completely gutless, but I guess they’re terrified of the orange fascist

So sick of these developers thumbing their noses at environmental laws because the penalties are so low and they just treat it as a cost of business. Their property needs to be confiscated when they do this and they need to pay for the full rehabilitation

These disgusting scum who flaunt environmental laws treating the trivial penalties as just the cost of business need to be held to account