Absolutely. AUKUS was a Scott Morrison fuckup that Labor should have walked away from in the first week. We are paying billions to a corrupt government for a product that may never be delivered.

I haven't had Netflix, Prime, MS365, etc since January, and you know what, it's not that hard!

Stop making excuses. Do whatever you can. Tell your friends!

And Australia, let's see travel restrictions and sanctions on the Trump regime!

Albos a little busy right now... :)

We need to reform housing and environmental and social policies in Australia and can't do that without a strong progressive Parliament. Between the ALP and the Greens we could find that support.

The fighting between the ALP and Greens weakens both and allows the conservatives air.

I believe the Greens need to take a "YES we'll support you AND we'd like the policy to go further in this direction". And ALP to accept the help and build on that strength.

Instead of working with the Libs.

You ask why because you don't like Labor or because you don't like Greens?

My vote and preferences always sit between ALP and Green. Over the years the ALP has tended back towards the right. My interest is in a strong Social Democratic party.

So let's see a proper progressive ALP/Green Coalition instead...

I'm a trained actor... What is this "paid" they are talking about?

Actors get paid?!?

Does it come in a kit, and can one put the steering wheel wherever you prefer?

I'd be happy to not see another LNP government again; but I acknowledge one of Australia's strengths is that we don't have entrenched governments. Helps fight corruption. 40 years of South African nationalists was enough for me...

With 70 a distant glow
A pension pot I hope to show
To ease my life from then to 80
With a rosy view of the pearly gate(y)

Now that I've turned 63
Is my coughing COPD?
I'm getting scared for 64
In case he shoves me out the door.

Macular degeneration
From sixty-five to sixty-seven!
An intraocular needle shot
Is just the thing to slow the rot.

With 68 in rapid succession
my apprehension leads to sustained depression.

Work in progress. I hope to finish it in time for my funeral. All true!

THE GIFTS OF GOD

At the age of fifty nowt,
god decided to give me gout.

And then at sixty without much fuss
The old cunt dragged out tinnitus

Passing through to sixty two
He tried his luck with SARS part 2.

...

Given his actions against the climate alone he needs to be charged with Crimes Against Humanity.

Keep him alive long enough to see his name removed from every edifice he corrupted, every executive order reversed and his lieutenants find guilty of treason.

Tyrants do not deserve compassion.

I know this is a call for war, but in reality it's already started! We're in a proxy war! I believe that Europe and the free world should join with Ukraine and bring it to all end. Without the USA.

Defeat Putin, help Ukraine rebuild, liberate Russia and its vassal states and we cripple Trump.

I hope the Republic of Australia will immediately sign a treaty with the Free States of America's government in exile!

In ZA a tiny percentage of White voters oppressed a whole nation.

In the USA and UK I see similar: Trump and Brexit.

You can never "not bother to vote". And every time you don't challenge someone who says that, you are responsible.

Like it or not you all carry responsibility for Trump.