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Pauline Hanson flew to Mar-a-Lago to sell her vision of Australia and lord, where do we start? Pauline Hanson’s vision for Australia is one of high inflation, high debt and fewer migrants. It’s also one that directly serves China’s interests. Bernard Keane       It takes a special kind of politician to go overseas and make a speech vilifying their own country, but Pauline Hanson has never been one for observing basic standards of decorum. Her party, One Nation, feels very much at home overseas, and especially in the US — after all, One Nation offered to try to water down Australia’s gun laws in exchange for funding from the National Rifle Association. Is it worth fact-checking Hanson’s address to the far-right faithful at Trump’s Xanadu? It would take too long to list the lies about both the US and Australia, such as our alleged migration intake of 740,000 (try less than half that, Pauline), her claim Australia has more homeless people than the US, or the “no-go areas” in Australia created by migration of “hateful, radical migrants” (which presumably means, erm, the British, New Zealanders, Indians and Chinese who make up the great bulk of our migration). More useful, given Hanson’s party has reached 15% in some polling, is to look at Hanson’s overall vision for Australia. And migration is central to that agenda. Hanson’s base of older, regional male voters hate migration, even though many of them probably see an actual migrant in the wild once a year. But, from Florida, Hanson told us “high migration numbers have had a brutal effect on our hospitals, health system, our roads, education standards, nursing homes, aged care facilities, and general infrastructure.” In fact our health and caring system would collapse without migrants: one-third of health workers were trained overseas. A half of all new doctor registrations are of overseas-born doctors — who have to work for 10 years in regional areas. And a half of all aged care workers, providing the services that many of Hanson’s voters are going to need over the next decade, were born overseas. “Mass immigration is one of the key reasons inflation remains higher than normal in Australia,” she also told the Trump faithful — ignoring that the major driver of inflation during the post-pandemic price spike was large corporations gouging customers, and that the current surge in inflation is created by government policy failures. Without immigration, key industries that rely on skilled migrant labour would be forced to lift prices to cover higher wage costs created by chasing workers at a time of near full employment. So Hanson’s vision is for an Australia where you won’t be able to get decent health services or a spot in an aged care facility due to a lack of workers, especially in regional communities. Where the lack of skilled migration forces prices up and means you’ll have to wait much longer for a tradie, or pay more. “The man-made climate change falsehood is this century’s greatest hoax,” Hanson also insisted, which means we neither need to reduce emissions nor invest in more resilient infrastructure (although there won’t be anyone to help build that more resilient infrastructure without skilled migrants anyway). Regional Australia will again bear the brunt of the impact. The more extreme weather events, the higher inflation will be as supply chains deal with a greater number of severe weather interventions. Hanson’s vision is also of a radically more indebted Australia. “Our national debt has crashed through the trillion-dollar mark, which means higher interest and higher taxes,” she declared in horror. But she also wants defence spending at 5% of GDP. In 2024-25 figures, that means an annual defence budget of $130 billion, compared to $49 billion in reality. That extra $80 billion a year will be funded by more debt, or less spending, or higher taxes. Eighty billion would be more than two-thirds of the entire health budget, far more than the entire education budget, or 30% of the entire social security budget. Which spending does Hanson want to cut? Or which taxes does she want to raise? Or will she just stick an extra $80 billion on the national credit card every year? Hanson’s claim that we need 5% of GDP to defend ourselves doesn’t stack up — we actually need far less to defend Australia and our sea routes, given the large air-sea gap around us, the presence of well-disposed countries like Indonesia to our north, and military technology that makes force projection over distance far more prone to disruption. The real reason Hanson supports AUKUS and wants to spend 5% of GDP on defence — she doesn’t actually say on what — is not to defend ourselves but so we can help the US attack China, the country that “has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration”. This is a novel take even for a far-right populist. Even MAGA Republicans argue that it was China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 that destroyed US manufacturing jobs (which it did — along with the financial crisis; it was the Biden administration that at least got manufacturing employment back up to its pre-financial crisis levels). Here, it was the removal of tariffs by Hawke and Keating and the early 1990s recession that hammered manufacturing. Hanson wants to emulate Trump on tariffs, in the quest to generate more manufacturing jobs at a time of near [Continued]

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full-employment, yet again pushing the price of basic goods up for ordinary households and putting upward pressure on interest rates. What Hanson doesn’t mention in demonising China is that, unlike the US, Australia has been a huge beneficiary of China’s growth, which has underpinned our growth and tax revenue for two decades as we sold vast tonnes of iron ore, coal and education services. The “China is evil” narrative works fine in the US, but makes absolutely no sense in Australia, which would be dramatically poorer without China. Presumably Hanson would like to sever economic ties with China, and certainly stop providing so much iron ore and coal. That would mean an end to nearly $200 billion in exports to China, although stopping imports (thus making local goods more expensive) would save $115 billion in imports; where Hanson thinks we’d get another trading partner with an $85 billion-a-year trade surplus is anyone’s guess — it certainly won’t be her beloved US. What’s peculiar about this vision is that, with her love of tariffs, desire to waste huge amounts of taxpayer money on foreign defence companies, and support for fossil fuels, Hanson — like Trump — is playing directly into the hands of China, which has already stolen a march on the West by recognising the importance of locking up renewables technologies and the inputs they require. Hanson, like Trump, wants instead to lock us into a higher-inflation, lower-tech, fossil fuel-based economy that looks a lot like the 20th century — just one without the migrants who were so crucial to Australia’s post-war economic growth. Meanwhile, China can get on with controlling the technologies of the future and developing its soft power in a world increasingly aghast at the role of the United States. If you didn’t know better, you might think Hanson is, far from being the proud far-right patriot she appears to be, a long-term Chinese operative dedicated to nobbling the West and allowing China to control the future.

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She's just a media induced grifter on politics (let alone the media also), who just didn't want to sweat over fish & chips anymore and wanted to join all those getting rich OFF politics.

That's a fare suck of the sav I guess.

But her extremism of views and sometimes pure moronic agendas have done nothing but make the Left look better than they really are.

Her One Nation is also a refabricational grift on the fact that Australia was already a singular nation.
In fact, it may have been the influence of taking Australia BACKWARDS from developing the States into their own unique identities and cultural originalities. But the same could be said of all PMs who have served the USA archaic western way here - to turn Australia into a bland, mediocre nation where the States are all BORINGLY the same.

She's the sort of politics that is selling snow to a snowman.

The vile, repugnant creature that is Pauline Hanson skipped parliament in order to go to the US to suck up to the orange rapist and convicted felon.

And, don't forget this:

One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election.

A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018.

Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

You're a moronic extremist just like her.
Something, like a crooked salesman selling a piece of crap, would hide behind - just to make himself look better than he really is.
You two should get married. ;D

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 4:12pm:

The vile, repugnant creature that is Pauline Hanson skipped parliament in order to go to the US to suck up to the orange rapist and convicted felon. And, don't forget this: One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election. A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018. Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

"Queensland senator Malcolm Roberts kept Black on as an adviser for five months after the latter was charged with rape in 2017."

Is Roberts on the Epstein List?   :-/

She is getting more popular as the greenies get less popular .

aquascoot wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 5:07pm:

She is getting more popular as the greenies get less popular .

Rapists and kiddie fiddlers have found their guy.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 4:12pm:

The vile, repugnant creature that is Pauline Hanson skipped parliament in order to go to the US to suck up to the orange rapist and convicted felon. And, don't forget this: One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election. A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018. Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

She's a better choice than you or your ilk every day of the week. ::)

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 5:08pm:

aquascoot wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 5:07pm: She is getting more popular as the greenies get less popular . Rapists and kiddie fiddlers have found their guy.

You lefties hide & enable more kiddy fiddlers & rapists than any other political genre.

Hypocrite.

Pauline has better access to the US government than our PM and Ambassador. This shows the abysmal level of competence of An Al and his minions.  ::)

Pauline represents Australia

Labor Greens and Liberals represent World Economic Forum

Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 6:11pm:

Pauline represents Australia

She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 6:21pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers.

One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election.

A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018.

Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

Convicted.  A convicted rapist, not alleged.

And now she's at Mar-a-Lago praising the rapist who lives there.

Why does Pauline like rapists so much?

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 6:21pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers.

Hypocrite.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 6:21pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers.

How many 3rd world rapists & kiddy fiddlers has the Albanese govt bought into Australia in his current term?

Unvetted refugees & asylum seekers who have gone on to commit the very crimes you "accuse" others of.

Import the 3rd world become the 3rd world.

Albanese as a Catholic belongs to the church that has seen more child abuse carried out by it priests & bishops than any other - globally.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 6:26pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:21pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers. One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election. A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018. Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role. Convicted.  A convicted rapist, not alleged. And now she's at Mar-a-Lago praising the rapist who lives there. Why does Pauline like rapists so much?

:-/

Brian Ross obviously doesn’t like Pauline Hanson, he thinks that she is a liar; does that make her a Ross Fellow Traveler ?

Gnads wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 5:58am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:21pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers. How many 3rd world rapists & kiddy fiddlers has the Albanese govt bought into Australia in his current term? Unvetted refugees & asylum seekers who have gone on to commit the very crimes you "accuse" others of. Import the 3rd world become the 3rd world. .

‘’Albanese as a Catholic belongs to the church that has seen more child abuse carried out by it priests & bishops than any other - globally’’

Care to give a relevant reference?

;D ;D ;D ;D

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Pauline shows her allegiance ...

... to rapists.

One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election.

A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018.

Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

Pauline's response: “I stand by this man and he won’t be getting sacked”.

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One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson’s full speech from the CPAC event at Mar-a-Lago.

Well, it’s wonderful to be in America with a re-energised, strong, and patriotic leader who has the best interests of his people at heart.

And when you think about it, in just one year President Trump has turned this country around!

Investment in the US is booming.

Your borders are secure.

Illegal migrants are being rounded up and sent home in remarkable numbers.

The scourge of drugs – especially fentanyl – is being tackled head-on, and I love how your President has green-lit the US military to blow up drug cartel boats.

Like Trump, I strongly support tariffs on countries that unfairly compete with our industries and manufacturing with grossly unfair advantages – especially when it comes to energy and wage advantages; you’ve been able to save so many of your industries and draw many others back to America as a result of that strong decision.

President Trump has restored peace in the Middle East and stood up for the people of Israel.

He’s pulled out of the outrageously destructive Paris Agreement which continues to make countries like Australia so much poorer, and he’s supercharged mining, gas, and oil projects by removing government red tape which his great slogan: Drill, baby, drill!

He’s put an end to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion quotas and reinstated merit-based selection.

Trump is slowly but surely cleaning up the streets of America and making your country so much safer.

Recruitment numbers for police and military service have turned around, with more Americans wanting to serve their country – this doesn’t happen by accident!

And I can tell, after being here for the last week, that Americans are proud of their country again.

Australia, on the other hand, has been an economic and social tinderbox that was created by successive Labor and Coalition governments.

We have a Labor government (which is your equivalent of far-Left Democrats), led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A Prime Minister who is seen by the majority of Australians to be putting our country on a dangerous path.

He governs our country with a measly 34.4 per cent of the vote – the second lowest winning margin in Australian history.

I hate to say it, but the Australian Labor Party will never make Australia great again despite a desperate need to turn our country around.

Under Labor’s weak governance, Australia is being flooded with up to 740,000 migrants a year.

That’s despite a housing crisis where we have more than 228,000 Australians being assisted by specialist homeless services.

And if I put that into perspective for Americans here today: Australia’s homeless rate is more than 350 per cent higher than America’s, and yet we have a government that continues to flood our country with migrants that we cannot cope with.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: you can’t blame those migrants who want to come to Australia; you can only blame the government.

And this is an Australian government that just does not care about the welfare of its own people.

And this mass immigration is not just having an impact on housing.

High migration numbers have had a brutal effect on our hospitals, health system, our roads, education standards, nursing homes, aged care facilities, and general infrastructure.

Mass immigration is one of the key reasons inflation remains higher than normal in Australia; meanwhile our national debt has crashed through the trillion-dollar mark, which means higher interest and higher taxes.

And despite the strong objection from the majority of Australian voters, politicians continue to ignore the distress that reckless immigration is having on our country; not to mention the growing number of migrants who refuse to assimilate and are incompatible with our laws, culture, and Australian way of life.

Australia is taking in the same hateful, radical migrants from countries that are having an enormous impact on the UK and so many European nations right now and we’re seeing the aftermath with frequent machete attacks, violent home invasions, and weekly pro-Palestine protests across our major cities.

Sadly, we’re starting to see some suburbs in Australia become virtual no-go zones for women who aren’t dressed in head-to-toe coverings.

No wonder Australian police have their hands full.

It didn’t happen by accident, and if you speak out about it you’re branded Islamophobic, racist, or even a Nazi.

In my case, I’ve been hauled before the Federal Court of Australia for ‘offending’ someone.

A lot of this language is coming from the United Nations.

A group that started out with the right intentions, but has been overtaken by the world’s greatest shysters, led by global elites who are stripping away Australia’s sovereignty with their own ‘one world’ agenda.

One Nation has long said we should never cede our sovereignty to these global groups like the UN, the World Health Organisation, and World Economic Forum.

Australia is a nation that produces just 1.1 per cent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, yet we’re driving our economy into the ground with an estimated $8 trillion spend on this unachievable dream of Net Zero.

The man-made climate change falsehood is this century’s greatest hoax, and it’s killing off trillions of dollars’ worth of investment throughout Australia.

One Nation is the only political party standing firm to end Australia’s involvement in the UN’s Paris Agreement.

Yes, we must protect our environment, but we are heading down a path that is destroying a decent standard of living, and sending many Australians into poverty and the push for renewables, and climate change will see many being controlled where they live, travel, and what they eat.

I will not allow Australia’s economy to be destroyed by unelected globalists while the UN permits China and India – which produce more than 40 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions – to get off scot-free.

China has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration, which has slashed our manufacturing security from 25 per cent of GDP to little more than 5 per cent today.

And no longer is China a developing nation, as they still claim to be, like they were in the 1970s.

They’re now the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter, accounting for 29 per cent of global output, and boast having the second-largest number of millionaires on the globe.

When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe.

It’s for this reason that One Nation has backed the trilateral security partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia – better known Aukus.

Despite President Trump’s insistence on coalition defence partners increasing military budgets, the Albanese Labor government has made brutal cost cuts across a broad range of defence areas.

And although we have a remarkable Defence Force, we cannot defend our nation alone.

That is why our Aukus arrangement is critical with the might of the US military and President Trump.

Australia must boost its defence spending to at least 5 per cent of GDP.

My American cousin, who served in the US military, told me decades ago that Americans are sick of fighting wars and losing lives for other countries. I have never forgotten his words, so Americans have a right to be frustrated when they’re constantly forced to play big brother to nations who haven’t invested in their own defence capabilities.

Australian politicians – including our current Prime Minister – have been hopeless in recognising the very real threat of conflict in our region in the short term.

We must be a nation that does all that we can to defend ourselves.

But then again, we have many Australians starting to ask what’s left to defend?

You might ask me why I say this… In Australia, roughly 60 per cent of our nation has been handed back to the indigenous Aboriginal people under what we call Native Title claims.

As a result, non-Indigenous Australians are being locked out of a growing number of regions within our country – especially landmarks, beaches, and national parks.

Many mining projects are being forced to negotiate land agreements and royalties which not only costs projects more, but creates an additional layer of bureaucracy adding years to project approvals.

There’s no end to the interference Native Title has created, despite our Parliaments dedicating roughly $40 billion every year to exclusively support barely 4 per cent of Australia’s population – which is around 980,000 people.

This has created an enormous divide within Australia which has seen sweeping name changes to some of our most iconic landmarks, such as Fraser Island off the Queensland coast.

We have these outrageous Welcome to Country formalities that were not a standard practice pre-1970s.

They’re held at sporting events, the start of our Parliament, and so many other public events.

We’re even forced to hear them every time we land at an Australian airport.

The Albanese Labor government even tried to enshrine this racial inequality in the Australian Constitution.

One Nation was at the forefront of the campaign which saw this proposal defeated, and the result gives us hope the majority of Australians – when they’re given a real voice – reject the far-Left’s agenda.

Another example of Australia’s wrong direction under the Labor government is this ridiculous ideology about gender:

the idea that there are multiple genders rather than two;
the idea that you can change your gender just by identifying differently and demanding strange pronouns;
that biological men can and should invade and occupy women-only spaces like bathrooms, online forums, and sports;
that anyone who is opposed or even questions this ideology is attacked, de-platformed, threatened, and pursued through the courts;
the insidious gender affirmation approach to children – hooking them on unapproved off-label drugs like puberty blockers, and shutting parents out of medical decisions about their own children.
The United States – along with some other countries – is showing the way forward on this issue while Australia is stubbornly refuses to intervene.

Despite clear evidence overseas that the gender affirmation approach is harmful to children, and despite the almost complete lack of clinical evidence supporting gender affirmation, Australia continues to allow children to be subjected to it.

Every time I’ve tried to start a parliamentary inquiry into this issue, the Labor government – as well as the main opposition party and the Greens – have moved to block it.

They don’t want this appalling ideology – or their own culpability – exposed to the Australian people.

Only in my home state of Queensland has the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children been banned, pending a review of the clinical guidelines.

In all other parts of Australia, thousands of children continue to be subjected to this ideological approach.

All I want to do is protect these kids, and protect those who speak out against this ideology at risk to their safety and livelihood.

I’ve been a figure of Australian politics for 30 years.

My stance, from the very beginning, has been equality for all Australians – regardless of race, colour, sex, or creed.

We didn’t revere someone just because they had more money, success, or power.

We worshipped heroes from battlefields and sporting fields and everyday life, not attention-seekers crying about victimhood or grubby politicians seeking power for the sake of it.

We spoke our minds, and we spoke boldly and freely without concern for being cancelled – or jailed – which is what happened to me.

There’s an Australian concept we refer to as ‘a fair go’.

Australians are generous people, and many of us only want a fair go for ourselves and for everyone else.

It’s the Australian way – or at least it used to be.

But now we have an Australian government which puts the interests of terrorist states, authoritarian regimes, foreign migrants, trans activists, environmental extremists, and corrupt unions before the interests of the Australian people.

Australians no longer feel they have any real say about the crucial decisions that are making their families poorer and their country unrecognisable.

They don’t feel they’re getting a fair go.

They are looking for leadership, and they are looking for leaders who will give their country back to them.

They want do feel secure in their pride for our nation and the achievements of its people, rather than to be told they must be ashamed of it.

They want what any normal American would want: an affordable and secure home, a good education and future prospects for their kids, a safe community, and a decent job or income from a business.

They want a fair go.

And that’s what One Nation wants for all Australians.

We want equal rights for all – and special rights for none.

We want equal laws for all – and special laws for none.

We don’t want special privileges based on divisive ‘identities’; we want to celebrate the one identity all Australians share: being Australian.

We want a prosperous, fair, equal, and powerful country that puts the interests of Australians first.

We don’t want the socialist nightmare Albanese and Labor have planned for us.

We want to re-unite Australia, the land of the fair go. These are my goals.

One Nation’s strength is growing, and I want to build on this strength so that we become a party that will form government in Australia.

Australians are responding to us in numbers: our national membership has doubled since the federal election in May this year, and our polling is at record levels.

We still have a steep hill to climb, but I will never stop fighting to make Australia great again.

God bless America, and God help Australia!

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 8:57am:

God bless America, and God help Australia!

Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945.

One Nation has appointed a convicted rapist, Sean Black, as its campaign director ahead of the federal election.

A judge said Black showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was jailed in 2018.

Sexual violence prevention advocates say Black is "not a fit and proper person" for the role.

Pauline's response: “I stand by this man and he won’t be getting sacked”.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 9:00am:

Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945.

Nonsense.


China has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration, which has slashed our manufacturing security from 25 per cent of GDP to little more than 5 per cent today.

And no longer is China a developing nation, as they still claim to be, like they were in the 1970s.

They’re now the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter, accounting for 29 per cent of global output, and boast having the second-largest number of millionaires on the globe.

When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:07am:

When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe.

Boasting is one thing... a convincing projection of military power requires considerable battle experience...

A fishing trip round Australia does not a blue-water navy make.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:07am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 9:00am: Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945. Nonsense. China has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration, which has slashed our manufacturing security from 25 per cent of GDP to little more than 5 per cent today. And no longer is China a developing nation, as they still claim to be, like they were in the 1970s. They’re now the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter, accounting for 29 per cent of global output, and boast having the second-largest number of millionaires on the globe. When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe.

It’s for this reason that One Nation has backed the trilateral security partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia – better known Aukus.

Despite President Trump’s insistence on coalition defence partners increasing military budgets, the Albanese Labor government has made brutal cost cuts across a broad range of defence areas.

And although we have a remarkable Defence Force, we cannot defend our nation alone.

That is why our Aukus arrangement is critical with the might of the US military and President Trump.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:07am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 9:00am: Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945. Nonsense. China has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration, which has slashed our manufacturing security from 25 per cent of GDP to little more than 5 per cent today. And no longer is China a developing nation, as they still claim to be, like they were in the 1970s. They’re now the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter, accounting for 29 per cent of global output, and boast having the second-largest number of millionaires on the globe. When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe.

I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted?

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:17am:

Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:07am: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 9:00am: Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945. Nonsense. China has plundered Australia’s industry and manufacturing sectors following our involvement in the 1970s’ LIMA Declaration, which has slashed our manufacturing security from 25 per cent of GDP to little more than 5 per cent today. And no longer is China a developing nation, as they still claim to be, like they were in the 1970s. They’re now the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter, accounting for 29 per cent of global output, and boast having the second-largest number of millionaires on the globe. When Australian politicians sacrificed our manufacturing sector, we provided the Chinese Communist Party the financial leg-up to afford having the biggest army in the world and a navy that boasts the largest number of vessels across the globe. I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted?

Indeed
Everyone was hoodwinked by China, from Nixon and Whitlam through Clinton and Hawke to O'Bama and Albo and Penny Wrong.

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:17am:

I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted?

T'd bet you've never bitched when backing up the ute at Bunnings, KMart, Target, et al... when fitting out your kitchen, home, toolshed or car... for a couple of hundred bucks all up.

Now you're breast-beating after the fact, I'd bet.... Dem dang evil Chinee

Like a gambler railing against the pokies...

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 12:46pm:

Gnads wrote on Nov 8th, 2025 at 5:58am: greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:21pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 7th, 2025 at 6:11pm: Pauline represents Australia She represents rapists, criminals and kiddie fiddlers. How many 3rd world rapists & kiddy fiddlers has the Albanese govt bought into Australia in his current term? Unvetted refugees & asylum seekers who have gone on to commit the very crimes you "accuse" others of. Import the 3rd world become the 3rd world. . ‘’Albanese as a Catholic belongs to the church that has seen more child abuse carried out by it priests & bishops than any other - globally’’ Care to give a relevant reference?

Stop being lazy. You know it's the truth.

The only edit I would make is Christian religion.

Because we know there's another religion that actually condones/allows child sexual abuse & forced child marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases_by_country

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 9:00am:

Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945.

A much better option than blowing it up Japanese arse .... no?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 10:53am:

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:17am: I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted? T'd bet you've never bitched when backing up the ute at Bunnings, KMart, Target, et al... when fitting out your kitchen, home, toolshed or car... for a couple of hundred bucks all up. Now you're breast-beating after the fact, I'd bet.... Dem dang evil Chinee Like a gambler railing against the pokies...

Ahhh like what choice do you really get?

Nearly everything is made in China.

So that juts makes Franks & Daves point - not yours.

Gnads wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 11:56am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 9:00am: Frank wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 8:57am: God bless America, and God help Australia! Ah, Australian politicians! ... blowing smoke up American arse since 1945. A much better option than blowing it up Japanese arse .... no?

How long do you think we need to bend the knee and pucker up? 8 decades? 10?

Gnads wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 12:00pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:53am: Daves2017 wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:17am: I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted? T'd bet you've never bitched when backing up the ute at Bunnings, KMart, Target, et al... when fitting out your kitchen, home, toolshed or car... for a couple of hundred bucks all up. Now you're breast-beating after the fact, I'd bet.... Dem dang evil Chinee Like a gambler railing against the pokies... Ahhh like what choice do you really get? Nearly everything is made in China. So that juts makes Franks & Daves point - not yours.

Yes, of course... dem dang Chinee... forcing us to live in our world of plenty beyond the imaginings of our entire ancestral forbears since we swang from the trees... The burdens we bear. eh!

Guess you'll be switching to non-Chinese, more expensive brands even if you have to traipse across the city to find them, eh!

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 12:27pm:

Gnads wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 12:00pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:53am: Daves2017 wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 10:17am: I argue that  China only “plundered Australian industry “  after being invited too by Hawk and Keating to take all they wanted? T'd bet you've never bitched when backing up the ute at Bunnings, KMart, Target, et al... when fitting out your kitchen, home, toolshed or car... for a couple of hundred bucks all up. Now you're breast-beating after the fact, I'd bet.... Dem dang evil Chinee Like a gambler railing against the pokies... Ahhh like what choice do you really get? Nearly everything is made in China. So that juts makes Franks & Daves point - not yours. Yes, of course... dem dang Chinee... forcing us to live in our world of plenty beyond the imaginings of our entire ancestral forbears since we swang from the trees... The burdens we bear. eh! Guess you'll be switching to non-Chinese, more expensive brands even if you have to traipse across the city to find them, eh!

Did you not follow what I said in the highlight?

There are a few local hardware stores I frequent instead of Bunnings .....

but oddly enough the also have a lot of stock "made in China".

So where do you buy those expensive non Chinese alternatives? ::)

Gnads wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 12:58pm:

There are a few local hardware stores I frequent instead of Bunnings ..... but oddly enough the also have a lot of stock "made in China". So where do you buy those expensive non Chinese alternatives? ::)

Search longer and harder... like your forebears would have.

I buy Chinese-made stuff... If that's what's in the store... but I ain't bitching or breast-beating about it.

The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods.

Should Australia start a trade war with China?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 1:09pm:

The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods. Should Australia start a trade war with China?

More to the point, why doesn't China play by WTO rules? Why did we a FTA with such a blatantly dishonest bully of a country does lies, cheats and steals? Why did anyone believe that the Chinese are " just like any other country"? Why does anyone STILL believe such an obvious falsehood?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 1:09pm:

The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods.

Then why does he sell Chinese-made, cheap inferior goods to his cult members?

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 2:02pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 1:09pm: The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods. Then why does he sell Chinese-made, cheap inferior goods to his cult members?

He is a grifter.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 2:02pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 1:09pm: The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods. Then why does he sell Chinese-made, cheap inferior goods to his cult members?

Yep, well, he ain't married to the idea when it comes to himself.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 1:52pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 1:09pm: The point to Trump's tariff war is to wean Americans off (predominantly Chinese) foreign-made cheap goods. Should Australia start a trade war with China? More to the point, why doesn't China play by WTO rules? Why did we a FTA with such a blatantly dishonest bully of a country does lies, cheats and steals? Why did anyone believe that the Chinese are " just like any other country"? Why does anyone STILL believe such an obvious falsehood?

Would you have Albanese do a Morrison and call the Chinese out for it? Start tariffing Chinese goods, maybe... start a trade war...

How much iron ore could African states and Brazil ship to China?

To evade a run-in with the Supreme Court over his right to impose blanket tariffs (a case SCOTUS is currently hearing), Trump claimed that he was faced with an 'emergency' - the one reason a president may arrogate Congressional powers to the presidency regarding tariffs.

His emergency? For public consumption, it was because Americans were being 'ripped off' by the rest of the world. Covertly, American hyper-consumerism of cheap foreign goods is driving the US into bankruptcy.

With the US dollar in decline, the options on the table to remediate the US debt crisis are limited.

Well the options weren't many.
Continue the escalating rot of extortion from Europe and Asia (Obama printing money continued the rot more so at 10% interest) and America's accelerated debt as the world's highest.

Or try something else. Trump is just trying to tighten the belt and bring down that debt. A bit hard when you have a sizeable percentage of the population who don't want to contribute and just freeload, bring in more illegals to freeload too by contributing only crime like drugs and prostitution.

Other countries have had to pull their heads in like what Trump is doing and their people have towed the line with it and it has worked. Greece and Albania are an easy two to mention. At one time Albania was only surviving on washing cars for a few years.

In times like this, only the people's contribution can save an economy more than just one person.

Jasin wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 2:51pm:

... bring in more illegals to freeload too by contributing only crime like drugs and prostitution.

Two of Trump's favourite things.

You really are a moronic wanker.

Jasin wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 4:29pm:

You really are a moronic wanker.

If it wasn't for drugs and hookers, Trump would never get laid.

Oh, and rape of course.

Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:36pm:

Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :)

How many rapists would she put on the front bench?

(And by the way, we don't vote for the Prime Minister)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:36pm:

Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :)

No thanks. She's a Lefty if ever there was one. Just the dumb redneck version, rather than the Gay version getting around like Gwoggy.
Both are two sides of the same coin just flipping each other.
Don't be fooled.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 1:52pm:

Why did anyone believe that the Chinese are " just like any other country"? Why does anyone STILL believe such an obvious falsehood?

'The Chinese' are a people, not a country... and as a people they are pretty much us.

When people here get on their high horse about the Chinese, demonising and othering them, they use Chinese, CCP and China interchangeably... It's how you can tell the poster is full of sh!t.

The fact is, (Chinese) people need to be clothed, fed, housed, educated, serviced, attended to in sickness,  employed, and given prospects for hope like... y'know... real people.

And, while the Australian government is tasked with ensuring all that for the Australian people, daily, it has to do it for under 30 million over a land mass greater than China - chocker-block with resources, making us one of the richest people in the world - the Chinese government, whether it is the CCP or whatever else one day replaces it, is tasked with the same for over one billion people.

If flexing political muscle is what it takes to make ends meet, then both governments would do it if they could and needed to.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:36pm:

Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :)

So it's true that she appeals to idiots ::)

Jasin wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:43pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 5:36pm: Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :) No thanks. She's a Lefty if ever there was one. Just the dumb redneck version, rather than the Gay version getting around like Gwoggy. Both are two sides of the same coin just flipping each other. Don't be fooled.

Pauline would never have allowed mass uncontrolled immigration.

Hanson is like NRedneckL, like Gwoggy is GayFL.
Both aren't as politically good as Rugby Union, when it comes to running a country.

Jasin wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:43pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 5:36pm: Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :) No thanks. She's a Lefty if ever there was one.

I don't think she's ever been accused of that before.

Which of her policies are left wing?

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 5:46pm:

Jasin wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 5:43pm: Bobby. wrote on Nov 10th, 2025 at 5:36pm: Vote #1   Pauline for Prime Minister.    :) No thanks. She's a Lefty if ever there was one. Just the dumb redneck version, rather than the Gay version getting around like Gwoggy. Both are two sides of the same coin just flipping each other. Don't be fooled. Pauline would never have allowed mass uncontrolled immigration.

She'd allow convicted rapists to work in the government though.

Gwoggy would allow all the sex predators from the Media of music and entertainment to wear teddy bear hats and drink beer.