I've never ever seen a Political Party here so incredibly in denial about what is going on with the world.

The World is at War, it's blatantly already started and escalating every day.
While the ALP just fuddles from the need to both prepare and initiate our Defence, just fuddles from the need to take personal national responsibility in making this country self reliant in supporting our defence and instead just pushes denial (in favour of what exactly? Another pronoun? ) upon the Media like that Mayor of Amityville beachside holiday town that there is NO SHARK with his media shoeshine and smile.

Bring back Scott Morrison at least, to end this utter madness of stupidity and cowardness. Either way - Albanese should be removed before it's too late, if it isn't already.

Conservatives aye. Crying wolf to justify circumventing democracy.

Labor won enough votes to govern. Labor and Greens have enough senate seats to pass Bills.

Conservatives gambled on Dutton and lost.


Trump's possibly a Russian Asset. Power moving East faster. BRICS doesn't require war to gain power over the international community.

If Trump starts a war, it seems the plan will be for China to invade Taiwan, Iraq attach the zionist, North attack South Korea, Russia to expand its invasion of Ukraine, and Belarus take land from Poland/Lithuania to join with Kaliningrad. Spread the West too thin.

Labor playing calm is Albanese's tactic. Treats voter's as stupid, yet enough voters chose to be treated as mushrooms. We have made out bed.

Pisces, key words : I believe.. Aquarius' : I know
Organised religion was the last era. It is passing.
Knowledge is this thousand years.

Phobia over religion, especially Islam, it's entrenched on this sight. Doesn't mean it's as extreme as claimed.

The Democrats are not wrong. I also can understand some of the Republican's beliefs. The way they are progressing to get what they are after, comes across as illogical.

Removing workers because they have brown skin is racism. Removing them so work doesn't get done implodes the economy. Expecting industries to relocate without the infrastructure, some of the infrastructure could take a decade, will not succeed.

Trying to crash the economy so interest rates drops, for flipping $US8 billion debt this year isn't working.
A depressed economy, opposition everywhere, a bigger debt burden, and higher interest payments is what Trump is cooking up.

Republicans are destroying the American economy. No one else.

Twilight Zone.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Twilight Zone.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Australia was hopelessly ill-prepared for war in the late 1930s. Have we arrived at the same point in history again?
Simon Benson



Australia has been complacent for decades.



Anthony Albanese likes to remind us that the world is facing the most precarious time since the 1930s.

This is obvious to anyone. And it is accelerating.

But what this means for Australia’s national security, and indeed the US-Australia alliance, has been made far from clear.

And it isn’t the first time a contemporary Australian leader has made comparisons to a pre-war period of instability at all, or the threat of China as Marles ­suggests.

Scott Morrison made this first ­reference to the 2030s in a speech early in his prime ministership. Yet here we are, still locked in ­tortured debate over funding for capability and uncertainty over delivery and the precise nature of the threat.

What is clear is the obvious ­historical parallel: Australia was equally ill-equipped and equally ill-prepared for war back then as it is now.

As historian Geoffrey Blainey reminds us, when Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, igniting a global war, “Australia was not ready”.

“It was less prepared than it was in 1914 when its navy was remarkably strong for such a small nation,” Blainey wrote in his short history of Australia.

The problem was and remains an apparent institutionalised complacency.

“For years the public disliked heavier spending on defence because that would mean higher taxes and fewer social services,” Blainey wrote.

Joseph Lyons, prime minister in the years leading up to World War II, came late to the sense that war was coming and Labor’s John Curtin, prime minister during the war years after being sworn in in 1941, was surrounded by isolationists.

At least Curtin acknowledged the need for air power and eventually did something about it.

We once again have the warning signs flashing red – in the ­Middle East, in Europe and in the Pacific with China’s military spending which can only be interpreted as preparation for potential war. The question is whether Australia once again has come too late to the realisation.