The figure of speech - get out of jail free card:





'For heaven's sake, this is a metaphor. It is a figure of speech.'

Faruqi said the phrase was an allegory meaning to pursue liberation from oppression.

'Maybe some of you have heard the Talking Heads song 'Burning Down the House', which is about liberation. But no. Instead, you've twisted and distorted her words for your own political theatre,' Faruqi said.

When other senators began voicing their disapproval, Faruqi - who is of Pakistani heritage - claimed she and Thorpe were victims of racial discrimination.

'This is how you treat people of colour,' she said.

'So I'm not surprised you're ranting back at me.'

WOW. A Greens senator sprouting racist gibberish and threatening to burn down parliament house. Next she'll be growing a little moustache.

Gordon wrote on Oct 29^th, 2025 at 8:56am:



The bipartisan embrace of multiculturalism has given mass immigration an inbuilt political momentum, producing a political perpetual motion machine powered by 185,000 foreigners, overwhelmingly from non-Western cultures, who permanently settle in our country every year whilst ‘temporary’ migrants (almost 300,000 ‘temporary’ students amongst them) also flock to Hotel Australia each year.

We all notice the problems this creates (job-theft, housing access and affordability, transport, ethnic ghettoisation, imported tribal/religious enmity, criminal-gang vibrancy, etc.) but, the odd brave senator apart, our politicians avert their eyes.  So, whilst the latest in a line of polls stretching out to the crack of doom found that 58% of us support a cut to immigration, compared to just 15% who don’t, the pro-immigration political cartel takes no notice. Even 35% of Greens voters want less immigration.

We can’t really expect the woke left, Labor/Greens/Teals to end their affair with multiculturalism and mass immigration but there is an open goal right in front of the Coalition should they have the wit to take it.  Their aversion to ‘populism’, however, and their desire for ‘respectability’ with the multi-culti establishment, plus their addiction to hopes of claiming a big slice of the ethnic vote, has seen them trade principled political policy for crude electoral calculus.
Phil Shannon

I still don't understand Privatised Electricity.

So private companies brought our electricity. The government at the time took the quick $$ and built stadiums for the Olympics. The overseas companies then charge us a premium for the electricity.
They then fail to invest in the necessary need to maintain the power plants they own.
We the TAXPAYER are now up for billions to replace the infrastructure.

Then private companies then take control of the new plants for free and continue generating profits for overseas owners?

Is that how Privatisation works?

Is this the actual business model of privatised electricity?

freediver wrote on Oct 30^th, 2025 at 2:13pm:



It's all about Govt mismanagement.
A new coal fired power station should have been built in every State
and used as a resource when renewables fail and risk blackouts or brownouts.
They could have used low emission anthracite coal from the QLD Bowen Basin.
The Govt. could own them - not for sale -
owned by - we the people - for our energy security
and part of our national security in what should be a 1st world country.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 29^th, 2025 at 9:08am:




Not once.  Twice!

Bobby. wrote on Oct 30^th, 2025 at 2:25pm:


Coal is the next most expensive energy technology after nuclear. It gets even more expensive if you only use it intermittently. That is part of the reason our existing coal fired stations are struggling with maintenance issues - they were not designed to be ramped up and down as much as they are now.