Those old entertainers wheeled out once again.   

Jasin wrote on Jan 1^st, 2026 at 11:01am:



Fireworks?

Tax payers money going up in smoke.   

Jasin wrote on Jan 1^st, 2026 at 11:08am:



I can think of 100 better ways to spend my sacred tax payers money
than letting off fire crackers.
What a childish lot of nonsense.   

The world is laughing at Sydney's farcical NYE ABC Lefty broadcast.

As one critic put it. "What does Playschool have to do with end of year celebration and especially at 10pm as if kids will be up at that time?!"

Taxpayers charged again for the cost of having Foreign Entertainers like Mel Spicey has been.

Just more selfish self indulgent ABC Leftism from Planet Un Australian and Anti Youth because they don't support Palestine and will riot against Moslems.

Jasin wrote on Jan 1^st, 2026 at 6:53pm:

Don't know what you mean, was it a local party near you?

mothra wrote on Jan 1^st, 2026 at 6:40pm:

You have been diagnosed.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 1^st, 2026 at 11:10am:


I loved the awesome fireworks display, much more entertaining than your taxpayer money.

Though the  French celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the restoration of Notre Dame were more aesthetically and musically stimulating, with imaginative visual displays and  perfomances of modern (electronic, folk, etc) and classical music by top notch global performers, inside and outside the very grand cathedral.

A celebration of culture which enhances the world.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 12:16pm:



Yeah yeah - like the Romans - give them bread and circuses -

you know what happened to their empire?

Comment from another forum:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/we-have-been-warned/



The ABC provides a useful megaphone for Labor’s leftist policies and conflates
criticism of bias with ‘political interference’.

Clearly, the ABC’s intellectual and moral compass is broken; it sides
with Hamas while championing feminism, knowing that under Islamic law,
women suffer discrimination. And it promotes gay rights, aware that in
Palestine, the LGBTIQA+ community would be imprisoned or worse.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 2:46pm:



You try and tell Maurice Newman of the Spectator that.   

ABC will do next year's program with Moslems firing machine guns in the air as inclusiveness.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 6:08pm:


I have no cobwebs, Bobby.  tsk, tsk, Tsk...

Mainstream Lefty Media is a who you know elitist gumleaf Mafia ripping off Australian taxpayers.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 3:26pm:


Maurice Newman?

He's a RW ideologue elected as chairman to the ABC who proves your 'Lefty ABC' narrative is garbage.

eg

(Spectator)

Gone to Gough
The return of socialist Australia
by Maurice Newman

https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/08/gone-to-gough/

Observing the Albanese government today, many older Australians could think they have been transported back fifty years to the days of Gough Whitlam.

True, Albanese Labor is yet to seek money from the Iraqi Ba’ath Socialist party to meet mounting campaign debts or employ a shady Pakistani businessman to bypass due process and secretly borrow four billion US dollars for ‘temporary purposes’. Nevertheless, today’s ALP did court Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist party to secure donations and lock in Chinese votes in key seats. And foreign affairs is where the sense of déjà vu is especially striking including fundamentally realigning Australia’s traditional relationships.

....proving Newman is a stinking Neoclassical, anti-'socialist' ideologue; Gough, like Menzies before him,  maintained sufficient public housing to ensure everyone was decently housed in Oz. But the Arab oil embargo in the 70s  wrecked the post-war Keynesian 'welfare state' economy, forcing Gough to raise funds in unconventional ways.

Fast forward to the present: the whole world is suffering a cost of living and housing crisis, under mainstream Neoclassical economics.

Hence - lo and behold, we have a brand new socialist elected as mayor in NY (a real socialist, not a fake one like Albo):    

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1645944963/1380

(Daily Mail)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani moves quickly to implement socialist reforms

(excerpt)

Mamdani reached out to voters who backed Donald Trump in the presidential election and himself in the mayoral election, saying he understood that the rocketing cost of living was their primary concern. 'Many of these people have been betrayed by the established order. But in our administration, their needs will be met,' Mamdani said. 'Their hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government. They will shape our future.' Mamdani met with Trump in the Oval Office in November 2025, with the Republican president full of praise for the new star of the Democrat party. Mamdani , who was born in Uganda, has promised to offer free daycare and free buses across the city. He also plans to enact a millionaire tax, with critics warning that his policies could drive out the super-rich, whose taxes fund public services in the Big Apple.

See the problem: the super-rich supposedly fund public services, yet there is a cost-of-livng and housing crisis in NY - and around the world.

Hence the start of the 'socialist' revival in 'the land of the brave and the free' itself.

What were you saying about me needing to consult Maurice - when his very chairmanship of the ABC proves Auntie is as subject to delusional RW ideology as you.

flip

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 1:06pm:




Oh come on Brian DD -

you must have said dozens of times that China is no threat to us.      tsk, tsk, Tsk...

(hey, what about Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) sending out Australia's security iron-ore national government treasury deposits votes shipments to China?)

Jasin wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 2:16pm:


Fantasy.  I haven't visited Sydney in over 40 years, Jasin.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 2:30pm:




https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1705316226/195#195


Reply #198

China has the largest navy in the world and they are building ships
20 times faster than the USA - right now.
They will have 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030.
They have an enormous army of millions of soldiers.
They are making hypersonic missiles and other high tech weapons.
If they attack Taiwan we could be drawn into it by the Yanks.

Liar. We know you got a life membership at your local Mosque because you fell to your knees on a rug and grovelled with your fake doctorate of divinity.

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 6:27pm:



Nonsense -
4 Chinese navy warships circumnavigated Australia not long ago and they
even did live fire exercises that put civilian airliners at risk over the Tasman Sea
without warning our aviation authorities.

Brian - are you a CCP apologist?