Daves2017 wrote on Apr 12^th, 2026 at 8:49pm:






Norway is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of per capita income.
The Scandinavian nation owes this fact to its wealth of resources, particularly its rich offshore oil deposits.

Top 10 here:

https://www.vedantu.com/general-knowledge/richest-countries-in-the-world

flip

SadKangaroo wrote on Apr 13^th, 2026 at 11:01am:



So now you have Bobby's voting patterns?

Once again you seem to forget who it was who first demonised fossil fuels.

Today I’m really peeved!
I saw a week ago auto LP gas was .89 c per litre.
Then it went up too . During 98c week, now it’s $1.05 

WT heck does gas have to go up for? Competing with petrol/diesel?

And I had my pedicure today, pretty painted toe nails, 2 months ago it went from $35 to $45 (cash otherwise $5 extra on card)
And today it’s gone up again to $50 cash!

And my regular doctor doesn’t bill bill any more 
It was longer session (not rushed like usual) and was $125 (then Medicare pays about $85)

So today I go out and all I see are Kaching kaching price rises.

KimBobby. wrote on Apr 14^th, 2026 at 6:00pm:



Every vote counts….$3.78 each vote from the electorate commission ( us taxpayers).

Don’t stress about the issues.

Just seriously think which of these corrupt losers you want to give away for free the best part of YOUR $5.

That’s all that they really care about.

Money for nothing.

I’ve voted informally more than once.

Just didn’t see $5 worth in the corrupt candidates I had to choose from?

Bobby. wrote on Apr 14^th, 2026 at 6:00pm:


Your vote always matters.

The idea that "they only win anyway, no matter how bad they are" isn't some neutral shrug, it's an admission of preference. It says that even when the Liberal Party and their Coalition partners are responsible for the bulk of the outcomes you're complaining about, you still lean toward them. That's not disengagement, it's a choice.

And the irony is hard to miss. Pauline Hanson's One Nation is now operating on a comparable electoral footing to parts of the Coalition, and Pauline Hanson has just opposed measures aimed at strengthening domestic gas supply and lowering prices, while advancing her own model that secures supply without meaningfully breaking export-linked pricing. In other words, it protects industry margins while Australians continue paying near-global rates.

So no, this isn't abstract. Who you vote for, and who you amplify, directly shapes the policy landscape you're now criticising. Actions have consequences, even in so-called "safe" seats.

You could have voted for Laborand backed Bill Shorten, who actually took a suite of policies to the electorate aimed at addressing structural housing distortions and, critically, Australia's dangerously thin fuel reserve position. Instead, you talk as if outcomes just materialise out of thin air, detached from the choices that produced them, while tacitly lining up behind Scott Morrison and the Coalition.

If you're serious about the issues you keep raising, then act like it. Reassess the political instincts that keep steering you toward the very outcomes you criticise, or stop pretending this is all some external imposition.

You're not an observer here, you're a participant, and you're getting exactly what those choices deliver.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:56am:


It saddens me that you don't even know what you voted against...

Shorten went to the election with a clear fuel security policy, increasing onshore reserves to meet our obligations, mandating minimum stockholdings held here in Australia, and investing in domestic refining capacity so we weren't dangerously reliant on imports and fragile global supply chains.

Bobby, you didn't vote for that. You voted for Morrison's approach, which was effectively to let the market handle it, allow local refineries to close, and then try to paper over the growing vulnerability by "storing" fuel offshore, including that widely mocked deal to keep Australian reserves in the United States. That wasn't fuel security, it was outsourcing the problem and hoping nothing would go wrong.

And now something has gone wrong.

We're more exposed than ever to global disruptions, shipping constraints, and geopolitical instability. We have less domestic refining capacity than we did a decade ago, thinner buffers, and a system that runs on "just in time" logistics in a world that is increasingly anything but stable.

If Shorten's policy had been implemented, we'd be sitting on larger, mandated reserves inside Australia, with stronger domestic infrastructure to fall back on. That doesn't make us immune, but it gives us breathing room, options, and leverage.

Instead, what you voted for, even in your safe seat, left us reactive, exposed, and scrambling every time there's a shock to the system.

So when you ask "what would Shorten have done", the more honest question is, what did Morrison do, because that's the policy you chose, and this is the outcome.

This is why being an informed voter, not just obsessing over trans athletes is so important.

But we can't have nice things, so I guess just vote for PHON because of immigrants and we'll be just as buggered as the US is right now.