Cypher
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- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 6 days ago:
Menzies oversaw the nation building that occurred after WW2 and everything that has come since has been heavily influenced by his work.
Though I do rate Whitlam and Hawke highly as well so Im pretty happy with responses in this thread!
- Comment on 'Nothing short of horrifying': Rental affordability in Australia the worst it's ever been, report says 6 months ago:
Rent got high enough it matched the interest on a loan for me… so now I’m a home owner.
Understandably not everyone is in that position but I hope we can boost home ownership rates or we’re in for a very bad time.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
The performers time is not infinitely reproducible so your argument is apples and oranges.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
There are diesel Kawasaki KLR motorcycles that will run on literally anything, not that they’re very fast but they would at least preserve your stamina for when you need it.
They’re also extremely robust and simple to repair.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
Well at least the AK is reliable because you’ll need it when the Jeep breaks down.
- Comment on Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review" 1 year ago:
I was looking forward to playing Elite with PS VR2 but they don’t bother supporting it, and I couldn’t even get the account sync to work.
It’s the one game I have refunded on PS5.
- Comment on Why did there need to be a vote? 1 year ago:
You are correct, I will leave my post as is though.
- Comment on Why did there need to be a vote? 1 year ago:
Australians do not vote for a Prime Minister, we vote for a political party which nominates its Prime Minister in the event of an election victory.
By convention parties nominate the PM before and promote them during the campaign. PMs can however be chucked out by their own party without a vote by the public, as happened with Kevin Rudd.
- Comment on I’m not racist, I’m a “progressive no” 1 year ago:
Your post is poorly framed, I assume the title is something your partner said and not your actual thoughts.
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
$3.50 with onions but sadly the bread was a bit stale.
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
How dare you, the dropbear is a deadly predator and this sort of misinformation costs dozens of tourists their lives every year!
The democracy sausage underpins our nation, without it we’d have fallen to the commies.
- Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations 1 year ago:
Albanese’s defeat speach fell flat and was weak. Just more dithering and deflection. For a self proclaimed conviction politician he sure can’t muster any fire in his rhetoric.
Dutton’s speach was solid, hit all the talking points and will likely see an approval rating rise. Yet it was full of lies, promises of action on housing and cost of living issues which his government created. Promises to improve defence which rotted under Liberal leadership.
Promises for funds to communities in need, the same communities the Liberals stripped $500 million in funding from.
I was happy to hear a journalist call out Dutton’s claim that an audit into where the money is spent, as Liberals were in power for a long time and should know exactly where it went!
- Comment on NSW Police considering using ‘extraordinary’ powers at Sydney pro-Palestinian rally this weekend 1 year ago:
Australian police need to back the fuck down and accept that Australian’s have the right to peaceful protest, or they’ll get protests without the peace.
This especially goes for their actions against climate activists.
- Comment on Five years. A thousand messages. How a top public servant tried to influence governments 1 year ago:
Pezullo is a threat to our democracy and should have been dumped the second Labor got in.
Failing to axe Pezullo was a sign of weakness.
- Comment on I'm no longer five years old in Lismore — but I am shocked by the power racism still has over me 1 year ago:
The “progressive” no vote, I have some respect for, but I also don’t think it’s a mainstream view, nor is it actually reasonable.
Allowing people to conflate all no voters with Nazis, because yes there are Nazis around, is chucking the baby out with the bath water.
The progressive no campaign absolutely has a point. Arguably a treaty has been achieved in Western Australia with the Noongar people and the world didn’t implode.
wa.gov.au/…/south-west-native-title-settlement
atns.net.au/hobbs-and-williams-on-the-noongar-set…
There is the possibility that voting for a voice now means a treaty would lack political capital or public approval for decades to come because we already voted for a voice.
Despite what some here may claim I count myself in the progrsesive no camp; this won’t be solved until we have treaty and merely saying that we will “get to it” in the future isn’t enough.
Martin Luther King said this on white moderates and their timelines and I believe it is true here, where this referendum only reflects actions on a white moderates timetable.
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…
who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.
- Comment on I'm no longer five years old in Lismore — but I am shocked by the power racism still has over me 1 year ago:
He’s lumping progressive no voters in with Nazis right out of the gate, you will get no where talking to him.
- Comment on What's the one thing thats common in Rats, Pigs , David and Belinda Goodwin? 1 year ago:
Oh so you know who the good people are because their opinions align with your own.
Nice to know you are the source of all morality, champ.
- Comment on What's the one thing thats common in Rats, Pigs , David and Belinda Goodwin? 1 year ago:
If the people living in the yes camp had 9 kids and you used that title this would be deleted within minutes.
- Hundreds of Aboriginal children likely buried in unmarked graves at three WA missionswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on These graphs show the stark difference between generations when it comes to the Voice 1 year ago:
Just to clarify, did you miss an “n’t” in there?
- Comment on When I visit certain communities, there are zero posts despite there being some while in different instances 1 year ago:
Obviously this account is on aussie.zone and I can only a handful of posts across all local communities, something is definitely up.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Streaming services seem to lower bitrate when I’m using Firefox vs Brave, so Brave is my go to for streaming.
I use Firefox for everything else.