rainynight65
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Migrated from rainynight65@feddit.de, which now appears to be dead. Sadly lost my comment history in the process. Let’s start fresh.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 5 months ago:
He was educated. Didn’t make him smart.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 5 months ago:
I’d say the entire Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison trifecta was terrible.
Abbott was definitely out of his depth as PM, he never stopped being the leader of the opposition and was always pugilistic, impulsive and didn’t think things through. He promised stable leadership but didn’t have his party under enough control to ensure it - probably because he sort of skated into the role because those who the party actually wanted didn’t make it. He got into power on the back of a campaign focused on debt and deficit, but had no policies to address it and I don’t think he ever intended to. He played his pet issues but was aggressively ineffective at everything else.
Turnbull was a devastating disappointment. Hated by his own party, only used as a more popular and sensible replacement for the ousted Abbott, but never having any party backing for his agenda. I’d say he flamed out, but he was never even on fire. Reneged on his promises and ambitions for fear of reprisals from his party - a spineless creature whose years in power were an absolute waste and a net loss for the country.
And then of course Morrison. A sociopath who bradbury’d into the role because enough people in the party room had the self-awareness to realise Dutton as party leader would be a disaster. Obviously Morrison schemed his way through that entire leadership crisis and lied whenever he opened his mouth, not least when professing his support for the embattled Turnbull. He was probably the most useless PM, out of the country in times of crisis and actively refusing to show leadership. Not to mention the shameful mishandling of the pandemic.
Collectively these three set back social, economic and political development in this country back by at least a decade. We’re all worse off thanks to the nine years of having these three clowns in power.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 5 months ago:
Howard was to Australia what Thatcher was to the UK and Reagan to the US. He ushered in neoliberalism and set the Liberal Party on an accelerated course towards right wing christian fundamentalism.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 5 months ago:
That’s nice, but how does that help people who, to this day, can’t get any ‘NBN’ other than satellite?
- Comment on David Crisafulli backtracks on promise to resign if crime victim numbers do not fall under an LNP government 5 months ago:
Because he has no plan to address the causes of crime, only a plan for harsher punishments. So he has no realistic way of reducing victim numbers.
No surprises here.
- Comment on Australia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believe 5 months ago:
It still means that fewer young people commit crimes than what used to be the case. It’s not like people stopped having children. And if the youths who used to commit crimes are now adults who commit crimes, they no longer class as youth crimes.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 months ago:
If the Libs win, I hope they go full Newman again and get kicked out after one term. I’m not exactly enamoured with QLD Labor but bloody hell anything is better than the toxic Libs in this state.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 months ago:
If only you could see the ‘newspapers’ in Queensland, every other front page has ‘young crims’ scaremongering and they make it sound like Townsville and such are hellholes where people are terrorised by young criminals day and night without reprieve.
Weird how the LNP’s only answer to this is ‘adult crime, adult time’. Like, literally, zero policies on how to prevent youth crime, how to help children with better education and more perspectives for their future. Nothing. Just harsher punishments.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 months ago:
If a woman seeks abortion at that stage, it is almost guaranteed to be due to a condition that would seriously endanger her, the baby, or both, if the pregnancy was carried to term. Nobody just decides after 27 weeks that they simply don’t want the baby. In these cases, inducing to deliver the baby will likely not help the baby and it could still seriously harm the mother.
What this guy proposes would be, in most cases, indistinguishable from an abortion, but way more harmful for everyone involved. It’s telling that it is usually men who try to push these kinds of law.
- Comment on 'It's going to scar them': NT to become first jurisdiction to lower criminal age of responsibility 6 months ago:
The fact that this is the new (liberal) governments first priority speaks volumes. Their approach to crime is all about punishment and retaliation, not about prevention and mitigation.
Treating ten year old children like adults when they mess up is going to do them a world of harm.
- Many cheered when banks eliminated ATM fees in 2017 – but now it’s a struggle to find onewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Labor threatens to cancel visas for ‘inciting discord’ after protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon 6 months ago:
They’re scared of being labelled as ‘weak on National security’, ‘weak on terrorism’ and ‘antisemitic’ by the coalition.