change of guard

[mellie]

Looks like the Coalition are so defeated, they've capitulated into Leftism.
We're screwed!

Our Nationals are still going strong, I think by next election, Australians will have had enough time to realise the economy is the glue that holds everything together and that the toxic culture of Western liberalism small (c) Communism wasn't such a great idea afterall.

[Black Orchid]

LNP don't have a chance until they get rid of Sussan Ley. Sooner rather than later.

[mellie]

Liberals need to knuckle-down and stop trying to sell themselves as being something they're not, rather need to focus on being great at what they've always done well.

Sound economic manager's, maintaining strong and dependable defence alliances, equality for all, not just some who are milking the gravy train which is quickly drying up. Smart about developing land and natural resources, bring back the benefits of hard work and make financial management a compulsory subject in our schools. There are people on low-incomes exploiting charity, particularly those who have come to the lucky country to take, rather than give. Patriotism is at an all time low, we've become a divided nation of bitter battlers who have a very dark world view.
Even the way we see ourselves is dark, we have lost our sense of humour and the ability to laugh at ourselves.

We need to focus less on what's happening overseas and more on what's happening here, in our own backyard. I'm not saying we should become narrow- minded or insular, just start caring for ourselves and eachother again.

Charity begins at home, and how may we respect others when we have little respect for ourselves? Our leaders, our authority figures our own country?

We need to fix our public institutions, Health, Education and Housing and the prison system, immigration, and re-set ourselves.

Our delinquents of today are our prisoners of tomorrow, we need to build work-house style prisons again, tell me why our local public hospital has a linen service provide freshly laundered linen, when we once had prisoners providing this service?

And why is garbage lining the sides of our freeways again, it's been years since I've seen prisoners out cleaning highways our major roads of garbage or digging weeds out of public spaces for local councils. Don't prisoners have to work their way to an early parole, or is early parole a given due to a critical shortage of prison cell vacancies?

If they're learning skills and working hard on the inside, then they're less likely to have the energy or inclination to cause problems in their prison environment and are more likely to continue working and expanding on their prison aquired skills once released. Less yoga, meditation and mindfulness, gaming and more actual work and learning skills or a trade would go a long way towards deterring reoffending.

Idle hands are the devils tools, which is why the left are keen to destroy generations of Australian kids, in order to free-up employment opportunities for migrants.

Put discipline back into our schools. Homework, clean uniforms, polished shoes, correct uniform, no make-up or hair dye, or rats- tails, unconventional hair-cuts, or pearcings other than ears for females only. The separation of sexes for certain subjects, like PE, personal development, and sport.

Mandatory personal hygiene.... if they stink, then they will be required to take a shower at school and their parents required to bring a clean uniform, underware, socks, and antiperspirant deodorant nit/regular shampoo shampoo up to the school so their kids can be discretely instructed to bathe privately so they don't offend nor distract students and staff from teaching and learning. Some kids don't even know how to bathe correctly, and don't even use a washer or soap. Teach them!!!
Public school kids are becoming increasingly odious, can't honestly expect kids or staff to endure the stench of bacteria colonising human youths bodies all day long, it's just revolting.
My daughter told me that not having to smell the body odours at her former public school all day long was one of the best things about changing schools.
She said that she had trouble eating her lunch in the classroom with some of them, and it's always the same ones who reek.
If they are offending others, their parents and the students need to be called out for it.
Our standards have declined over the last 50 years, when they should be improving, at either private or public schools, or is it that poverty is supposed to smell this way?

Compulsory bulk-billed GP appointments, and stop accepting tellehealth medical certificates for kids absent from school. If children are constantly having time off school for being unwell, then DHS needs to investigate and find out why.
Bring back truant officers, make parents accountable for their kids again.

If minors are out engaging in loitering aka precursor to crime, then charge parents with negligence, neglect and FINE THEM.
Can't fine them? Don't have the money? Community engagement activities, ie volunteering, helping out at local schools canteen or local council owned centres and facilities ie, health care centres, local pool , council work. There's always a need for extra hands within our local communities, even those who are disabled can be assessed for volunteer work activities that is within their range of ability. Reading stories to 2 to 5 year olds or singing songs at the local library. If on pensions and physically unable to do any kind of work, then apoint DHS supervisors to households to perform spot checks, in order to determine if they require services to assist with caring for children. How about graffiti removal? A skill they could be taught in prison and partake in for local councils.

Bring back work for the dole.

Every school class lesson/core learning activity should be available to stream and access at home for those unable to attend school for whatever reason, and be made available to assist parents with helping their own children to understand also.
Parenting classes at local primary schools for those needing support with caring for their children.
Don't give me the "cultural " exemption card excuse for certain parents wanting to skip these classes.

Education and raising families needs to be taken more seriously in this country. Would love us to become world leaders in this, we have the unique opportunity of being able to do things OUR WAY and do it better. Why aren't we?

And become more self sufficient and accountable.

Can't blame Trump for everything.....


We are fast becoming a nation of lazy stinky sweaty Lefties ....









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[Black Orchid]

Dan Andrews attended China's commie fest. As did Bob Carr. Both useful idiots.

[mellie]

Dan Andrews attended China's commie fest. As did Bob Carr. Both useful idiots.

Suckholing clowns

Though not without precautions .. Xi has sensibly hidden all ride- share bicycles around Tiananmen Square, in case Dan gets a bit towie around cyclist's and well you you know, decides to flip a snag on the grill again , and Xi has ensured the palace installed multiple chairlifts too, not wanting to take any chances with Dan or Carr around stairs, and Bob Car ... well he didn't want grotty old red-nosed Bob staggering into the ladies powderoom or telling his dirty school- boy jokes in the gents, so employed a couple of soviet minders.

Can never be too careful, particularly with this duo of accident-prone political car wrecks.

With any luck, Xi will keep them there

I can't believe that I had a slight crush on Dan during Covid, likely a form of Stockholm syndrome by proxy.

[Black Orchid]

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I can't believe that I had a slight crush on Dan during Covid, likely a form of Stockholm syndrome by proxy.

Nor can I

I almost choked when you said Commie Dan would make a great PM though but I'm glad you've come to your senses. Even Albo is a prince in comparison.

We need someone a lot better than Ley leading the Libs though. Once Albo is done and dusted those who will replace him are far left potential commies that we can't afford to allow into office. At least Albo is a moderate and very few of them remain on the left. He'll be the last.

[mellie]

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I can't believe that I had a slight crush on Dan during Covid, likely a form of Stockholm syndrome by proxy.

Nor can I

I almost choked when you said Commie Dan would make a great PM though but I'm glad you've come to your senses. Even Albo is a prince in comparison.

We need someone a lot better than Ley leading the Libs though. Once Albo is done and dusted those who will replace him are far left potential commies that we can't afford to allow into office. At least Albo is a moderate and very few of them remain on the left. He'll be the last.

NO WAAAAY, you can't be serious BO, Dan (pre-hunchback) before CFMEU bikies paid him a covid lockdown visit at his holiday house , a welfare check apparently, was not at all bad, and besides, I think my own central nervous system desperately needed the lockdown effect, because crazy as this sounds, I really enjoyed the break from a chaotic life experience that was whirling out of control at the time and it gave our family the opportunity to spend quality old-fashioned 80s style time together. My crazy ex had no choice but to accept being caught out of his own lockdown zone was not going to be a good look , so we finally felt safe.
And my mother got stuck down in Vic for several months, it snowed too, I enjoyed home-schooling my daughter and even our neighbours kids (their parents had to work) and we did jigsaw puzzles, played board games, went out on adventure trecks, even gold panning in our local creek ... ( we found gold too) gazed at the stars and planets, fished, and got back to basics.... baking staples from scratch, making our own fun, watching endless films , the kind you promise yourself you'll force the kids to watch but never do, lol and the kids directed their own hilarious stage productions together ( Bluey style) had camp-fires making damper on sticks dunked in golden syrup, smores, out in the backyard, and ok, there were enough times when we were devastated of course, the grim death toll/ new case counts .... worrying about and missing family and friends, church, and going out to eat a meal, an actual meal that I didn't have to cook .... But it was incredible for us. Was great to get back to basics, slow down and enjoy my child before she grew up too fast before my eyes at the speed of sound.

We still do covid lockdown weekends, ( Thanks Dan ) whereby we do the same things we did during covid, especially over long weekends, and it's so comforting feeling all hunkered down and in no hurry to do something urgently or go somewhere we'd prefer not to ie,a birthday party etc

It was a bitter sweet, but I am not alone in this, plenty of other parents up at the school agree that this aspect of being completely locked down was novel, wonderful and ignited a desire to be more humble, more grateful, more likely to check-in on our neighbours, remember what matters most of all.

Modern life is too fast, raising children feels like a blur, but it doesn't have to be, we just need to slowdown ourselves mentally, whenever possible to re-set

Time to just stop and recalibrate, really think about all the things we'd not have enough time or energy to ponder too much about before covid.

Has Covid made us all better human beings?

Unlikely, but I think it's reminded us that life is precious and too short to waste on things that really don't matter and invest more into the the things that do.

I'd like to think that it's been a humbling and in some way a positive experience for us all in some way, but for many reasons, of course this cannot be said, given the cost of human life, and assorted other reasons too many to list here, and too unsettling to say.

But rest assured BO, my tiny little crush was only fleeting, I think it was the whole romance of living in a different time and space I got swept up in, family law courts had grinded to a refreshing halt, everyone was confined to their own zones, so we felt safe and cozey enough to start living again.

Feeling safe.

Take a breath aaaah.

You already know our back- story and situation, so won't revisit this, but am glad to say, we came out of lockdowns much happier than we went in and unscathed.

I know this isn't everyone's experience though, and for those who lost loved ones or even pets, or were estranged from loved ones, I understand, and I am sorry if I sound as though we enjoyed ourselves, because I felt this bitter aspect of it too, just we were fortunate enough to have our family, my youngest daughter and grandaughter and eldest daughter, my stepdaughter and my son and daughter in law and my mother + father here with us for most of it, not all together at once of course lol. .. but through a decent amount of it to be able to say that we felt safe and blessed.

Friends too, as we'd organise socially responsible get-togethers too. Did any of us breach lockdown laws? Well, perhaps , I'll have to see if I can recall....????? ☺
Most of our family chose to get vaccinated anyway to protect vulnerable people within our communities, a decision we don't regret, but I respect others right to disagree and excercise their own free-will, and choose whats best for their own families.

It's not my place to decide what's right for others.

Some of our closest friends and relatives chose not to get vaccinated, and so long as people are socially responsible about their choices ie, don't go around spreading germs when they're obviously unwell, it's fine, but this is how we all should behave anyway, particularly around vulnerable people regardless of what virus we have.

No?

Covid is just another strain of flu, another to add to the list of communicable diseases.

Fortunately for most of us it was quite mild, although my last bout was a bit scary

[mellie]

I feel that since covid, Australians have become more extreme, less chill, ie, we have too many clans fighting with eachother, the vaxxers -vrs- anti vaxxers theBlacks -vrs-whites the Conservative-vrs- progressive, the people who double dunk their chicken nuggets-vrs- those who don't ( I don't btw) .... and all this shit and more is what's divided us as a nation, and of course, where does this leave our politicians?

In a position whereby they no longer even have to win our votes, because we have already sold our souls to them before their campaigns even hit the trail.

They get paid enough, make them work hard for our votes, we need to sit back, chill, and stop allowing social media and AI chat-bots and those out there igniting fires only to promise to douse the flames get the better of us.

We are Australia's, and we're better than that, smarter too.

We need to stop making it easy for them, and stop settling for second best.

If Trump can bounce back, why not Scott Morrison?

He was ousted at a time when the world was struggling with a pandemic, and until such time Liberals can deliver something as good as or better, I will not vote.

They need to sing for their supper like the rest of us.

I am not taking 2nd best, or near enough....I want someone great, someone who is genuinely invested in delivering better outcomes for ALL AUSTRALIANS, especially our kids.

Besides, there's a first time or everything.

[mellie]

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Sorry, yes I'm still posting via my phone.lol

Those in favour of all of us posting on PA using laptops say I those to the contrary say ...

IPhone ( sic)

[mellie]

How about Tony Abbott?

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