Marty_d

Absolutely vote how you like. Just be aware of who owns the party you're voting for. They will be doing HER will, not yours or any other "Traditional Aussies".

What I would comment on is the extent to which PHON is owned by Gina. Read the following article if you haven't eaten. Pauline is fed, clothed and transported with Gina's money. She is a wholly owned subsidiary. For anyone considering voting for One nation, you're actually voting for Gina, an unelected and Trump loving billionaire. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/30/gina-rinehart-one-nation-pauline-hanson-donations-ntwnfb

But in answer to your question - I would start a foundation with very smart and trustworthy people at the top, with the remit to determine the underlying causes of the most urgent problems affecting people - climate change, inequality, poverty, access to health care / education / justice / clean water / food etc, and the most effective way of lessening those problems. Every billionaire out there could give 99% of their wealth to endeavours like this and still live very comfortable lives. The fact that they don't speaks volumes about their character.

Ruining democracy seems to be the activity of choice.

A perk of the job

Then don't get an electric car if it doesn't suit you. If town is only 80km away why would you have to charge there? Even if it being all uphill used twice as much charge as usual, that's only 160km and obviously you'd use half as much charge going downhill, so another 40km makes 200 for your round trip. Most EVs have a range of 450 or more so just charge at home.

GON, under what law would any government "throw out" Australian citizens born in Australia?

I think governments around the world are keenly aware that standing up to Trump is politically popular. If Trump ramps up the rhetoric against Australia I reckon Albo will start being less restrained in response. At the moment it's only Andrew Hastie that publicly speaks common sense about Trump - I'm sure a lot of his sentiments are shared widely around the parliament but at the moment they're not done in front of the press.

Watch the 2024 movie "Civil War" - I think it's a possibility there. I just hope that as a society we can learn lessons from the horrible shit Trump and his puppet masters are causing over there.

Nobody gets it right 100% of the time, but the ABC are head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to accuracy.

What a pathetic loser. Imagine being in the most powerful office on the planet and still being so insecure you have to build gaudy oversized edifices in your own honour. Definitely compensating for an awful lot.

Nope. That's a balanced news organisation which actually fact checks.

Feel free to point out when a journalist actually has worked for a solar panel or wind turbine manufacturer for 2 years.

I'm not an economist either but I think it's intended to suppress demand. The basic idea is that forcing people to pay more on their home loan leaves less money for other things (yes I know - like food and medical costs) so demand across the economy goes down, supply remains the same, so this is meant to push prices down. That's what I think anyway - happy to be corrected by someone who actually knows.

Maybe it's a cunning plan to stop despairing intelligent people from fleeing the US.