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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/24/one-nation-pauline-hanson-integrity-she-breaks-rules-ntwnfb 5 undeclared gifted flights in 6 months. If this were a member of Labor or the LNP you could hear the usual suspects frothing about the "corrupt major parties". Yep she's just an honest Aussie battler, isn't she!

No, we don't need massive change. Massive change is disruptive and hurts many people. Unintended consequences are greater in size and impact. Australia is a well functioning democracy. Are there things we can improve? Definitely. Are massive changes required? No.

As bad as complacency is, One nation is worse. Trump is a protest vote. Look how that's going.

Source?

He's the ultimate snake oil salesman. Back in the early 1900s, travelling salesmen would sell "miracle cures" to naive country folk. Said remedies did absolutely nothing, of course, except leave the victim poorer and still sick. Trump is exactly the same. A liar and braggart. Promised to "drain the swamp" when in fact he's the biggest alligator ever to inhabit any level of government. Promised to "make America great again" and has only made it worse. Promised to make ordinary people's lives better and has only raised prices, lowered healthcare, and made billionaires richer. Promised to start no wars and has invaded multiple countries. A rapist, fraudulent, morally (and multiple financially) bankrupt huckster who has fooled the religious into believing he's god's choice. Someone totally devoid of tact, empathy, diplomacy or character. In fact, if you were to say "Apart from death row inmates, who is the public figure with the least Presidential qualities?", the answer would be "Donald Trump".

If they hadn't started a war at all it would have been best.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/20/Australian-Mining-Billionaire-Sues-Canada/ Sure mate. Have a read of that. Support this horrible woman all you want but don't be blind to what type of person she is. When you get to a certain level of wealth you have the ability to distort democracy. From the article - " subsequent rulings by the Court of Appeal, Court of King’s Bench and Supreme Court of Canada repeatedly found that Northback had no legal case." So Gina's company pushed their vexatious claim through every level of Canada's legal system and were knocked back each time. Then they went for the last refuge of the mega rich multinational, Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). If you don't know what that is, research it. Phillip Morris and Clive Palmer have attempted ISDS cases against Australia and thankfully were unsuccessful. Before you say "go petition your politician", a few years ago I did exactly that, sending emails to every lower house member pleading that Australia not be a part of ISDS. I believe that we now do not include ISDS provisions in any trade agreements. But that hasn't stopped Gina from trying to steal $7b from Canadian taxpayers for a project she spent $220m on. Still a Gina fanboi?

Billionaires shouldn't exist. There's no reason for anyone to have more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime.

4 men out of thousands. Do you have a point?

Good job a lot of us have the ability to work from home now.

PHON has a habit of imploding because they don't care how dodgy their candidates are. Their pick for Adelaide just got quietly removed as he has an arrest warrant in the UK...

I really feel sorry for the normal Americans (they're the ones who didn't vote for this idiot) having to see how cringe their president is.

Interesting talk on Late Night Live about Pauline. I can't see how to get a link to it but if you go to ABC.net.au/listen and click on Radio National, it's one of the top picks.

Iran has stated it's letting any ships through which aren't supplying the US or its allies. China gets something like 95% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz and those ships aren't being attacked.

Congrats OME! Hope it was a biggie.

Just overheard a great line in the tearoom... "The only war Trump had an exit strategy for, was Vietnam!"

Cuba, huh. Didn't Iran provide enough distraction from the Epstein files?

Giving dad a beer keg. Jeez you could make a dozen answers.

You're right - I must have forgotten. $755. Is the bike over 30 years old? I think that's a requirement for SI. I thought people over 60 got a discount on rego too. Don't want to make any assumptions but I'm reasonably confident you're in that bucket...

Peter, that seems high. I registered mine last year and can't remember it costing more than the car. Does that include stamp duty on the purchase cost?

The ATO might have bigger fish to fry.

9 (+10+11+12+13)

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Pull over and see what the cop does.

Even if he's in perfect health it makes sense to stay hidden. His father, wife and at least one child have already been killed, and Trumpanyahu have said they want to kill him too. If it's open season on leaders, not sure why Putin, Trump and Netanyahu aren't fair game too.