Grumpy Old Nasho

A Two-State solution is more important than precarious job positions in Australia. Think about how you vote in the future.

A strange thing happened at Hawker DeHavilland's before I was dragged away like I was a Jew going to an internment camp for slaughter. Everyone in the factory was working harder and faster. I asked an older bloke why that was. He said it's because of our commitment to the war in Vietnam. But the feeling I got from it, was not one of patriotism, but that their primary concern was hanging on to their jobs in the belief they too might end up directly involved in the war somehow if they didn't put in an extra effort at their machines.

Yeah we have flooding, bushfires, heatwaves, storms, cold snaps, lightning strikes, inland dust storms that reach the coast. Insurance premiums are unaffordable, rent is half your wage, cars are expensive to keep, food is expensive, mobile phone plan is expensive ... all added together, there's no money left, broke until next payday. Better off staying where you are and put up with the religion and corruption. We have Islamic muslims here now and the majority believe the Quran and Sharia come first. We also have Sikhs, and Hindus who dislike Muslims. Religion will ruin Australia eventually.

Stay where you are, it's too expensive here. Try China instead.

He's more interested in saving the United States from international socialism.

Well, you guys worship the major parties, the ALP and the Coalition, who in the 60s introduced compulsory military service. Two year jail sentence for failing to comply.

Young voters really need to learn about the consequences of voting, rather than just the "feel good" aspect of voting for a party they think will be on their side. If a muslim English Channel boat person rapes their girlfriend, and the party responsible was the party they voted for, they'll suffer extreme "voters remorse". So they should be made to study the policies of the various parties first before attending a polling booth. 16y/olds are too young to know how 40-60y/old candidates think deceptively.

Not really fair then, is it?

Democracy only serves the majority, everyone else misses out.

You can't make that comparison Nev, because Parliament is designed to treat each other like shyte.

In the 60's there was no checks at all for conscripts with mental health issues. My autism I was born with, a lifelong affliction, wasn't detected during the mandatory medical check, there was simply no check for it, so I suffered abuse from NCOs and Officers for the whole two years of conscription. They could tell something was wrong with me, but they still kept the abuse going. They were animals, with no respect for human life, much like the cops and politicians are today. Mental health is a non issue, except when they're trying to convince the public that an offender is not a terrorist, but has mental health issues instead.

Legal immigration would be good, but not illegal immigration.

Only if the ALP and the Coalition allow it, otherwise nothing will change or be improved, unless it's favorable to them.

The Army in the 60's was communist, everyone was equal, there was no private property, it was all owned by the State. Orders came down from the top, criticism wasn't tolerated, democracy was non-existent, everyone was dressed the same, and everyone was indoctrinated to think the same, punishment was dished out to anyone who deviated from the system.

The Labor party is the left leaning side, they are currently governing Australia, and with the Coalition in turmoil (due to my curse), Labor has free reign to carry on with it's "half-brain" leftwing politics.

The voters decided to elect the half-brain that appealed to them the most at the Fed election just gone. This is the base line of our politics, the best half-brain wins. Do ya'll get it now?

Why does the human brain have two hemispheres? And why are some humans dominated by only one hemisphere, and other humans dominated by the other hemisphere? Actually, it's a subconscious "choice", you can switch over if you train yourself to do it. Labor "chooses" to be dominated by their right side hemisphere. The conservative Coalition "chooses" to be dominated by their left side hemisphere. Both are conditioned "half-brains", opposing each other in Parliament.

Reminds me of the Liberal Coalition dumping 60's conscripts in the gutter once they'd finished with them.

Aren't you guys Middle Class? Trump is saving the middle class in the US.

Trump is making America healthy again.

If you took away your left side cerebral hemisphere, the conservative side, well, that's what we have now politically. Only a half a brain is running the country.

Cut the cost of keeping them in jail, crims get it too good now. Punish them more by giving them less benefits in jail, and cut out parole.

What's wrong with instructing the judges to impose much heavier sentences ... 100 days community service for robbery should be replaced with 500 days in jail ... 8 years in jail for manslaughter should be replaced with 20 years in jail ... 25 years for murder should be replaced with 35 years ... and abolish parole, it's useless.

I see that as a major flaw in our system - twenty years was far too long. Our system needs to be changed so that everyone gets a look in regardless of election results. Democracy could be more inclusive so that an elected government can't just do what it likes. Controversial policies, which many of them are, need to be thrashed out in public as well as in Parliament to eliminate the "controversy". Only then should they be implemented. For you guys, I'll start a thread about the "Feast and Famine Variable". You'll find it unbelievable because I discovered it. I discovered it in 1979, and researched it ever since.

It still boils down to the fact that the electorate was in the wrong during the 60s, and the social change, if any, was too little to put sense into peoples heads. But I don't remember any social change then anyway. It all came in 72. Big changes came after Vietnam, it was the main catalyst. The problem was, Whitlam waited till the next election in 72 to put forth those changes. The whole nation should have been discussing changes from 65 - on, but no, everyones self interest was the order of the day, selfish and couldn't give a stuff. In the meantime a great deal of damage was being done to the young blokes. No one took responsibility for their own bastardry, which included the voting electorate. They were wrong, but won't admit it. They can't wait for the conscripts die off, so they don't have to think about them any longer. So the one social change that didn't come about, when it should have, was compensating young blokes for being conscripted when it wasn't necessary to conscript them. Everyone now agrees with that. They are still the same today, because the system is still the same today .. wait till the next election to put forth changes.