Knobby22
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Stalwarts Kim Carr and Conchetta Wells won't be around after next election as their respective parties have removed their Senate spots.
Stalwarts Kim Carr and Conchetta Wells won't be around after next election as their respective parties have removed their Senate spots.
The Devil you know, eh?Well, we actually have to know something about the people we are voting for.
As useless as they may be , the big parties are a known quantity, and unless Indies are well known in their electorates they don't usually get up, and the mainstream media ignore them.
I was listening to Ray Dalio today.I'll simply observe that so many things are in such an extreme "kick the can" position, where the can can't be kicked much if any further, that change of some sort is inevitable no matter who wins.
Inflation, debt, energy, housing, international relations and so on. None can just keep going the way they've been going, it'll end up with disaster if they try that.
Just been listening to an Australian security expert re: the Solomons on our ABC.I was listening to Ray Dalio today.
While it's nothing many of us haven't been thinking about in general, it was damned scary coming from him.
My big take away as far as Australia is concerned...
Let's all learn Mandarin... and perhaps stop p1ssing off Xi.
As I said in an earlier post, we can't outbid China, that is just silly talk, then if China put in place a similar pact with Indonesia, we are snookered, an umbrella forms over our Northern coast.5. Morrison's Government has been trying to fix things and put the funding back and also is allowing citizens to come to Australia to work in our agriculture sector. They need to do a LOT more. We should be prepared to spend big, it would be an absolute disaster if China got their way.
Well yes, why would enforce our laws.As I said in an earlier post, we can't outbid China, that is just silly talk, then if China put in place a similar pact with Indonesia, we are snookered, an umbrella forms over our Northern coast.
So everyone saying tell the U.S to pizz off, had better start pushing for mandarin being taught at schools, as @wayneL said.
This isn't rocket science, we are sitting on the raw materials China wants, they have to pay top dollar to get them when in reality what stops them from just taking them?
I wish all those with this incredible insight, into why we should just flick the bird to the U.S, can explain how we could stop a country like China from just setting up in the far North of Australia.
Really, if they have major naval installations in very close proximity to the North coast, how do we stop them just building say a base on Cape York for instance?
Then when that is established, just move slowly down in a passive takeover, they probably own a lot of agricultural land already in the far North, they don't have to declare war just bring more and more people in.
How would we stop it? I'm sure there are laws to stop it, but realistically who is going to enforce those laws? Us.
Well it is a bit like what is happening in Ukraine, they have laws but Russia is ignoring them, fortunately the Ukraine has allies that are supply arms and ammunition.Well yes, why would enforce our laws.
Don't understand.
We do have pacts. We can produce ammunition here. I personally worked on one project.Well it is a bit like what is happening in Ukraine, they have laws but Russia is ignoring them, fortunately the Ukraine has allies that are supply arms and ammunition.
If we don't have pacts with the U.S and U.K, who supplies that service for us, if China decides to follow Russia's lead, but in Australia?
I don't think we produce any arms and ammunition in Australia, but I may be wrong.
I just can't see as the World order changes, why China with its massive wealth, population and military might, would not just eventually move into Australia it ticks all their boxes. Vast areas of under utilised agricultural land, abundance of raw materials and only 25million people here, makes absolute sense that it becomes a food bowl for them.
What deterrent do we have, to stop them just walking in?
Currently the problem for China is the logistics of extremely long supply lines, to feed and arm the forces that would be at the front, however if they could build up major supply bases in the Solomons, New Guinea and Indonesia, that problem is solved.
Spears and rocks like the last time it happened....Well it is a bit like what is happening in Ukraine, they have laws but Russia is ignoring them, fortunately the Ukraine has allies that are supply arms and ammunition.
If we don't have pacts with the U.S and U.K, who supplies that service for us, if China decides to follow Russia's lead, but in Australia?
I don't think we produce any arms and ammunition in Australia, but I may be wrong.
I just can't see as the World order changes, why China with its massive wealth, population and military might, would not just eventually move into Australia it ticks all their boxes. Vast areas of under utilised agricultural land, abundance of raw materials and only 25million people here, makes absolute sense that it becomes a food bowl for them.
What deterrent do we have, to stop them just walking in?
Yes except next time there wont be a Centrelink, NDIS, rental assistance, medicare, the dole etc. ?Spears and rocks like the last time it happened....
Another ex public servant, they always seem to have an axe to grind, or want to still be relevant.Perhaps buying hardware fit for purpose would help
From John Menadue
Maybe he should send his article to the Canadian media.Not one major item of defence expenditure purchased over the past twenty years is either fit for purpose or appropriate to Australia’s defence needs. Partly this is due to lack of proper process, lack of scrutiny and an inability to decide strategic imperatives. Australia does not need heavy tanks. The F35 bought off the plan is fraught with faults.
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