And the Greens popularity is going down,down,down....Just look at the recent polls if you don't believe me.
The Greens are socialist leaning towards to the moderate centre?????????????You could have fooled me...Why are they know as the 'WATERMELON PARTY"?...Green outside and red inside.....
And the Greens popularity is going down,down,down....Just look at the recent polls if you don't believe me.
The Greens are socialist leaning towards to the moderate centre?????????????You could have fooled me...Why are they know as the 'WATERMELON PARTY"?...Green outside and red inside.....
The Greens are socialist leaning towards to the moderate centre?????????????You could have fooled me...Why are they know as the 'WATERMELON PARTY"?...Green outside and red inside.....
You don't actually know noco, you are not informed first hand but by the biased right press.
Yes have a lot of names (only sticks and stones do it though) selected to try and discredit. Recent council election across Victoria saw huge gains to the Greens. The Hanson factor has been having some effect but will soon wear off.
Do you have any figures to back up your claim. Green's are getting increasingly serious attention in national newscasts, doing well in Parliament too and many seeing them as good moderators too. You a bit isolated up there 'in ole joe's land"
You've been around and witnessed it first hand... How was Australia for the average Aussie before all these "socialist" programmes?
Child labour? Work safety; fair wages and conditions; social safety nets looking after widows and orphans of the dead battlers... healthcare; tax-payer funded immunisation; universal public education.
All were peachy? The Capitalists and business operators know how to deal fairly with their workers?
Thanks Luu.
In the 30's and 40's, I did not know of one mother who went to work outside the house.....They all had 2 and 3 kids and did all the house hold chores while the man of the house went to work.....We lived in a Queenslander, high set with a wooden stove, no air conditioners and no ceiling fans....Mother scrubbed the floors by hand...no carpets...all lino....Ironing was a Mother Pot's iron preheated on the wood stove.....One iron on while one was being used.
I was the youngest sibling....I chopped the wood and lit the fire under the copper on Saturday morning to boil the clothes....The clothes were drained and left to cool for hand wringing, rinsing and then through the blue rinse.
None of the mothers drove a car....we kids walked to school and walk home again some 3 miles.....Down to the corner store and the butcher shop on Saturday with my billy cart to collect the weeks groceries and a free bag of boiled lollies from the grocer......No refrigerators....we had an ice chest and a fly proof hanger under the house.
Their was no Medicare or Health Care....The family always put aside money for medical emergencies.....The family doctor called to the house.....In most cases mothers all had their home remedies for coughs,colds and whopping cough......No antibiotics......
There was no TV until 1959 so radio was the only connection for news on the outside world.....At election time a politician stood on a soap box on the street corner to get his message through.....Red tape and Green tape was unknown in those days......Politician were little different than they are today except there was no media to emphasis the good from the bad.....The Labor Party was a true Labor Party who did show interest in the workers until communism started to creep in with Dr Evatt and Arther Caldwell who tried to convert the Labor Party into socialism....Bob Menzies set up a referendum to ban communism but failed on the grounds that the left promoted their propaganda that Menzies could also ban religion.
The unions were always causing problems and even had a wharfies strike during the war to prevent urgent arms and food supplies being shipped to PNG to fight the Japanese.....The unions became very militant in the late 50's and early 60's and strikes were a regular activity which we all cursed....This was all part of Labor tactics even in those days to create economic strife when the Liberal Party were in power.
There was no child labour and most kids did not start work until at least 15 or 16......Shops were open from 8am until 5 pm week days and 8 to 12 on Saturdays.
There was no immunization programs......War widows and TPI ex service men and women were well catered for....Most ADF people returning from the war received free trade training and were know as expats......If you were lucky enough to go to university in the 30's and 40's, your parents were regarded a wealthy...I wanted to study medicine but due to family commitments I had to settle for the plumbing trade....My first pay was one pound one shilling and nine pence ($2.19) for the week...Ten shillings went into board....3 shillings was spent on tram fares for the week which left me 89 cents pocket money for the week....Primary and secondary education was free.
There was no dole if you had no work.....All families helped each other to survive.....You were entitled to an age pension upon reaching the age of 65.......Not many survived after the age of 70 so it was not a heavy drain on the welfare system.
We did have work safety rules after WW11 but nothing like today......Th state Government would turn up on building sites unannounced..They would check out ladders and if there was a split in the timber, the inspector would put his saw through it in a couple of places for no further use......Ropes were often used on Bosun's chairs, platforms and for rigging....If there was a fray in the rope the knife was brought into play and quickly deposed of.
I built my first house in 1953 for the equivalent of $4480 on 1/3 deposit.....No painting inside....no kitchen cupboards.....no furniture...no floor coverings......no refrigerator...no electric hot water and a thunder box in the middle of the back yard.
Who said it was the good old days?
Tell that to young people these days and they'd never believe you.
Gee you were skun Noco, I brought my first house at Longreach in 1967 for $2000, veranda all round and opposite the State School. Through the back yard a couple of blocks from the pub. But the diesel generators a block away were noisy some nights.
A couple grey-mads bought a home in Collinsville this year for $60,000, reason being many had left town and the demand for real estate had hit rock bottom....Probably the same thing happened in Longreach...Was it a two bedroom miners cottage 100 years old?
Labor frontbencher Terri Butler settles defamation suit with student over 'racist smear'
16 Dec 2016 - SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...tudent-over-racist-smear-20161216-gtchae.html
Labor frontbencher Terri Butler has settled a defamation lawsuit with Queensland law student Calum Thwaites over what some described as her "racist smear" on national television.
Ms Butler was accused of traducing Mr Thwaites for repeating allegations he used the phrase "ITT ******s" in a Facebook post, after a race-hate case brought against him and two other students was thrown out of court....
Daniel's Gestapo will come into to play in Victoria very soon.
He wants an audit on all MPs mobile phones.....If Mike Baird did that in NSW there would be riots in the streets.
\https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/33592098/privacy-concerns-over-vic-phone-leak-probe/#page1
Victoria's privacy watchdog is to investigate whether Premier Daniel Andrews reported decision to audit MP's mobile phones over leaks to the media breaches privacy laws.
The Herald Sun says Mr Andrews told a cabinet meeting on Monday auditors KPMG would look at MP's devices to find out who gave 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell details about police numbers.
KPMG...Is that the KREMLIN PHONE MARXIST GRENADIERS?
Godwin Grech in the mix? Godwin's accomplices, Eric Abetz and Malcolm Turnbull?
But, and that's a big but, because it probably isn't truth reporting, Andrews wouldn't be the first to use his power to witchhunt...Queensland had decades of it with Joh. The latest would be autocratic LNP Premier Campbell Newman:
http://www.thetunnelpresents.com/campbell-newman-witch-hunting/
You quoted witch hunting in the Joh era, can you explain in detail with some link or back up to your statement or was that just hearsay on your part?
Firstly, I think Rudd was cunning enough to cover his dirty tracks in the Greach case and both Greach and Turnbull came off second best....Greach knew the real truth but the evidence had been destroyed and he had no back up.
I believe the WITCH HUNT you mention is a bit of a fairy tale story about the fable of real witches and nothing really to do with Campbell Newman doing a witch hunt on MPs I-Phones and I-Pads
You quoted witch hunting in the Joh era, can you explain in detail with some link or back up to your statement or was that just hearsay on your part?
I distinctly remember Joh ranting about Communists and Socialists as much as he could. There were Red under every bed in Qld apparently.
Joh would have a heart attack in Vic.
Roz ward springs to mind.
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