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A joint sitting is fraught with dangers. It has only occurred once before and the High Court then struck down the legislation anyway, given the new legislation with the Turnbull amendments on it had only gone to the upper house once before it could well have gotten struck down by courts. There...

You can't bitch and moan about Qantas sending jobs offshore and then buy products from other countries because they're cheaper, it's the summit of hypocrisy.

But you aren't a dopey chest beating ultra nationalist like Solooo.

Why don't you support local industries you sack of shit.

This is mostly true and of course very few traditional aboriginal communities would accept the premise of land ownership, they do however have a fairly well entrenched right to identify as part of this imagined community that we call Australia.

Yes but those countries governments give precious little funding towards elite athletics which just the other day you were saying makes an enormous difference.

If we can push up our population enough we should win more olympic medals though.

Beat me to it, and it's not just sexual assault of children. Aside from armed robbery violent crime in pretty much all it's manifestations normally occurs between close acquaintances not strangers, and yet people want more privacy. It's a strange world.

It's not entirely bad logic, his point is that you are allowing for discrimination of the basis of a statistical correlation rather than any tangible causative link. There is no reason that I can see why you shouldn't ban black's or gays sitting next to children on planes if you're going to say...

Oh come on.

Disgraceful.

As in any community there are a range of divergent views within the LGBT.

Except the Liberal Party always put One Nation last on their preferences, even when One Nation's vote kept growing.

How would that have made anything any better? A bit of feel good symbolism.

One Nation peaked at around 8 percent nationally and only got more than 5% at a federal election once (1998). The Greens have consistently gotten more than 7% since 2004, the comparison is poor.

What great backflip, please all these people telling me Rudd dropped the ball on climate change, what he should have done. A Double Dissolution would not have resulted in senate passage for the CPRS, Labor would have needed to clock something in the realm of 56% according to Antony Green's...

I think they are interdependent. I think what you are referring to with the last sentence is the perception of competence which I agree is a huge factor. But I think genuine incompetence/corruption is pretty well unhidable, see Kirstina Kenneally for example who was charming but was positively...

False,the Newspoll quarterly for Rudd's last three months in office had Rudd leading 53-47. His last two polls were increasing his lead two. And those were just voting intentions, every other indicator had Rudd dominating Rudd by enormous margins. The Rudd Abbott debate was overwhelmingly...

Wasn't that about reconciliation, as opposed to multiculturalism?

Many of the reforms you credit to Howard were not achieved in his first two years. The Rudd government brought in the Fair Work Australia Act to replace Workchoices, Removed offshore processing of asylum seekers, detention debt and Temporary Protection Visas, removed 58 pieces of discriminatory...