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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Welp, at least you weren't voting for the Rise Up Australia Party.

Challenge: Watch the entire video and not rage. I can't do it...

0:08 "...founded on Judeo-Christian Values."

Challenge lost.

I was wondering if this guy wasn't an American who immigrated to Australia, because he mentioned JFK so fervently and sounds like a Southern Baptist except with "America" replaced by "Australia". Oddly, Wikipedia says he's originally from Sri Lanka.

He also said "take the fight to the streets" and perhaps most troubling "Keep Australia Australian", which really is the KKK's motto with "America" replaced by "Australia".

[Max White]

Yea, the guy needs a good ass kicking.
Also, he claims to have raised the dead... Truly the kind of man we want in politics!

[alexandertnt]

Aren't large stretches of Australia uninhabitable desert? I question whether the "second most empty country on the planet" thing is taking that into account.

Let me put it like this: 1/4 of the population live in a single city.

The country is far from full even discounting desert.

[Max White]

Population of Australia: 22,600,000
Population of England: 53,000,000

I think we can fit one or two more guys in...

[Blargityblarg]

Yeah, the bottleneck is mostly in water bandwidth, and we're not at that yet, especially not in places outside of Victoria.

My policy is let 'em in, they might take jobs but they also create them, and we've no moral right to keep them out. I have funny views about nationalism that way.

[Max White]

Water is a serious issue, but not as bad as some people think. A great deal of the outback, at least in NSW, SA and QLD is covered by the great artesian basin, so when your wishing for water, don't look up for clouds, instead dig down...

[Osmosis Jones]

Plus, since most of us live on the coast, desal is always an option (power constraints make it less attractive, but that problem is hardly unsolvable).

[Reudh]

Welp, at least you weren't voting for the Rise Up Australia Party.

Challenge: Watch the entire video and not rage. I can't do it...

0:08 "...founded on Judeo-Christian Values."

Challenge lost.

I was wondering if this guy wasn't an American who immigrated to Australia, because he mentioned JFK so fervently and sounds like a Southern Baptist except with "America" replaced by "Australia". Oddly, Wikipedia says he's originally from Sri Lanka.

He also said "take the fight to the streets" and perhaps most troubling "Keep Australia Australian", which really is the KKK's motto with "America" replaced by "Australia".

He's horrifying. He's been opposing the building of a mosque in Dandenong, a primarily new-migrant suburb (54%), claiming it would cause issues for a nearby church. The mosque said 'no problem, we'll build in Bangholme, (an almost 100% industrial suburb)'. Nalliah tried to oppose that by putting in a permit to build a christian church nearby, and hence attempting to block it based on them being too close. The move failed.
There was a general consensus in the PUBLIC that Nalliah is an effquit, but he's backed by his own 'Catch the fire' ministry and group, and the ultra-fundy right.
Even the liberals, who are strongly right leaning, dismiss Nalliah and his group as whackos.

So what does one of the newly elected MPs for my area do? Cr Rosalie Crestani spends $360000 on a poll to determine whether the public thinks Nalliah is right or wrong, and then is accused of wasting rate-payer's money.

I'm all for going to one of either the council's meetings or one of his sermons to be the yin to his insane yang.




Regarding water, Victoria, Tasmania and Eastern NSW are going to be well off. Victoria attracts a lot of rain because of its temperate climate being occluded by cold sea winds and hot interior winds, and the Great Dividing Range helps to pull the rain down. NSW has similar.

Tasmania gets lots of water because it's very far south.

[Osmosis Jones]

So, the fallout from Ruddgate is as follows;

Crean was sacked, Kerr, Ferguson and Bowen basically forced to step down, and a bunch of rookies and loyalists bumped up.

As such, we now have a rather overworked cabinet, with a number of the pollies holding a few *large* portfolios.

On the lighter side though; we now have a member of cabinet called Gary Gray. His parents must not have liked him much.

[Max White]

mother fucker...
Liberal is going to clean sweep next election. 

[Evilsx]

mother fucker...
Liberal is going to clean sweep next election. 

Unless someone gets off there ass soon, then there is no chance

[ansontan2000]

Ptw (I'm Indonesian, so I must keep up with our scary neighbor's political news!)

[Max White]

Wait, I can't tell if that was a joke or not... In all seriousness, does Indonesia see Australia as 'scary'?

[Reelya]

I think many Indonesians sees Australia like Latin Americans see the United States, as a bunch of arrogant racist busy-bodies meddling in their business. I'd be interested to know if that is actually a wide-spread perception.

[Blargityblarg]

I think many Indonesians sees Australia like Latin Americans see the United States, as a bunch of arrogant racist busy-bodies meddling in their business. I'd be interested to know if that is actually a wide-spread perception.

I'd be interested to hear what Indonesia thinks of all the various 'let all those other countries deal with the immigrants we don't want' strategies our pollies have dreamed up.