Yeah true, but I'm financially comfortable without turning it into a performance of moral superiority. There's plenty of people with reasonable means who seem to feel compelled to broadcast their donations, lifestyle choices, or political opinions as proof of goodness.

Most of the Greens voters supporters I know or know of are generally nice middle class, mostly females who have enjoyed nice middle class upbringings with a good university education and now have reasonably good careers. They tend to live in inner city districts where you'd probably need a 100K...

🤣 Yep!! "I'm not far-right, I'm just normal!" they insist, while calling a tax-and-spend centrist "literally Stalin." Then a genuine far-leftie shows up chanting "eat the rich" and nationalise everything. Boom—heads explode like ideological popcorn. The Overton window needs a bigger...

Nah....The real radicals are the ones who think $10 avo on toast is a human right and the ones who want to solve inflation by yelling at clouds. The rest of us are just trying to keep the barbie lit and the country vaguely functional. True blue moderates, reporting in!!

FWIW most people on the Australian politics thread aren't even what I would regard as left-wing.... The opinions expressed are predominantly sensible centrist viewpoints. Which is probably the same viewpoints as 80% of Australians would have.

Well said..

Not much in the way of railway links in that vicinity either... Just a 'busway'... If you're asking international tourists to come to Australia for an Olympic Games and aren't providing world class rail links then you're setting yourself up for failure, or at the very least, some very unhappy...

Don't forget Prince Harry and his missus.. .🤣

Good post.... Whoever thought that the Gabba cricket ground would have suited an Olympic Stadium with all it's required and associated infrastructure must have been a touch deluded... The initial thinking was pragmatic on paper. Taking an existing major venue in a central-ish location (with...

Selective political outrage... Evolutionary psychology plays in here and you get status-seeking celebs broadcasting their virtues to earn applause from their reference group. However, it’s not unique to the elites because most people exhibit selective outrage in their own little way, but fame...

The problem with Craig Foster is he's just too much of a hardened on leftie.... It's all very good being an activist but when that activism is a one directional collectivist framing, with all the emphasis on systemic Australian/Western failings, and this one way solidarity with the marginalised...

Sorry to hear that too mate. I've got two friends who are both in recovery right now and my brother-in-law has a rare 'slow-burn' cancer that cannot be cured. It's a shocking disease.

From this mornings Times newspaper....

I'm not a Liverpool fan but today I'm absolutely gutted.... Earlier this week I was reading about Kevin Keegan’s battle with cancer and in this mornings Daily Record it has a headline about Kenny Dalglish's battle with cancer!!

Overall, I think the partnership between A-Leagues and P+ has been mutually beneficial..... Paramount+ gained a reliable live sports driver for subscribers, while the A-Leagues got better exposure and record streaming audiences. It might not be beating peppa pig on the old fashioned FTA but...

I agree. Almost everyone I talk to rolls their eyes when you mention the Olympics....

I saw the reports on tv the next day. It seemed a little overdone.

The most prominent recent example was that 2022 Australia Cup Final against Macarthur FC. A minority of those United fans were caught on camera doing Nazi/fascist salutes. And chanting "Za dom spremni"..... Also booing the Welcome to Country thing. All the sort of things the mainstream...

As I said earlier Australia tends to get more right than wrong.

I get that. Maybe because im a non-Australian who is right into the vast cultural dimensions of football I tend fund interest in thingslike a club's cultural background.