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Did I miss something there? Was I condemning, casting stones, or sinning? I stated my opinion. That's all. It's just my own opinion. Nobody has to like it. If you don't like that opinion I can offer you others.

Of course not. And I agree.

Because the suggestions he made about what could and should be done to try and prevent another Bondi happening in the future were reasoned and sensible. He was a good treasurer in his time and Albo is a good Prime Minister, but neither have a monopoly on good ideas.

So, the government of a small, multi-ethnic country is going to turn back nearly two thousand year's worth of human behaviour? Some might think tht Albo is a Kvnt, but he's definitiely not Kanute.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" (John 8:7) where Jesus challenges accusers to examine their own faults before condemning.

Why would you Listen to Friedhamburger? His electorate kicked him OUT for throwing hand grenades into Victoria. Kooyong was a Blue ribbon Liberal seat. Nev

Josh Frydenberg just gave Albo and the government an angry serve on their failure to do enough to counter anti-semitism. Made some very good points and handed him an action plan. I hope Albo’s listening.

Doesn't sound like navigating London is very Zen-like.

The gun lobby will bitch and moan about this, just as they did in 1996 when John Howard did the only good thing he did as PM. Their and the opposition's reasoning that "guns aren't the problem, anti-Semitism is the problem" is false. Yes anti-Semitism is a big problem, but so is white supremacism, Islamophobia, sovereign citizens, organised crime, and a whole bunch of other nut jobs who believe that violence against those who disagree with you is a good idea. Yes the government needs to work on all those issues but it also needs to ensure those nut jobs find it VERY difficult to lay their hands on a firearm. Because if you are down that path, I think it would be easier to kill at a distance than get up close and stab a bunch of people. Especially if you're a fat bastard like those losers who carried out the Bondi attack.

Too late. Somebody already wote.. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

I don't expect the employer (taxpayers) to pay for family airfares, etc. When I spent 20yrs travelling for work, my wage was somewhat higher than city based equivalents. Sometimes I delayed my return at the end of a project. I paid my wife's airfare to join me for the weekend. I paid the extra couple of days at the hotel. I was a mere technician but I did this to maintain some work/life balance, to make up a bit for my absence from home. I didn't think it fair to expect my employer to pay for that. Many jobs put stress on home life. Politician or bureaucrat is just one such job.

Nev, we live in a capitalist world. Politicians are in it for the money, even the ones that start out with high ideals. Maybe excepting the rare few who are motivated primarily by ethics.

That’s rubbish.

Pity it wasn't sham rock at the Bottom. Nev

Why do you WATCH CH 7 and not EXPECT such manipulation? Good on you for calling it. Nev

I think you are pretty desperate to use THAT as a comparison. Pollies do these trips at short notice and it requires a lot of organising and lines of communication and security. Jet lag etc. It's NOTHING LIKE FIFO. It's only MINISTERS that get SO Involved. There's a lot of difference between a Minister and a Backbencher. Nev

Albanese was giving a press conference outlining his visit to the hospitals with the Governor General. I can't believe that, mid speech, Channel 7 cut in and said, "We'll have to leave the Prime Minister there, the cricket is about to start." This was at 9:30! The cricket didn't start till around 10:30.

Comparing a Rock in a sock to this "happening" is somewhat frivolous and disrespectful, No? Nev

And aren't the Perpetrators from INDIA? Nev

That is such shit.

Yes, you can apply on a written form, but when that form is lodged it's either optically scanned or manual data entry by staff. Either way, the data is held on a state government database.

That is the very problem with knee-jerking - unintended consequences. Once again the good intention adversely affected those for whom the intention was not met. There's a Latin saying, festina lente, which roughly translates as "hasten slowly", or its equivalent, "look before you leap".

These people know they will be away from their family's before they take the jobs, just as ever FIFO miners does. It's a decision/ compromise they have to make.

They must be a bit pungent by now 😉 In the UK, which also has uite strict gun laws, almost anythign can become a dangerous weapon under the dangerous weapons act. If someone is carrying a rock in a sock for the purpose of commiting some damage, then that particualr rock in a sock will become a dangerous weapon under the act. I can't recall precisely, but I think it is an objective test - i.e. not what the person actually intended, but what the reasonable (not average) person would deem to be the purpose. I could be wrong on the intent threshold.

What Hamas did is no worse than what the Japanese army did in Manchuria and Borneo, or what the Nazis did to the Jews. But once done, you can't fight a war against a segment of society. There were good Germans and good Japanese, but the bombs rained down on them all. There is no other way to fight against evil in wartime. And war is the only way to sanitise the evil. Each society, worldwide, is responsible for the actions of the groups within it.