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The report I saw said that actually China was barracking for Biden, and that it was Putin who was pumping for Trump. I think that it makes more sense that China would prefer the Democrats over Trump. I suspect that they had a good idea of what Trump could have done. I wonder if we would be in abetter place now if Trump had won in 2020. Ther would not have been the four years in which to sit on the sidelines and prepare the Republican manifesto, and by now we would have been rid of him. Most likely there would be no Iranian war.

"Leader" is a word with a number of different meanings which are influenced by context. A leader is a person with leadership abilities. Leadership, is defined as the ability of an individual, group, or organization to influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or organizations. How one becomes a leader often depends on what needs to be led. I think we are lucky in our political system in that our Party leaders are, for the most part, chosen by the group they lead. That allows us to replace underperforming leaders during the course of a parloiamentary period, and not have to wait for General Elections as is necessary in the USA. Our Prime Ministers and Premiers are the spokespersons for the government when talking about matters in general. What I would like to see at a press conference is for the leader to introduce the topic for the press conference and then introduce the relevant Minister who would then go into the details. I see the leader in such a circumstance as being like a Master of Ceremonies who is there to introduce the acts.

Her Party might have a leader in her, but does the Party have the people to back her up. I mean, does th Party have the people who could manage a Ministry? We've seen in the USA how people without experience in government have screwed things up.

I feel that Melbourne has a cultural feel about it, as opposed to Sydney's commercialism. One goes to Melbourne for the theatre and music. Sydney does not seem to have that vibe, despite having the architectural beauty of the Opera House. But it's just a building. As for multiculturalism, I think that the meeja consistently misreports on it. I was in a shopping centre in Dubbo yesterday. I saw people from India, Asia, Africa, Indigenous and European all carrying on with their shopping with no sign of conflict. I had the choice for my lunch of several differnt food types of food styles.

The town is noted for having one of the widest main streets in the country, at 60 metres. It was built as wide as this to accommodate turning bullock trains. In 2012, in the tradition of the Parkes Elvis Festival, Trundle launched its own tribute with the inaugural Trundle ABBA Festival. The town's annual festival, called "Bush Tucker Day", is held every September. There is also a golf course with sand-oil greens, a 25-metre swimming pool, tennis courts, horse-racing facilities and a sporting oval named Berryman Park. Who wouldn't want to include it on a grey nomad tour?

It's gunna take you 5 hours and 7 minutes to get to Trundle from Toc.

Is a person who is in their seventies the right sort of person to lead a country whose population is mainly less than 35 years old? Which political party is engaged in succession planning? Which of them is training the youngr generation to take over the reins of government?

She's better than Da Vinci who onoy wrote right to left. What a wonderfully respectful way to treat a client, especially a client who would no doubt be somewhat anxious.

This should be a reply to a post in anothr thread, but I can't remember that thread. Anyway, a meteorological record was set yesterday when the barometric pressure was measured at something like 1044 hPcal in Tasmania. Can you imagine altimetry at that sort of QNH? You'd be landing at teh vbottom of a mine shaft.

According to some reports the USA team was way of their game. The poor fellow at teh centre of the controversy had a shocker. Despite the loss to Belgium, the tournament still carries yet another taint. One wonders how this worldwide game came to have one of the tournament's sponsors being a country that doesn't seem to be so strongly supported at the profesional level as all those other countries.

Don't forget that the Frenchman, La Perouse, arrived in Botany Bay just two days after the First Fleet. However, the British would have made in known that they claimed the east coast in 1770 through Cook.

It gets worserer. The player who was given the red card was what is known as a birthright citizen. He was born to an English couple who were holidaying in the USA. His mother was seven months' pregnant when she wanted to return to England at teh end of the holiday, but the airline declined to carry her due to the risk of an in-flight birth. So they remained in the USA and the player was born on US soil, granting him birthright citizenship. I don't know how he later became a member of the USA team as I don't know anything about his career. Trump's birthright Executive Order has just been thrown out by SCOTUS and Trump is fuming about that. Yet he has the gall to ask (demand?) FIFA organisers to put the red card penalty on hold so that this birthright player can represent the USA in the next round of competition. You've got to have some sympathy for the player being innocently caught up in this blanant act of corruption.

Trump has done a wonderful thing for ethical behaviour. Corruption used to be something hidden behind closed doors. Trump has thrown those doors wide open and brought it out into the open.

Oh, my goodness gracious me!

Today I picked up a kids' book which dealt with the the convicts. On the very first page was the usual story of overcrowded prisons etc., etc. The story on that page made me wonder how many people beleive that the Arab-Israeli situation only began in 2023, simply because those people have no knowledge of what has been happening in the area since 1919. I have read many of the comments peole have posted here. I believe that the comments were made in absolute good faith. However, in many I see a lack of knowledge of the sequence of events that lead to the sending of the First Fleet. I contend that the sending of the First Fleet was the culmination of a number of events that occurred amongst the European powers from 1756 to 1763. This was the period of the Seven Years War, which was probably the first global war since conflicts occurred in Europe, the Americas and India. By the late 1760s the French were nosing around Polynesia which the Spanish explored two hundred years before in 1568. The British knew about New Zealand and I have already mentioned the economic and strategic value of New Zealand flax and teh pines of Norfolk Island. The Americans were also whaling and trading in the vicinity of Australia.