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On the causes of depression: sublimated anger, rage. If you don’t open up and let it out it bites you on the buttocks. Morrison’s version of Christianity might have made that difficult.
Sometimes you think you’ve got to wrap yourself in the dignity of the office and be the father of the nation.
But Christ didn’t do that: ‘brood of vipers …. Whited sepulchres’ etc.
I’m not infallible, but this is what I see.
JWH who was a grungy but excellent politician in many areas stuffed up big time on “climate change”, just as he did on guns. He should have held his nerve. Told Rudd to f*** off on climate change. He didn’t. And if everyone in that Port Arthur cafe were carrying a gun, what are the odds that Martyn Bryant would have gone in there? Even loopy people have their boundaries.
Costello, I have no excuses. He knows the basics: balance the books, and trust in intrinsic productivity of the individual person if you just friggin’ well leave them alone. He is the bigger culprit. An astonishing wimp.
Morrison should have kept his private life to himself. His mental struggles, even more so.
If he needed counselling, he should seek it privately and depend upon his family’s support. This is dignified and befitting a former PM.
All he has done is joined the mental health issues by press release squad. I can’t imagine why he did it. All he has done is open himself up to more derision and criticism, given his government’s actions during the pandemic.
Eyrie. (5pm). Are you a Labor stooge?. When someone hands over $50 to get something costing $30 and receives $20 back (change), THAT $20 is not welfare of ANY sort.
Every person on an average wage (and higher) pays net tax, whilst those on lower incomes GET more back than they put in in tax. This means the average income-earner and higher (the middle class and higher) do NOT get more back then they pout in, which means they get NO WELFARE. Welfare goes EXCLUSIVELY to low income earners.
TAX RATES. Here are the income tax charts: https://atotaxrates.info/individual-tax-rates-resident/historical-pre-2010-tax-rates/…….
In the 1995-96 year (Howard elected March 96). Someone on $50,000 pa paid $14,102. For 2007-08 (Howard defeated November 2007) a $50,000 pa earner paid $9, 600. That is a tax cut of about 30%.. Bear in mind that there were no budget surpluses until 2000, and thus nothing left to hand back. Also that after that large amounts were diverted to the future fund, so that cutting taxes even further would’ve meant nothing for the Fund.
You do not know what you are talking about? Nah, just a Commie stooge making afool of himself. Or?
I’m with Eyrie on this one.
I remember being very annoyed with Costello, he should have cut taxes instead of deciding that they knew better how to spend our money than we did.
Not to mention accumulating a big bag of our money for Labor to blow on pink batts and overpriced school renovations.
Morrison should just get enough printed to give as door prizes at evangelical functions, no one else will be interested.
Perhaps he thinks he’ll tap into the US market.
‘Chicken Soup for a Prime Minister’s Soul’.
Yeah, bugger scomo, if he had depression or anxiety, he definitely should have steeped down, many ordinary workers have to or are forced to.
No sympathy at all for Morrison considering what he has done to the mental health of Australians during the Covid years.
Then there are the jobs and lives lost and lives and businesses destroyed because he yielded the field to authoritarian state premiers.
And there are still swags more vaccines to be thrown out.
Australia Bins 35% of Covid Vaccine Supply
Correct, Rosie. Mis-informed is an idiot. Howard let this personal prejudices decide the guns issue (if attacked or your home is invaded he wants you to die quietly and not make a fuss while he has armed security) and wanted to be seen as handing “government” money out to buy votes. Ghastly little man with very nasty authoritarian tendencies and very poor judgement.
I don’t get it, why can’t the Goobers sell us a sub at a reasonable price and deliver on time? They have already built many identical items already, and supposedly the whole alliance thing is beneficial to both sides. What’s the challenge here?
Compared to the anxiety he and his national cabinet caused Australians, he can go and jump.
Maybe it is his conscience finally pricking him?
In a just world he would be crying while standing on the gallows holding hands with all the premiers and the rest of the experts for all I care.
Just take your well-funded lifetime pension and give it all to Hillsong.
Hugh. (6.01pm) The “guns issue” is a furphy. Automatics and semis were bought back at fair prices….All other manner of normal rifles and pistols which were used for sport and hunting are STILL in the community. Where I live (a small town) there’s a gun club, a pistol club, a shooting club, and a hunting club….plus well-armed farmers / graziers by the hundreds.No lack of guns whatsoever.
What’s interesting is that all these outfits have competition shoots and hunts where hundreds (thousands?) of non-locals are driving into town with their guns IN THE CAR! The police know there’s a big event at the rifle range, and that there are hundreds of “armed” out-of-towners arriving with their weaponry but NOT harrassing them, so how do you understand this to be part of the disarming of the citizenry?
Likewise anyone could look up pig-hunting videos in Oz to see unlimited numbers of s well-armed shooters running boars (and sows) to ground. Go to any quiet country road to see SHOT wild dogs hanging from fences!
I reckon the “we hate little Johnny coz he took our guns” sentiment is a typical leftist-run false-flag operation, meant to divide and conquer. City-slickers who NEVER had a gun are the “targets”!
I’m guessin’ the reality of his salary and future pension played a large part in his ability to fight his mental angst .. LOL!
Petros says:
26 April, 2024 at 5:26 pm
If the Governor General was doing his job he would have said “If you don’t declare this arrangement within a week, I will.”
Megan says:
26 April, 2024 at 5:42 pm
Indeed.
Rosie says:
26 April, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Morrison should just get enough printed to give as door prizes at evangelical functions, no one else will be interested.
There’s about 12,000 Hillsong members that will buy a copy plus many of the other pentecostal denominations who will stump up.
That will guarantee a couple of print runs I think.
He won’t starve, I’m sure.
Apparently he forgives us. The frigging gall.
Well-Informed says:
27 April, 2024 at 3:39 am
For someone who calls him/herself ” Well-Informed”, you seem to miss the point entirely.
I don’t know if you have ever well-informed yourself on the reasons for the USA’s Second Amendment. Hint: It’s for the people to use against a rogue government. (If you were well-informed, you would see that is happening around the world now, particularly with the Western Governments.)
What we have in Australia is every legal gun owner is licensed and every gun is registered. If you were well-informed, you would know that these data are held by the government.
If you were well-informed, you would deduce that as soon as the people needed these weapons against a rogue government, every legal gun would have to be turned in immediately.
If you were well-informed, you would know that the police/state would stage a few very violent confrontations with all their MSM mates televising same – shot-up home, dead bodies etc.
If you were well-informed, you wouldn’t be such an idiot.
That is for sure.
Ex-PMs get a platinum and diamond handshake of riches and goodies for life. Paul Keating still has a posh, taxpayer-funded office in Sydney. I guess that’s where he keeps his famous newspaper clippings.
Morrison has already taken two jobs in two different Washington outfits whose focus is war, money and lobbying. Both are linked to ex-Trump administration neocons. One is in association with Mike Pompeo – the former CIA boss who wanted to murder Julian Assange – and the other is DYNE Maritime.
This is now the pattern everywhere in the West: legalised corruption. Former national leaders retire into the warmongering and insider-information rackets and become overnight multi-millionaires.
Not exactly mission work in the gutters of Calcutta (or Sydney, for that matter). But that’s a signature belief in Pentecostalism: that God wants his elect to be successful and wealthy. This is simply heathenism with splash of Jesus cologne.
This is simply heathenism with splash of Jesus cologne.
Now that one’s worth stealing – you don’t mind C.L.?
I guess I can forego the copyright riches, Tony.
It’s deliberately difficult to figure out who is a lifter and who is a leaner. You have income tax for sure, but also you have payroll tax, GST, various import levies and fuel levies, road tolls, Medicare levy, stamp duty, council rates, hidden Carbon Tax in electricity bills, corporate taxes which end up built into consumer prices, and all sorts of compulsory certificates, licensing a d whatever else. After you add it all up … the average family in Australia pays a metric shed-load of tax.
Some proportion of that comes back in services … but also some goes into useless jobs that nobody ever wanted in the first place … like paying someone to tell you we are all about to die from Global Warming.
There’s sneaky subsidies left, right and centre, making it practically impossible to know the actual price of anything. If you are a big business, and you know who to ask, you can find that government shuts down your small business competition … then you make more money in the less competitive environment. Ask those “daycare mums” who use to earn a bit of cash while sitting home … but now you need at least three PhD’s if you want to make warm milk for the kiddies and tell them to take a nap at midday.
Are Morrison’s new employers aware of his crippling anxiety? Perhaps he shouldn’t be trusted with state secrets.
Well said CL.
The prosperity gospel and if there’s no quick return on investment, the tithes are stopped and the multitude of books dumped at the nearest op shop.
On Morrison’s post-politics, and some of our ex-military doing the lucrative speaker circuit, Gray Connolly once gave a nice counter-example from an earlier generation. There was a nice, polite, dignified old chap around his parish when he was growing up whom everyone called Tom. Tom would pitch in to help with anything without ever seeking money or recognition, and would regularly do shifts as a volunteer at the Matthew Talbot hostel. If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t have guessed that he was Lt Gen Sir Thomas Daly, CB, DSO, former Chief of the General Staff.
First 58 Minutes Of Men’s Bible Study Hour Spent Discussing Best Bait For Rainbow Trout
Fat Tony (2.14pm). Why so hot under the collar?
Facts are that where I live there were SFA restrictions enforced during the Covid scam. They existed in Brisbane, and were supposed to apply everywhere in Qld, but rather unsurprisingly….they DID NOT. Why would this be? What could have made the ALP unwilling to order the cops to follow them? And what would the cops have done anyway?
How many police would be necessary to round up say 1000-2000 rifles / pistols in a town where the citizenry declined to hand them over? And, why would the local police…who are integrated into the community (kids at schools, the constables playing various footballs…the sergeant the cricket club captain, the police’s spouses working side by side with the citizenry) want to F it all up by following Leftist CITY orders?.
The problem is that city people have been breathing brain-destroying air pollutants for decades…a century at least….and vote left as a result….https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/04/new-tool-links-air-pollution-with-increased-risk-of-dementia/…. Out in the sticks, we country bumpkins have not been CHEMICALLY EMASCULATED.
BTW: All motor vehicles are legally registered. They “kill” hundreds (over a thousand ?) every year. So how would it go if a govt decided to confiscate them as a “safety measure”? City dopes might be lining up to hand them over…but not Farmer Joe and his redneck mates. It’s a whole other world when your brain isn’t addled by petrol fumes Fat Tony!
2nd BTW: If the city-based govts had demanded the Army help out, we already know the ADF lads were congregating and partying in Townsville (en masse!) during the restrictions ordered from Brisbane…don’t we? Cops vs M1A1s and F18s? Come on! (!!)
Don’t be a Grade 1 cockwomble all your life.
The Army runs on discipline, if they’re ordered to shoot you, that’s what will happen.
The cops are a different story, but they will call the SES for help.
Those people are usually gun owners themselves, if you resist, they’ll shoot you.
Simples.
Well-Informed says:
27 April, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Fat Tony (2.14pm). Why so hot under the collar?
Mis-informed – calling you an idiot doesn’t make one hot under the collar, just rational.
Nothing you stated above makes you aything but an idiot.
Fat Tony. What? It’s not true you are a city-slicker? It’s not true that Qld (all, actually) Labor /Green govt is a city-thingy? It’s not true that the Covid rules were barely noticed in country areas? It’s not true that the ADF lads in Townsville were having forbidden mass gatherings during Covid? It’s not true that hundreds of studies have shown a direct correlation between air-pollution and senility? Apart from all that I’m 100% wrong, eh?…
Seriously, it’s one thing to be p*ssed off at getting stuck in the city surrounded by brain-dead leftists , but another one entirely to become distraught and start with the name calling. You actually read rather like a cross between Jacquie Lambie and that yank eKaren sheila. I should be gaoled for telling the truth, eh what?
BTW: How’s it feel to be 100% in agreement with Ed? Your mum would be so proud!
and start with the name calling. You actually read rather like a cross between Jacquie Lambie and that yank eKaren sheila. I should be gaoled for telling the truth, eh what?
I’ve been looking at your posts and name-calling is what you do a lot of, along with strawman arguments – you do not address the points made by anyone, but fling handfuls of your own dung.
I do not think you should be gaoled – I think confinement in a care facility where you can’t hurt yourself or others may be appropriate though.
Fat Tony. There’s no name calling at all. With about 6 posts on this thread I musta called posters a lot of names, so what are they? Where are they? Why so hot under the collar again?
An accurate description such as “City-Slicker’, or “intellectually affected by too much fuel-fume inhalation”, is not an insult. More like a medical diagnosis.
BTW: Only this morning Dipstick Dreyfus (is that an “offensive” name call?) announced he’s squandered $160 million to link the various state gun registries into one. Why it’d cost more than FIVE DOLLARS (not five million dollars) is a mystery to everyone except the Labor operatives who are now $160 million richer. His BS is that too many gun owners were/are running free with their guns…with no copper knowing where they all are. Just as I told you two days and more ago! Geez: I’m so wrong about everything, eh?
BTW2: It’s WELL-informed. This MIS-informed silliness is straight outta eKaren’s playbook, is it not?
WI
Are you a doctor? Qualified in remote diagnoses?
BJ. Heh heh, At least some humour. Yes….and Yes.