Secret figures show Liberal party’s ageing membership in freefall in NSW and Victoria

Average age of 68.

“One of the biggest expenses we used to have [at our local branch] was on funeral wreaths.”

Beats me why they’re getting so much media attention. It will be good when Parliament resumes and there’s some actual legislative action to talk about. — Wayfarer

Yeah. In the meantime, the Media has to create some sort of content to justify all of its many political gurus. Hence the concentration on the only game in town until parliament starts in mid July. At least, we're see the content of the enema bowl,a rare sight where the internal workings of the Coalition is concerned.

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The women in this party are so assertive now that we may need some special rules for men to get them pre-selected. — Alan Stockdale, to NSW Liberal’s Women’s Council

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The women in this party are so assertive now — Alan Stockdale, to NSW Liberal’s Women’s Council

Or have learnt how to play the game better.
It's not whether the toilet seat is left up or down after use, but how clean the toilet is left after use. In reference to experience cleaning public and entertainment venue toilets.
Who cares who rules, it's how they rule and the outcomes.

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Who cares who rules, it's how they rule and the outcomes. — kazan

I agree Kazan, good point.

Don't you ever think of getting involved in Australian politics actively? I believe you and @Banno would be good Leaders of the House.

Pentagon launches review into AUKUS deal to ensure it meets Trump's 'America First' agenda

The Australian Embassy in Washington declined to comment when contacted by the ABC.


Review: After America: Australia and the new world order – Emma Shortis (Australia Institute Press), Hard New World: Our Post-American Future; Quarterly Essay 98 – Hugh White (Black Inc)

Recognising quite what an ill-conceived, ludicrously expensive, uncertain project AUKUS is, and just how unreliable a partner the US has become under Trump, might be a useful step on the path to national strategic self-awareness.

We really could stop the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza if Xi had a word with Putin and the US stopped supplying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the weapons and money to slaughter women and children. But climate change would still be coming to get us.

US AUKUS review could 'save Australia from itself', Keating says

He said in a Thursday statement that the Pentagon review was “subjecting the deal to the kind of scrutiny that should have been applied to Aukus in the first instance”, describing the deal as “hurriedly scribbled on the back of an envelope by Scott Morrison, along with the vacuous British blowhard Boris Johnson, and the confused president, Joe Biden – put together on an English beach, a world away from where Australia’s strategic interests primarily li — Gardian

Keating says — Banno

At least the sinophile is consistent in mind as he enters the age of incontinence of body.

Leave politics, write the obligatory autobiography, make yourself available for advice to the party, but don't encourage/feed the barking dogs or your own under fed ego. Unaccepted advice, obviously, for some/many?
Not a fan of K's foreign policy regards China... too naive/ too economics only orientated.

The Conversation Review is interesting in highlighting lesser known thinkers. Future directions do need be cross departmental in their scope like the futurist degree at unis.

@javi2541997
Not too sure about that. Banno's views are good to get along with here in the forum. What we'd be like else where, who knows?
But, thanks for the thought. Do you have political aspirations, at this stage in your life? You don't have to be Australian born to be Prime Minister here. And we're always on the scout for overseas educated talent. Don't always appreciate them when they get here though. So, be warned.

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Do you have political aspirations, at this stage in your life? — kazan

No, not really; I lost confidence in politics because it always ended up disappointing me. It is difficult to keep an idea for years in this very volatile world. My motto is 'live and let live'. Don't treat people badly.

But politics is a game played by snakes. I am already happy if I am a good citizen, neighbour or friend. We have to be better than the people who are in power, the ones who pull the strings.

Australian smile.

Don't you ever think of getting involved in Australian politics actively? — javi2541997

Presumptuous, to supose that we are not... :wink:

Australian smile. — javi2541997

Spinach stuck on a gold tooth smile?

Being a good citizen could be dangerous in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East etc, at the moment. It's hard to know how to behave as an ant when the elephants have a rumble. Run, maybe, but where to? Such is life!

Anyone have an Optus account or shares? The offered $100 million should help shore up the ACCC's war chest.... after costs and govt "deductions". Same from Qantas in recent years. Another leg of Chalmer's tax reforms? Wonder if anyone's currently part of the targeted 80,000 with supers of $3 million plus.
A new marketing idea? Drive through shopping centres. Next move along from after hours drive in shopping? Oh well, just ban cars from shopping areas, like machetes. Like Qld's no reasonable suspicion required public stop and search laws. Law and order over social equality and opportunity, as usual.

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