Why I’m Confused By Peter Dutton And Other Strange Things…
I just realised that the title could be a little ambiguous. It could mean that I’m confused by strange things as well as Peter Dutton. Or it could mean that I’m confused by strange things, of which the main one is Peter Dutton.
Whatever, I suspect that all thinking people will know exactly what I meant and it’s only a certain predictable section who insist on taking the wrong meaning!!
As strange things go, I must confess that one of the strangest lately is the fact that Peter “There’s no detail, so vote No” Dutton has been able to get away with asserting a nuclear policy with absolutely no detail apart from the idea that it’s a policy and they have support it and they’ll release the detail at some future date before the Budget or after it or during the Budget or at some time before the next election, or failing all that, sometime after the next election.
It’s also strange that number seems to be pointing out the obvious flaw in the “Australia’s got plenty of uranium so why not use it for power because we could have a power station up and running in under ten years.”
I’m not talking about the fact that the nuclear plan is being pushed by the same people who couldn’t get Snowy 2.0 up and running in the predicted time frame, or build the carparks they promised or deliver the surplus in their “first year and every year after”.
No, I’m pointing out the very obvious fact that you don’t just dig uranium up and put it in a power station any more than you strike crude oil and stick it in your car. In both case they need to be processed, and we don’t currently have a processing plant to enrich uranium. It could be worth pointing out that we might have had one if Rex Connor had got his way and we’d borrowed all that money from the Arabs back in the days of Whitlam but that would start a whole argument about Labor wasting money building infrastructure when it’s better just to ship our resources overseas and just rely on the taxes that the companies don’t pay, or the jobs they generously provide our workers. Of course, in the colonial days it was customary for the great powers of Europe to enter a country and take their resources without paying taxes and expecting the original occupants of the country to be grateful for being provided with work… Although in those days, it was done under a sort of Centrelink type mutual obligation where the obligation of the workers was to work for food and shelter in return for not being shot by the colonial powers.
So before we start our nuclear plants we need to decide if we’re going to refine our own uranium or simply dig it up and sent it overseas so we can buy it back at an inflated price… which sort of defeats the argument that we’ve got the uranium so therefore nuclear power will be cheaper than other countries.
Of course that’s not the only thing that confuses me. There are a large number of people who are concerned about misinformation and disinformation laws.
On one hand, I can understand their concerns. If we have one body who decides what is true and right and no other points of view can be entered into, it’s rather like a religious dogma or an Andrew Bolt column. However, there many times that a free society needs to walk the tightrope between the alligators on one side and the lions on the other and it’s always worth considering a ban on ridiculous metaphors that make no sense.
On the other hand, if something is clearly false and can be demonstrated as such, it seems strange that that’s the hill that Elon Musk died on in 2017 and he is now being impersonated by a robot developed as part of Tesla’s self-driving car. (This is not true: I’m just trying to show how silly it is if I’m allowed to spread such absurdity without the possibility that someone can shut me down before someone reads and takes it seriously. I know that writing that it’s not true should be enough, but so many people respond to accounts marked “Parody” as though they were real that I feel that even saying Elon Musk is still alive won’t be enough because between the time I wrote the two sentences, it’s obvious that Deep State has got to me and… sh, they’re listening…pretend you didn’t read this!!)
Ok, a certain level of paranoia is healthy. I mean you should suspect the phone call you get about a transaction that wasn’t authorised from a bank account you don’t have; giving your details so that the transaction can’t go ahead would just be the sort of foolishness that enables people to believe that Trump is good, Christian man who has every right to pay a porn star money to forget she ever slept with him… which is surely something most people be prepared to forget for free if they only could.
But there’s a moment when the paranoia is taken too far and you decide that every action by any individual who has a slightly different world view than you have to be viewed through the prism of you being one of the ones who’s taken the red pill in the Matrix… On a side note, how did Neo know that the ones offering the pills were the ones he could trust and not just some dealer offering him drugs with a suggestion about what sort of trip he could go on while under them?
Anyway, there’s heaps more strange things like Tony Abbott being Minister for Women or Peter Dutton having perfect eyesight until he lost his hair but there’s a limit to how much strangeness you can have in a day… It’s true: the communist Albanese government has imposed it and I read it on X!
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Return to home pageAhhh, I’ve missed you, Rossleigh.
There’s no confusion around Dutton…he’s a fucking goose flat out auditioning for a spot in PHON’s menagerie of halfwits.That’s only if he manages to retain his seat of Dickson.The sooner these insulting dickheads are erased from public discourse,the healthier we will be.I suppose we’ll have to put up with him at some ANZAC ceremony,celebrating one of the most ignominious defeats (thanks to the gross incompetence of pommie, born to rule, inherited commission generals,including Churchill),looking heroic,and scanning the crowd for the unpatriotic.Fuck right off.
I like your analogy, Rossleigh! There’s not enough detail for constitutional recognition of the traditional custodians, but you don’t need it (detail) for nuclear power propositions…. right? Leave it to the scientists. But not scientists who are peer reviewed on global warming, or the climate catastrophe, they’re just communists and hacks! Certainly can’t leave it to scientists with ethics and those with a modicum of understanding of areas outside of their sphere of expertise. We’ll sort that out via policy! Like we did with Robodebt. Oh Lordy! Sounds like the lunatics are still trying to run the asylum…pardon the pun. They did a 💩 job on that also.
Evidently all of the hard work the coalition has been doing and their imaginative policies are paying off in the polls
A national Morgan poll, conducted April 1–7 from a sample of 1,731, gave the Coalition a 50.5–49.5 lead, a 1.5-point gain for the Coalition since late March. In the Morgan poll conducted April 8–14 from a sample of 1,706, the Coalition’s lead increased to 51–49.
Albanese’s rating as preferred prime minister fell 2 points to 45 per cent, while Mr Dutton’s was up a point to 39 per cent.
So, it seems that those favouring a return to coalition government don’t want Spud Dutton to lead it so does that mean that they prefer his deputy, Susssan Ley or perhaps they are pining for the likes of Michaelia Cash or Barnaby Joyce to return to government ?
Perhaps a better question for those being polled would be : ‘ what have you been smoking ?’
Terence, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The polls all tell us that they have a 3 percent margin of error so – with hardly any exceptions – any individual poll could be considered within the margin of error on election day which makes any poll or two polls almost useless for predicting. On the other hand, when polls tell you something on a consistent basis for a length of time, you can probably decide that it’s true. For example, most people want something done about climate change even if they aren’t sure what and don’t want it to cost them too much.
The other trouble with polls is that people tend to use them to express dissatisfaction with the government, but when it comes to an actual election they start to look at the opposition and go: “Hm, maybe the current mob aren’t all bad!”
Remember that before the campaigns started, Beasley had an enormous lead over Howard in polls and Latham had a 45/55 2PP preferred in some polls lead over Howard and let’s not mention Shorten and Morrison. While we can look at other factors that helped, in the end, people are reluctant to change the status quo.
Rossleigh,
Musk did die in 2017 and what we are dealing with now is the ego that couldn’t die in the shape of Elon. Dutonuci the wannabe dictator is a creature made from Roman concrete and just keeps getting harder and more vile and thuggishly mindless as time goes on.
What’s the bet P Duddy the Cowardly Liar, I mean Lion, does a backflip when he realises that it may well curtail his outflows of bullshittery?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/24/peter-dutton-may-face-party-upset-if-opposition-supports-governments-misinformation-bill
The vast majority have forgotten the voice campaign except those who know simple slogan tactics work.
The gaggle says these countries rely on nuclear power.
Canada China Japan South Korea France India Russia Spain Czechia UK USA
This means well over 3 billion may already rely on non-greenhouse gas power?
Fission may be dodgy, Rossleigh, but is it worse than hydro-carbons???
Alan Austin in the Independent Australia writes about ‘Deceitful attacks on Labor under challenge by independent news sources.’ (15/4/2024).
He goes on to give Many examples of good things Labor is doing.
However, Shane Dowling in Kangaroo Court of Australia reveals that Rupert Murdoch now now shadow director of the ABC after after completing takeover ABC programs.
Read ex of criticisms of examples of Labor’s “Made in Australia”, feelings not changing about Higgins’ payout, vile Anti-Israel attitudes, etc,
Check out the attitude betrayed throughout the Murdoch press.
Dowling also has much to say about Peter Dutton, and the Liberal cover up of the rapist Lehrmann. Dutton was Minister for Home Affairs (20/12/17) – (30/3/2021) and the rape happened on Dutton’s watch.He was involved in the Federal Police’.
Deails are interesting.
Does anybody give a shit about poor ickle Scummo? I certainly don’t, the fuckwit wanted to be El Supremo Dictator and dog granted his wish. He lied so much that the “acute anxiety” bit rings as more of his bullshit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/scott-morrison-anxiety-medication-while-prime-minister/103771560
Wam: as usual the problem lies with the vagaries of “natural language”. What is the meaning of “relies on”? 10%? 50% etc.
Almost none of these countries “rely on” nuclear energy for more than 50% of their energy needs. We can carry on the argument until the cows come home.
Rossleigh: Regarding polls, I salute your understanding of matters statistical!
Thanks for the article, Rossleigh. A delightful confusion. Clearly, you’re not being paid to be unconfused.
As for polls, I maintain a belief that in Oz, all but the goody-goodies just love the sport of leading the pollster invaders up the garden path, or better still, on a long walk off a short pier. It’s better fun than waiting for each Anzac Day to roar at the fortunes or misfortunes of a game of two-up in a crowded alleyway.
The bullshit and lies never end from this creature! We found out exactly who and what he was and yet he still tries to lie his way out.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-real-scott-morrison-former-pm-says-australians-didn-t-know-who-he-was-20240426-p5fmr3.html