After Tony Abbott expressed a desire for to send military support for the USA in the Middle East, Jane Hume was on Sky News telling us that we have the capacity to send a warship to support Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This blockade is not the bad blockade that Iran imposed but a good blockade imposed by one of our allies, so we need to support it if we’ve been asked to because it would be terrible to let any oil to slip through from Iran when it’s pretty clear that the best way to stop the blocking of the Strait by Iran is to block it yourself.
Of course it makes sense that the Liberal Party would support a blockade because without it oil might get through and go to countries which aren’t supporting the US such as… well, pretty much every country in the world apart from that country that I can’t mention because it’d be anti-Semitic to do so because it might be interpreted as a criticism of that country and, as we all know, any criticism of that country is just a way of hiding one’s anti-Semitic views.
The terrible thing about oil getting through to places like China and Singapore would be that it’d enable them to sell the oil and that might stop the price going up which would be a bad thing because if the current situation remains then the USA pretty much has a monopoly and this is good for the world because what’s good for the USA is good for the world because the world ceases to exist outside its borders which is why it makes sense for Canada and Greenland to become a non-voting part of the country.
And of course it makes sense for the Liberals to support that because it means higher petrol prices in Australia and higher prices for everything and this would be something to blame Labor for.
After all, the Liberals can’t simply rely on Angus Taylor’s promise to introduce an Australian Values requirement as well as an ICE-style enforcement regime which seeks out those visa overstayers and drags them out and puts them behind bars where they belong until we can send them back to whatever country they came from whether it be China, India, England or even that place that Dan Tehan told us some kids are growing up unaware of, Africa. No, until we actually see people being dragged onto the streets and anyone trying to document it, taken into custody, then this might potentially sound like another one of those promises that are easy to make in opposition but quickly forgotten when one comes to government.
In case you’re wondering exactly what these values are, they’ve been spelled out and no, it’s not support for Phar Lap and drinking stubbies at the cricket. They are:
- Respect for the Individual: Freedom of speech, religion, and association.
- A “Fair Go”: Equality of opportunity for all, regardless of race, gender, age, or disability.
- Democracy and Law: A parliamentary democracy and a firm commitment to the rule of law.
- Equality: Treating all people with dignity and respect.
- Freedom: Respecting the rights of others to live as free citizens.
- Language: The English language is considered a key unifying element.
Yes, it’ll be great when all immigrants are required to abide by the above “Australian Values”. Perhaps they’ll even rub off on some of those native born Aussies who’ve been here long enough to proclaim bugger freedom of religion because we’re a white, Christian, British country and that’s what we’ve always been… which is completely true if you ignore most of our history.
As for the fair go for all regardless of race, gender, age or disability, I did notice several social media posts asking if the recent Head of the Army appointment had ever been in a combat zone or killed anybody. Strange, because I don’t remember anyone asking this about any male appointments. Still I understand that they weren’t being sexist. It was just that some of them wanted Ben Roberts-Smith as head because – according to them – he’d killed people.
BRS, unfortunately, has other Australian Values on his plate such as a firm commitment to the rule of law, but given that these Australian Values warriors aren’t being sexist because that would mean that they were un-Australian, so I’d just like to suggest that maybe we could make Erin Paterson the Army Head because she has all the qualities they asked for, including the capacity to coldly carry out a plan.
Mm, perhaps not.
I’d love to join a blockade of all things Trump. Where is the queue?
That is what you mean by that headline, isn’t it?
Mateshit.
Yesterday, Abbott, the man who makes a lot of noise,about his Catholic faith was on Social Media, bemoaning the fact that his fascist mate Victor Orbán was turfed out of Office by the Hungaraian people.
He made no mention of his other mate, the convicted felon Donald Trump carrying out a great blashemy in posting a AI photo of himself as Jesus and attacking The Pope, who catholics believe was appointed by God through God’s guidance of the Conclave of Cardinals.
It shows, again, Abbott has no backbone or conviction.
The typical coward who wants to send other people’s kids to fight and die in wars.
Abbott is a narcissist. He is enraptured by his own presence. He was the most unpopular Australian prime minister ever and his irrelevance was confirmed when he was voted out of office.
Anusagony Abbott, the Manly Masturbator is a solid Pellite mediaeval savage primitive superstitious pervert, or typical extremist catholic ratbag. Riddled with rubbishy shittery infantile swollen dickybrained dreaming, this stydropping believes in glory and eternal pose, for HIM.
With bucket mouth Taylor and Jane (vac)Hume in charge of the Liberal dregs, they’ll be lucky to form a party after the next election…and this with an extremely disappointing ALP( Alternative Liberal Party.)
@ Rossleigh: After LMAO; in reflection, ”So what is the position of the conservative political bloc in Australia to these aspirations for Australian citizenship, and how are they reflected by current and recent politicians??”
1) RESPECT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL:
a) Freedom of speech: is restricted to NOT accusing Isrevil of being ZIONAZI colonist settlers in Palestine, conducting the GAZA GENOCIDE by bombardment to kill 70,000+ Indigenous Palestinians with a further 1,000+ Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank by renegade European & American settlers, with a view to creating Greater Isrevil between the Nile and Euphrates Rivers by ”stealing” Palestinian lands at gun point.
b) Freedom of religion is restricted to Roman Catholicism and the various English. European & American protestant theisms. Other frequently older non-European religions are discouraged by racist attitudes and policies.
c) Freedom of association: For non-European immigrants this means that talking to a neighbour at the bus-stop may be a criminal act.
2) A ”FAIR GO”: Equality for all white Australians who sunbake all summer to get a full body tan;
b) races are held at athletics carnivals; gender can only be mutually exclusive ”male” and ”female”;
c) age makes a better red wine, for which Australia is world famous;
d) disability is to be exploited financially as much as possible to insure that the patients know their place at the bottom of the social pyramid.
3) A Parliamentary DEMOCRACY weighed down by ”political donations” to parties intent upon continuing the political tenure of frequently inadequate politicians who likely could not get a proper job anywhere other than Parliament. Think Beetrooter & his Canberra planter partner, the Ranga Ratbag and her self-serving political party, Anus Taylor and his $80 MILLION empty glass of MDB water.
4) EQUALITY: Treating all people with dignity and respect ….. except Aboriginal persons in the NT where all government expenditure is restricted to Northern suburbs of Darwin (where the government desk jockeys live), denying Aboriginal persons basic social necessities like adequate housing (think Tumelah Mission NSW exposed at a degraded slum, while NT Aboriginal housing is even worse today, 40 years later), adequate health services, and suitable job training.
5) FREEDOM: Living as ”free citizens” provided ASIO does not knock on your door to explain your social media posts, because you want a passport visa for the USA (Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid).
6) LANGUAGE: It is important that only English, well ”Australian English”, is spoken because educating white Australians in ”foreign languages” is so impractical because Australia is such a big country the citizens will never see it all in one life time and really the English invoked ”cultural cringe” has been cancelled by our ”sporting heroes” showing that the Poms cannot even play cricket.
So, these values could only be acceptable provided the first exports were politicians who had NOT lived them during their public service; think the English royalist Tony RAbbott and Kiwi Beetrooter Joyce, then add the procession of politicians who have retired from politics to enter the cushy non-executive directorships of foreign owned multinational corporations they served while in Parliament. Think NSW LIARBRAL$ Nick Greiner, Mike Baird and former feral leader Alexander Downer.
Sully of Tuross, your post should, if there was any justice in this world, form the basis of Abbott’s wikipedia page. Well said.
I won’t underestimate Abbott. His eyes show a glint similar to Netanyahu. he would fit into the madcap of Trump, Vance etc without so much as anything beyond a sneer at the rest of us.
But to Catholicism, Xtianity, religion etc…Im not a catholic, but can’t see that Catholicism has failed more than other interpretations.
Catholicism come off better by comparison to the daft fundamentalism that runs along the Mississipi Bible-belt. Pope Francis died honorably as an old man on his march to Calvary, involving himself with his opposing of the Gaza genocide.
It’s true some criticised Catholic MP’s as to the contradiction between “right to life” and nodding approval of the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, but I stay convinced that Pope Francis was authentic.
Pope Francis died within hours of meeting JD Vance; it’s as if something deep inside said ‘I’ve met the Devil’s messenger and it’s time for me to seek refuge in heaven.’
I don’t doubt it, Pauline and Angus would too, and Scomo has already joined them in his biblical act of betrayal. Gina loves this stuff and we just let her do it with her money and her mouth, as Elon did for USA.
Whose afraid of the big dark web? ‘Not I’ said Perrault in his medieval cautionary tale in 1697 for the French court, nor Brothers Grimm in 1812.
In the land down under – we should be. Civilisation walks this path time and time again and see how easily it is gobbled up.