You can laugh. You can sneer. But we will show you!
BUT… the time needs action, not just words.
FIRST ACTION. We must get rid of compulsory voting. That is the Nanny State in operation. That is the Elites infringing on our civil liberties. People should have every right not to participate in the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo of the electoral mess. With voluntary voting, citizens would have true freedom to choose their own government. What happens at present, is that every uninformed person is forced to vote, and so tends to just follow the tired old established parties. A mindless vote. That disadvantages our really visionary party, One Nation, which deservedly gets the votes of real thinkers.
SECOND ACTION – but perhaps for later on – get rid of the rorting of the voting system, as that uppity lot of inner-city over-educated middle class women take advantage of preferential voting to get themselves into Parliament, and distract progress with their wayout and ultra-feminist agendas. Preferential voting does have its uses, I admit, but only in the short term, in this period of our negotiations with the sad sick Liberal and Labor parties.
NOW – once the very unfortunate Australian electoral system is corrected – we’ll be off and away in our noble quest to correct Australia itself. Fortunately, we have some wise and well-informed people to support us. People like Gina Rinehart, people who understand the realities of this resource-rich land, and of the skills and values of those who’ve colonised and improved this land, over 200 years. And let’s face it, that’s basically the white people.
And who are we counting on to bring One Nation to power? Well, there are people like myself – country dwellers who don’t want to be pushed around, patronised or ignored by the privileged pampered inner-city dwellers with their university degrees, and their latte-sipping, theatre-snobby culture. They prioritise the causes of various minority groups – foreigners who don’t speak English, and people with every kind of sexual deviance, rather than the needs of the real true-blue Australians.
Then there are the hard-working people in the outer suburbs, struggling with the increasing cost of living. They will know that One Nation is dedicated to improving their lot – we will cut the red and green tape that stifle business, and so we’ll help businesses to grow and prosper, thus creating more and better jobs as the increased profits trickle down to the workers.
We are sick and tired of all the pontificating about that non-existent climate change, and about the non-sustainable folly of renewable energy, propped up as it is by the incompetent Labor government. We intend of course, to take care of indigenous people, but not to allow the remnants of their backwards culture to be used by troublemakers whose aim is to impede progress in developing industry.
Pauline Hanson has spoken a lot about immigration, but it’s not that she’s against immigration. Of course we want some migrants, but a limited number, and they should be carefully restricted to people that have adopted our English language and share our values.
You have to admire Pauline. She courageously speaks her mind, and challenges those biased lefties, especially in the media. Our taxes should not be going to the ABC and to the SBS – institutions with such a dangerously left-wing attitude. One Nation will deal with those nefarious influences.
Which brings me back to publications like The Australian Independent Media Network, Independent Australia, Crikey, and the positively dangerous Urban Wronski Writes. Something will have to be done about those. It is my hope to correct Australian Independent Media, for example, perhaps to bring it back to respectable, reliable journalism that will aid the Murdoch media in showing Australians the news in the correct way.
So, in conclusion – to all you Australians who feel aggrieved and hardly done by, we at One Nation offer you what you need: Change, and the promise of a better life.
Signed,
Noel Wauchope, proud rural dweller.
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She’ll have Konrad Benjamin in her sights for sure.
Geez Noel, it is a little early (0630 hours) for us country folk to have an opinion on these matters. Certainly the compulsory preferential voting system is an embarrassment of the Western world because it returns the most appropriate ”will of the people” governments rather than allowing us billionaires and the ZION@ZIS to merely select the best politicians for our job.
Then why should wives attend a polling booth when I know that she will vote the way that I direct and she is really needed at home preparing dinner, bare foot in the kitchen.
But why does the Commonwealth pay politicians so much money and additional perks?? The late Fred Daley believed it was to attract better pre-selection candidates for the parties.
However, that seems to have gone awry with the PHONeys accepting Beetrooter, the adulterous, alcoholic, philandering, misogynist former representative of the NOtional$ who has spent the past 13 years of his incumbency looking after his personal pecuniary interests rather than the best interests of the voters.
Then there is Malcolm ”The Mind” Roberts, a reject drop-out from the primary school system who paid up the reported $20,000 non-refundable PHONey application fee to receive PHONeys pre-selection, that thanks to the ”numbers on top” preferential voting system became a seven (7) year job making a fortune covering up his ignorance. Not Fred’s ideal surely!!
And Pawlein has such talent that only Queenslanders could have insufficient education to misunderstand her unthinking diatribes against any body who has slighted her over her too long 30 years hanging around Parliament whingeing.
BTW ….. What happens to the PHONeys application fee?? Does it flow into the PHONey coffers or into a politicians pocket??
You have a point with those nasty woke inner city cellar dwellers where new model imported cars are parked on the street because there are too few garages.
Much better to restrict voting rights to true blue Aussies living in regional and remote locations where a century of education has managed few changes to the voting patterns of their great-grand-parents.
Naturally the eugenics preferences of Isaac Isaacs, the Jewish lawyer from Beechworth Victoria, should be returned so that real white Australian can continue to farm Australian country using European agricultural practices without fear of Native Title claims.
Gina has the correct industrial advice, make the workers accept $2.00 per hour and bring back the 80 hour seven day work cycle that those pesky unions first broke in 1852. It has been all backwards ever since.
Oh, is that the time?? I really must end here because I have to catch my plane for lunch on the Freo Front with the weekly Billionaire’s Lunch Club. It will be a memorial dinner for the late Red Bond, the wife of Alan who won the America’s Cup thanks to that funny winged keel thingy.
Yerr, go for it Poorwean yous can rilly rilly make a difurr, diffaran..change for the betta and pleese du summink abowt making loif eezier 4 Gina and ciggies cheepa.
Many so called democracies around the world envy our insistence on compulsory attendance at the polling booth and many Australians see the so called compulsion as a safeguard to our democracy.
The manipulation of the voting experience is commonly rorted in countries such as the USA and the UK where voting takes place on a week day thus making it difficult (not impossible!) for the working person to vote particularly in those electorates where voting has to take place in the electorate in which you live and are registered. The adoption of a Saturday generally in Australia and the popularity of postal and early voting seem to encourage the democratic process.
The statutory penalty for failing to vote in an Australian federal election without a valid and sufficient reason is a $20 administrative penalty. This ‘fine’ does not inhibit those who choose not to vote for some conscientious reason, neither does the possibility of a sausage sizzle impair the voting experience in any way, for or against electoral fairness.
The preferential system, to me, seems to be a valid extrapolation of the democratic process and way ahead of the ‘first past the post’ system which, incidenatlly, I note that the poms are looking at reforming.
Thank you, Steve. satire can certainly seem to be in itself, a sort of snobby disdain for people who are attracted to the simplistic messages of One Nation. The funny thing is that I started this stuff with the intention of showing what it is that One Nation really does have, that appeals to country people and outer suburban residents. I myself can’t help liking the way that Pauline speaks out so bravely, She sorta “calls a spade a spade”. But then she doesn’t really – she calls it something else, which happens not to be true. That’s the problem. Her ideas are just so wrong -does she herself understand or believe them?
Not my plan to make fun of One Nation voters, They have genuine grievances. One of their grievances could be the prevalence of Murdoch media in rural news, their deprivation of objective news. (No wonder One Nation hates the ABC and SBS)
Noel, I should have made it more clear that you were not my target.
Your final sentence shows that you know what’s happening.
Our target should be those institutions that perpetuate injustice but are never held to account, and the pollies who are happy for that to continue.
It’s a national disgrace that the Reserve Bank is permitted to follow an independent agenda in defiance of its charter, and permitted to define unemployment in defiance of the definition outlined by the government.
As a general comment, I’ve always found it interesting that people can really admire people who “speak their mind” and/or “tell it like it is”, right up unto the point where they tell their admirers exactly what’s wrong with them…
In an effort to be like Pauline, I shall henceforth ask any One Nation supporters if they have a job and, if so, why are they so lazy and why don’t they get off their phones and start a small business…
I can’t wait till I get their love for speaking my mind.
Great satire Noel. Sadly for many it is the way they think even though Hanson has done her very best to vote against everything and anything that would make life better for those she purports to support.
Thanks for writing this.
It’s not really a lesson for Outrage Nation adherents or even many of their newer voters. It’s a lesson for those of us who already recognise what Outrage Nation is.
The challenge is not understanding the movement. The challenge is understanding how to engage with people who may have temporarily gathered beneath its orange banner.
Mocking grievances won’t work. Ignoring them won’t work. Shouting at people won’t work.
The useful lesson is to separate genuine grievances from the people exploiting them, and to focus on contradictions, facts, questions and humour rather than outrage.
If we’re trying to influence fence-sitters and protest voters, the goal isn’t to win an argument with the loudest supporter. It’s to help observers see the difference between legitimate concerns and the politics of permanent outrage.
Find a wife streetwalking on Darlo rd., get a horse from the knacker’s yard to train up for the cup, invest your all with C Skase, buy a car from the estate of John L., only ten bucks per Merc., and do vote for the Hanson Horrors, Harpies, Schoonerites, court festerjesters and assorted cranks, all for peace, cacocophony, bedlam and nerve-ana. Straya.., GO!
Noel, your faith is commendable however my opinion is that whereas Pauline has the questions, I don’t think she is capable of providing practical answers. But that’s just my view.
My father disliked compulsory voting and often did not vote. In earlier times the fine was waived by having a reasonable excuse for non-attendance, so Dad wrote several times saying he had had a mechanical breakdown that prevented him from voting. Eventually he received a letter from the Electoral Authority stating that in future this excuse would not be accepted. In later years he would attend to have his name crossed off, and walk out without voting.
However he was interested in politics and voted for the Liberals if he thought they were in danger of defeat.
He also thought that Mum’s vote was his to command. I remember him announcing on election day “We are voting Liberal Kathleen” and she apparently accepted this. However,when her son was conscripted , Mum turned against the Liberals and never voted for them again.
Loved yer story, Lyndal – on your parents’ voting.
My parents too, disagreed on voting. My Dad – a “returned Catholic” – voted DLP. My mother was appalled at that betrayal of Labor- but then she herself just drew animals on the voting paper – arguing that dogs and cats would do a better job at running the country
Steve, thank you for a very pertinent reminder that satirising the stupid is easy, but the wrong target. The Labor Government is more to be feared than One Neuron because it is in thrall to the real forces of oppression, the Zionists, the banks, the foreign exploiters of our resources, the fossil fuel companies affecting climate change, the forces that want to restrict our freedom of speech, the forces that want to expose the restrictions on our knowledge of the way that wealth is being shifted away from the ordinary people to the growing cohort of billionaires, the forces that have us involved in foreign wars or in thrall to foreign ideologies ( among other things). I wonder if the rank and file of the Labor party can see where the Farrells, Albanese’s, Marles and Wongs are taking us. If their failure to really address the inequities is actually causing the ON phenomenon. Labor must know the answers are to tackle the inequality of wealth, demand a fair return for the exploitation of our natural resources, tax the obscenely wealthy to the point where their pips squeak, bolster the regulatory bodies that oversee the agencies supposedly working for us, root out the predatory actors rorting the childcare, aged care, disability and welfare sectors and lastly have a root and branch inquiry into our defence and security services to ensure they work for Australia, not a foreign country. We could start with the US and the Zionists, both of which have too much influence here. Lastly we must be ready to resist the inevitable allegations that such actions amount to class warfare or the politics of envy, the fact that a million children live in poverty in Australia should be the one statistic that, (see Bob Hawke) tells us real change is necessary.,
Anyone heard of ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’? Movie starred Meryl Streep.
https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/florence-foster-jenkins-documentary-a-world-of-her-own/
https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/florence-foster-jenkins/
RomeoCharlie,
superbly said.
Labor is a massive threat to the future we will leave for our children. I concur with what you say. There is another dynamic at play that I believe makes Labor a bigger threat than even One Nation.
Whenever a conservative government brings in some nasty legislation, Workchoices for example, 50% of the population, the more progressive part, will be up in arms, utterly outraged. When the other half of the duopoly, Labor, gets in power, often it leaves this bad legislation in place, or as in the case of Workchoices, removes some of it, but leaves other parts. However, whenever Labor does some neo-liberal shit, such as removing the essence of the NDIS, making it a numbers game so as to cut costs, the 50% conservatives don’t care, and the 50% more progressive might not be happy but they accept it on the, possibly false, basis of the conservatives would have been worse.
This enables Labor to get away with shit that even the Coalition wouldn’t have dared tackle – throughout the 9 lost years of Coalition rule they let the poor design of the NDIS run amok but didn’t dare do what Labor has done to it.
Both Labor and the Coalition serve those forces that, as you say, shift wealth away from ordinary folk to the billionaire class. One Nation is already showing signs it will be the same.
That is a great list of forces that we should be directing our anger towards; would the US military-industrial complex be another? Labor are in the process of adding the Israeli military-intelligence-industrial complex as well; would the likes of the techbros behind Palantir and the tech platforms be ones to watch as well?
Steve,
well said as well. My apologies I read the first half of your post, and thought ‘ok, got the idea’, consequently mising the reference to the Reserve Bank – my loss at the time – my internet access is severely restricted and won’t be able to access substack for ages, if there is more to the article than the Reserve Bank distorting its mandate to act to protect Australia from both unemployment and inflation to that of using the cover of inflation to channel money to the likes of the banks, please, please could you cut and paste the juicy bits to here.
Heather,
is your reference to Florence Foster Jenkins in relation to Pauline Hanson herself, or perhaps Gina Rinehart using Hanson as a mouthpiece?
I know you read widely, so you’ve probably seen the article in Pearls and Irritations by the editor Catriona Jackson.
I agree with Catriona, that Hanson is playing the public for fools, but at the same time think that Hanson herself is just the latest ‘useful idiot’ that the forces RomeoCharlie speaks of uses to distract from their plundering of Australian wealth.
@ RomeoCharlie: Well said!! Agreed!! When will Australian politicians represent the best interests of Australian voters??
@ Thommo: Geez Thommo; Are you trying to convince us that the COALition were NOT doing exactly the same strategy during the past nine (9) years of maladministration and misgovernment??
Romeo Charlie, one of our problems is that Labor has been infiltrated (I use that word deliberately) by some who should be with the Libs.
You’ll see what I mean from the following.
Thommo, all I have on the Reserve Bank is from:-
https://theaimn.com/dont-ignore-the-flurry-of-activity-by-australias-radicalising-right/
which was on the old site and no longer available.
But I saved this comment of mine.
This quote from the Reserve Bank web-site obscures who it is that really controls the Reserve Bank, but still let’s the cat out of the bag — “There have been several changes to the roles and functions of the Reserve Bank of Australia since the 1980s, though its overall objectives have remained the same. Direct controls over banking activities gave way to market-orientated methods of implementing monetary policy. The Bank adopted a policy of inflation targeting in the early 1990s . While the Bank remains accountable to parliament and the Australian people, its political independence in conducting monetary policy is central to its mission and effectiveness as a modern central bank.”
Market-oriented policy? Political independence? Accountable to Parliament?
The intended impression is one of disinterested neutrality.
What a joke.
The role of the Reserve Bank is “to contribute to the stability of the currency, full employment, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the Australian people. It does this by conducting monetary policy to meet an agreed inflation target, working to maintain a strong financial system and efficient payments system,…”
There’s a major problem with that. There’s three distinct aims/roles there.
Some aims/roles are in conflict. Full employment cannot be achieved when raising interest rates to stabilise the economy results in unemployment. So in situations of conflict, which aim will win?
This from the ABC 25 June 2023 might give us a clue — “Last week, deputy governor Michele Bullock (now governor) said the RBA’s goal was to get the unemployment rate up to 4.5 per cent by the end of next year. It’s currently 3.6 per cent.”
Well blow me down, who woulda thought.
And all to fight inflation.
We can’t have inflation cos then the great unwashed will demand pay increases, who knows where it might end!
So in situations of conflict, which aim wins?
The aim that protects the powerful.
But problems with fulfilling the bank’s charter are compounded by having the Reserve Bank Board dominated by members with a background in economics or business.
Economics students internalise, as a matter of faith, that what’s good for business is good for society. They bring that faith to board meetings.
The minority members (2 union and 1 community background) don’t stand a chance.
The result is as we saw above — we now have market-orientated methods of implementing policy.
Not people orientated.
Not community orientated.
Market orientated.
Our economy now serves “the market”, that undefined and indefinable entity about which we know little apart from some tosh about its beneficent invisible hand.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Our economy is run from fantasyland.
We would think that a charter for a reserve bank would be a clear and concise set of principles, which it appears to be. But appearances are deceptive.
The Reserve Bank in its wisdom has created its own definition of one of its charter requirements; full employment.
*From the ABC 21st March 2024 — “The RBA uses a technical and more narrow definition (than the government) : it says full employment is the level of unemployment that’s consistent with stable wage or price inflation.”
In other words, full employment is not related to employment statistics.
Full employment is whatever keeps the powerful happy.
What did I say about our economy being run from fantasyland?
But it gets worse. From the ABC 25th Sept 2023 — the government “doesn’t want to disrupt the RBA’s methods. It accepts that the RBA uses a narrower concept of full employment.”
If you needed proof that the Reserve Bank is not answerable to the Parliament or the people, it’s right there.
If anyone is in any doubt that the Australian Reserve Bank sees its role as being to serve market forces instead of the Australian people, or that Jim Chalmers is a besotted fan of the market, adrift somewhere in fantasyland, see this from the ABC today.
“In case you missed it, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he will no longer push ahead with the idea of abolishing the federal government’s power to overrule a decision by the Reserve Bank Board. He says he’ll keep the power in place, and he’ll now just try to restrict the circumstances in which it can be used. “We are prepared to limit the parliament’s override powers to emergency situations, to rare instances,” he announced on Friday.”
To show just how deep into fantasyland Chalmers has wandered, he revealed that it was actually Coalition members of the Senate Committee who objected to him going the whole hog and legislating complete Reserve Bank independence as recommended by a Reserve Bank review.
Fair dinkum, yer couldn’t make this stuff up.
As the article today notes; “It’s been strange watching Coalition and Greens MPs, and former RBA governors and treasurers, trying to remind Labor that it would be unwise to relinquish democratic control over a central bank.”
Strange? I’d say more like sickening.
Thommo, I think the structure of the Board has changed since then, and not for the better.
The Reserve Bank came up in another article that should be accessible, but I can’t seem to get to it.
https://theaimn.net/manipulation-lurks-in-the-shadows-of-our-daily-lives-far-more-pervasive-than-we-often-realise/
Michael Taylor, that article is from the new site, was it lost somehow? Thanks.
Steve,
you’re a living legend, thank you kindly.
I agree totally with what you’ve said.
Yeah, I’m getting a dreaded (404) on that last link. Actually, I’m not having any luck with both links, but you’ve covered my query brilliantly, thanks again, sorry to put you trouble; much appreciated.
NEC,
you really ought not let anyone live rent-free in your mind, least of all someone like me.
Besides, you’ll need more than just constantly coming up with strawman arguments.
Let’s see:
Yesterday:
** needy minimization of other’s opinions;
** consistent failing to address issues with analysis;
** one-eyed beligerence;
** reliance on a strawman argument;
** use of false association to demean another’s point of view;
** filling space with shit;
** doubling down on demeaning other people;
** spreading falsehoods;
** reversing reality;
** employing sly little qualification to dress up a falsehood as fact;
** failing to support assertions with evidence/rationale;
** substituting bluster for reasoning;
** employing distractions;
Today:
** needy minimization of other’s opinion
** repetitious strategy of putting up strawman arguments
I suppose I should be thankful that you spared me the ‘filling the space with shit’ this time. Shouldn’t speak to soon, the day is young. Yesterday, you were, no doubt, on a good day, are you aiming at out-doing that?
Thommo, no trouble, my pleasure.
When I have to do research for a comment I keep a copy.
Topics have a habit of cropping up repeatedly, so copies save hours of work.