You're certainly spot on in depicting the brutal reality that can await Westerners travelling overseas - one need only look at the Australian who stole a barcoaster in Thailand for an example closer to home (luckily that had a happy ending).
But your absolute lack of condemnation of this...
Re: Strong and effective climate change policy, that doesn't involve a great, big new
We also own about 25% (debatable, but we certainly own a very large amount) of the world's Thorium deposits. We're well equipped to either use nuclear fuel alongside alternatives, or sell it and tax the...
They worried me for a second because they said "we will be moving for significant amendments to this bill if it arrives in the senate" right after they called it a bad and pointless policy. I guess "significant amendments" is code for changes unacceptable to Labour and hence equivalent of a no...
Allegedly anybody who isn't an anarchist or libertarian 'hates freedom'. :o
Clive Hamilton is a nutjob. They ran him because he was high profile and they figured they could keep him in line. Luckily he lost. Still a big mistake. You don't want to dilute what you stand for like that.
There has been a funky 33%/33%/33% split between the three major parties every time I look at this poll. Other, real, professional polls of Australia youth also produce a similar split. Interesting.
Completely true. C.f. children with no human contact for years who are raised by animals (wolves, etc). They are not human psychologically (they act completely like the animals that raise them) and years in human society does not change them.
Edit: Of course the rest of your rant about God...