Australia - you're standing in it

Sheepdog started the topic in Friday, 18 Sep 2020 at 11:51 am

The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.

factotum Thursday, 4 Feb 2021 at 08:16 pm new

The IPA! The Lib's intellectual power station.

Coal fired, of course!

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 11:57 am new

A Chinese company has put forward a multi-billion-dollar plan to build a new city on the Papua New Guinean island of Daru, which sits on the nation's sea border with Australia. Daru Island lies in the Torres Strait and is only about 200 kilometres from the Australian mainland.

In November last year Papua New Guinea's Government signed a memorandum of understanding with another Chinese company to investigate building a $200 million fisheries park on Daru.

Blowin Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 12:17 pm new

Invading is so twentieth century.

Now you just buy out the owners and colonise wth your own people till demographics renders the handover complete.

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 12:37 pm new

It sure ain't for the benefit on the PNG citizens hey Blowin

factotum Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 01:17 pm new

Not like Ok Tedi, ay Slug.

Don't worry about the Chinees, mate, Blowie'll be fighting them on the beaches. Or on here.

He's even got a coupla designated threads for it all.

https://www.swellnet.com/forums/politico/456135?page=4#new

https://www.swellnet.com/forums/wax/497216

Huzzah!

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factotum Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 01:23 pm new

Meanwhile in Australia...

and allied to yesterday's ruminations on the RBA and LNP being at cross purposes:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/02/05/morrison-num…

The (true) horror...the horror...

Westofthelake Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 01:33 pm new

I reckon the scary bit is this:

Craig Kelly chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement.

Andrew Bragg chairs the Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology.

George Christensen chairs the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth.

Matthew Canavan is deputy chair of the Select Committee on Job Security.

And Tim Wilson chairs the Standing Committee on Economics.

It's a bog shop for arse wipes.

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 01:56 pm new

Different intent but yes agree Facto, Ok Tedi, one of the worst environmental disasters caused by humans, by the great Aussie Company BHP who didn't give a shit to the destruction they caused

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 01:57 pm new

That is very scary Westofthelake

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:06 pm new

Lets ramp up immigration since we need the growth to recover from Covid and also we don't have enough skilled labour in Aussie land or ones with the incorrect skill sets....

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:11 pm new

George has a few dozen "daughters" that he needs to get down from the Philippines.

Fuckwit Paleo Pete could be brought in as an "adviser" to obese cunt Kelly

Blowin Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:16 pm new

I imagine the stationing of a hefty US military permanent facility in our North won’t be too far away.

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:25 pm new

Not beyond the realms of possibility Blowin, running their ops through the 99 year CCP lease of Darwin Port

Optimist Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:40 pm new

Ask the yanks if they can shoot and pick fruit then your in.

Blowin Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 03:01 pm new

“ A Chinese company says it wants to build a new $39bn city with a major seaport, industrial area and free-trade zone on Papua New Guinea’s south coast, just kilometres from Australian territory.

The “New Daru City” proposal will escalate concerns within Australian security agencies over China’s interest in PNG’s impoverished Western Province, where another Chinese company plans to build a $200m fisheries industrial park.

Hong Kong-registered WYW Holding, a developer of Myanmar’s New Yangon City, has asked PNG Prime Minister James Marape to approve the development under a “Build Operate Transfer” arrangement, where PNG would receive the assets after an unspecified period of Chinese ownership and management.

…Mr Mo said the proposed city would span 100sq km and include fisheries and agricultural processing facilities, and ­provision for “intensive manufacturing”.

…Daru, which has a population of just 20,000 people and is the centre of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic, is about 200km from the Australian mainland but within kilometres of Australian ­islands in the Torres Strait.”

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 03:14 pm new

.

bonza Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 03:14 pm new

New daily on fire lately. that alan kohler article linked above is excellent

"That $260 billion, or whatever it ends up being, is very unlikely to be paid back. Why pay yourself back. In fact, the RBA should buy all of the $800 billion Government debt, rising to $1 trillion this year, and cancel it. Just write it off"

House prices to the moon.

Blowin Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 03:36 pm new

Increasing house prices : The only metric for success in Australia

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:43 pm new

"Don't worry about the Chinees, mate, Blowie'll be fighting them on the beaches. Or on here."

and some other fuckwit will be defending them on the beaches... right to the bitter bitter end...

why is that I wonder?

troppo dichotomy Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:47 pm new

V.B.?

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:54 pm new

I gotta say, I find it most disappointing that PNG have folded to chinese influence so readily

I know oz has backed off a lot of aid to PNG, ...and that PNG poilies are much more susceptible to dirty chinese money than an aldi bag craving oz politician...

but seriuosly...is there no loyalty earned whatsoever?

no concern or craving for a better deal for the little people of PNG?

their pollies should be strung up big time for selling out of the people of PNG down this dirty road

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:54 pm new

Very Bought?

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:57 pm new

Very Biased

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:57 pm new

Very Broken...

troppo dichotomy Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 05:59 pm new

Virtually Blind

JQ Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 06:08 pm new

What's loyalty worth when there's a buck at stake, it's called capitalism fellas.

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 06:17 pm new

capitalism

+ globalism version 2.0

(orchestrated and defended by the some very strange bedfellows)

memo... Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:26 pm new

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sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 06:53 pm new

the projection...

the irony...

again...

a lot of logging on goin on over there

personal device and 'sponsored' device perhaps...

'...those memes don't make themselves, no matter how lame they are...'

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 06:55 pm new

Unfortunately true Memo, all that cheap shit sold in retail, made in some overseas sweat shop/factory that serves no purpose except to end up in landfill within six months (at best)

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 06:56 pm new

Keeps the economy going though because I "need" it

Supafreak Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:10 pm new

House prices going up I hear , mate brought block in Mullumbimby late last year that is still being developed and can’t build for 18 months , cost him $425 ,000 he put 5% deposit , full amount paid when development finishes , 3 days after purchasing he was offered $40,000 more , 2 days ago real estate called and offered him $100,000 more than he paid . He said no. The 80 blocks originally advertised last year sold in less than 2 days. He got $250,000 more than he expected for his original house in ewingsdale .

seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:13 pm new

Geez SF

memo... Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:26 pm new

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sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:45 pm new

editing posts... bad form, ...apparently...

according to the thread police anyway... (acab)

(well it is... kind of... if changes the meaning and flow of events...)

"Unfortunately true Memo, all that cheap shit sold in retail, made in some overseas sweat shop/factory that serves no purpose except to end up in landfill within six months (at best)"

yep, and memo is enabling it... defending it... turning a total blind eye..

(with his one good eye)

ironically enough...

again...

memo... Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:57 pm new

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Michael Bourne Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:50 pm new

Classic.

And, Its a time for swillnuts to get even more stridently vocal... for once... Considering this obviously false, shameful, highly coveted and protected swillnut standard bearer's emblem:

https://www.swellnet.com/forums/wax/500849?page=12

'Systemic racism does not exist in Australia.

Unless you are claiming a conspiracy theory which states there is a cabal of like minded individuals who operate at the highest levels of government, business and community who convene in secret to discuss their plans to subjugate and oppress minorities.

Is this the case ?'

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/04/collingwood-players-apolo…

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2021-collingwood-racism-report-let…

https://www.zerohanger.com/moore-explains-why-collingwood-players-relea…

Keyboards ho!!!

Snuffy Smith Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:49 pm new

Like cheap knockoff copys of Mein Kamp that you still have not read by the looks Syp

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:48 pm new

'Virtually Blind'

very apt...

Snuffy Smith Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:50 pm new

Yep you said it hombre.

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:57 pm new

who memeacto?

he doesn't need to read it, he's enjoying his overlord enact it...

heard of the uyghers, and the nike sweatshops?

blm (...according to the nike corporation sponsorship...)

acab (...but dictators are cool...)

Snuffy Smith Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:56 pm new

How's about Guantanamo bay?

Snuffy Smith Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:57 pm new

West Papua?

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 07:59 pm new

how about it?

heard a uygher chick on abc radio address this very issue

her take....

'false equivelance'

totally and utterly...

(if I may borrow a phrase)

memo... Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:01 pm new

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Snuffy Smith Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:01 pm new

Pick your plight.

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:06 pm new

"West Papua?"

depends who you are accusing...

the indo's?

many crew complicit in that abortion

sypkan Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:06 pm new

pick your false equivelance

memo... Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:07 pm new

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seaslug Friday, 5 Feb 2021 at 08:10 pm new

That obese prick hasn't seen his cock for years but Paleo Pete had a good look the other day