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American politics might seem odd (and ruthless) to outsiders, but Australian politics has its peculiar moments as well. Right now there has been a surge in popularity of the right wing populist party One Nation, founded by Pauline Hanson.
From an AI source -
As long as I can remember the bedrock of Australian politics has been the Labor Party on one side and the conservatives (a combination of Liberal / Nationals) on the other. But the conservatives seem to have lost their way, and there has been a switch of allegiance to Pauline Hanson's party.
Recently there's a been a decline in her poll support, and even if she had the "numbers", the reality is that she would need seats in parliament to have any long term effect. That's a different ball game.
Whatever else one might say about her, she's determined.
What happens at the next elections, both state and federal, remains to be seen.
Incidentally my old pastor predicted, way back 1990/91, that China would become a major economic and military power. His words were "Then they'll start throwing their weight around". For us the uncomfortable fact is that they are our biggest trading partner, and this needs to taken into consideration as one of the political "balls in the air" to quote Peter Dutton who was unsuccessful as the coalition leader in the last election, even losing his own seat.
Strange times we live in. There are two significant wars being fought largely by missiles, robot air forces and increased unmanned naval and armoured military equipment, but with humans still in the firing line. Russian losses are supposed to be about 1.4 million troops (including wounded and missing) and it's a fair bet the Ukrainians would also have significant manpower losses.
From an AI source -
As long as I can remember the bedrock of Australian politics has been the Labor Party on one side and the conservatives (a combination of Liberal / Nationals) on the other. But the conservatives seem to have lost their way, and there has been a switch of allegiance to Pauline Hanson's party.
Recently there's a been a decline in her poll support, and even if she had the "numbers", the reality is that she would need seats in parliament to have any long term effect. That's a different ball game.
Whatever else one might say about her, she's determined.
What happens at the next elections, both state and federal, remains to be seen.
Incidentally my old pastor predicted, way back 1990/91, that China would become a major economic and military power. His words were "Then they'll start throwing their weight around". For us the uncomfortable fact is that they are our biggest trading partner, and this needs to taken into consideration as one of the political "balls in the air" to quote Peter Dutton who was unsuccessful as the coalition leader in the last election, even losing his own seat.
Strange times we live in. There are two significant wars being fought largely by missiles, robot air forces and increased unmanned naval and armoured military equipment, but with humans still in the firing line. Russian losses are supposed to be about 1.4 million troops (including wounded and missing) and it's a fair bet the Ukrainians would also have significant manpower losses.
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