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What Thinking Austalians Are Thinking (part 2)
As usual, my copy of The Australian (5/9) has bad news and good news. While young Australians cannot afford their own home, it’s not all bad because a politician costs only $1670. Rod Cruice, Dayboro, Qld ... Malcolm Turnbull may well read the riot act, but it is...

What Thinking Australian Are Thinking (Part 1)
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking The practice of our politicians and their political parties accepting donations from those currying influence so pervasive that our politicians are inured from comprehending that it is wrong? The ethical failure of the modern...
The tentacles reach everywhere — Bob Carr link to Sam Dastyari’s China tea — The Australian
The revelation comes as analysis by The Australian shows Senator Dastyari’s campaign to win over Chinese voters by expressing support for Beijing’s stand on the South China Sea may have boosted his election result, with his primary vote highest in electorates with large numbers of Chinese Australians.
Local allegiance to Beijing brings investment concern — The Australian
The veil is slowly being lifted on true multiculturalism. First Islam and Muslims, and now China and particularly Chinese Australians also with divided loyalties, doing the work of their masters back home
How about a Royal Commission into overseas political donations and watch both sides squirm???
How about a Royal Commission into overseas political donations and watch both sides squirm???
Random note Idle thought. Is this the game Chinas Playing?
It's a big call, but given the way the Chinese play international politics and assuming a great deal of Australias borrowings are from China, I wonder if their "downturn" isn't a confected downturn and they are sourcing their raw materials elsewhere. This confected...
Random Note #195,326 — The preening of the moral narcissists — ice inhalation room
Their misty eyed, misguided and well meaning solutions inevitably make things worse for the victims with Australia’s public life littered with all manner of their failed social, cultural and economic policies programs and experiments.
Paying too much tax?? This will partly explain why.
Paying too much tax? Perhaps that’s because the big corporates are (quite legally) gaming the system with schemes like this

Dastyari
US national debt hits $19.5 trillion — Washington Examiner
In terms of national debt, it took all the US presidents from 1789 to 2009 (220 years) to ratchet up the equivalent to what Obama has achieved between 2009 and 2016. (8 years) And we can only imagine that if Hillary Clinton gets up it will be more of the same business as usual.