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And his influence on media dwarfs that of Bezos, In Australia, perhaps it is a bigger problem, he owns 14 of 21 Metro newspapers here, plus sky news, and numerous radio stations
Here we have had 2 former Prime Ministers (from different political parties) call for a Royal Commission (a big deal in our system) into Murdoch's influence on the media and political landscape in general.
Both have said that basically if you get Murdoch offside Murdoch routinely has used his influence to turn public opinion and oust prime ministers. he absolutely is somewhat of a kingmaker in our country.
Mods, apologies if this is getting too political, I am trying to discuss the role of media, however its hard to stay out of politics. feel free to delete if I have crossed the line
However even our centre-right party here supports lock downs.we have a unique advatage on where we are, so we have been able to aim for zero community transmission. not many people want to totally do away with lockdowns until we have vaccinations at an appropriate level, that is the issue, we f**ked up our vaccine strategy. The non Murdoch press have been hard on our PM (from our centre right party) in regards to the vaccine rollout, the Murdoch press much softer
Our economy has held up pretty well, the lockdowns have been tough but when we dont have them, we have been pretty unrestricted. and even during our lockdowns, most industries have been working, outside of tourism and hospitality.
Our stock market indices are trading higher than before the pandemic, unemployment rate is back to where it was in feb 2020, our GDP is higher than pre covid, one of only 5 countries in the world which can say that.
I would say inflation is our biggest concern, which is currently pretty much exactly the same as the US right now.
So we are not destroying our own economy. after reading a few of your comments, I think you are a bit mislead about our culture and where we sit on the political spectrum.
Yes we are further left than the US, but we certainly are not some kind of socialist / communist state.
having been to the US quite a few times, In my opinion the culture is remarkably similar (with some obvious differences, but hey, variety in the world is good/interesting)
We have learnt that the earlier the we lockdown the quicker and easier it is. Like i said, our economy is coping ok.
And we have benefited from a health/deathrate point of view
We have only had about 900 deaths since march last year. that is a lot of people kept safe. we have never had hospitals overflowing/struggling to cope etc. compared to most countries we have faired very very well in that regard.
we lock down when we have 20 cases so that we dont have to lock down for longer when we have 20,000 cases
You also miss how we have lived in between lockdowns, when the rest of the world was locked down, I was going to the football along with 75,000 other fans. and outside of Melbourne, and now sydney, most Australians have not spent much time in lockdown at all.
But you are right, its not sustainable, but the common feeling is that short sharp lockdowns are the best way until everyone that wants a vaccine has had the ability to get one (currently those under 40 do not have access to the recommended pfizer shot). A lot of people are not happy with the NSW government at the moment, because they held off on locking down, and now its going to take longer to get back to zero. To let the virus run rampant through our community now after all the hard work and before everyone has had the opportunity to be vaccinated would be a crying shame, and a slap in the face to all who made sacrifices up to this point.
I dont get this hippy/cowboy shit, we arent hippies in Australia but whatever. I prefer to talk in actual real terms, Australia is a modern and stable democracy with a capitalist system which in my opinion strikes a good balance of personal freedoms and civic responsibility.
Our country is not perfect, but i guarantee its a pretty damn good place to live.
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If you want to go into that other stuff, yeah hydrogen takes a ton of energy to manufacture as does liquid oxygen. Then again, so does more traditional rocket fuels.
Just a week ago I had a discussion with my stepdaughter and her boyfriend. And I said that I sometimes feel we need a war cause people are spoiled to no end. We had 80 years of peace. Before that the longest peace time was 30 years.
Start your own debate, current events, how I feel about
(Nobody cares honestly) thread instead of taking away from one that was actually interesting. Start a new topic in the Dumbgeon. Save the mods some time.
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Socialism has a very defined meaning https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
You cant change what you think the definition is, and then say Australia is "what I think socialism is"
lets not go from rockets>covid>socialism>gun rights
The only thing I will say is of course Australians want to protect themselves, its f**king stupid to imply that we are such a bunch of pussies that we "cant fathom the concept of wanting to protect oneself". we just chose to go about it in a different way. We are a free country too. these are the laws we chose to enact, you guys are free to do what you want, and the same applies to our society.
Anyway, back to rockets gentlemen. Apologies for getting things off track, but I really feel the need to defend my country when people say falsehoods such as we are a socialist nation and that we "cant fathom the concept of wanting to protect oneself".
I love my country, as I should, just like most Americans love theirs, as they should.
Does the cold war count as peace time? What about all these terrorist groups that seemed to pop up round the end of the cold war? Is ISIS peaceful? China has concentration camps, but that doesn't effect us right thus still peaceful?
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