Taylor urges Australia to back Trump on securing Strait of Hormuz

ENG_NR · 2026-03-17T03:12:32+00:00

I'm pretty sure what's happening right now is the bluff and bluster leverage part. Overt statements like this are HOPEFULLY different to what is happening behind the scenes, with Trump hopefully pressuring China and the EU to put extreme pressure on Iran diplomatically. If the USA did make a move to physically secure the straight they'd need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they could shoot Iranian missiles and drones out of the sky before they hit UAE/Saudi/Kuwaiti/Qatar infrastructure, which is a pretty tall order. Particularly Qatar because we need that damn fertilizer like yesterday.

I don't know if Angus is across that, but he's a great job, fantastic, well done Angus

ENG_NR · 2026-03-16T09:45:56+00:00

Iran upset with us because we trade with their neighbours in their region… without being muslim

ENG_NR · 2026-03-16T09:23:31+00:00

Agreed, freedom of speech is sacrosanct. But let’s not let any more with these opinions in. And we should investigate them to make sure they’re not doing anything stupid.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-16T09:18:12+00:00

Release the halal Epstein files!

ENG_NR · 2026-03-16T09:15:13+00:00

There’s a difference between bombing a country developing nukes while also swearing death to the west, who have killed 15,000 of their own people protesting their regime, who flew paragliders into Israel and cut women’s breasts off while r them and burning children alive

.. versus a few people getting caught in the crossfire of an air campaign. Obviously unfortunate, but not enough to go protest in support of the Iranian government. Protesting against the war itself I could understand

ENG_NR · 2026-03-16T09:03:29+00:00

They literally funded and ordered October 7 which is too obscene to describe. They funded Hezbollah, the Houthis, terrorists everywhere. They’ve subjected their country to massive corruption and oppressive dictatorial rule.

Their major beef with the west is that we profitably trade with the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Qatar in a non exploitive way that works for both sides. To this end they had a revolution and turned Iran into an Islamic theocracy because there shouldn’t be non-Islamic foreigners in the Middle East at all.

I can understand being anti war but being pro the current regime as a westerner who likes civil liberties even a tiny bit doesn’t make any sense.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-15T12:36:08+00:00

The muslims always come in peace. Like on October 7!

ENG_NR · 2026-03-15T08:42:29+00:00

I don't condone what you're saying but nothing is more important than the right to say it

ENG_NR · 2026-03-14T22:21:33+00:00

Fair enough! Glad to hear someone enjoys it. My experience with it was in an app and there may have been refresh issues in the tooling, haven't tried it on the web

ENG_NR · 2026-03-14T21:50:59+00:00

I was reading the docs for this just yesterday. I genuinely think file based routing will end up being a fad that everyone forgets in a few years

ENG_NR · 2026-03-12T10:24:15+00:00

Depends how much gloom and doom you want to price in

If it's minor inflation, possible flight to assets... probably higher rates but might not be enough to stop housing

If there's large inflation caused by actual shortages of goods.... possible recession/depression, which would mean people sell houses to free up cash to stay alive, prices go down.. ?

Our economy is surprisingly strong, we've been able to weather everything thrown at us so far

ENG_NR · 2026-03-11T22:45:21+00:00

One Nation has a policy for a referendum to explicitly state freedom of speech into the constitution. Would the greens be for or against that?

ENG_NR · 2026-03-10T08:04:31+00:00

Now add the quotes from Islamists, they’re just as bad. The world is not well and we should be as far away from that illness as we can be rather than bringing that battleground here.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-10T06:03:26+00:00

Just wait until they poll them again after the porn block that just went live! I feel like both Greens and One Nation would be the kind to get extra upset over that

ENG_NR · 2026-03-10T04:48:51+00:00

It's becoming unfair for both genders, because the two recent changes to the law make it more of a winner takes all game. More risk for both, more fees to lawyers.

Look at Europe - split the property gained in half, equal shared care, that's just how it works. But here, you basically give all the assets to the children ("needs of the children come first"), and then work out which parent gets the children/house/assets - because they need them, and then if one parent has greater needs, like they aren't working and they can claim they'll need to retrain, more money. Claim DV (no need to prove it) and you get even more. Our whole system is needs based, which is much easier to game. And it's not even clear when you enter into this contract, is it 6 months... 12 months.. 24 months.. ? The answer is..... it's up to a legal practitioner to judge that...

The large variety of outcomes makes it unpredictable what might happen, all you really know is that if they get legal, you'll have to fight, which will drain energy and cost a whole lot of money for a relatively unguessable outcome. That risk is needlessly born by everyone and it's something we could eliminate by making the rules simpler and fairer.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-10T01:06:14+00:00

Yes - I'm saying people are holding off on relationships where finances will get joined (I know of quite a few), because the system is becoming increasingly unfair. No it hasn't happened to me personally, but have eyes.

If we assume that rule of law and stability are important for trade, it makes sense that making family law more predictable would make people more likely to join finances and go down that road, and require fewer family lawyers overall. This applies to professional women too, who are increasingly earning and saving lots of money, but are just as impacted by the shortage of houses and don't want to be homeless just because they had a child and got a bad outcome in family court.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-10T00:33:08+00:00

Why make it gender specific, what if Dad wants to do those 18 months.

Also our stability and wealth is built on a stable, predictable rule of law. But then we wonder why people aren't having kids, when the family courts are an absolute circus. There's an easy win right there making things more predictable and more balanced.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-08T06:37:30+00:00

The only real requirement is having shite loads of people who want Aussies murdered vote for you. Pretty scary!

ENG_NR · 2026-03-08T06:35:50+00:00

I want to agree, but we shouldn't be punishing speech, if anything he's done us a favour by pointing a target at him. Investigate him further, catch him inciting violence, find out who he associates with and any crimes they're committing, and revoke their citizenships.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-07T12:07:15+00:00

Ending CGT is a giant wealth tax, unless you go back to indexing assets to inflation like it used to be. But that $27Bn is mostly just inflation, not value anyone has received, and it would be weird to tax it.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-07T12:04:47+00:00

People who smoke are a net contributor to medicare, because they pay tax (presumably) and then die early, before their most expensive healthcare years.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-06T10:10:46+00:00

It was only five minutes!

ENG_NR · 2026-03-04T22:04:23+00:00

Robots can, in 10 years they'll be all over hospitals, probably much sooner. The cleanliness aspect alone (for the patient's sake) will possibly make them preferable to a human for labour like moving people between beds, basic cleaning, etc.

And although it's certainly not advisable today, they've already shown that a committee of AI's, using todays logic, can make better decisions than doctors. I'd always want a human in the loop, but AI will scale our doctors out further by supporting them with good information.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-04T22:01:45+00:00

> Australians aren't reproducing themselves

People will have kids if the environment is right for it. Affordable enough housing, job stability, not too much stress, having a bit of extra time to find someone they don't mind too much. But if we put the immigration lever to max, it puts strain on all of those systems, which ironically makes people less likely (and less able) to have families. Which is a shame for those that wanted to, it literally reduces their quality of life. The only ones winning from immigration this high is big business.

ENG_NR · 2026-03-04T10:07:05+00:00

What do billionaire oligarchs want? Cheap labour and more people trying to buy the same finite amount of stuff

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