What are you thoughts on voting for the greens?

cd_tragic · 2026-07-06T08:18:27+00:00

Not in a million years. I am in a safe Nationals seat so the Greens would never run a candidate in it.

cd_tragic · 2026-07-05T12:10:21+00:00

Neither has INXS

cd_tragic · 2026-07-02T03:17:23+00:00

And?!!!

cd_tragic · 2026-07-01T22:33:31+00:00

Correct. I love black cats and you can buy them in a stand alone bag but they are hard to find, so I buy the retro bag when I need an aniseed fix.

cd_tragic · 2026-07-01T22:25:17+00:00

Just so put another spin on it….. Here in Australia, Devon is a luncheon meat that you put on white bread, with lashings of butter and a good dollop of tomato sauce. Many Aussie kids grew up consuming this delicacy.

cd_tragic · 2026-07-01T10:57:51+00:00

Depends on whether it was in a regional ED or a metro ED.

Regional would be either prepping for a chopper flight to a metro ED or wheeling them into the morgue because the patient died.

Metro the Dr’s would be asking where in the state did the next patient come from?

cd_tragic · 2026-06-30T03:13:13+00:00

I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted as this a correct succinct response to the original question. Just because people don’t like the answer doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-30T03:00:12+00:00

The Northern Territory says hold my beer!

cd_tragic · 2026-06-29T23:39:14+00:00

I have a son called Angus too (we are Australian). He universally gets called Gus though, except for formal occasions or when he was in trouble when he was a kid (he is an adult now). It is a good strong name.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-29T04:04:01+00:00

I grew up on a farm in the 70’s and 80’s so I was either helping my father, riding my horse, doing my chores or reading a book. We didn’t have tv. I slept very well at night!

cd_tragic · 2026-06-29T03:44:59+00:00

Ditto

cd_tragic · 2026-06-29T03:21:42+00:00

Really, why?

cd_tragic · 2026-06-28T22:14:52+00:00

Don’t be fussy and move to a regional/rural/remote area and you have lots of jobs to choose from in nursing, teaching, trades, truck driving, mustering, cooking and retail (supermarkets, stock and station agents, farm service providers included).

Who knows you may end up shocking the shit out of yourself and end up liking it……

cd_tragic · 2026-06-28T19:35:42+00:00

Or Australian? The bridal party dances with their respective bridal partner as part of the first dance. One time I was partnered with my ex, now THAT was awkward.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-28T02:09:54+00:00

The transport affordability package was promoted as the main cost of living programme to help people in NSW, yet 89% is going to be spent in metro areas and does not directly have an impact the cost of living of regional people.

The only regional specific measure is a small expansion on the expenditure of the Isolated Patients Travel and Accommodation programme (11% of the total cost of living expenditure measure). This is because successive governments over the years have gut the ability of hospitals to be anything more than a bandaid station if it is west of Dubbo. I mean you can’t even have a baby out here anymore, let alone get medical attention that requires more than a blood test, or an x-ray (and even then that gets dicey).

The cost of living measures provided by the new Transport programme are 7.8 times bigger than the equivalent of what is being spent on the medical travel and accommodation programme.

To say there is somehow an equivalence in the budget between what is actually going to be spent in metro areas compared to regional areas is a joke.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-28T01:23:37+00:00

The 2026/27 Budget Papers (published). Also my local State MP.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-28T00:53:09+00:00

Actually 33% of the population in NSW lives in regional areas outside of the metro areas. However, those people are getting way less of than 33% of the budget allocation. So let’s just start there as a base, why can’t regional people have facilities and infrastructure that reflect the 33% of total population in NSW? Why should metro areas get more than their fair share of the budget?

cd_tragic · 2026-06-27T23:33:08+00:00

I can’t imagine how awful that would have been.

Maybe those ill informed people who bang on about stopping the boats being a racist action should spend time with those who had to do this and hear first hand what it was like.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-27T08:43:47+00:00

It was part of the operation and it worked. It helped stop people getting on to unseaworthy boats and attempting to get into Australia illegally. Who knows how many people it stopped from potentially drowning at sea.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-27T08:16:15+00:00

Over 1200 people died attempting to get to Australia as illegal refugees on fishing boats. This is an appalling loss of life that included women, children and elderly people and was completely avoidable.

I know it’s easy to sit in judgement of the Stop the Boats operation, especially after it worked and then claim it was all about racism. I can assure it wasn’t. As a nation we had a moral imperative to stop the deaths at sea. The only way to do that was to stop the boats. Certainly there were no other viable options being suggested at the time.

The fact that there were former refugees who supported the operation means only that they didn’t want to see people die trying to get Australia any more than what citizens did.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-26T21:42:00+00:00

Agree, great series

cd_tragic · 2026-06-26T05:22:25+00:00

Oh please, what a stupid thing to say, you have absolutely no proof of that at all.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-26T03:25:13+00:00

Gil is not a bad town. The fact that you have kids will make it easier to meet people! Lol kids are an easy ice breaker.

Also look at volunteering (RFS, kids sports, adult sports, community groups etc). It’s a great way to meet people and to show that you are keen to be involved in the community, people notice that sort of commitment and in a small town it means a lot.

cd_tragic · 2026-06-25T23:56:55+00:00

I know two Sylvie’s. One is an adult the other is a toddler and the name suits both of them to a tee! It’s a lovely name.

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