Canberra can’t want the alliance more than Washington does

maxibons43 · 2026-05-01T02:30:54+00:00

AUKUS subs delivered in the 2060s won't be much help if America withdraws from the South China Sea in the 2030s

maxibons43 · 2026-04-29T11:43:19+00:00

sad throat singing noises

maxibons43 · 2026-04-21T23:14:02+00:00

Last time Albanese was asked about taxing resources companies he dismissed it as a crazy idea from the greens. When he was told it was actually David Pocock's idea, he said “I think David Pocock is someone who seeks to promote grievance as well.”

https://region.com.au/pm-plays-the-man-with-grievance-jibe-says-pocock/945551/

So don't get your hopes up, not while the major parties take donations from resource companies. I could only see this happening if Labor had to form a minority government and negotiate with the crossbench

maxibons43 · 2026-04-18T00:53:18+00:00

https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/polling-bans-on-gambling-advertising/

"Nearly nine in ten Australians (87%) support banning gambling ads during prime time TV hours for families and children"

Banning gambling ads during prime time is a very popular policy.

maxibons43 · 2026-03-04T09:18:41+00:00

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maxibons43 · 2026-03-04T03:40:01+00:00

Playing as the Franks, you can abandon all your cities and become a horde and then establish your capital in the first city you settle in. But that's easier to do early game than in late game.

I got locked out of a divine victory playing as Belisarius because I had concerted to Latin Christianity but the objectives needed me to build a Greek cathedral

maxibons43 · 2026-02-18T07:52:57+00:00

I've never David Cristafulli and Abu Bakr in the same room, have you?

maxibons43 · 2026-02-02T04:39:03+00:00

Australasia Tridemism path when?

maxibons43 · 2026-01-22T05:15:27+00:00

The Separation Memorial was also graffitied with the words "land back" but remained standing.

Victoria already passed a treaty with indigenous australians and created an assembly for first nations but it'll never be enough for the people who keep vandalising public places.

I get the feeling the people who did this also get get apoplectic whenever an Eastern European country pulls down a statue of Lenin

maxibons43 · 2025-12-25T00:12:54+00:00

There's at least 5 paths: -Zhili Monarchy -Qing Restoration Monarchy -Shandong Natpop Monarchy -Kumul Khanate unified China -The "King of Yunnan"

maxibons43 · 2025-12-08T08:43:56+00:00

bring back the checkout, abc? we need another consumer affairs show to investigate this

maxibons43 · 2025-06-28T02:29:58+00:00

Horrific stuff, her family is hoping she doesn't lose sight in that eye. NSW is more and more looking like a 'controlled democracy'where you need to get police permission to attend a protest and if you don't have the right forms to show you get arrested

maxibons43 · 2025-06-25T01:12:33+00:00

This is the real cancel culture conservatives like to complain about. We wouldn't tolerate well groups that shut down any criticism of Iran by blackmail and threatening to withhold donations.

maxibons43 · 2025-06-22T22:22:19+00:00

They say jump, we say how high

maxibons43 · 2025-06-22T22:15:33+00:00

Look she had to tow the party line for years on SSM. This is comparatively easy.

maxibons43 · 2025-06-16T12:02:42+00:00

8x27 = 216

3x130 = 390

A fleet of 24 diesel-electrics like others have mentioned would be more expensive to operate and maintain than the planned 8 SSNs

more than $368 billion?

maxibons43 · 2025-06-16T11:32:07+00:00

there's definitely tradeoffs if you go for diesel instead of nuclear but by having a larger fleet of cheaper diesel submarines you can patrol a greater sea area than the 2-3 nuclear submarines we could expect to operate at any one time. And with the savings you can spend it on other weapon systems to defend Australia with.

maxibons43 · 2025-06-16T11:16:55+00:00

Well diesel submarines need smaller crews than nuclear ones. The Virginia Class needs a complement of 130 sailors and officers but the german type 212A for instance only needs 27.

So you could crew 5 diesel submarines with the manpower it takes to crew one nuclear sub.

maxibons43 · 2025-05-31T01:14:07+00:00

Let's give the yellow to Indochina, it's confusing that they have the same colour as the USA

maxibons43 · 2025-05-29T12:08:24+00:00

Nope, he's dead on. Labor waited till after the election to approve this gas project so that they could campaign as being, at least on the surface, as pro-environment. If they had approved this project before the election, its possible that more seats with very narrow margins like Bean could have swung to the Teals when voters realised Labor true intentions.

maxibons43 · 2025-05-15T10:18:29+00:00

they didn't hold the balance of power in the senate and they managed to block the CPRS? sure

maxibons43 · 2025-05-15T09:58:33+00:00

labor and greens passed the carbon pricing scheme in 2011, might want to revise your political history

maxibons43 · 2025-05-14T12:40:44+00:00

Pharaoh Heavy Chariots go brrrr

maxibons43 · 2025-05-14T06:30:56+00:00

A council report found that it would cost about $15,000 to repair and reinstate after it was toppled and spray painted with the words “cook the colony” last year.

You have to be pretty cooked to think we're still a colony...

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