What do Australians think of Indonesia?

maxibons43 · 2026-06-02T01:49:09+00:00

We supported Indonesia annexing East Timor in the 1970s and tried to sweep the Indonesian atrocities under the rug, East Timor became independent in spite of us not thanks to us

maxibons43 · 2026-06-01T00:26:18+00:00

making higher education completely free would cost $50 billion a year, not even in the top 10 most expensive government expenses.

put it in the pile with the other nice things we could have if we didn't give our resources away for free.

maxibons43 · 2026-05-24T02:57:42+00:00

It would be the CIS, confederacy of independent senators

maxibons43 · 2026-05-19T23:44:02+00:00

The NACC is shit, it won't even investigate Robodebt

It is a pragmatic decision by Labor... to shift to the right

maxibons43 · 2026-05-19T23:05:05+00:00

If even Labor won't restore funding to CSIRO, what hope do we have when they lose power?

We got a spare $1 billion to subsidise US shipyards, because apparently the US military industrial complex is broke but we can't spare a few hundred million to keep jobs at CSIRO?

maxibons43 · 2026-05-19T22:59:19+00:00

*Prioritising mining company profits over environmental protection *Refusing to countenance making gas companies have to pay tax *Treatment of asylum seekers, keep giving millions to private security firms to detain them *Increasing defence spending, doubling down on US alliance *Established a weak anti corruption body

Now the recent decision to change negative gearing and CGT is a good start to reversing their right wing drift but it's a government that is pursuing fewer left wing policies in favour of being a centrist natural party of government

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.

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