Who could’ve predicted that the last 30 years of building a political and economic system designed to only benefit big business and the wealthy, and then scapegoating the failures of that system to benefit regular people onto cultural groups, would cause disunity and animosity amongst those groups?
Keep the plebs fighting amongst themselves and you’ll laugh all the way to the bank.
LordWalderFrey1 on
>A Herald Sun poll showed that 71 per cent of its readers believed Pauline Hanson was the leader who best represented Australian values. The Prime Minister managed 11 per cent – and forget the rest.
>I emphasise that such a newspaper reader poll cannot be relied upon, but it should not be ignored given the evidence from other sources.
He literally presents the rebuttal in the argument.
>If First Nations activists want to link themselves with Hamas supporters at this time of community change, they should be prepared for a backlash.
First Nations activism is more contentious among the wider community than pro-Palestinianism or even pro-Hamas sympathies. The latter is a conflict a world away that people will be more likely to be apathetic to in general, not withstanding the desire to see foreign wars off our streets. The former is a pertinent and divisive domestic topic, regardless of who one sympathises with in that argument. Burning the flag harms their cause more than being associated with the pro-Palestinian movement. This author is projecting the political and media class obsession with Israel on to everyday Australians.
>Federal and state politicians have been telling consumers that large wind and solar farms are the cheapest form of energy. Via their power bills, the population now knows that this is political rubbish. Power prices are set for a new round of rises in 2026, with more to come.
We need evidence of this, that most people see coal and gas as the cheapest, and not just assuming that high power bills will be blamed on renewables.
>The first clue that this shift was on the horizon arose in 2024 when a call to boycott Woolworths over its Australia Day stance slashed consumer demand for the nation’s largest supermarket chain. It has found it difficult to recover momentum.
Did Woolworths really lose money, and was it because of that. Peter Dutton called for people to boycott Woolworths and no one listened to him.
>Meanwhile, many senior executives in major companies come from affluent, inner-city areas where views are very different from those held across much of Australia.
>Because they are out of touch with a huge section of their customer base, there will be many more Woolworths-type mistakes.
One can easily the same for the Nationals, that they are from rural agricultural areas where views are very different from the rest of Australia, like on energy and on gun laws.
The Liberals have lost two elections because they focused on nonsense that the rest of the Australia didn’t care about like a culture war about trans people, nuclear power, flags, climate denialism, and Israel, when Labor focused on kitchen table issues.
lazy-bruce on
That poll doesnt suprise me, especially given people who read newspapers skew older.
Gives me good reason to not read the Herald Sun if I was in Victoria given thats its audience
Grande_Choice on
Bozo who wrote this article is part of the problem. Rural folk upset about renewables? Let’s fix the problem spending money on more expensive gas, coal and nuclear. None of these writers are able to explain how exactly that would bring prices down. Not a single one.
Maybe instead of victimising rural people constantly and making them take some personal responsibility for their decisions would improve things. Because voting Nat for decades has clearly worked well for them.
CryoAB on
My local council was just forced to investigate how dangerous wind farms are in comparison to other energy production alternatives, because about 40 locals voted for it….
Rizza1122 on
I often wonder how the Australian is allowed to publish such outright lies. “Renewables have been said to be the cheapest but via their power bills consumers know this isn’t true” there are no reputable studies anywhere that say coal, gas and nuclear a cheaper. It’s that we let our power generators get old and unreliable and did everything to hold back the transition. We knew our population would grow and haven’t kept up with demand. His argument is a straight up con.
banramarama2 on
That article is boomer on Facebook essence distilled down to pure form.
White hot anger of rural people? Getting paid more per ha for their land for a renewable project than it generates under cows?
Having their healthcare/roads/schools being paid for by urban area tax bases?
To many immigrants that they don’t see?
To much sky news guys.
Rizza1122 on
Tldr: the australian again asserts that everything wrong with the country is because of net zero and black fellas.
ChZakalwe on
Uh… no.
The Murdoch press really needs to learn a new playbook other than the American one.
The US urbanisation rate is 80%. Ours is 90%. and with compulsory voting, there is not a chance in hell they’ll have a tangible effect other than in the margins especially when they’re lost the Liberals.
tecdaz on
If they were politically dominant, maybe.
But they aren’t. The ‘broad church’ is dead. They rejected their own urban moderate wing and now can’t win an election.
The right faction of the Coalition is toxic, to themselves, if no one else.
T_Racito on
Look at minnesota.
The feral radical right base doesnt want immigration to go down, if they did, they’d love obama.
They want the spectacle, and to make lefties mad
claudius_ptolemaeus on
> The first clue that this shift was on the horizon arose in 2024 when a call to boycott Woolworths over its Australia Day stance slashed consumer demand for the nation’s largest supermarket chain. It has found it difficult to recover momentum.
Woolworths revenue went from $64B in 2023 to $68B in 2024 and $69B in 2025. What the fuck is this guy on?
JARDIS on
Geezus I think I just took a hit point of psychic damage reading that. How he could write that article and still be competent enough to tie his own shoelaces is beyond me. That was pure rightoid fantasy fiction.
AromaTaint on
I mean if The Australian and it’s sisters, cousins and long distant relatives in the Newscorpse empire weren’t deliberately and maliciously fomenting this these ideas at every opportunity and every available platform maybe things would be different.
Take the vitriol they’ve been pushing against The Hoodoo Gurus today as an example Suddenly they’re apart of The Radical Left because they don’t want to be associated with One Nation? Please.
jonokimono on
Unpopular opinion: I’m sick and tired of hearing about regional Australians.
Hard truth is that the cities the engine rooms of modern Australia, and the people that live in them are the vast majority and what keeps it moving forward.
knobbledknees on
I started reading and got to, “the linking of extreme First Nations activists with the Gaza protest movement”.
Incredible the way a few fringe protesters live rent free in these people’s heads. Genuinely totally disconnected from reality.
It’s like those five people you were at uni with who annoyed everyone but you mostly just ignored, and then you realise that there is an entire media organisation so obsessed with them that it probably explains why those five people at uni actually thought they could have real influence, because the Australian keeps telling them that they do.
Imagine being the kind of Boomer who reads this stuff and doesn’t have other exposure to reality, they must imagine that the protesters have actual power and are somehow taking over cities.
When the reality is that the opening of the Metro Tunnel in Melbourne meant that I could totally ignore the protests because the the only way I even knew they were on each weekend was because they used to block the trams down Swanston Street.
I read stuff like this and it makes some of the more deranged posters on here make much more sense to me; they probably read this stuff often, rubbish in, rubbish out.
Frank9567 on
The Murray Darling Basin Plan, started by Labor in 2012 with funding of $10bn could have transformed the region. It was potentially life changing for people there.
They voted for the Coalition in 2013, and the money was frittered away on schemes enriching a few. Almost no extra water for the Basin was the result of 9 years of the Coalition.
Folks. The cities gave the Region a life changing cash injection of $10bn.
It was wasted by the people *you voted in*. You got almost zero benefit if you were an ordinary voter.
Yet, you still vote National.
It’s not even clear what can be done for you. If more money is provided to the Regions. You’ll still vote for the people who’ll again take the lot, leaving you with nothing.
Here’s a suggestion. Don’t vote for the people who robbed you. I understand why you don’t want to vote Labor. Ok. But if you try to tell me that there aren’t good men and women among you: farmers, doctors, lawyers, ordinary workers who *would* work for you as independent MPs, then I have to conclude there’s no hope for rural Australia, and spending any more money in Regions is pointless.
Active-Ad9818 on
Honestly, “a Herald Sun Poll”? Hardly representative or reliable.
MadMaz27 on
Energy policy will decide the next election.
Pitiful-Stable-9737 on
Caption under the photo with the flags says:
“Fags at half mast on the National Day of Mourning.”
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Who could’ve predicted that the last 30 years of building a political and economic system designed to only benefit big business and the wealthy, and then scapegoating the failures of that system to benefit regular people onto cultural groups, would cause disunity and animosity amongst those groups?
Keep the plebs fighting amongst themselves and you’ll laugh all the way to the bank.
>A Herald Sun poll showed that 71 per cent of its readers believed Pauline Hanson was the leader who best represented Australian values. The Prime Minister managed 11 per cent – and forget the rest.
>I emphasise that such a newspaper reader poll cannot be relied upon, but it should not be ignored given the evidence from other sources.
He literally presents the rebuttal in the argument.
>If First Nations activists want to link themselves with Hamas supporters at this time of community change, they should be prepared for a backlash.
First Nations activism is more contentious among the wider community than pro-Palestinianism or even pro-Hamas sympathies. The latter is a conflict a world away that people will be more likely to be apathetic to in general, not withstanding the desire to see foreign wars off our streets. The former is a pertinent and divisive domestic topic, regardless of who one sympathises with in that argument. Burning the flag harms their cause more than being associated with the pro-Palestinian movement. This author is projecting the political and media class obsession with Israel on to everyday Australians.
>Federal and state politicians have been telling consumers that large wind and solar farms are the cheapest form of energy. Via their power bills, the population now knows that this is political rubbish. Power prices are set for a new round of rises in 2026, with more to come.
We need evidence of this, that most people see coal and gas as the cheapest, and not just assuming that high power bills will be blamed on renewables.
>The first clue that this shift was on the horizon arose in 2024 when a call to boycott Woolworths over its Australia Day stance slashed consumer demand for the nation’s largest supermarket chain. It has found it difficult to recover momentum.
Did Woolworths really lose money, and was it because of that. Peter Dutton called for people to boycott Woolworths and no one listened to him.
>Meanwhile, many senior executives in major companies come from affluent, inner-city areas where views are very different from those held across much of Australia.
>Because they are out of touch with a huge section of their customer base, there will be many more Woolworths-type mistakes.
One can easily the same for the Nationals, that they are from rural agricultural areas where views are very different from the rest of Australia, like on energy and on gun laws.
The Liberals have lost two elections because they focused on nonsense that the rest of the Australia didn’t care about like a culture war about trans people, nuclear power, flags, climate denialism, and Israel, when Labor focused on kitchen table issues.
That poll doesnt suprise me, especially given people who read newspapers skew older.
Gives me good reason to not read the Herald Sun if I was in Victoria given thats its audience
Bozo who wrote this article is part of the problem. Rural folk upset about renewables? Let’s fix the problem spending money on more expensive gas, coal and nuclear. None of these writers are able to explain how exactly that would bring prices down. Not a single one.
Maybe instead of victimising rural people constantly and making them take some personal responsibility for their decisions would improve things. Because voting Nat for decades has clearly worked well for them.
My local council was just forced to investigate how dangerous wind farms are in comparison to other energy production alternatives, because about 40 locals voted for it….
I often wonder how the Australian is allowed to publish such outright lies. “Renewables have been said to be the cheapest but via their power bills consumers know this isn’t true” there are no reputable studies anywhere that say coal, gas and nuclear a cheaper. It’s that we let our power generators get old and unreliable and did everything to hold back the transition. We knew our population would grow and haven’t kept up with demand. His argument is a straight up con.
That article is boomer on Facebook essence distilled down to pure form.
White hot anger of rural people? Getting paid more per ha for their land for a renewable project than it generates under cows?
Having their healthcare/roads/schools being paid for by urban area tax bases?
To many immigrants that they don’t see?
To much sky news guys.
Tldr: the australian again asserts that everything wrong with the country is because of net zero and black fellas.
Uh… no.
The Murdoch press really needs to learn a new playbook other than the American one.
The US urbanisation rate is 80%. Ours is 90%. and with compulsory voting, there is not a chance in hell they’ll have a tangible effect other than in the margins especially when they’re lost the Liberals.
If they were politically dominant, maybe.
But they aren’t. The ‘broad church’ is dead. They rejected their own urban moderate wing and now can’t win an election.
The right faction of the Coalition is toxic, to themselves, if no one else.
Look at minnesota.
The feral radical right base doesnt want immigration to go down, if they did, they’d love obama.
They want the spectacle, and to make lefties mad
> The first clue that this shift was on the horizon arose in 2024 when a call to boycott Woolworths over its Australia Day stance slashed consumer demand for the nation’s largest supermarket chain. It has found it difficult to recover momentum.
Woolworths revenue went from $64B in 2023 to $68B in 2024 and $69B in 2025. What the fuck is this guy on?
Geezus I think I just took a hit point of psychic damage reading that. How he could write that article and still be competent enough to tie his own shoelaces is beyond me. That was pure rightoid fantasy fiction.
I mean if The Australian and it’s sisters, cousins and long distant relatives in the Newscorpse empire weren’t deliberately and maliciously fomenting this these ideas at every opportunity and every available platform maybe things would be different.
Take the vitriol they’ve been pushing against The Hoodoo Gurus today as an example Suddenly they’re apart of The Radical Left because they don’t want to be associated with One Nation? Please.
Unpopular opinion: I’m sick and tired of hearing about regional Australians.
Hard truth is that the cities the engine rooms of modern Australia, and the people that live in them are the vast majority and what keeps it moving forward.
I started reading and got to, “the linking of extreme First Nations activists with the Gaza protest movement”.
Incredible the way a few fringe protesters live rent free in these people’s heads. Genuinely totally disconnected from reality.
It’s like those five people you were at uni with who annoyed everyone but you mostly just ignored, and then you realise that there is an entire media organisation so obsessed with them that it probably explains why those five people at uni actually thought they could have real influence, because the Australian keeps telling them that they do.
Imagine being the kind of Boomer who reads this stuff and doesn’t have other exposure to reality, they must imagine that the protesters have actual power and are somehow taking over cities.
When the reality is that the opening of the Metro Tunnel in Melbourne meant that I could totally ignore the protests because the the only way I even knew they were on each weekend was because they used to block the trams down Swanston Street.
I read stuff like this and it makes some of the more deranged posters on here make much more sense to me; they probably read this stuff often, rubbish in, rubbish out.
The Murray Darling Basin Plan, started by Labor in 2012 with funding of $10bn could have transformed the region. It was potentially life changing for people there.
They voted for the Coalition in 2013, and the money was frittered away on schemes enriching a few. Almost no extra water for the Basin was the result of 9 years of the Coalition.
Folks. The cities gave the Region a life changing cash injection of $10bn.
It was wasted by the people *you voted in*. You got almost zero benefit if you were an ordinary voter.
Yet, you still vote National.
It’s not even clear what can be done for you. If more money is provided to the Regions. You’ll still vote for the people who’ll again take the lot, leaving you with nothing.
Here’s a suggestion. Don’t vote for the people who robbed you. I understand why you don’t want to vote Labor. Ok. But if you try to tell me that there aren’t good men and women among you: farmers, doctors, lawyers, ordinary workers who *would* work for you as independent MPs, then I have to conclude there’s no hope for rural Australia, and spending any more money in Regions is pointless.
Honestly, “a Herald Sun Poll”? Hardly representative or reliable.
Energy policy will decide the next election.
Caption under the photo with the flags says:
“Fags at half mast on the National Day of Mourning.”
I guess it is The Australian though.