People are crazy and times are strange.

Bridget McKenzie might want to power down that foghorn of hers lest she be accused of having a rancid case of foot-in-mouth disease. She doesn’t like suggestions that Australia should be looking at electrifying the country’s heavy vehicle fleet. .. and yet, despite her fossil fuel donor loyalties - this will be the direction that the country will undoubtedly take in the near future. Bridge doesn’t think that you can “hook up a B-double full of cattle coming from Rockhampton to Brisbane using an electric truck”. 🙄 ahem.. “It is indeed possible to move cattle, or steel, toilet paper and many other things, on a giant semi with an electric prime mover at the front, and to do it more cheaply and quickly than with diesel. It’s already happening in much of the rest of the world – and now, somewhat belatedly, in this country” The EV revolution is moving onto heavy vehicles at an astonishing pace. All over the world. “Advances in batteries and charging infrastructure are catalysts. New heavy-duty electric trucks can travel 400-500 kilometres on a single charge, making them suitable for many regional freight routes and long-distance corridors” At the same time that McKenzie was delivering her spray - The Smart Energy Council had organised several heavy duty electric trucks to be displayed on the lawns of Parliament House. “One of those trucks displayed on the parliament lawns was a Chinese-made, B-double rated, Windrose prime mover. Over the past six months, Windrose and Australian company New Energy Transport have engaged in a series of trials and demonstrations of the capabilities of electrics. Last October the truck completed a 480-kilometre round trip from Picton, south of Sydney, to Beresfield in the Hunter region on a single charge, with a load of feed provided by Australia’s largest poultry transport, logistics and engineering services provider, Multiquip” “The Windrose produces 1400 horsepower – compared with 500 to 700 from a typical diesel – which enables it to maintain speed, even up steep gradients”. “Because the Windrose was able to sit at the speed limit the whole way, the trip was also 40 minutes faster than it would have been under diesel power. Moreover, the fuel cost was a fraction of the diesel alternative, says Daniel Bleakley, co-founder and co-chief executive of New Energy Transport” The EV and renewable energy industry is thriving. No matter what the fossil fuel industry and their puppets do to malign and invent disinformation campaigns to discredit and disrupt progress. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…

Murdoch-led mainstream media is largely responsible for the current stress and fear that people feel with regard to their circumstances in this country. By comparison, countries that are not influenced as much by Murdoch-related content - and experience less RW media influence are less likely to be negatively affected despite the fact that their living standards may not be as good as they are here. The media in Australia is toxic. They are deliberately so. Their narratives of crisis and fear are strategic for RW political purposes- who they support because it is more beneficial for them to do so. Stop believing their bullshyte. independentaustralia.net/bus…

Checking out the list of One Nation dodgy candidates and MPs on Google offers up all kinds of interesting information about the types of predilections that are attracted into the batcave of a notoriously batsh*t cray cray populist party. The following exemplifies the types of people that One Nation has the ability to attract. I’m not sure why but I expect that anyone with a pulse and burning desire to express their malignant opinions openly feels they might have a chance at a minimum of $200k pa for minimum effort and a guaranteed minimum of 3 or 4 years in the House or 6 to 8 years in the upper House. Nice taxpayer-trough roll if you can pull it off. -One Nation’s Farrer candidate, David Farley, has been accused of sharing derogatory posts of women online. As we know Farley has quite a derogatory opinion of women from his past commentary of Julia Gillard - and it doesn’t surprise anyone, except for Hanson who doesn’t seem to give a fck about Misogynists-R-Us inhabiting the hallways of One Nation central. -Then there was Aoi (Trent) Baxter, SA Candidate who was dumped after he was found to allegedly have a UK arrest warrant after he was charged in 2023 for touching a woman without consent. -Bruce Peece, SA candidate for Schubert, has been accused of domestic abuse, including a charge of breaching an intervention order. -Tyler Green, former SA candidate for Mawson, has made more than a dozen antisemitic, racist and homophobic posts on social media over a 6-year period, some allegedly quite unhinged. -Let’s not forget Sean black, a convicted rapist who One Nation hired in 2025 as a campaign director. This is not the first time that One Nation has employed this individual. -Gerald Nicol, candidate for Eden Monaro, was disendorsed by One Nation because of his controversial and derogatory social media posts about women. Adrian Deeth, One Nation federal candidate for Hasluck WA was convicted in 2021 of 15 breaches of a family violence restraining order brought by his ex-partner. Deeth pleaded guilty to all 15 offences. - Mark Ellis, One Nation candidate in Macalister, QLD in 2017, resigned from the party after allegations that he threatened to k*ll an employee in his security firm. It is also alleged that Ellis was photographed performing a Nazee salute before a large swastiker mown into his lawn. For those who remember the name “Mark Ellis” in QLD - there is a good reason for that. Look it up. -Brian Burston, former One Nation Senator, alleged serial predator. -Let’s not forget Mark Latham, former One Nation NSW MP, alleged abuser and defamer of Alex Greenwich MP. Say no more. Add in Barnaby Joyce and Cory Bernadi - and you have a series of One-Nation associated misogynistic patterns that keep popping up in Pauline Hanson’s slipstream and are continually enabled by her toxic populist rhetoric. I’m sure there are plenty more examples. I’m also sure that there will be much more of this enabled brotherhood of the disaffected bros in the future. How long they last with One Nation is anyone’s guess.

Took delivery of Amy Remeikis’ long-awaited book today. ‘Where It All Went Wrong - The Case Against John Howard’ A must-read book. If you ever wanted to know why our country is in the mess it now is, look no further than the man who created the housing crisis, work insecurity, climate denialism, the rise of the far right, supercharged racism and fake patriot flag wrapping - not to mention the selling out of future generations for the benefit of buying boomer votes - Jackboot Johnny. Argue with me at your own peril.