I can’t help but feel you haven’t read the article posted or my comments. You’re not addressing any of the points raised and instead just seem to have a bee in bonnet about the referendum which is at best tangentially related.

I do understand the fatigue of this being an ongoing issue but that doesn’t really change the situation.

Thanks for the response.

I have to assume that you’re quite young since you seem to think that 30 or 50 years is enough time to erase the kind of trauma anglo-Australians put indigenous Australians through, this is living memory for many of us.

There really is no denying that coming from parents who have suffered trauma and economic disadvantage leaves the children at severe disadvantage themselves, ie the sins perpetrated on the grandparents of today’s young adults are a key reason for their disadvantage.

This kind of reasoning is often taken as ‘excusing’ bad behaviour, it shouldn’t be but it is explanation and we do bear some responsibility to alleviate that disadvantage while still holding people responsible for individual actions.

The final key point is that systemic racism remains rife. You would have to be willfully blind to not see that indigenous people are treated differently at the Centrelink office, the emergency department triage desk, at a job interview.

You correctly point out some big numbers involved in current support for indigenous focussed programmes, I suspect that much of this is providing services that they find difficult to access through the mainstream due to systemic racism which is kind of a bare minimum, regardless we have a long way to go.

The past isn’t gone, it isn’t even past. I hope you can appreciate that there is a but more subtlety to this issue than you seem to give it credit for.

I think there’s a subtlety to this argument that you’re missing.

The prosperity of all non-indigenous Australians is built on what was taken from the indigenous population with brutal force.

The single most important reason that there is such a large gap in quality of life between the indigenous and non-indigenous population is that for more than a century it was government policy to repress and deny opportunity to the indigenous population.

It is not unreasonable to think that we, as a population that has built a prosperous society on the ruins of theirs, that we could give them a hand to regain some benefit of our prosperity.

We hear a lot from conservative cranks that indigenous individuals should take responsibility for their actions, most progressives actually agree on that. I would argue that as a settler society we should take responsibility for our collective past actions.

The Liberal party becoming less and less electable by the minute

There’s no doubt Australia is strategically useful to the US(Pine gap, Exmouth, Garden Island), if the US continues its current course then the US ceases to be useful to Australia.

I can’t imagine that everyone in power doesn’t know this, maybe they’re all waiting to see if normality returns in 2028…

None of Poland, Qatar, or Ukraine make sense as Australian allies. The point is that all 3 are allegedly under the protection of the USA and all three have seen attacks that the USA has ignored… We cannot think that we can rely on the USA to defend us.

Streisand effect at work here.

For myself, we’ve just acquired 100 acres and so I have quite elaborate plans both for ourselves and to sell which I won’t bore everyone with.

I agree with @GooseGang, people tend to grow veg and neglect staples, you can live on potatoes, you can’t live on lettuce.

Previously we have grown chickpeas which are versatile and easy to grow and also nitrogen fixing. 4 bed rotation systems and square foot gardening have worked for us in the past at being quite productive in smaller spaces.

Also potato bags, I love potato bags!

I know this has come about independently from Aukus but it’s hard not to see this through that lens. In the context of all troubles and uncertainty of Aukus this pops up and leaves us all wondering not just are the Aukus subs worth the cost but will they have any tactical value at all in 25y time

Just putting this here as several commentors seem to have misread my intention posting this here

Most responses here seem to assume that I’m opposed to medical marijuana, I’m not. I am in fact in favor of it’s use, appropriately, in select patients, as with any medication.

I also want to caution against conflating recreational use(which may be problematic but is usually fine) with medicinal use(which should be held to the highest standards of evidence as any medicine should).

Now, regarding the evidence to date, efficacy is well established for refractory epilepsy and spasticity in MS. It is quite well established to have a role in pain control. Evidence that it is superior to other treatments for anxiety is pretty scant, we hold antidepressants to a pretty low standard and cannabis fails to even be that good in the published studies.

In terms of safety we frequently see acute intoxication from prescribed cannabis and worsening of co-morbid mental health conditions is really common. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal pains are all fairly frequent and I have seen one case of psychosis from prescribed marijuana. What’s more, we see these more commonly in emergency departments, psych wards and GP clinics now that it is easily available from unscrupulous corporate owned clinics.

The article isn’t claiming that medical marijuana is inherently dangerous or that it doesn’t have a role in medicine. It states, correctly, that the TGA has never actually assessed the safety of the vast majority of products on the market. This is concerning for anyone who might want to prescribe these with confidence.

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I believe that ethanol infusion is still standard treatment for methanol poisoning but outside my expertise

When prescribed as medicine, alcohol related adverse events are effectively zero

I disagree, this wording from a professional organisation is concerning. The usual standard of evidence for medication is that the companies or organisations promoting provide proof of safety.

For example ANZCA (specifically the Faculty of Pain Medicine) state

There’s a lack of definitive evidence showing long-term opioid effectiveness for CNCP, and conversely, substantial evidence of potential harm. As a result, opioids should only be considered in exceptional circumstances—for example, when other treatments have failed and the pain is demonstrably responsive to opioids.

With regards to psychotropic med the RANZCP say

Medications should be part of a comprehensive care plan that emphasizes low doses, minimal number of agents, and the shortest effective duration. Explanation of risks, benefits, and off-label use must be delivered to both young patients and their guardians. Prudence and caution are essential, though when properly prescribed, these medications can significantly improve quality of life for youth with serious psychiatric conditions.

AMCA regarding the safety of cannabis say

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Whenever this is raised the argument about legalisation for recreational use is conflated. Alcohol, cocaine, oxycodone etc all have medicinal and recreational uses and we appropriately treat then differently.

If we are using it as medicine, at a minimum we should see prescription tracking and monitoring with implications for doctors prescribing inappropriately similar to the way we treat other medications with potential for abuse.

My opinion, for what it’s worth is that there should be legalised cannabis for recreational purposes.

What we definitely shouldn’t have is a situation where I am having people turning up to my clinic expecting a prescription for recreational doses of flower to smoke.

As a GP I know very few doctors who don’t accept that cannabis or cannabis derived products have a role to play in medicine. I know even fewer who don’t see the recent rapid explosion of cannabis prescribing as reckless and dangerous.

Its not necessarily clear from this article but all the NAPLAN data and other studies have shown that (in Australia) the school you attend has almost no influence on any valuable metric including academic success, long term income, self reported happiness etc. The factors that are most strongly predictive are parental income and parental education level. High-performing schools are just those that are in high income areas. It’s counter intuitive but it’s what the data reveals.

Review of outcomes across school sectors

Unless the public school has syringes in the sandpit save your money.

TLDR: The the Liberal party is full of bigots and bullies

Obviously the “correct” amount of immigration is something on which reasonable people can agree but I’m curious where you get that 20-30% figure?

Thankyou. Fixed

The Eureka flag has a long history of being appropriated by anyone standing up to authority so it does at least make sense.

The red ensign is interesting, the article points out it was historically the civilian flag but to me it is the flag of the merchant fleet. This means that a flag that has been most used historically to signify obedience to and protection by Australian law despite not being in Australia has been appropriated by a sovereign citizens claiming that they don’t need to follow Australian law despite being in Australia.

:/