Was always a Labor voter (power to the ‘real’ people stuff in those earlier times), then became a Labor/Green person and for a long time now I’ve been politically Green.
Watching Albanese’s performance and feeling the knot in my gut getting tighter and tighter. He’s just another tiny cog bowing down to the mega-machine that is run by madmen. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire!
What chance does the natural order of this once clean and beautiful planet have against the power of assault with the ever-increasing murderous might of so-called ‘sophisticated’ weaponry? Our chances are rapidly sifting through our fingers like sand.
To see so many lives controlled by beings with evil, self-interested intent is not only obvious but frightening and absolutely torturous.


For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling.