Not if he loses, when.

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I have been following the campaign. I did think that Trump would win, in a landslide. The events of 2020 have skewed things like never before. Donald Trump could very likely be beaten. He could more likely win a second term.

Don't assume President Trump will lose, just because you don't like him. A lot of people did that last time.

Making the same mistake twice is a sign of a slow learner

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The Royal Commission's final bushfire report has unequivocally acknowledged that climate change had fuelled the Black Summer bushfires.

It could not be clearer on climate change; that stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental in addressing our escalating risks to extreme weather events. The federal government has a duty of care to implement policies that will reduce our nation's emissions and protect Australians from the warming climate.

More news: Record low interest rates offer more good news for property buyersI cannot bear to go through another horrific summer like last summer's, where breathing was too difficult in the smoke-filled air.

The next bushfire season is looming. I am worried, and I am certain that many feel the same.

The scenes of recent anti-lockdown protests, with police on horseback in the middle of angry crowds, was upsetting to see.

The people who hit horses in the face with flagpoles should unquestionably be prosecuted for animal cruelty, but horses have nothing to do with human conflicts and should never have been there in the first place.

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Watching horses flinch from a stick felt like a prescient reminder of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

In this grotesque event, sensitive horses -who can feel a fly land on their skin - are repeatedly whipped to run faster.

Juvenile horses are forced on the tracks, despite their skeletons not being developed for such exhausting work.

In the last racing year, 116 horses died on Australian racetracks, as a result of injured limbs and broken bones.

Horses forced to race can also suffer from stomach ulcers and bleed from the lungs. Unlike the scenes we witnessed at the Shrine, all of that abuse is entirely legal.

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