The fortnightly Essential Research poll is notable in recording a four-point dip in Labor’s already soft primary vote 28%, although the dividend goes mostly to the Greens, up three to 14%, rather than the Coalition steady on 34%, with One Nation steady on 7% and a steady 6% undecided. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure is back to having Labor and the Coalition tied at 47% apiece, with the balance undecided, with Labor steady and the Coalition up a point. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1132.
Some insight into the government’s precarious position is provided by a suite of questions on prospects for the coming year, finding 67% expect the cost of living situation to worsen with only 11% expecting it to improve, with broadly negative sentiment also recorded in relation to employment and wages. Questions on Indigenous issues find a 58-42 split in favour of the proposition that Indigenous disadvantage is a result of “the personal decisions they make” against the alternative of “systemic” explanations, and a 59-41 split against establishing a Makaratta commission to negotiate a treaty.
The weekly Roy Morgan poll has a 50-50 tie on respondent-allocated two-party preferred, erasing Labor’s 51.5-48.5 lead last time, from primary votes of Labor 29.5% (down one), Coalition 38% (up one), Greens 14% (up two) and One Nation 5% (down half). The pollster’s alternative two-party measure based on preference flows at the 2022 election has Labor ahead 51-49, in from 51.5-48.5 last week.
In normal political circumstances I wouldn’t agree with you that these polling data would suggest that the government is in a “precarious position” (and, anyway, I still don’t take Morgan’s data all that seriously).
The Albanese Government should be massive favourites to hold onto power. They have the advantage of incumbency. They have the “neophyte” effect. The Libs have very weak leading lights like Ley and Taylor on the frontline. And the Teals make Dutton’s road to power look well nigh impossible.
And yet the Albo government continues to behave a bit like rabbits caught in a spotlight.
Howard was in this sort of position in 1998. Indeed, he was arguably in a worse position: the economy was not at anll in good shape and he had lost quite a few frontbenchers in various scandals.
His solution was really counter-intuitive: he grabbed onto an unpopular but (IMO) necessary policy in the GST and ran with it. He felt that voters would hate it but that enough would credit him with showing strong leadership to make a difference. And, along with a very strong neophyte effect, it got him over the line.
Albo should do something similar now. A big, bold statement around housing costs. Slash the migration intake. Put enormous pressure on state governments to start overruling local governments who block new affordable housing developments. Do something serious about negative gearing. Don’t faff around with ineffectual measures that won’t take effect for twenty years due to grandfathering: put immediate restrictions on how much of an income loss each taxpayer can claim each year and have it take effect from July 2025.
There are stories in the paper about how first home buyers can no longer afford to buy a house anywhere in Sydney without parental help and that this won’t change until the 2030s at the earliest. And stories about a 19 year old who already has three investment properties. Use those stories as ammunition. Ignore the screams. Look tough. Announce that you and all your front benchers will be disposing of most of their investment properties and stare Dutton in the face and invite him and his colleagues to do the same.
Call the situation a crisis and look tough in response. You might go down in flames, but at least it would be for pursuing a policy and not because you look like a bunch of timid rabbits.
The issues / mood polling is also pretty dire. Essential asked punters to rate how good the government is at listening to different groups. Big business was a standout with over 60% of respondents rating the government as good at listening, but for every other group asked about the figures were 25% or less. Not great for a party ostensibly about representing working people
I agree though meher the government needs to do something bold, and fast
“Two polls record dead heats on two-party preferred, with one finding the Greens gaining at the expense of Labor.”
So it’s a protest vote shift… 99.5% of “ green” votes wouldn’t have a clue about green policy..
maybe this encourages Labor to take the Harris move & encourage Albo to retire & clear the air so protest vote can return & Labor get its Mojo back?
Have you seen the free trade agreement labor signed with India?
Locked in cannot change large numbers of people coming in and working etc.
Albo hugging Modi even the woke Canadian Prime Minister would not do that.
A Canadian citizen -Sikh leader- was assassinated on Canadian soil the Canadian PM blames Modi.
Those in the federal liberal party and voters likely know , Labor will get a 2nd term , whether its Peter Dutton or Angus Taylor / anyone else as the federal liberal party leader at the 2025 federal election.
What the federal lib/nats and propaganda media units want is a minority government
The federal lib/nats combined primary vote 36/37% vote is not getting the non lib/nats voters , to force a minority
Pied Piper: “Have you seen the free trade agreement labor signed with India?”
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I thought at the time that it was a little too generous in terms of migration provisions, but I think there would be plenty of scope for the Government to take administrative steps to strengthen labour market testing.
These two polls are awful. They show the ALP primary plunging to the lowest level since 1901 (if the Lang Labor vote is counted as ALP). On the Morgan numbers, some strange results could occur, simply due to the low ALP vote. For example in Melbourne, Hawke (Sam Rae, 7.63%) and Gorton (open, 9.97%) could feasibly flip as last time’s UAP and PHON vote goes to Dutton and further falls in ALP vote due to dissatisfaction with service delivery and Muslim voter anger over the situation in Gaza. Additionally, in every election between 1901 and 2022, the ALP got over half the primary vote in at least one seat in each election. I am not sure if that will be the case again at the next election with these numbers.
Geez NT election August 24.
Abc has a piece about the Greens running all over the Territory.
A tipping point seems to of been passed by the Greens they are on the March.
Whacky solutions but who cares they are not labor right?
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Natassia Chrysanthos reports that Anthony Albanese has angered both equality advocates and faith groups after abandoning his election promise to introduce religious discrimination reforms and protect LGBTQ students and teachers in a bid to avoid a culture war. Can you blame him with the Coalition and the Greens playing their usual political games?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/injustices-ignored-lgbtq-and-faith-groups-fume-at-pm-s-broken-promise-20240813-p5k1zp.html
Labor’s flagship Future Made in Australia bill faces a parliamentary impasse with the Coalition opposing the legislation and the Greens withholding their support, write Joe Kelly and Rosie Lewis.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-future-made-in-australia-tense-amid-bill-impasse/news-story/443198f54611b83032a0eb0185e62f2c?amp=
The centrepiece of Anthony Albanese’s second-term election agenda has just been taken out behind the Senate shed and quietly put down. Having few friends beyond those industries that stand to benefit, the Future Made in Australia Act has found fewer friends in parliament. This is a serious setback for the Prime Minister and Labor’s political agenda. It also complicates the government’s election spending plans. It’s not dead yet but its life is slipping away, says Simon Benson.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albaneses-friendless-future-made-in-australia-agenda-is-put-out-of-its-misery/news-story/e17a3336ea3cbe95bd1256a53ebec84c?amp=
Jesinta Burton takes us through Scott Morrison’s testimony to the Reynolds/Higgins defamation trial. Make of it what you will.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/utterly-false-scott-morrison-rubbishes-brittany-higgins-cover-up-claims-in-explosive-testimony-20240813-p5k20k.html
Australians have lost so much faith in government that just being heard feels like special treatment, says Peter Lewis.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/13/australians-have-lost-so-much-faith-in-government-that-just-being-heard-feels-like-special-treatment
Stephen Koukoulas examines the recent RBA assessment of the economy as “running a bit hot” and discovers its own charts tell a different story.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-rba-says-one-thing-its-pictures-and-graphs-say-another,18867
Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock last week set out to kill expectations of an interest rate cut. She succeeded, but that doesn’t mean a cut isn’t coming, writes Michael Pascoe who says the Reserve Bank fibs and has no idea about wages causing inflation.
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-reserve-bank-fibs-and-has-no-idea-about-wages-causing-inflation/
With zipped wallets and falling profits in evidence, Elizabeth Knight looks at what this earnings season is telling us.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/zipped-wallets-falling-profits-what-this-earnings-season-is-telling-us-20240813-p5k1x7.html
According to the SMH, media companies will be given several years to scale back their reliance on advertising revenue from gambling firms in a federal move to soften the impact of a new cap on the promotion of sports betting, as the commercial broadcasters launch a last-minute push to stop a blanket ad ban.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tv-companies-launch-last-minute-bid-to-block-total-gambling-ad-ban-20240813-p5k242.html
Anthony Albanese is trying to have a bet each way on gambling ads. Chances are he’s about to lose, writes Malcolm Farr who opines that in pacifying Big Media, the prime minister is prioritising his political survival over that of Australians struggling with gambling addiction
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/13/anthony-albanese-labor-gambling-ad-cap-ban-ntwnfb
The gambling industry is pulling out all the stops to prevent an ad ban, but the evidence is against it, posits Samantha Thomas.
https://theconversation.com/the-gambling-industry-is-pulling-out-all-the-stops-to-prevent-an-ad-ban-but-the-evidence-is-against-it-236679
Labor will seek to have the CFMEU administration bill fast-tracked through the Senate as the Coalition and construction employers split over the changes, with Master Builders Australia rejecting the opposition’s call for a Senate inquiry. Ewin Hannan writes that Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt will table a motion on Wednesday seeking to have the bill passed by the Senate tomorrow, and the government wants the bill passed by the House of Representatives the same day or early next week.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/murray-watt-set-to-rush-cfmeu-bill-through-senate/news-story/02483613c3b3e398d6a9d7e80cfd9544?amp=
The government is developing a new digital ID system. It must first gain the public’s trust, says cybersecurity professor, Toby Murray.
https://theconversation.com/the-government-is-developing-a-new-digital-id-system-it-must-first-gain-the-publics-trust-236689
There’s a vital lesson to be learnt from the latest episode in the saga of former chief executive Alan Joyce’s ignominious departure from Qantas last year: these days, no one’s in control of the capitalist ship, argues Ross Gittins. He says that, in legal theory, the job of company boards is to represent the interests of the shareholders. In practice, as the Qantas case well demonstrates, boards defer to executives because they’re drawn from the same fraternity of managers.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-alan-joyce-effect-why-business-bosses-get-to-run-amok-20240813-p5k213.html
“The latest NAPLAN results are bad news for too many school students. Jason Clare is determined to change that, but will he succeed where so many others failed?”, wonders Jennifer Hewett.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/minister-on-a-mission-needs-a-break-from-the-states-20240813-p5k20c
This year’s assessment results confirm what we already know – rich kids do well, poor kids don’t. This is to our national shame, says Julie Hare who argues that NAPLAN is a measure of wealth, not student ability.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/naplan-is-a-measure-of-wealth-not-student-ability-20240813-p5k206
Under former premier Daniel Andrews, the state government had been socially progressive, but Labor has struggled to bring equivalent thinking to law and order, complains The Age’s editorial after the government’s backdown on youth crime.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/backdown-on-youth-crime-shows-government-s-lack-of-appetite-for-true-reform-20240813-p5k1y1.html
The SMH editorial declares that suppression orders have become a blight on the NSW judicial framework.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/suppression-orders-have-become-a-blight-on-the-nsw-judicial-framework-20240813-p5k214.html
The Age tells us that lawyers in Victoria are warning that an “outrageous” state government move to protect itself from compensation claims connected with Nicola Gobbo, the barrister turned police informer, is undemocratic and unjust, and could face a High Court challenge. The proposed law would derail several multimillion-dollar claims for damages by those affected by the Lawyer X scandal, which have been before the courts for up to five years. Some are due to proceed to trial within months.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/high-court-threat-over-outrageous-move-to-block-lawyer-x-compensation-20240813-p5k21n.html
Sarah Danckert reports that the former senior counsel, from one of Victoria’s notable legal families, is alleged to have rorted claimants in the Banksia Securities class action scheme out of millions of dollars. Norman O’Bryan has been charged with two counts of attempting to obtain a financial advantage by deception. Too smart by half?
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-top-barrister-norman-o-bryan-charged-with-fraud-over-class-action-scheme-20240812-p5k1o4.html
Bill Shorten says he does not have the power to unseal a restricted section of the robodebt royal commission report but vowed to continue to use his “powers of persuasion”, more than a year after the damning document was released. Shorten has said keeping the chapter secret was not a “sustainable position” and that the accompanying letter from the Commissioner did not suggest it stay secret “for ever”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/13/robodebt-royal-commission-report-bill-shorten-sealed-ntwnfb
There can be a misconception that getting aged care is a quick process, but the reality is far longer, explains Rachel Lane. It basically boils down to securing an ACAT, Aged Care Assessment Team review on a timely basis.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-retirement/how-long-should-you-wait-to-apply-for-aged-care-20240813-p5k228.html
Last night the City of Melbourne council voted to scrap its contracts with Neuron and Lime, giving them just weeks to remove their e-scooters from the CBD.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/help-save-e-scooters-battle-begins-over-council-backflip-20240813-p5k1z8.html
While this latest embodiment of Elon Musk’s sci-fi vision deserves praise for its electric credentials, it’s a dangerous US trend that Australia must reject. Much has been written about the proliferation and the negative impact of “monster” trucks, but Tesla’s Cybertruck presents new and far more significant dangers we should be wary of embracing here, writes civil engineer, Jacob Elmasry in an educative contribution.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-australia-should-never-be-overrun-by-musk-trucks-20240808-p5k0py.html
Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90% comes from the CIA and related US intelligence agencies. So in effect we have the colonisation of our intelligence agencies These agencies dominate the advice to ministers writes John Menadue.
https://johnmenadue.com/if-we-have-strong-leadership-we-can-break-from-the-united-states/
Putin must explain how his war allowed Russia to be invaded – and offering locals £90 each won’t do it, writes Sergey Radchenko who says Putin maintains a tyrant’s grip, but Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk throws further doubt on his claims about the ‘special operation’.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/13/vladimir-putin-war-russia-ukraine-kursk
Cartoon Corner
David Pope
David Rowe
Matt Golding
Cathy Wilcox
Glen Le Lievre with a gif
https://x.com/i/status/1823236963987784012
Andrew Dyson
Spooner’s condition is worsening!
From the US
Thanks BK. Lots of great cartoons taking the piss out of Trump and his bafflegab with Musk 😆
#weatheronPB
The soft white noise falls,
to the syncopated splat,
washing the world clean.
The 2025 federal election ,could and up similar to the Victorian State election result
Where Labor’s primary vote went down in safe labor seats and labor state wide , and labor government increased its majority .
The votes what labor lost did not go to the lib/nats but to the non lib/nats aligned parties and independents.
Thank you, BK.
Two items from this morning which again showing the destructive bastardy of the Thug and his Toolie. Even the most brain-dead Greens supporter must be starting to wonder about the Greens role is destroying a decent Labor Government and giving Dutton and Hanson a boost of 4.3% in the polls.
Natassia Chrysanthos reports that Anthony Albanese has angered both equality advocates and faith groups after abandoning his election promise to introduce religious discrimination reforms and protect LGBTQ students and teachers in a bid to avoid a culture war. Can you blame him with the Coalition and the Greens playing their usual political games?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/injustices-ignored-lgbtq-and-faith-groups-fume-at-pm-s-broken-promise-20240813-p5k1zp.html
Labor’s flagship Future Made in Australia bill faces a parliamentary impasse with the Coalition opposing the legislation and the Greens withholding their support, write Joe Kelly and Rosie Lewis.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-future-made-in-australia-tense-amid-bill-impasse/news-story/443198f54611b83032a0eb0185e62f2c?amp=
Boerwar says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 7:35 am
Thank you, BK.
Two items from this morning which again showing the destructive bastardy of the Thug and his Toolie. Even the most brain-dead Greens supporter must be starting to wonder about the Greens role is destroying a decent Labor Government and giving Dutton and Hanson a boost of 4.3% in the polls.
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No Boerwar, they will not. They are believers in the promised land. Although I do see mission creep. Balance of power is no longer the promised land. They have that now and things aren’t better. Nay, minority government is no longer the promised land, as they have had that in the past, and things aren’t better.
There is something new being promised…
Thanks BK!
How can you fix the issues that face the country when:
1. There is firmly entrenched big money business’ pushing back against decades of uncontrolled exploitation, e.g. big gambling, and
2. The Greens?
Steak knifes ?
More ?
For a limited time only ?
Stephen Hawking died without completing his unified theory of everything.
But, don’t worry, Boerwar has finished the job.
And what’s the answer? Whatever goes wrong in the universe, it’s all the fault of Adam Bandt and the Greens.
It’s a relief to have that finally settled.
I’d go on a holiday to celebrate, but BW has put the mockers on that too.
meher baba says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 7:59 am
Stephen Hawking died without completing his unified theory of everything.
But, don’t worry, Boerwar has finished the job.
And what’s the answer? Whatever goes wrong in the universe, it’s all the fault of Adam Bandt and the Greens.
It’s a relief to have that finally settled.
I’d go on a holiday to celebrate, but BW has put the mockers on that too.
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Of course you can go. There is an even better unified theory of everything. Solipsism.
Boerwar is just a figment of your imagination. As is global warming 🙂
Griff: “Boerwar is just a figment of your imagination.”
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I know I’ve been drinking too heavily lately. I should probably contemplate participating in Ocsober.
It’s never Labor’s fault.
It’s time Labor stopped looking to the anti-union L/NP for bipartisan support.
They need to befriend their pro-union colleagues the Greens.
If Albo keeps prioritising big corp over the people to save himself, he’s finished.
The first prophet of the day is limbering up 🙂
We know that Dutton wants to wreck the Labor Government.
We know that Bandt wants to wreck the Labor Government.
We know that they are joined at the hip with their delays and blocks.
Reform after reform is blocked.
We know that Australia needs to develop a less simple economy.
We know that Dutton and Bandt will block this.
We know that the CFMEU needs to be fixed.
We know that Dutton and Bandt are already blocking the fix.
We also know that Dutton and Bandt sank the Voice.
And what else do we know?
Dutton + Hanson are up 4.3%.
The Greens: the gift that keeps on giving to the Liberals, the Nationals and One Nation.
Currently being held up or blocked altogether: a massive national investment in industrial development, CFMEU reform, religious discrimination reform, taxation of superannuantion accounts more than $3 million, political donations reform, NDIS reform, and funding for the supply of social housing.
>Currently being held up or blocked altogether: … funding for the supply of social housing.
Didn’t the HAFF get passed (with additional funding thanks to the Greens). Which bill is being blocked?
https://theconversation.com/dug-up-in-australia-burned-around-the-world-exporting-fossil-fuels-undermines-climate-targets-236248
Dug up in Australia, burned around the world – exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets
“We found Australia is the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter, after Russia and the United States. But it gets worse when the fuel is used. Australia exports so much coal that our nation is the second-largest exporter of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.
Unfortunately, just when we need to be cutting emissions, Australia is doubling down on fossil gas extraction mainly for LNG production and export. Federal government policies enabling and/or promoting continued high fossil fuel exports threaten to sabotage international efforts to limit global warming.
Current government policy is not aligned with Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit. Our new report shows the government’s focus on maintaining high levels of fossil fuel exports is completely inconsistent with reducing global CO2 emissions to levels compatible with the 1.5°C goal.
Australia’s planned expansion of fossil fuels, notably its gas exports, will add to the country’s domestic emissions and make it harder for it to meet even its own domestic target. That’s because a sizeable chunk of domestic fossil fuel CO₂ emissions (7.5%) comes from processing gas for export.
…Overall, exports of Australian fossil fuels – and hence fossil fuel CO₂ emissions – are expected to continue at close to current levels through to 2035, under current government policies.”
Another day, another reminder from the experts of how hollow our Climate Change actions and promises really are…
https://www.pollbludger.net/2024/08/14/more-polls-essential-research-and-roy-morgan/#comment-4348683
I am feeling it is time for a digital detox, Ocsober, January screen time redux, dry July.
After this Aus fed gov since 2022, what has been achieved, https://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/promisetracker? Oh I see, could get legislation through parliament. Have you progressed/ advanced Australia, fair. So post 2025 what would be achieved?
How have you or will you behave? (Better than the opp, duh! Better than progressive Greens/ independents/ conservative Teals?)
Why should I vote for you?
I see Albo is pulling the old “unintended consequences” line with regards to gambling this morning… “Have you heard of this thing called the internet?”
So because a solution wont be all encompassing… we shouldnt do it?
Wait, why does that sound so familiar…
Labor’s Made in Australia is visionary.
It is a Big Idea.
The problem?
It is running into little minds.
Labor’s vision for the Voice, Makarrata and Treaty was a great big nation building vision.
The problem?
It ran into small minds.
VCT Et3e says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 8:48 am
https://www.pollbludger.net/2024/08/14/more-polls-essential-research-and-roy-morgan/#comment-4348683
I am feeling it is time for a digital detox, Ocsober, January screen time redux, dry July.
After this Aus fed gov since 2022, what has been achieved, https://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/promisetracker? Oh I see, could get legislation through parliament. Have you progressed/ advanced Australia, fair. So post 2025 what would be achieved?
How have you or will you behave? (Better than the opp, duh! Better than progressive Greens/ independents/ conservative Teals?)
Why should I vote for you?
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Thanks for this. Labor is performing a lot better on this promise tracker that what the media and several bludgers here have indicated. Nice to see a good news story for once 🙂
Lordbain says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 8:54 am
I see Albo is pulling the old “unintended consequences” line with regards to gambling this morning… “Have you heard of this thing called the internet?”
So because a solution wont be all encompassing… we shouldnt do it?
Wait, why does that sound so familiar…
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You are absolutely right on this Lordbain. It is what The Greens say all the time! No wonder it sounds familiar. Labor should pass gambling advertising bans and Greens should pass all of that legislation that Boerwar keeps listing. Yay for progress 🙂
Griff, please point out the policies that the experts actually think will help, and then ill chat to Greens HQ about passing 🙂
The Greens should support the Future Made in Australia enabling legislation and help progress it swiftly.
Palestinians about to be bought in by the Fed labor government to appease its left who are being lured by the Greens and Muslim candidate and a party coming to a west Syd electorate near you.
Despite labor bending over backwards the zealots aka Muslim cohort have thanked labor by running against them.
Err problem with the above for labor is its all over the media importing more people in a housing and homelessness Crisis created by labor .
Own goals after own goals Voice,CFMEU,NDIS.inflation,lack of housing,crazy immigration and one third of kids going through school not able to do basic math and English.
Buck stops with you federal labor over two years in power negative feedback loops are here due to your own goals.
Lordbain says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 9:06 am
Griff, please point out the policies that the experts actually think will help, and then ill chat to Greens HQ about passing
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Sure. Let’s start with Rex’s favourite. The superannuation cap at $3 million. What more do you need to know?
Australia’s biggest social reform of the past decade, the NDIS, is being destroyed by spivs, crooks and sleeve tuggers.
The small minds are blocking reform of the NDIS.
And look! It is working! The ones who do NOT want to reform the NDIS, Dutton and Hanson, are up 4.3%!
Griff, 2 points.
1. If your claiming experts support your policy, it helps to provide links.
2. Why not meet the Greens with their proposed 2 million cap halfway?
Labor has a vision for a multi-cultural Australia not riven by communal hatreds.
Its response to Gaza is entirely consistent with this priority.
The problem?
There is a conga line of small-minded bastards who are determined to stir up communalist hatreds.
And look!
The hatred mongering is working!
Dutton plus Hanson up 4.3%!
“I’d go on a holiday to celebrate, but BW has put the mockers on that too.”
Taiwan?
“I’d go on a holiday to celebrate, but BW has put the mockers on that too.”
Taiwan?
“I’d go on a holiday to celebrate, but BW has put the mockers on that too.”
Taiwan?
As far as I know the ABC is free to air, not an international tech disinformation disseminator, broadcasts to the regions, and doesn’t rely on gambling revenue.
Unless Bill knows something I don’t know.
Rewi, I imagine the argument will go as follows;
If free to air to is survive without gambling money, then it will require funds from another source; ie government funding. This is funding that will be taken away from the ABCs funds, as the government will not want to increase revenue.
Honestly surprised we havnt gotten to that stage, and are still at “unforeseen consequences”
For Shorten gambling harm minimisation means arguing the harm isn’t really that bad.
Lordbain says:
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 9:12 am
Griff, 2 points.
1. If your claiming experts support your policy, it helps to provide links.
2. Why not meet the Greens with their proposed 2 million cap halfway?
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You just proved my point. That is why the argument is familiar. Not only does The Greens use it, you use it yourself.
A-E
That holiday snark is about my campaign against tourism industry CO2 emissions and the view that wealthy individual Australians can and should take some personal accountability.
Griff, what do you mean?
If your claiming that Labors policies are backed by experts, then provide links… god knows its easy to find experts against Labor policies, like our climate change policies earlier this morning.
If Labors policies is great, why not “negotiate” with the Greens so that even though niether party gets what they want, its still passed… because good policy is better then nothing right?
And as for the Made in Australia legislation, the Greens have made it clear what they are after; Federal part ownership of projects etc that receive government funding.
Curious as to why this is a bad thing?