Yesterday marked the declaration of nominations, with ballot paper draws conducted and candidates lists published. The Poll Bludger election guide has duly been updated with full candidate lists for both House and Senate. Labor and the Greens are as usual fielding candidates in all seats, while the Coalition parties have 157 candidates between them — of the seven three-cornered contest, probably only the new Western Australian seat of Bullwinkel is of interest. The total number of lower house candidates is down from 1203 to 1126, or 7.96 candidates per seat to 7.51. Leading the pack are Calwell and Riverina with 13 each, which in the former case could deepen an already complex situation with a high informal vote.
At the other end of the scale, Fenner, Bean, Perth and Maribyrnong will have to make do with four. A contributor in the first two cases is that only the three Australian Capital Territory seats are spared One Nation candidates. Whereas the United Australia Party had a full complement in 2022, Trumpet of Patriots has only 100 candidates, followed by Family First on 92, Libertarians on 46 and Legalise Cannabis on 42. The 2022 result seems to have encouraged independents, who are up in number from 98 to 132.
The pace of decline in Senate nominations has quickened as aspirants acclimatise to the fact that preference harvesting is no longer a thing, providing relief to both voters and the Australian Electoral Commission in terms of the size of the ballot papers. The total number of candidates has fallen progressively from 458 in 2019 to 421 in 2022 to 330 in 2025, while the total number of groups across all states and territories is down from 151 in 2022 to 118. The Australian Electoral Commission has also published final enrolment statistics as of the close of the roll on Monday. There are 18,098,797 voters on the roll, a 5.1% increase on the 17,213,433 enrolled in 2022, which was in turn a 4.8% increase on 2019.
Polling latest:
• The News Corp papers today carry the third wave of the RedBridge Group-Accent Research marginal seat tracking poll, targeting 20 seats that had an average Labor two-party vote of 51.0% in 2022, as adjusted for redistributions. As such, its Labor lead of 52.5-47.5 might be considered the government’s most encouraging result of the campaign so far, comparing with Coalition leads of 52-48 in the February 4-11 wave and 50.5-49.5 from February 20-25. The Coalition primary vote has progressively sunk from 43% to 41% to 36%, but the dividend has gone almost entirely to “others” — Labor scored 33% in the first wave, 34% in the second and 35% in this one, while the Greens have been steady on 12% throughout. Anthony Albanese’s net approval rating has progressed from minus 16 to minus 11 to minus 8, while Peter Dutton has gone from minus 11 to minus 17 (or so I infer — the result published for the second poll combined the first two waves) to minus 16. One bright spot for the Coalition is that their supporters continue to register greater firmness in their intention, with 38% rating themselves merely soft or leaning compared with 57% for Labor. Albanese also had only 18% viewing his handling of the Trump administration’s tariffs favourably, compared with 40% for unfavourably. The poll was conducted last Friday to Wednesday from a sample of 1003.
• The News Corp papers report three sets of claims regarding internal polling in Dickson, with the Coalition saying their own polling by Freshwater Strategy has Peter Dutton leading Labor’s Ali France 57-43; Climate 200 offering uComms polling showing France leading 51.7-48.3; and Labor polling “understood” to have it at 50-50. Also “understood” is that Dutton’s campaign has spent $40,000 on advertising attacking Climate 200-backed independent Ellie Smith. Further, Samantha Maiden of news.com.au provides, in rather more detail, a separate uComms poll, this one for the Queensland Conservation Council, showing Labor leading 52-48, with primary votes of 37.6% for Dutton, 24.2% for France, 12.0% for Smith, 10.9% for the Greens, 4.6% for others and 10.8% undecided. The poll was freshly conducted on Wednesday and Thursday from a sample of 854.
• The Australian reports polling conducted for Climate 200 has teal independent Sue Chapman with a 51-49 lead over Liberal candidate Ben Small in the regional Western Australian seat of Forrest, where Liberal incumbent Nola Marino is retiring. The primary vote question recorded 34% support for Small and 20% for Chapman along with an unspecified undecided component, of which 27% favoured Chapman and 18% Small when prompted with a follow-up question. An unidentified Liberal MP is quoted saying the party was “not alarmed yet, but we’re anxious”.
• Local news outlet Pulse Tasmania reports a uComms poll for the Australian Forest Products Association shows a tight race in the key Tasmanian seat of Lyons, with Labor candidate Rebecca White leading 50.9-49.1 over Liberal candidate Susie Bowers. The primary votes are Labor 27.2%, Liberal 29.5%, Greens 14.6%, Jacqui Lambie Network 5.8% and One Nation 4.1%, with 13.1% undecided.
Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare has leapt upon Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Price’s use of the Trump-inspired slogan “make Australia great again”, using it to tie Dutton to the US president.
“The wheels are coming off Peter Dutton’s campaign and so is the mask,” Clare, the education minister, said in Perth. “It’s now pretty clear that Peter Dutton’s campaign to be prime minister is just a cut and paste from the United States.
“First he cuts and pastes their policies, now he’s cutting and pasting their slogans. And with all of the chaos that’s happening overseas at the moment, I think most Australians are saying they don’t want this sort of stuff here. But it’s coming, it’s coming under Peter Dutton.”
(SMH)
Dutton’s lack of judgement was on show when he praised Trump as a “big thinker” that has “gravitas”. Absurd thing to say at the time, and looks even worse in retrospect.
Clearly Dutton thought he could just coast into Kirribilli House sniping at Labor and profiting off general discontent with the govt and their material state of affairs, but people see he is offering nothing of substance or at least not releasing what agenda he has prior to the election.
Even without the US moron-in-chief’s unhelpful interventions Dutton would have struggled to win in the light of a campaign. He is patently dodgy, unnervingly cold and talentless.
This is for Democracy Sausage 🙂
You can’t keep away though, can you Vlad? 😉
TDK
Yes it seems to me that the Teal seats are creating a wall the Coalition won’t be able to get over. I was thinking of what I remember of physics years ago and energy barriers for electrons but then from memory in quantum mechanics the electrons can ‘tunnel’ through these seemingly insurmountable barriers. If anyone has any insights into that analogy I’d love to know!
Can’t see the Coalition tunnelling through the wall any time soon! So bizarre to look at the female Teal members – they look like ‘old fashioned’ moderate Liberal members from a few decades ago. The Liberals seemingly have lost an entire demographic in that time.
T.D. Karabotsos
+1
I hope you are right.
I have made no secret that I believe the Labor party is closer to the small l liberals than the current Liberal part is, and the current Liberal party is beyond redemption. .
Read the 2022 election threads. The existential threat of the Teals to the Coalition was raised back then. Morrison saw the path to victory as picking up the outer suburbs and tried the kulcha wars. And what about Katherine Deves!
The issue is that Frydenberg lost his seat and Dutton got up. And here we are. That being said, do not discount kulcha wars, xenophobia and self-interest. It is a potent brew. Dutton was polling above Albo recently.
It occurs to me that the situation that appears to be developing, with very high tariffs on Chinese steel into the US but much lower tariffs on Australian steel into the US could lead us into the situation where it is economically rational for us to import Chinese steel here for our own use, and export the steel we produce here to the US at a higher price.
Seems almost absurd that you might have a ship in Port Kembla unloading steel to be imported while a ship in the next berth is loading identical steel to be exported.
FTR – I only suggested the Keys are a joke – basically all it is, is a way to codify the elements which historically indiciate a stable administration in the US.
No tweaking can make them fit in any other context – even in the US context, it’s a combination of coincidence and historical patterns. It’s an intellectual exercise, but it’s not something anyone should put any time into except entertainment value.
The poster was not, and should not be the issue. Like any one who posts here, myself included, if I make a statement or an argument – should be prepared to defend it.
So an electron can tunnel through a labor luvvies head.
There as you requested.
As I said in a post earlier today, people in Teal-targeted areas like Sydney’s Lower North Shore are generally liberal in their outlook, which is very different from the values espoused by today’s Liberals.
C@tmommasays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 9:43 pm
“Alan Lichtman’s keys predicted a Kamala Harris win. So, relying on keys wrt this election appears to be nothing more than an act of pure desperation by Liberals clutching at straws.”
Excuse me, but I am NOT a Liberal. I am also not a Partisan, unlike you. And also, you obviously weren’t looking very closely at all, cause I have different definitions for the keys, and Lichtman got key 11 wrong, and also key 6 wrong, since more than 60% of Americans felt like they were in a recession. Bye, until tomorrow.
The insanity in the USA has put the Dutton playbook into context for slow learning folk. Join the dots as BW would say.
Labor is the liberal party nowadays.
Next liberal leader has to get real and start talking to the teals.
My opinion on the “keys” is that it’s astrology for politics nerds.
mj says:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:23 pm
The insanity in the USA has put the Dutton playbook into context for slow learning folk. Join the dots as BW would say.
Labor is the liberal party nowadays.
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That would be the Teals, actually. They are successful in blue-ribbon Liberal heartland. There is a reason why.
The Teals are the New Australian Democrats.
Arangesays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:18 pm
C@tmommasays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 9:43 pm
“Alan Lichtman’s keys predicted a Kamala Harris win. So, relying on keys wrt this election appears to be nothing more than an act of pure desperation by Liberals clutching at straws.”
Excuse me, but I am NOT a Liberal. I am also not a Partisan, unlike you. And also, you obviously weren’t looking very closely at all, cause I have different definitions for the keys, and Lichtman got key 11 wrong, and also key 6 wrong, since more than 60% of Americans felt like they were in a recession. Bye, until tomorrow.
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So to get key 6 right. You have to do poll on what the majority think?
Probably easier just to do a poll on how they are going to vote.
caf @ #515 Saturday, April 12th, 2025 – 9:56 pm
I believe it was made in intellectual earnestness and there’s a lot of commonsense elements to it. I also believe it probably would have a higher rate of success than a random predictor (even one weighted in favour of incumbents) but, as I said earlier, there are too many elements that are open to subjective and, at times, creative interpretations.
Also, like with all supposed predictive models of human behaviour, there are always unknowable elements that can throw things off. It works until it doesn’t as it has been mockingly said in the past.
(Not picking on you, Arange. You have every right to push this model and, should you be correct, more power to you.)
That would be the Teals, actually. They are successful in blue-ribbon Liberal heartland. There is a reason why.
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That’s true but Labor are also practically a liberal party with a slightly more working class pitch but there is little real difference.
The teals are the DLP of the Liberals.
Steve777 says:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:30 pm
The Teals are the New Australian Democrats.
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It’s a stretch, as they are in the Lower House and in Liberal heartland. I think they are more of a threat to the Liberals than the Australian Democrats. But I am happy to call them anything people want, so long as they keep eating away at that territory 🙂
@MB – the reality is the Liberals have an issue with their most active membership and parliamentary representative are increasingly disconnected from the voters they actually need to win to get back into government and, in fact, actively resent those voters.
One issue most parties deal with is their advisor class are too heavily influenced by the US and their political practices. In the US, activating and exciting voters is critical – in Australia? Less so. Whether people like it or not, most people consider themselves ‘moderate’ and generally are not ideologically consistent (thank Christ).
While nothing is sorted, the Liberals ran a deeply lazy approach for the last 3 years. Run very small target, but then stick your neck out on nuclear of all f***ing things? Because your feral backbench would rather invest $600 billion into projects into the never never than accept renewables are not just the future, but here and an increasing part of baseload. Then assume CoL anger with the incumbent government would be sufficient to push middle-ground voters to them.
Unless the Liberals are prepared to come to the middle on climate, and the culture wars and realise their passionate voters are with them regardless – it’s centrist/moderate voters who are the path back… not the RW fringe.
About what?
Becoming more right wing/evangelised?
‘Your friends and neighbours’ on
Apple+
Best tv series I’ve seen in a while.
As I allow YouTube to play the 14 ads from sue Ellen trumpet on the tv instead of pressing skip I laugh and wonder how long until the only fans to make ends meet narratives.
Having to temporarily exit the election stuff I am suddenly reminded to check into PB. I don’t mind delaying tactics because the other half is not very amused. As long as there is varied low ambient volume emanating from the lunge room tv I’ll be alright.
Where there any notable updates today after midday-ish?
Surely that fake narrative employed by Dutton to try and suggest there was a movement back to him yesterday while in deep confidential conversation with a backer at a fund raiser but in front of a press pack of 25 just meters away was all a sham?.
Tomorrow it’s a fully day of the kids to new beach etc so another 24 hours of wilderness until I’m allowed to turn this phone on Monday morning.
I’ll choose just to laugh. Peter Dutton so dire he is now a willing puppet playing out fake and staged interactions with Joe Q public in a sad break in case of emergency tactic of deception and askance for the travelling media back.
So basically Dutton and the LNP recently realised just how fumed their campaign was being received all they had left was to pretend to have confidential exchanges with party backers claiming that the PM is starting to fade after his peak of yesterday according to hus new internal tracking data and just loud enough for the press pack of 30 sitting 10 metres away to clearly hear. Jesus Christ !
jt1983 yep I kept saying Australia’s a a moderate country touching anything like NDIS Medicare Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is a death sentence honestly listen I get there what the guy was doing with the keys and if he felt offended on sorry but polling is being going the way of way but the fact it should have been going the way of the Queensland election honestly I think the liberals only chance if that Labor screws up spectacularly
Griffsays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:13 pm
Read the 2022 election threads. The existential threat of the Teals to the Coalition was raised back then. Morrison saw the path to victory as picking up the outer suburbs and tried the kulcha wars. And what about Katherine Deves!
The issue is that Frydenberg lost his seat and Dutton got up. And here we are. That being said, do not discount kulcha wars, xenophobia and self-interest. It is a potent brew. Dutton was polling above Albo recently.
I agree regarding the power of culture wars, xenophobia and of course, self-interest.
The proof in the pudding was always when some scrutiny was placed on Dutton and his wafer thin policies.
For 3 years he had avoided answering any questions and was able to dictate terms with a generally compliant media. That was always going to change during a campaign and I think its safe to say that his performance so far hasn’t been amazing.
In a nutshell, people really don’t want to vote for Dutton, they just needed Labor to show them why they should vote for them instead.
Trump has certainly assisted in that regard, but Dutton is his worst enemy in that its painfully obvious he isnt comfortable dealing with people outside of his bubble (or people in general) and he struggles in dealing with any off the cuff questions. Thats why he has micromanaged every public outing he has done, which isnt going to win him any votes and it seems is costing him plenty.
The damage that has been done to the federal Liberal base has been profound and while its always ‘the economy, stupid,’ the voters in Teals seats and other independents doing well arent going to be as easily swayed by ridiculous dummy spits about retail outlets not selling Chinese made plastic flags for Australia Day.
The way I see it panning out could look like the following:
Greens- Inner City.
LNP- Regional cities/rural electorates & affluent suburbs with less of a social conscience.
Teals- Affluent suburbs with more of a social conscience/rural seats like Indi and maybe some seats like Cowper & Lyne (if that scenario occurs the LNP are in a world of pain that might be the new normal).
Labor- Suburban seats (think frontline workers/public servants/healthcare/childcare/TAFE educated (largely female & very keen to WFH) workers & occasionally some seats like Bennelong etc.
ABC reporting that:
Albanese will let all first home buyers purchase with a 5% deposit, plus $10b to build 100,000 new homes exclusively for first home buyers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/election-2025-labor-five-per-cent-deposits-first-homebuyers/105169984. The Government will guarantee up to 15% of the loan value.
Dutton is pledging a one off $1,200 tax offset to half of taxpayers, those earning betwee $48,000 and $104,000: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/federal-election-2025-peter-dutton-pledges-one-off-tax-offset/105169986. Taxpayers earning less than $48,000 or between $104,000 and $144,000 will receive a smaller amount. The payment would apply to the 2025-26 FY and be paid in July 2026 (or when you submit your tax return I guess).
Another Dutton brainfart. More temporary bribes, no real ideas.
Is the only thing he’s got to offer permanently for the next term his insanely stupid “Feed Clive Palmer” free lunch policy?
He’s dumped the only policy that would save him in the budget (dumping 41,000 frontline workers) and thrown in a temporary subsidy for the fuel companies, a temporary tax break, a subsidy for CEO’s and billionaires to get $400 a week in taxpayer paid food. And hundreds of billions on nuclear reactors that won’t be ready for 20 years.
How much is this going to blow the budget? How much is the free food policy going to cause inflation for those not privileged enough to be able to bodge every meal as a work event? Will he have a price cap for fuel so that the retailers will pass on the savings instead of keeping the price the same and then hiking the price again once the subsidy is over in a year?
Paul Krugman….
Absolute cracker … interview with super smart ex Fed economists..
An Interview With Claudia Sahm
Of rules, recessions and more
PAUL KRUGMAN
APR 12, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-claudia-sahm?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-d46e2cb6-9a3c-46c0-bafa-1ef0c8f3129d
One takeaway.. everything that Sahm says is bad… is the same as Duttons half backed policy..
Remember when Labor’s tax cut was ridiculed?
JFC
I’ve basically categorised each Teal target seats based on how likely I think the Teal candidates will be able to win them (Target seats shown in the link below)
https://www.communityindependentsproject.org/ci-mps-candidates
1. Most likely to be won by a Teal (assuming that the Teals will gain seats):
– Cowper
– Bradfield
– Wannon
2. Teal candidate has an outside chance at winning this seat (at minimum they will enter 2pp count):
– Fremantle (Hulett will definitely win the booths in Fremantle and surrounding suburbs. What makes me think she has a chance could be that inner suburbs will be more open to voting for a very left candidate due to state results in electorates like Bibra Lake becoming an ALP vs GRN race in 2pp. Not to mention that Liberal preferences will help her regardless of what the official Liberal preference will be, as iirc, most Liberal preferences flowed to Hulett even when State Liberals preferenced Labor above her)
– Franklin
– Bean (Invisible member in a very safe Labor held seat)
– Forrest (Lack of incumbent, otherwise would fit very well in 3rd category)
– Flinders
– Berowra
– McPherson
3. Teal target seat is of interest to me due to potential outside chances of a potential victory or getting into the 2pp but I have no evidence to back up my suspicions:
– Grey (I remember Nick Xenophon’s party being competitive there back in 2016, I wonder if the Teal candidate could replicate this)
– Monash (Broadbent is surprisingly competitive there and the race could get messy, especially with preferences)
– Riverina
– Lyne
– Groom
– Fisher
4. Little to no chance
– Moore (close race between Labor and Liberals on 2pp plus another major independent running via Goodenough)
– Sturt (close race between Labor and Liberals made more crowded through Greens campaigning there and calling it a target seat)
– Jagajaga
– Chisholm (again, will be a close, competitive race btw Labor and Liberals)
– Deakin (also again, close competitive race btw Labor and Liberals)
– Farrer (Iirc Milthorpe is a prominent campaigner for sexual abuse victims and is a good candidate, but I haven’t heard enough about the campaign in Farrer to make an opinion yet)
– Calare (If an independent is winning this, which I doubt, it’ll be Andrew Gee thanks to preferences from Labor, Greens and Kate Hook. This is another crowded race with many alternative candidates people can vote for)
– Gilmore (a very close, competitive race with Liberals and Labor having popular candidates in Andrew Constance and Fiona Philips)
– Moncrieff
– Fairfax
– Dickson (Peter Dutton has a high profile as Opposition leader which will save him even if recent polling suggests that he might be at risk.)
– Solomon
On a side note: All Teal incumbents with the exception of Curtin would likely retain their own seats. Curtin is the only teal seat I think will be at risk. Kooyong and Goldstein would be won by the Liberals if they have a really good election night, but I doubt that.
Just setting myself up for retiring on the night.
Covers pulled back, bedside light on, alarm set, something caught my eye.
A massive huntsman spider as big as my hand, and it’s a big hand, on the wall above my bed.
Got the takeaway container to do the usual removal trick and return said spider back outdoors.
Just out of reach so I give it a nudge with the walking stick to bring it lower within reach.
Nudge sends it scampering at a rapid pace down under the bedside cabinet next to my bed.
Looks like I’m in for a restless night.
Just hope I don’t wake up with a spider wig!
Seriously, I know they are harmless and do good, so as long as it keeps out of my bed and sticks to the walls and ceiling as all good huntsmans should, I’ll sleep well.
I came across the “Keys” in my Youtube or Facebook feed last year in the lead-up to the US election. They were predicting a Clinton win, so they are hardly infallible, although a record of high predictive accuracy was claimed.
They look plausible, however. It’s obviously not good for your re-election prospects if there’s a recession or you lose a war. The keys were obviously designed for the USA – references to mid-terms and primaries, for example. We clearly can’t apply them here without adjustments. We probably should have a key about leadership speculation, not an issue in the USA.
To change the subject, the ABC Voter Compass is back: https://www.abc.net.au/news/vote-compass
Labor haven’t really shown why people should vote for them instead so far other than not being the alternative. Maybe they’ll release something significant tomorrow, we’ll see.
mj says:
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That’s true but Labor are also practically a liberal party with a slightly more working class pitch but there is little real difference.
Miners no longer swing picks.
Factory workers are now robots.
Trade people now use and service computers, install networks.
To remain relevant the union movement had to move up the education chain. It is happening the doctors strike had union tee shirts the ACTU secretary is a Nurse.
The professional associations are dragging their feet, but there you are.
The Labor party has to move also. and they have most of the members a tertiary educated.
It is inevitable the Labor party would change.
Been Theresays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:38 pm
Next liberal leader has to get real and start talking to the teals.
About what?
Becoming more right wing/evangelised?
The Qld LNP are being slowly and effectively overtaken by conservative, Christian evangelist types, as young people arent exactly swarming to join the Libs…. but branch stacking from various mega church congregations is in full swing.
Australians do not want religion in their faces and most certainly dont want religious dogma to be drivingn laws that impact them and their families. Thats why abortion was such a hot trigger at the state election, especially in Brisbane.
If Price gets even more off the leash and starts talking about abortion again then the Teal seats will all remain with the Independents and the Liberals can kiss good bye winning any of the 3 Greens Brisbane seats.
Can you imagine if you combine the impact of any suspicion about what the Liberals would do regarding abortion rights with the visceral reaction regarding WFH (which impacts women more-so than men)???
Thats a sure fire way to completely destroy any gains the Liberals have made since the Jesus Freak from the Shire gifted the Teals a platform to decimate his party when he set fire to their base (he didnt hold a hose, after all).
Yet another housing stunt from labor they drove prices through the roof with crazy numbers coming in.
Refuse to seriously restrict numbers coming in instead revert to stunts.
Nath, are you interested in both sex and travel ?. Lose the militant and deranged prose you spit here and get in front (not behind ) of me in the the open mic line
Dutton has pulled a rabbit of the hat and offered a LMITO-like one-off tax offset of $1200 for middle income earners, equivalent to about $24 a week. This is in addition to the fuel excise cut. All those earning up to 144k will get some offset.
In the meantime Albanese announces all first home buyers will be able to buy with a 5% deposit with the government guaranteeing up to 15% of the loan. This will only serve to drive up housing prices even further and bring property even more out of reach. Such stupidity beyond imagination.
Not surprised if Hulett wins Fremantle and other independents elsewhere. People are getting sick of being ignored and the major parties do not seem willing or able to listen. Member for Freo currently looks to be just a seat warmer. The political climate is ripe for more independents.
ScromoIIsays:
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 11:08 pm
Dutton has pulled a rabbit of the hat and offered a LMITO-like one-off tax offset of $1200 for middle income earners, equivalent to about $24 a week. This is in addition to the fuel excise cut. All those earning up to 144k will get some offset.
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More Liberal debt and deficit is all i see.
@Bludgeoned Westie
Thanks for that analysis, much appreciated.
I worked a fair bit around Spearwood/Cockburn/Bibra Lake in the early 2000’s and I remember them as being pretty working class areas with a fairly prominent European migrant population.
Has it changed that much that the Greens are a chance to win booths in those areas??
ScromoII and watch it be matched by labour how many people are gonna know about the tax cut then one Liberal ministers talking about Trump it’s a little too late mate also what do you think the news poll I think it’d be still labour leading
Hi entropy, do you mind giving me a summation of the day’s activities on the campaign trail tomorrow evening?
I’ve been forced to abstain until Monday under threat of the splitting of assets etc.
You’ve come along way since you arrived on the scene. In your short time at PB you’ve thus far knocked off LVT and forced nath to formally transition to ‘Dave’ -hormones, reassignment surgery and all!
I dare say that one day man with the big stick may consider you worthy of a permanent moderator status or perhaps full creative control and the heir apparent when he can no longer run the Joint.
Obvious bribe from Dutton, and those on pensions or welfare get zilch. Oh, and it is only for one year, it is not real tax reform. Does not alter the equation – the Libs won’t win any Teal seats back.
The LNP are anti immigration (which is the cause of our “housing crisis” and “crime crisis) yet the Candidate they are fielding in our electorate is by name and appearance a migrant Please explain
And now we have tax cuts!!!
Who would have thought?
At least we now might get a break from Dutton at your local petrol station.
But as he is now imitating the Trump campaign, maybe he and Jacinta will drive a garbage truck next.
I’m deeply confused … Labor’s tax cut was pointless because it didn’t start until next year?
Liberal policy to let people raid super for a deposit was amazing – but this isn’t?
FTR more tax cuts? Jesus and yes, this will bump up house prices. But any intervention was going to.
Conservatism is a cult of suffering: https://youtu.be/4DBhYWJTraE?si=_DO7NNACdNASPsVM
And on that note, good night.