A little under five months after the federal election, the BludgerTrack poll aggregate has made its return, presently aggregating 14 poll results on voting intention and eight for leadership ratings. Going back as far as mid-June, it records a stable picture on two-party preferred, with Labor holding a consistent lead of around 57.5-42.5, but is distinctive on the primary vote in picking up a surge to One Nation, who are at level pegging with the Greens, at the expense of the Coalition. The series now makes use of the data from Roy Morgan, which was excluded in the previous term for reasons including its excessive frequency relative to other pollsters. This hasn’t been an issue post-election, having moved to roughly monthly reporting (a fresh result should be along later today), and it’s also relevant that it performed rather well at the election by leaning more strongly to Labor than its rivals.
BludgerTrack does not currently have enough data to work with to produce state breakdowns, but it gets one step closer today with The Australian publishing the first Newspoll geographic and demographic breakdown since the election, combining 3811 responses from three polls going back to mid-July. The full results on voting intention can be found under the “Poll Data” tab in the BludgerTrack display. At state level, it records two-party results of 60-40 to Labor in New South Wales (a swing to Labor of around 4.5% since the election), 58-42 in Victoria (around 1.5%), 51-49 in Queensland (ditto), 54-46 in Western Australia (a swing of around 2% to the Coalition) and 55-45 in South Australia (around 4% to the Coalition, bearing in mind that by this point the sample size is down to 283). There is no gender gap on two-party preferred, with Labor leading 57-43 among men and women, but Anthony Albanese has a narrower advantage over Sussan Ley on preferred prime minister among women (49-31) than men (54-31).
One further point to be noted is that New South Wales has a new Senator in Sean Bell, who fills the One Nation vacancy arising from the retirement of Warwick Stacey, who was elected in May, on grounds of ill health. A former adviser to Pauline Hanson, Bell was announced by the party as Stacey’s designated successor one day before a joint standing of state parliament convened to rubber-stamp its choice last week. Bell in fact lives in Queensland, but a party spokesperson told Max Maddison of the Sydney Morning Herald he was “in the process” of moving to the state he now represents.
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Douglas and Milkosays:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 1:01 pm
Nadia88
Douglas and Milko says:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 11:27 am
Going by the comments on the article I posted above from the SMH, SMH readers are definitely not fans of the Liberal Party!
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Hey D&M, I’ve just read through all those comments (60 when I checked).
That comment by “Rhino”, about how it suits Hastie that another moderate doesn’t join, may be close to the mark. Hmmmm.
Interesting take. The NSW Liberal party indemnified Kapterian agains any costs she might incur , which could be substantial.
On the other hand, would the NSW Liberals bow to pressure from the Hastie faction? I may have a chance to get the gossip this Sunday. Once seats go to Teals in the former NSW Liberal heartland, they do not come back.
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D&M
Liberal party now has 3 Sydney Metropolitan seats in federal parliament, 2 of which are marginal and 1 out of those 2 have good % of Australians of Indian heritage.
Lindsay and Hume are ex-urban seats.
Unless Albanese government does something seriously stupid and/or catastrophic things even Mitchell could fall to ALP.
It appears Hastie and Price want to lead Liberal party as Leader and Deputy Leader in near future.
So far, this is what I’ve come up with.
(Not final. Frequently revising)
‘Aussie Version’
Key 1: Polls show the gov with a swing towards it in the 2PP at the half-way point of the term.
Key 2: No close leadership spill
Key 3: Incumbent party leader is the same as the last election
Key 4: No third party with 20% or more of the primary votes.
Key 5: The economy is not in recession/people don’t feel like they are in a recession
Key 6: Real per capita gdp growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms
Key 7: Major Policy Change
Key 8: No major, violent, widespread social unrest
Key 9: No major scandal recognised by both sides of politics
Key 10: No security failure
Key 11: Major security success, like winning a war (or reducing crime rates)
Key 12: The incumbent party leader is appealing to moderate voters of the challenging party
Key 13: The leader of the challenging party is not appealing to moderate voters of the incumbent party.
Key 14: True if there’s something triggering a ‘Rally around the flag effect’
7 false keys for opposition 2PP win
‘themunz says:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 2:39 pm
Just had to post this:
Freedom and democracy in China Vs the rest of the world.
Don’t shoot the messenger:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLOPwQYMxc‘
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Thanks. I needed a good belly laugh. I stopped before he got to the bit where Chinese families are free to pay for the price of the bullet that was used to politically assassinate one of their family members.
As for representing and understanding modern Australia…
The Libs, a party with basically no urban members, are on the verge of being led by a Perth soldier and a NT ‘achieved nothing’……that should really resonate in metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide….
The Tories are not taking over the Liberal Party. The Reactionaries are. What little is left of the Tories are these days classified as ‘moderates’.
Prime Minister of Israel
@IsraeliPM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning at Ben-Gurion International Airport, prior to departing on a diplomatic visit to the US, where he will address the UN General Assembly and meet with US President Donald Trump.
https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1971046248380764532
Boerwar
“The Tories are not taking over the Liberal Party. The Reactionaries are. What little is left of the Tories are these days classified as ‘moderates’.”
Exactly. Whilst I was never a Tory (conservative Liberal), they were consistently conservative. So for example on issues like the environment, they would support its protection.
Whereas the reactionaries do not seek to protect or conserve the existing order. They seek to radically change it and revert to a previous, utopian fantasy of what they remember as the “good old days”. Usually those days were only “good” for them. They might have been terrible for Aboriginals, the young, women and dark skilled immigrants, but the reactionaries don’t care.
Aspects of the past that don’t suite their personal circumstances, like much higher personal taxes on the wealthy, they pretend never existed.
In summary, I find the reactionary world view both selfish and childish.
Demanding China, Russia and India to increase Climate change reduction actions without forcing US to change their course on Climate change, is like giving coconut to a monkey.
Ven
“Demanding China, Russia and India to increase Climate change reduction actions without forcing US to change their course on Climate change, is like giving coconut to a monkey.”
It certainly isn’t going to win USA many friends in the “global south”.
This week’s Ezra Klein show looked back at the Red Scare, and framed today’s situation as a Blue Scare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-corey-robin.html
This exchange was of particular note:
Ezra I want to play you a clip of Stephen Miller, who is deputy chief of staff. He was close to Charlie Kirk and seems as much as anybody to be structuring the response here.
“These networks” is the term I want to zoom in on. In that same episode, Vance talks about the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, The Nation magazine.
Charlie Kirk was murdered by — as best we know — a single gunman making a very, very, very, terrible decision. But what I see happening is an effort to blow this up into a kind of “omnithreat” — that there is this thing called the radical left. It’s not just this crazy guy in Utah, it’s all the NGOs that support liberal or left-wing causes. It’s anybody who, you know, supported liberal judges through George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
I guess the argument is: They created a climate in which this guy got radicalized? But the effort to expand this, to create your threat that links it all together and then crack down on that threat — that feels to me like where we’re entering into what I’ve been thinking about as a Blue Scare.
That feels to me like the symmetry here, the size of the enemy — which I think is something they sort of thought about before. I think bringing in the Ford Foundation is ridiculous. But they’ve been talking about the N.G.O. network for a long time. And now they have their reason to go after it.
Corey Robin. I want to read to you the language of the Smith Act, which was the major legislative tool that was used against the left during the McCarthy era. This was the way you could bring people up on criminal charges.
What was criminal was: Conspiring with someone else to organize a party or a group, to advocate, teach, or encourage the desirability of the overthrow of the government by force or violence.
What do you notice there? You notice the number of nouns and verbs you have to get through before you get to “violence,” right?
And I think it’s very relevant to what you just said. It is the identification of a network that can be tied in any way, shape or form to acts of violence.
The flip side of this, which the journalist Ken Klippenstein just posted about, is also that they’ve come up with a new formula for the lone gunman type, which is “nihilistic violent extremist.”
“Nihilistic” is an interesting word choice because it’s kind of like anything and everything. So on the one hand, they’re identifying this network to go after a whole apparatus that they both believe — and some of them opportunistically believe — but then also this very free-floating signifier of the kinds of individuals who might engage in violent extremism.
Ezra Yes. And so the idea is there is no such thing as the individual. The individual is the product of a climate.
Corey Robin. Everybody is a vector.
Ezra Everybody is a vector. And so, if you’re an organization or are someone who works at an organization who maybe said something that is disrespectful to Charlie Kirk or talked about things that you think are the kind of thing that the shooter could have believed, they become fair game.
Corey Robin. Absolutely. The precedent I would look to is it oftentimes starts with the employer investigating their own personnel. And those investigations then become a kind of raw database for the authorities. But you can see how in an environment like this, that archive becomes fair game for the Trump administration to demand handing it over and sharing it with other actors. To me, what we’re seeing is the elaborate infrastructure — the meeting of rhetoric and institutions and law and the state.
Rep Clyburn, who was responsible for Biden becoming POTUS, says he will never vote to honour Charlie Kirk legacy
https://search.app/Z5K9i
As usual, everyone is wRONg. Hastie is a team player. Just ask him.
From The Guardian: ‘Dan Jervis-Bardy
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says he supports the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, and anyone suggesting otherwise is “being mischievous”, rubbishing speculation he is preparing a tilt at the leadership.
Hastie’s personal campaigns on dumping net zero, “Australia-first” manufacturing and cutting immigration have been interpreted inside and outside the party as laying the groundwork to fulfil his long-held ambition to lead the party.
In an interview on 2GB on Thursday, Hastie said:
I support Sussan. Anyone who’s speculating otherwise is being mischievous.
I’m a team player. I’m just being a little bolder in some of the policy positions that I think we should adopt.’
That Guardian article about Jason Stanley, alleged fascism expert, is not as terrible as Jason Stanley’s argument. He’s not just proposing that Australia is one of several countries that could turn fascist, but “You guys are probably next, right? The first domino to go.” Australia is more at risk than France (presidential election due in 2027 with a totally damaged party system, whose ability to withstand National Rally depends mostly on the ability of a centrist candidate to come second after a centrist president has been unable to hold up a government capable of (what he regards as) necessary fiscal discipline). Australia is at more risk than the UK (a prime minister in a much better position than France’s but without widespread confidence, a discredited Conservative party giving way to a reformist populist party that has no respect for the existing order). Australia is at more risk than Germany (which has reverted to a CDU/SDP coalition which can no longer justly be called grand in an environment in which the largest party in the polls is increasingly frequently AfD). I don’t want to be fatalist about it — the fascists in government in Italy don’t seem to be the worst democratic government in the world.
It’s seems like he’s watched a few “made for export” Sky News Australia videos and decided to rank Australia based on that. Canada, where he feels safe, has also had its exclusion era politics to match Australia’s white Australia policy, and like Canada’s, Australia’s current population barely reflects the population of those days. Canada is debating extreme anti-woke measures like a regional school hijab ban and routinely sees laws passed using the notwithstanding clause. Not that it necessarily matters – the meaning of democracy is not a set of policies, but the ability of the leaders of a country to accept that it might reasonably be governed by people they can’t stand who implement policies they abhor, and so they accept their victories and defeats in response to relatively stable and inclusive election rules. Part of the current anti-democratic reaction is because in many countries, commentators have treated yucky policies as if they were the end of democracy rather than part of democracy. We have coped with bad policies at times, and they will also cope with bad policies at times, as long as they can get bad policies trialed by democrats and not by anti-democrats.
Australia certainly has many of the same risks other countries have — social media is troublesome, the economy is sour and no one seems to be brave enough to tell businesses that we all have to work together and build something together if we want a decent country. Australia certainly has some risks that are more-or-less local — even our mainstream media seems to be increasingly narrowcasting, and with the damage that’s being done to the right side of our party system, there is a risk that people on the right might soon see themselves as unable to win government unless the rules are changed. The insistence by the media on being the opposition to the Victorian government is probably part of the reason why a political opposition seems unable to grow, which is not all that great for electoral democracy. But you have to be ignorant or worse to seriously claim that Australia is “probably next right? the first domino to go”.
What a silly photo of an asinine national leader, of Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Why he had to surround himself with an Abbottesque number of flags on the tarmac of a runway before boarding his plane is so obviously the patently ridiculous act of a guilty man of shrivelled stature on the world stage.
Peta still on the wrong side of history.
Some brain-dead cretin reckons that Trump is the saviour of Western Civilization?
Hastie appears to be tapering down his rhetoric, probably due to Sinodinos’s entreaty to do so.
Fastwheels:
Peta still on the wrong side of history.
Also on the wrong side of sanity, it would appear.
Well said, Felix.
To which I can only add that when people write articles like that it’s almost as if they’re wishcasting a fait accompli. Probably so they can get their next book out of it.
Hmmmmmm Albos speech had a lot of human rights support for Hamas supporting Palestinians but no mention of Chinese peoples humans rights being abused on an industrial scale.
Lost the pacific to CHINA fed labor government and prefers the Chinese communist dictatorship to Democratically elected TRUMP AND ISRAEL.
Starmers bestie Albo they are woke hypocrites and leftie globalists.
Only the crazy believe Chinas environmental statistics.
“I thought Kapterian and the Libs were going to keep fighting the result no matter what stood in their way.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/it-s-over-after-145-days-the-mp-for-bradfield-has-been-decided-20250925-p5mxtg.html”
Kapterian can go back to her day job, which is acting as the villain in a Doctor Who theatre production.
Immigration is a ship that’s sailed, Peta. Especially when a lot of the Old White Men who vote for parties like PHON and the UAP are seen to have gotten themselves Asian wives or wives that have been immigrants and are producing children. So how do you unscramble that egg? Do you deport the wife and keep the children in Australia? Do you deport the wife and the children? And what about, as has been mentioned previously the White immigrants? To be philosophically consistent, all immigrants (back to when?), need to be told to take a hike. So, yes, it’s just the latest kulcha war dog whistle from the people who have become too used to ruling over us but can see that power fast diminishing.
As for ‘climate’, well I hope that the Climate Change-induced drought conditions in Western Victoria that Jacinta Allan is preparing for by commissioning a study into whether a second desalination plant is required for Victoria, doesn’t affect Peta’s extended family there. It would be sad if Peta’s catastrophising about people who take ‘climate’ seriously (so afraid of nodding towards it they are leaving the word ‘change’ off their treatises now), actually resulted in that.
The combined population percentage of India and China is approximately 35% of the world population, with India holding about 17.8% and China 17.2% as of 2025, according to Worldometer.
So for every 200 people in the world, there are 35 Chinese and 35 Indians not counting Chinese and Indian diaspora.
So, to get their people out of poverty, which they were till atleast 1990, Chinese and Indian leaders would have used or using large resources of the world.
In the meantime US, which uses about 25% of world resources for 3.5% population, continued to increase their carbon footprint and have no plan in place to decrease their carbon footprint
Socrates @ #1241 Thursday, September 25th, 2025 – 1:37 pm
Ok, fair point. China does indeed have fantastic renewable energy resources. But the scale of their demand and also their costs are simply mind-boggling. And both are quite different to ours. Which is why you cannot do simple “per capita” comparisons. Our massive available resources vastly outweigh our very modest needs, and so we can keep our costs low by cherry-picking the cheapest options in every case – but this is not the case for China. They need to use all available options, and at scales we can barely imagine.
Dams, for example. Dams on such a scale as China needs can be quite a problem in themselves – as China has found out the hard way, they have a horrible tendency to collapse. Also, hydro is a resource limited not just by geography but also by climate – i.e. rainfall. Droughts have been a problem in China, which means that although hydro may sometimes be very abundant, at other times it is not. This means you have to build even more dams, and/or also build alternatives. All of which bumps up the cost. Finally – and this is especially true in China – the main sources of hydro tend to be a long way from where the electricity is actually needed, so transmission costs are high. We have seen this on a much smaller scale here in Australia, even though we are quite lucky that we have significant sources of hydro quite close to where the electricity is actually required (i.e. mostly in the south east). I believe that hydro in China is now concentrating on pumped hydro, which is more akin to a battery than a generator, and so can be competitive even though the cost is high.
China is good on wind, but government policies for years resulted in it being over developed but under utilized – and hence expensive – and it was not usually being generated near where it was actually needed, so transmission costs are high. And again, Australia is lucky to have significant wind resources close to where the electricity is actually needed. We choose not to use them because we don’t really need to – for us, solar is faster, cheaper and easier – especially if the government can convince private citizens to buy the solar panels for themselves, which they do – but we could and we should use more of our wind resources, because that would be both cheaper and better environmentally.
Then there is solar. You’d think solar would be very cheap in China, since they produce almost all of the world’s solar panels – but for years, China subsidized solar panel production primarily for overseas consumption, and its own internal solar generation market lagged. So we benefited from their subsidies on solar panels but they did not. This has now changed, and so yes China also has massive solar farms, but their demand is even more massive.
It is worth asking why (given all the above) electricity in Australia costs so much more than electricity in China. I’ll leave that one as an exercise for the reader! 🙂
”Kapterian can go back to her day job, which is acting as the villain in a Doctor Who theatre production.”
Is that some sort of “in” joke?
The comment that “Australians feel like strangers in their own home”, because of an influx of migrants, is deeply offensive.
I have two daughters-in-law, one is part Māori, one is part Japanese. Unsurprisingly, they bring some of their cultural heritage wherever they go. For me, their “difference” is something to be celebrated, understood and, where relevant, even adopted. If, when they stay with me, I am struck by any difference they might bring, there are no feelings of estrangement, just delight that they would have the confidence to share their ways with me.
I am not a Christian, (I have no religious bone in my body) but I cannot envisage a less Christian sentiment than Hastie’s. He ought to be called out by all Christian leaders. After all, the fundamental message of “Christ” (as reported, unreliably) and the foundational separation of the Christians from the Jews is that we are ALL gods children, and all capable of being received into heaven, or whatever. It is the Jews who insist (as they are free to do, it’s their club) that only the 13 tribes are “the chosen ones “.
Meanwhile American leaders said “The American lifestyle is non-negotiable”
In my @3:52 pm post
I posted
“In the meantime US, which uses about 25% of world resources for 3.5% population.
It should read
“In the meantime US, which uses about 25-30% of world resources for 4.2% population(as per worldometer)
”Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says he supports the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, and anyone suggesting otherwise is “being mischievous”, rubbishing speculation he is preparing a tilt at the leadership.”
He “officially denied” wanting the leadership a while ago, now denies it again. Not only that, he now says he supports the leader. Not sure whether he is “ambitious for her” but he probably is.
So it’s definitely on.
Homeless Australians and high crime rates due to mass importation of people by globalist fed labor government is offensive.
Racism against white people on here from labor and greens supporters.
Grattan on THE meeting.
https://citynews.com.au/2025/meetings-in-the-diary-but-managing-trump-will-be-the-test/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=canberra-daily-today-s-news-today_7801
National Museum Australia
Defining Moments
Ending the White Australia policy
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/end-of-white-australia-policy#:~:text=In%201973%20the%20Whitlam%20Labor,from%20nearly%20200%20different%20countries.
“Multicultural Australia
While the creation of legislative equality for all migrants was a defining moment in the Australian migration story, there was still a way to go to make such equality a reality. The Holt government, despite passing the 1966 laws, did not attempt to establish Australian migration offices in Asian countries or offer assistance for Asian migrants.
In 1973 the Whitlam Labor government definitively renounced the White Australia policy. In its place it established a policy of multiculturalism in a nation that is now home to migrants from nearly 200 different countries.”
Yes, Holt and Whitlam governments are given credit for ending White Australia policy.
But it is Bob Hawke government that really ended that policy by implementing non-discriminatory immigration policy.
Hastie has reached ‘conservative pin-up’ status…
https://citynews.com.au/2025/liberal-hoses-down-leader-talk-defends-outspoken-posts/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=canberra-daily-today-s-news-today_7801
The Lowy Institute Asian Power Index for 2025… Australia’s climb:
https://citynews.com.au/2025/australia-climbs-ranks-of-southeast-asian-influence/
The devastating reality that people who complain about Australia’s 2035 target will never admit that even if it was 75%- 100% it would still be totally inconsequential compared to whatever China decides to do. A 7%-10% cut from China is far more devastating in real terms for the world climate than anything we can practically do.
Landlord of the Year @ #1283 Thursday, September 25th, 2025 – 4:12 pm
Especially when “globalists” has been nazi double-speak for “the Jews” for a while now.
‘…
Conservative darling Andrew Hastie has been backed as a future Liberal leader by demoted frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who criticised current leader Sussan Ley for failing to show faith in her.
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Why the fuck would Ley have the slightest reason to ‘show faith’ in Price who jumped parties, jumped from being Taylor’s No 2 and from there to Hastie urger. Did I mention ‘failed to show public loyalty to the leader’?
https://citynews.com.au/2025/demoted-liberal-backs-ley-rival-as-internal-rift-widens/
Kirsdarke
There is the Nazis link but it’s nonsense when the world is linked. I just wish the right would stop using wanker terms.
The Trump Administration has removed President Biden’s portrait from the Presidential Walk of Fame in the White House replacing it with a photo of an autopen in a huge sign of disrespect to the office of the Presidency.
Petty arseholes, how low can you go.
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Socratessays:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 3:23 pm
Ven
“Demanding China, Russia and India to increase Climate change reduction actions without forcing US to change their course on Climate change, is like giving coconut to a monkey.”
It certainly isn’t going to win USA many friends in the “global south”.
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Socrates
It appears Trump regime doesn’t want any friends in ‘global south’ by the they are behaving. They are jettisoning friends even in ‘Global North’
He is treating ‘global south’ like he treated his tenants in his real estate property in in 70s and 80s i.e. shabbily and atrociously.
“Is that some sort of “in” joke?”
Was a joke about her power stance, taken by slanted camera, curled hair, in her fancy button up vest & suit costume, in the picture attached to the article. Looks a lot like Missy, the female incarnation of The Master from Doctor Who about a decade back.
Arange says:
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 2:59 pm
So far, this is what I’ve come up with.
(Not final. Frequently revising)
‘Aussie Version’
Much better, comrade. These ones don’t have to be retrofitted to our very different system. And they can be applied to States and Territories, not just federal.
Excellent for accurately predicting the past!!!! – just teasing, I know how much effort you have put in to it.
Yes! And for another, even more fundamental, reason. Once someone has come here as an immigrant (ie, not just as a visitor), they ARE an Australian. The statement Hastie made purports to deny that basic truth about these Australians. That is deeply presumptuous and hostile of Hastie, and therefore offensive.
You think after being devastatingly wrong about the Fed election that Peta would shut the fuck up and admit she has no idea what she’s talking about. But no, Trump is the white saviour and everyone else is just stupid and dumb and not orange enough to save western civilisation.
“Australians feel like strangers in their own home”
Which Australians and why? Because brown people might live next door? What ethnicities count as non-Australian for the purposes of making fellow Australians feel “like strangers” in their own home? Greeks? Italians? Irish? Chinese? Croat? Serb? Indian? Kiwi? Scottish?
Or is it by shade of brown or black?
What happens when it’s a black migrant next door, then a white English migrant on the other? What about if the black fella is indigenous? Does that count? Or indigenous on both sides?
Come on Andrew, explain it and make a policy to sort it. After all, you have proscribed an alleged problem, so what’s the solution?
In the immortal words of the red headed racist stooge of billionaires, “Please explain.”
Nick @ #1284 Thursday, September 25th, 2025 – 4:13 pm
I agree with your facts, but not the conclusions you try to extract from them.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/china-surprises-and-disappoints-with-first-emission-cut-pledge-and-modest-wind-and-solar-target-of-3600-gw/
Chinas targets not impressing everyone. But hey just like Australia at least we are getting on with clean energy investments unlike the very rotten US regime.
Fastwheels @ #1288 Thursday, September 25th, 2025 – 4:26 pm
I am afraid we are all going to find out.
Good post Felix.
This Jason Stanley guy didn’t give the idea that he actually knew fuck all about Australia, just that he was talking to the Guardian Australia, spruiking a forthcoming tour of Australia and saying something inflammatory about Australia would get him on the front page and get bums in seats (or so he hopes). I’m sure some of the Guardian Australia’s BTL audience will be highly receptive to being told they’re totally right, Australia is already fascist, look at how the Greens aren’t in charge like they should be yada yada.
2.1 million non residents in Australia with work rights they are not Australian!
I missed this one this morning …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/unite-to-end-wars-and-tackle-climate-crisis-australian-pm-tells-un-in-veiled-swipe-at-us-isolationism
How embarrassing. I hope someone in the audience held up a mirror 🙁
Pied Piper
They don’t pretend to be until they become Australian, and many Australian live and work overseas.