RedBridge Group/Accent Research have a large-sample Victorian state poll in the Financial Review, showing One Nation overtaking the Coalition since the last such poll in February. The primary votes all but record a three-way tie between Labor, up a point to 26%, One Nation, up three to 27%, and the Coalition, down two to 26%, with the Greens steady on 13%. Two-party results have the Coalition leading Labor 54-46, and Labor leading One Nation 52-48. Jacinta Allan records 17% favourable, 24% neutral and 59% negative (which the Financial Review says are the worst recorded for any leader other than Anna Bligh and John Cain, though on what basis is unclear), and Jess Wilson is on 31% favourable, 51% neutral and 18% unfavourable. Pauline Hanson was thrown in for good measure, recording 37% favourable, 17% neutral and 46% negative. The poll was conducted June 17 to 28 from a sample of 5516.
Further electorally relevant news from Victoria:
• The Liberal Party state executive meets tomorrow to decide whether to remove Moira Deeming as lead upper house candidate for Western Metropolitan. The Age reports a “broad consensus” within the party that she should be dropped, as there would have to be to get the required agreement of 75% of the executive’s roughly 20 members. Deeming’s defeat in an April preselection vote by restaurateur and Indian community figurehead Dinesh Gourisetty prompted a backlash on the right, and she was shortly able to recover the position when Gourisetty was obliged to withdraw. However, last week’s events appear to have damaged Deeming’s prestige. Pauline Hanson bluntly told Melbourne station 3AW today that the party “don’t want her”, and hitherto strong supporter Peta Credlin, who is married to state executive chair Brian Loughnane, “has let it be known that she is now done with Deeming”, according to Chip Le Grand of The Age.
• Sumeyya Ilanbey of the Financial Review reports Labor has written off nine seats, including several where the threat would presumably be from One Nation: Sunbury, Ashwood, Melton, Yan Yean, Glen Waverley, Hastings, Pakenham, Bayswater and Bass. The party is confident of 19 seats and targeting another 26, suggesting it is plotting a bare minimum path to a majority of 45 seats out of 88.
• Kieran Rooney of The Age reported last week that Labor internal research indicated the Nationals seats of Gippsland South, Murray Plains and Gippsland East were likely One Nation wins, with Shepparton, Benambra and Lowan “leaning orange”. Also in the latter category were Berwick, the Melbourne fringe seat held by former Liberal leader Brad Battin, along with Liberal-held Narracan, Warrandyte, Eildon and Rowville. No Labor seats were identified, but One Nation was acknowledged to be “a major problem for both sides of politics”. Liberal sources expressed high hopes for gaining Niddrie and Macedon from Labor.
• Ryan Bourke of the Herald Sun reports One Nation “remains without a frontrunner” after an apparent failure to recruit as candidates Adam Giles, former Northern Territory Chief Minister and now chief executive of Gina Rinehart’s agricultural arm, and Heston Russell, former commando and founder of a party that ran at the last state election as Angry Victorians.
B.S. Fairman
How will that work, not all disabled people are on the NDIS, and even if multiple people in one class are on the NDIS, they will not all be receiving the same supports.
Landlord – I have no idea and Harkin had no idea when pushed. Sounds like a brain fart that had not been thought through. The disabled kiddies taking all the time away from little Johnny/Janey is a typical gripe of some.
However, Colleen Harkin was supposed to be the Liberals education expert before she defected.
Probably the execution of that policy would to bring back the Dunce Cap and sit that NDIS student in the corner and force them to wear it.
The only thing the LNP will do for crime in Melbourne is that it will stop being reported. They will do a Royal Commission that will go nowhere, just like the other half-dozen union RC’s in history, and it will be a neutered RC that deliberately avoids searching out crime from corporations and executives.
Just like in the NT where every paper was screaming about every tiny piece of crime committed by indigenous people.
Then the moment the election was over, crime ceased to be reported on. But now they can jail 10 year olds (at that point you might as well dispense with the idea that children should be protected from themselves and enable toddlers to be jailed if they steal a chocolate bar from the shelf without the parent noticing). And of course, the only 10 year olds getting locked up are indigenous kids (with mandatory spit hoods and strait jackets).
White kids get “boys will be boys” and released without charge.
NT crime has risen by double digit percentages, the indigenous are crammed into cells in the dozens, children who aren’t even teenagers are being put in jail with grown men, but the rhetoric makes the white boomers happy even though it doesn’t work.
Lia Finocchiaro couldn’t stop the crime, only the reporting of it. But with social media it still gets out.
It’s why she had to scapegoat the NT Police Commissioner and fire him, because her “lock up children” laws haven’t worked.
Same thing will happen in Victoria under the LNP or ON. Their destructive economic policies will only make crime worse.
It’ll be a dog’s breakfast election result in Victoria next November, maybe Labor will hold government by 1 or 2 seats but the Premier loses her own seat in Bendigo. The Liberals look to be a total basketcase, beset by factional infighting, and there’s the unknown factor of One Nation, who as yet don’t have a recognised leader or any candidates at a state level.
Whew, things must be bad in the Vic Libs. Le Grande Chip out there frantically writing articles for The Age about what he thinks must be done for the Liberals to win.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/it-is-over-moira-deeming-just-can-t-see-it-20260703-p60cfh.html
Just argh, I’m in agreement with AngoraFish and Gorks that it was a mistake for Jacinta Allan to make that article. Vic Labor’s already so far behind in the polls, now they change their strategy to let in the accusation that “Yes, our whole Big Build Project was corrupt and we acknowledge that and we’re sorry.”
That just doesn’t win politics. It’ll now legitimise every attack against the biggest thing they’ve been doing for the past 12 years.
Testing
https://bmgresearch.com/news/on-every-trait-voters-value-in-a-leader-burnham-beats-farage/
Whilst i never read the papers in Victoria other than ones which are worth reading and one i did read was the Conversation a couple of weeks ago. What i found interesting was how internally key unionists are intimidating other Labor party members in regards policy, this includes policies like duck shooting, national parks and other environmental policies. They way i read it the party needs a clean out and their are a people within it from the big unions who i will not mention who are controlling the party in Victoria and turning good people away from being candidates or having a say.
Additionally i do think the Liberals are heading for an easy win in November, the public will not vote for Jacinta Allan no matter what. The One Nation vote is a phase. The only thing which i do think which is interesting is that the numbers of the three parties equal 80 percent so where is the 21 percent going? That to me still makes it half an unknown at this stage. Nonetheless if i was the Liberal Party i would feel much more confident at present. Jacinta is just hopeless, hopeless at explaining policy and hopeless at doing anything, the big build stuff has been handled terribly, she has let it fester for the past three years and has allowed it… And Labor really doesn’t have any alternatives as leader which sums up the problems it has.
The Liberals are not much better also but their not in government.
Further highlights from the article:
“One Nation led the two major parties in rural (34 per cent), provincial (31 per cent) and outer metropolitan (28 per cent) electorates. Its primary vote in inner metropolitan seats was 20 per cent.”
“Samaras said Labor needed to lift its primary vote by at least 4 percentage points to chart a pathway to victory in the November poll”
“Ratcliff said that if the Coalition could win enough first preference votes to land in the top two on election night, it would benefit from both Labor and One Nation preferences to claim victory.”
All three parties can spin good news from this poll, but none can claim victory. The Victorian Coalition have a healthy 2pp lead over Victorian Labor (unlike One Nation). Labor’s primary has not gone backwards since the last Redbridge poll. And One Nation are leading on primary votes.
The Coalition will be hoping the recent DemosAU and Freshwater polls are more accurate, where they have a clear path to a majority. This poll is very similar to the recent Resolve poll, and suggests a real mix of contests between the three parties at the final count (ALP-L/NP, ALP-ONP, L/NP-ONP). The nightmare for both the major parties will be if results like Hammond (SA) play out across the state, where One Nation can easily defeat Labor on preferences in the final count with primary votes as low as around 27%.
The Coalition will be praying for results of the recent Nepean by-election to play out across the state, where a collapse in their primary vote is more than compensated for by strong preference flows in the final count, ultimately leading to strong 2pp swings in their favour. But this relies on them staying in the top two, which is not assured in many seats if One Nation is leading the major parties everywhere except the inner city, as the regional breakdown for One Nation from this poll suggests. If One Nation is leading in the outer suburbs, it suggests they have a pathway to a good number of seats (which was not suggested by DemosAU, where L/NP 32% – ONP 25% – ALP 19% in the outer suburbs suggested Coalition dominance). It would be very interesting to see the regional breakdowns for the other parties.
Overall, this poll indicates Labor would lose government if an election were held today, but the Coalition would not be guaranteed a majority.
It’s going to be a fascinating election.
One Nation Zombies do seem to be committed to do that shambling.
It’s hard to say how the state election will pan out because I don’t think there’s a majority who actually want any of ON, the Libs or Labor to win. It’s probably a very good election to be running as an independent.
I still think that a leadership change would substantially shift the story for Labor as a great deal of the anger is directed at Allen herself. There’s definitely people who will grudgingly put Labor back in but only if Allen falls on her sword first..
@Arky at 9:18pm
Yeah, I feel the same. She’s just so bad at politics, it’s going to be a tragedy if nothing changes and she leads Labor to ruin in November.
For Jacinta Allan to resign at this stage hands the next election to a coalition of an untried young Liberal leader and an untried ON leader.
The criticism of Jacinta Allan is almost entirely Sky/Murdoch/ Age/nine fictional horror stories.
Dan “slaughtered” them all and the “blood and bone” lingers!
All brittle boney allegations and nil substantiated “meat”.
@goll
Jacinta Allan is also an untried Labor leader and the numbers say that she’s going to lose as bad as Kristina Kenneally did in NSW in 2011.
I’m sorry, but she’s had 3 years to turn it around and she can’t get Labor’s vote above 30%, or her own approval rating above 20% either.
That article she wrote yesterday being like “Everything they say about me and my government is true and I’m sorry” is pretty much the lid on the coffin, frankly all she has left is the fact that the Vic Libs are anchored down with Moira Deeming’s continuing shenanigans.
“She’s had 3 years to turn it around”
You’re talking about the polls being turned around!
Victoria is travelling pretty well.
Jacinta Allan and Labor have faced a tsunami of allegation, lies, negative opinions and a concerted campaign of deception from a media, allowed completely untethered freedom to headline a succession of political bombardment, regardless of facts and evaluation, and yet they are unable to crush what at has been a very good government in Victoria.
The media is obsessed with Dan, and now Jacinta as his proxy.
The Victorian election is far from a “fait accompli”.
The latest brouhaha regarding the unions influence with keep the Liberals wishing and the phantom ON believing their own bullshit.
There is no way this year’s election will be anything like NSW 2011. The LNP 2PP will be between 48-55. It was 64 in NSW in 2011.
Goll doing his Maguire Bob impersonation again.
Good one headlights!
AORTA ban gambling ads focused on preference roulette.
It is good to see that Hanson is going to clean out all the bad foreigners who are currently keeping the agriculture and service sectors going in rural and regional Victoria.
What do we want?
MON O KULTCHA
When do we want it?
Now!
I think the reference to the 2011 NSW election was meant to demonstrate how poorly Victorian Labor could do if they can’t lift their primary vote above 26%. NSW Labor’s primary vote was 26% in 2011.
It would not have been a reference to the 2pp. In any case, the 2pp is impossible to interpret if the vote is split like this. If the Victorian Coalition leads 54-46 against Labor, they would under normal circumstances expect a comfortable majority (e.g. the 2024 Queensland election). However, if they slip into third in enough key seats, which this poll suggests may be the case, the 2pp will be irrelevant and the Coalition will be excluded at the final count.
From the 2022 Victorian Election
there is a 8% swing against the lib/nats combined primary vote
10% swing against Labor vote
Labor primary vote was 2% ahead of the Lib/nats combined primary vote at the 2022 victorian election
Labor primary and lib/nats combined primary vote are equally according to this opinion poll
Labor primary vote is likely 3/4% ahead of the Liberal party primary vote which is likely 22/23%
Logic
if one nation is taking primary votes off the lib/nats , and off Labor
Will not be enough one nation preferences going to Lib/nats to gain many seats off Labor
Im still leaning toward Labor majority
goll
Voters are fed up with excuses, and blaming the media is an excuse.
Victoria isn’t travelling well, the government is ageing and stale, Jacinta has continued Andrews policy playbook which might please party supporters but was always bound to run into the it’s time factor.
The government was given a warning shot in 22, Andrews saw it and decided the government needed a change of leadership, it hasn’t worked because Jacinta hasn’t changed anything.
Politics is about timing, and despite Kos Samaras declaring the political cycle broken, the tide starting going out in 22. This is perhaps the problem, too many Labor supporters refused to accept the government had a swing against it.
Labor stopped listening, it’s been on autopilot.
Stop blaming the media.
Scott, the Liberals and Nationals compete as a coalition in Victoria, so their vote is not split. ALP 26% – L/NP 26% is the same primary vote.
As Kos Samaras has said, Victorian Labor need to pick up their primary vote if they’re going to form government, given preferences from both the Coalition and One Nation are going to damage Labor whenever Labor make the final count against one or the other. Consider Hammond in South Australia earlier this year, where Labor and One Nation both had primaries of 27%, but One Nation easily won on preferences in the final count (55-45). And the preference flows against Labor will likely be stronger in Victoria than in SA (where the incumbent Labor government was popular).
Of the four Victorian polls reported in the last month, Labor either have the same primary as the Coalition (Redbridge, Resolve) or are behind the Coalition (DemosAU, Freshwater). Labor will need to pull ahead of the Coalition to have a path to government. There is still a lot of time before the election, but Labor aren’t winning on these current figures.
No Favour
at the 2022 victorian election
The liberal party primary vote was 29.60% = 18 seats
The National party primary vote 4.77% = 9 seats
the victorian and other state election commissions and Australian electoral commission apart from qld , N.T where the lib/nats are merged into 1 entity , seperate Liberal and National party primary votes
If the opinion polls are showing the lib/nats combined primary vote 26%. , the liberal and National party primary votes have declined
I’m aware they exist as separate parties, but it looks like even in regional seats currently held by Labor, the Coalition will usually run a single candidate in 2026 (i.e. either Liberal or National), including in Bendigo East (though interestingly not in Ripon). So the reported combined Coalition primary vote is ‘accurate’.
I’m also aware the primaries for both major parties have plummeted.
My point was Labor can’t overcome unfavourable preference flows from both the Coalition and One Nation with a primary vote as low as 26%.
And neither can the Coalition rely on finishing in the top two in enough seats if One Nation is leading on primaries in the outer suburbs and the regions.
No Favour says:
Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 1:52 pm
I’m aware they exist as separate parties, but it looks like even in regional seats currently held by Labor, the Coalition will usually run a single candidate in 2026 (i.e. either Liberal or National), including in Bendigo East (though interestingly not in Ripon). So the reported combined Coalition primary vote is ‘accurate’.
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The lib/nats and one nation candidates in Labor held seats , are coming from a low primary vote base
and one nation if the swing is still for them, are going to get majority of that swing from the lib/nat candidate primary votes,
And if either the lib/nat or one nation candidate doesn’t get majority of the swing against Labor primary vote to them, and get their primary close to or over 40% in that seat
they are no chance of gaining the seat off Labor due to lib/nat and one nation candidate poor 2pp help.
Bendigo East
Jacinta Allen primary vote was 48% at the 2022 federal election
whether she runs again or another Labor candidate , my opinion Labor will be able to hold the seat
The Victorian Liberal party could be in a similar position to the federal liberal party at the 2025 federal election , losing the opposition leader
Seat of kew
Jess Wilson primary vote 44% , if there is a swing of 5%+ against the liberal party will be enough for her to lose the seat
Scott
Labor’s primary vote is well down from 2022. Jacinta will be shocked if she gets anywhere near 48%. Labor’s other problem is the Green vote seems to be concertrated in seats they hold and are challenging Labor and Liberals.
Landlord of the Year says:
Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 2:29 pm
Scott
Labor’s primary vote is well down from 2022. Jacinta will be shocked if she gets anywhere near 48%. Labor’s other problem is the Green vote seems to be concertrated in seats they hold and are challenging Labor and Liberals.
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If opinion polls are accurate the victorian lib/nats primary vote have fallen close the same rate as Labor
which disadvantages the lib/nats more , as there are more Lib/nats seats which 2 pp are 54/46 or lower
9 for lib/nats
8 for Labor
Labor has a reasonable number of seats where Labor primary vote is over 40-50% , and the liberal party primary vote is below 20%.
I can not see either the liberal or one nation candidate , getting majority of the swing from Labor going to them , it will be more likely if any swing against Labor majority would be going to non lib /one nation candidate
Scott, I don’t think anyone is suggesting the Victorian Coalition haven’t gone backwards. But the full picture is that Victorian Labor have also gone backwards. The political climate in 2026 is very different to 2022 in Victoria. Even in 2025, Labor almost lost Werribee (and this was before the rise of One Nation).
If the primaries are close, we know that the Coalition and One Nation will benefit from preferences from each other. Whereas Labor will be punished on preferences if they face either party. This is why Labor needs to pick up their primary if they are going to retain government. Otherwise contests like Hammond (referred to above) will play out across the state.
One nation primary vote at the 2022 victorian. election was 0.22%
Hypothetically if one nation primary vote does somehow get to 27% on election day
10% swing comes from Labor party primary vote
10% swing comes from Liberal party primary vote
3% swing comes from National party primary vote
4% swing comes from others
Is that really going to help the lib/nats that much to gain more than 27 seats they hold
No Favour
Yes if one nation does a swing , it is going to be different
other important stat which happens in elections
Labor or non lib/nat candidate are able to gain seats off lib/nats candidate with primary vote below 32% .
Labor candidates are able to retain seats with primary vote lower than 32%
Where Liberal party candidates struggle to hold seats with primary votes above 40%
Not many Lib/nats candidates can gain seats off Labor with primary votes below 35%
Not many Lib /nats candidates hold onto their seats with primary votes below 35%
Whether one nation changes that in favour of the lib/nats , I doubt it
These generalisations might apply under ‘usual’ circumstances, but we have already seen many examples recently where they are not true:
Werribee by-election (February 2025) – ALP 29%, LIB 29% resulting in a Labor hold on only 50.8% 2pp (i.e. almost a Labor loss despite a Liberal primary under 30%, with preferences spraying everywhere before One Nation’s rise). Previously held by Labor on 61% 2pp.
Prahran by-election (February 2025) – Liberals win (against the Greens) on only a 36% primary.
SA election (March 2026) – Two of the five seats retained by the SA Liberals were retained on primaries of less than 35% (and one further seat was held on 35%). One Nation were able to win seats against Labor in the final count on primaries of 27% (ALP 27%) and 35% (ALP 30%). This is in a state with a popular Labor government.
Nepean by-election (May 2026) – Liberals plummet 9% on primary votes (to below 40%), but then end up with a 7% 2pp swing in their favour after the distribution of preferences (One Nation excluded third) to end up on 63% 2pp. Previously held by the Liberals on 56% 2pp.
If the Coalition can replicate Nepean across the state (primary collapse, 2pp swing back to them on preferences), they can win. They need to make the top two in enough seats for this. They will benefit from either Labor or One Nation preferences against the other.
If Labor can pick up their primary, they can win. But they can’t win with a primary this low when preferences from either the Coalition or One Nation will flow against them in the final count.
This is really getting ridiculous.
‘We are not banjo-playing dimwits’: The deep rural resentment that will shape the election
A boy whose dream of life on the land was stolen. A shopowner who lost a third of her customers. A driver who dodges potholes for a living. Anger swirls in regional Victoria – and people are turning to One Nation for answers.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/we-are-not-banjo-playing-dimwits-the-deep-rural-resentment-that-will-shape-the-election-20260625-p609zc.html
To my knowledge Polwarth and or Lowan have never elected a labor member to the Victorian state parliament.Both have always been Country/National or liberal.
Always been very conservative and basically settled by squatters and other self entitled aristocracy who didn’t mind slaughtering the Aboriginals when they felt the need.
A one sided article about a pack of hard done whingers and moaners .
Grimee,
They should confined to the rotting hulks that command every remaining space in the multitude of beautiful harbours on the edges of this beautiful land.
And at such time as a suitable (or not suitable) place is found to deliver the hulks to, together with their cargo of “whingers and moaners”, they may live out the remainder of their lives in “bliss”.
John O’Grady’s “they’re a weird mob” as a description comes to mind yet again.
goll @ #88 Sunday, July 5th, 2026 – 8:24 am
Here is my tip for the Nats and Libs scared for their polished seats.Don’t prevaricate.
Come out and state for all to see and hear.’We will not preference one nation under any circumstances’,because the more they harbour ideas of doing so will mean lost votes for themselves.
No wonder there is so much speculation around Jacinta Allan holding her regional seat.
She’s in massive trouble.
I drove out into regional Victoria yesterday for the first time in a few months. Main Roads are in a shocking state with lots of potholes – worst I have seen it. For long stretches it was not possible to get to 100kmh because of the need to avoid them. Regional Victoria is pretty pissed off.
Blackburnpseph @ #91 Sunday, July 5th, 2026 – 9:42 am
Well they used to have a rail network but it got dumped in favour of 68t juggernauts being allowed to run around on roads that were never built to take them and guess who was responsible for that happening.
Thanks for that contribution headlights.
You’re onto it. Many will find that comforting.
goll @ #93 Sunday, July 5th, 2026 – 10:25 am
I wonder where all these whingers will park their votes after they get a taste of one notion acting as their elected representatives…Back to the Nationals no doubt (if there are any of them left).
Borrow a push bike from headlights and stay off the main roads.
Interesting suggestion by Niki Sava on Insiders that Labor federally wouldn’t be too sad to see Victoria end up with a One Nation / LNP government so people can see how chaotic it will likely be
I hope that’s not the case and it doesn’t happen
A Labor / Green government would be a much better outcome
The AFR had this breakdown of the poll by upper house region (so not for a question specifically asking about upper house voting intention):
Thanks for sharing the Redbridge breakdown by Legislative Council region. This looks very interesting:
– Northern Metropolitan – Labor dominance. High Greens primary. Contains Melbourne and similar seats which are ALP-GRN contests.
– North-Eastern Metropolitan – Liberal dominance. Contains many traditional Liberal seats.
– Western Metropolitan – Messy. One Nation should win seats on Liberal preferences (with Liberals clearly pushed to third). Contains Werribee, which the Liberals came close to winning in 2025 (this seems much more unlikely now). Potentially worrying for Ben Carroll (Niddrie).
– South-Eastern Metropolitan – Messy. One Nation similarly favoured (also on Liberal preferences) if the Liberals are pushed to third.
– Southern Metropolitan – Liberal dominance. Contains Kew (suggesting Jess Wilson is safe) and Prahran (suggesting the Liberals may retain their win from 2025).
– Northern Victoria – Messy. One Nation clearly ahead of the Coalition on primaries, but the Coalition could come back on preferences. Labor in third on only 19% will definitely worry Jacinta Allan (Bendigo East).
– Eastern Victoria – A closer margin between One Nation and the Coalition, suggesting the Coalition have the upper hand here thanks to Labor preferences. Contains Nepean, which perhaps confirms strength for the Coalition here given their recent convincing by-election win on preferences.
– Western Victoria – Messy. A close contest between Labor and One Nation on primaries, with the Coalition clearly reduced to third place. Labor’s best chance at defending regional seats, but they will be cruelled by Coalition preferences.
An interesting paragraph from the article above shared by Grimee:
“Resolve founder Jim Reed says cost of living is the most pressing concern uniting Melburnians and regional Victorians. But now rising anger in the regions is flowing through to increased support for One Nation: according to polling, Hanson’s party has a primary vote of 31 per cent in the regions, compared with 19 per cent in Melbourne.”
This indicates Resolve (19% in Melbourne) has recorded a much weaker One Nation metropolitan vote than Redbridge (20-28% in Melbourne, inner-outer metro).
“A boy whose dream of life on the land was stolen.”
How do wind turbines next door mean his “dream” was stolen?
” So he sided with his father-in-law, declining to host turbines on their farm.”
Ah, of course. He’s angry he made the wrong decision and someone else has profited instead.
And this has stolen his dream how? I was waiting for detail and all I could interpret was that some of them don’t like how they look. That’s life. Things change. Deal with it.
How do they think a giant nuclear reactor next door would look? Or an coal strip mine? Or a coal plant spewing fumes into their living room?
The Age wouldn’t include it in their article because it does in fact make them look like dimwits, but the real reason isn’t look, it’s because the rural areas are full of anti-vax sovcit nutcases who swallowed far-right American propaganda during Covid and now think the turbines and transmission lines give them all 5G COVID or Better Call Saul Electrical Hypersensitivity.
Potholes are a council issue. Benalla council is run by independents and has nothing to do with Labor.
All these farmers do is fucking whinge. While sucking down massive subsidies on their fuel, and getting centerlink farmers benefits for no reason and the Government gifting them special loans and “disaster payments” when it doesn’t rain for a bit, as if the taxpayer should be funding a farmer’s inability to plan for droughts & failing to save money to cover drought years, in one of the most drought stricken places on the planet.
I’m sure voting for Poorleene and her billion dollar owner will fix everything. Never mind that voting for Howard, Scomo/Turnbull/Abbott, Napthine, Baillieu & Kennett didn’t fix anything either. The Nats & LNP (and predecessors) have dominated rural areas for the entire history of the country. At what point do the whinging farmers stop blaming the cities, and start blaming themselves? Never, of course.
Would the regions be happy if the cities stopped subsidising their internet, water, roads, electricity and sewerage? If it weren’t for Labor they wouldn’t have sewerage in the first place! It costs tens of thousands of dollars per property to connect all those things in rural areas and to keep them running at a huge loss. Not to mention the extraordinary cost of supplying teachers, doctors, nurses, police and other public services in the middle of nowhere.