I think (or hope) most of us know that nuclear is no longer an option for us in Australia and that there are many more sustainable ways to generate energy here.

Welcome to the new era of enshittification where you’ll eventually have to subscribe to access or make posts, and none of it will be searchable on any search engines.

I want complete control of my technology after I buy it. I don’t want my phone to assume things that I like based on my input. If something goes wrong, I want it to be my fault because I enabled the wrong setting. I also want physical buttons. I miss those so much.

I’d love to get prints from the artist to hang on my wall.

Thank you so much. I hope you and your wife’s IVF journey was more successful than mine.

Agree - human health. I guess I was thinking about my surgery costs for endometriosis on top of IVF and how it wasn’t covered by Medicare at all. Medicare coverage has huge gaps and I hate how the government whittles away at it rather than expanding it.

I’m late to this conversation but I’ve gone 5 rounds of IVF and it’s cost us most of our savings. IVF didn’t work for us and we’re looking at egg donors. Did you know it’s illegal to pay someone or receive money for being a surrogate or egg donor? We’re having to look overseas because hardly anyone here will do it for free (understandably).

Clearly, the government isn’t interested in anything remotely related to female health.

My vote is for “Yes” by A.B. Original, DJ Total Eclipse and Marlon.

The lyric “I never swore allegiance to the crown” sends chills down my spine.

Storm in a teacup. Move along, nothing to see here.

I’ve worked on both private and public school projects. The budget disparity is depressing.

$30mil for a creative arts precinct including new full sized theatre that can be publically rented out vs $5mil to upgrade the entire school to meet the growing population of the area and everything had to be done on the cheap, and even then things had to be even cheaper still.

Private schools should absolutely not get any funding. Give more to public schools so that education is available to everyone regardless of status.

Yes! That’s the one. With the talking backpacks etc.

Excessive government regulations? Please. Those regulations are shit as that result in mould ridden dog boxes that can barely be considered liveable.

Material costs are rising because we barely manufacture our own here. It’s all imported and we’re girt by sea. Of course it’ll be expensive. Bring manufacturing back en masse and we might see some relief on that part.

This is why there needs to be a cap on company size and redistribution. We don’t want another Dutch East India.

At this stage, ColesWorth are just two behemoths akin to Testuo’s evolution in Akira gasping out the words “feed me” as shareholder parasites gorge on their innards. Kill it with fire.

I loved The Ferals, Mulligrubs and Take Off as a kid. So many cool and imaginative things.

Honorable mentions are Big Square Eye, Beyond 2000 and Hey, Hey, it’s Saturday.

He had apparently been taking prescription drugs and drinking alcohol. Beetroot was on a trip. If he’s the best that his electorate has, yikes.

Juvenile huntsman maybe? I only say this because huntsman feet look like they would look great with socks and this one could use four pairs.

Until Australia considers cycling as a legitimate mode of transport, you’ll never see any changes. The average person just sees a person on a bike as a casual cyclist at best and a Lycra wearing wanker at worst; not as a person legitimately using the road to get somewhere.

We’ve actually spent tax dollars sending council members over to Holland to check out the safe bicycle infrastructure there to bring the knowledge back here. Wonder what came out of that trip…

So, how do we engineer a situation in which the richest suffer most? End of capitalism?

In addition to what others have suggested, I would say listen and read widely (podcasts, papers etc). It’s imperative to understand both sides of the argument so that you can form your own opinions on a single issue.

When it comes to voting time, I usually do a postal vote so I can sit down with a cup of tea and read through some of the political party policies and go into the ‘they vote for you’ website to see if they’re just bluffing.

It also helps to have a vision of what you want Australia to be like in the future. You can use this view to check if parties align with your view.

That’s what’s likely going to happen, and there is a very high chance that it will get dismantled again, just like Abbott did after Rudd set up that very thing.

All it will take is a media barrage in favour of the Coalition and we’ll be right back to where we started. History repeats, and so on, and so forth.

I’d like an overlay with media diversity data thrown in and analysed as well.

In any case, many want a different approach. I hope that the majority want an approach that is not to continue with the status quo, and to create a strong representation of the indigenous population within our system.