If the Teals have the funding behind them of course, but because they are not an organised party, it would be difficult for them to run a campaign and gather enough support.

2022 was very good for the independents, but overall, that’s not a common result. The Teals pretty much fill the vacuum between Labour’s centre right MPs, and Dutton’s wacky right wingers

So they don’t want to get into government.

They won’t have a path to 76 seats if they can’t win back the Teal seats. Seems like they’ve given up on that, and they are trying to rally their right wing base in QLD just to keep hold of that region.

Well this is just impossible. The UK tried to do this and failed. Plus I’m not sure how this is going to reduce DV? Is there a problem of kids strangling their partners during sex? Isn’t there a better way to educate them?

So a non refundable return of over 10% with an expected break even at year 10. Hmm, that’s not a good investment. Also I adds no value to your property.

I’m gonna call it, the farmer put up $100k in solar and sold it for $200k with a dividend plan for what it produces.

Government financed IVF will not solve the birth decline, nor will a plethora of government carrots and incentives for short term fixes. Because Australia has a long tradition with immigration I don’t see low birth rates as a dire problem, it is bad news for older homogenous societies like Russia, China and Japan. What will be necessary though is a shift in our composition of tax policies and handouts. Much more tax collections will have to come from non personal income.

The beauty of preferential voting is that the major parties are incentivised to cater for their opinions to gain more first preference votes in the next election. Climate change was frankly a non issue 15 years ago, now where I am in Kooyong (now with a teal independent), it would be impossible for a candidate to win without a climate policy. Victorian liberals tend to be much more moderate (think Frydenburg) than your Queensland liberals (Mr Potato head).

Last time I went to the polls I voted in order, Greens, Teal, Labor, Liberal, right wing independents.

Some seats are safe seats, in that case parties are less incentivised to throw money at your electorate. In marginal seats like Kooyong you’ll see a corflute sign on every corner, and will get doorknocked every second day by a volunteer.

The best thing you can do is volunteer. The teals would not have won without thousands of volunteers doorknocking.

An action to make society more democratic is one I can get behind. Few countries can really call themselves democratic.

I wonder if Turnbull ever considered just calling a snap election and fucking his entire party given that they were already collecting signatures to oust him? There’s no loss to you? Heck you might even stay in!

Same with me, got the Switch and the Chromecast plugged in. That’s it.

I haven’t watched TV in years. I have a tv, but it’s only hooked up to the gaming consoles.

The referendum last year? I didn’t see any ads, I just read ABC news every few days to see what was up. That $200 million dollar lottery? Never heard anything about it. “Did you hear about the car crash on the…?”, nope.

On YouTube I’d rather donate directly to the creators I like, and I feel I’m really apart of that niche community.

I think about the old family radio that everyone sat around, and then the tv that everyone sat around, and now people can kinda sit around watching their own thing, and (hopefully) chat share about their interests.

I don’t think free to air will be around in 10 years. It’s up to the advertisers.

Yep. I bet my landlord is barely, if it all, breaking even on yield. Whereas I’m sitting on my arse investing in ASX: VAS getting 12%.

Why people go the lengths to get a loan, buy a flat, find a tenant, do all the maintenance and paperwork, all to get 0.1% yeild, and maybe an increase in value? I mean the last 30 years yes it would be wise, but you can’t just say it’ll be like that in the future.

Also, if I need the equity, it’s liquid, unlike houses.

Agreed. To most people, they’ve improved the cuts so that more people will get a cut. I would’ve got like $400, now I’m getting $1,400 off. I don’t see a problem in the government going “yeah you did want it, but it was pretty shit tbh so we made it better for you.”

For the kids, this would’ve been a top of the line beefy set-up. I would say in '98 you would find a 1gb hd, a 120 Pentium, and 16mb of ram in a typical home that had a computer.

Remember things upgraded fast back then, by '00 your average Joe would be buying Pentium iii’s with 600mhz and a DVD drive! Woah!

Careful, you might get the fixated persons unit on you.

I find it amusing how the ABC commentators dance around the topic with politicians taking the centrist position: “ok but maybe a little genocide?” 🤔👐

What an awful event. It’ll kill tourism for a good while, and they’ll have to make some changes like the bollards near the green area and pub and Anzac memorial.

Bad policy sold badly.

If they cannot açcept that, the ‘no’ campaign will appear more successful than they were, and will play against labour in the election. Is it really racist to criticise the ‘yes’ campaign?

There’s a distinction between Jewishness and Zionist. Probably not a good idea to run around with your Israeli flag when Israel is leveling Gaza City.

If you are that stupid to write your name on the ballot you deserve your vote to be thrown out. You can’t be that fucking stupid.

Saying 80% of indigenous support the voice is the same as saying 70% of the general population support the voice. That is, that poll was done in January.

This all seems so weak. You’re blaming the Yes campaign’s failures on Dutton. Just now you haven’t answered the queries he had repeatedly made, you’ve shot them down.