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@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
What it means broadly is the best local candidate is often overlooked in favour of local stackers. This impacts the supply chain of future leaders, as you want the backbench to be a breeding ground of talented people rather than a cesspool of local hacks.
How do you fix it? Tighter rules around membership, perhaps. More central oversight in candidates maybe. But there is no easy answer as both of those things can have unintended consequences.
The line pretty clearly is if the member is aware they hold membership and pay the fee themselves - then it's fair game.
It's not exactly clear why rigorous membership checks haven't been put in place if there is a genuine effort to stamp this out - particularly around preselection - when the two major parties have ~50,000 members each in 150 federal divisions. It's pretty obvious cash membership payment should be out with unique bank account or credit card required.
If anything the Liberal system with the higher membership fees and state executive having a hand in things is weighted too much to the 'best candidate' - I would argue some returns in the blue-ribbon seats where Howard ministers retired have been pretty safe and underwhelming, particularly out of NSW.
The Labor system obviously is clearly worse with each faction 'owning' various seats and the gender targets - but they probably still get as much of their top talent in the door despite the hackery.
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@rotated @barbarian moving away from allowing cash payments for membership might help...
Recruitment activities of both major political parties and minor parties have raised eyebrows for eons. Branch stacking isn’t generally aired in mainstream media other than when someone “from within” has their nose out of joint and wants to stitch another candidate/party member up. Forget Labor vs Liberal, the internal stuff is the most brutal. I’ve seen some nasty ones in my time.
On the Victorian Labor stacking (remember that?), the biggest issue is the covert nature of the footage that showed conversations etc and the fact a Federal MPs office was being used as a veritable TV studio to try and nail Somyurek. The recruitment activities and strategies are by the by really. Some of the reaction and subsequent sharing of text exchanges between Somyurek and Byrne added a bit of drama also.
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@Frank said in Aussie Politics:
Can anyone who know something about OZ politics comment on this?
Is this a real strategy change in the Oz govt towards China or just the commentator's opinion.?Why? Are you a communist spy?
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The Bolt Report.
Basically take anything that guy says, drop it in shit remover, and see if anything survives.
why? why do you bother even switching it on? You have a bad heart, why deliberately make yourself angry?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The Bolt Report.
Basically take anything that guy says, drop it in shit remover, and see if anything survives.
why? why do you bother even switching it on? You have a bad heart, why deliberately make yourself angry?
I don't - the headline and the Sky banner is enough to dismiss it as anything remotely related to "journalism".
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The Bolt Report.
Basically take anything that guy says, drop it in shit remover, and see if anything survives.
why? why do you bother even switching it on? You have a bad heart, why deliberately make yourself angry?
I used to watch the ABC in the morning when fasting. Nothing better to provide the anger necessary to get through the day without food.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The Bolt Report.
Basically take anything that guy says, drop it in shit remover, and see if anything survives.
why? why do you bother even switching it on? You have a bad heart, why deliberately make yourself angry?
I don't - the headline and the Sky banner is enough to dismiss it as anything remotely related to "journalism".
he's not a journalist. he's a professional agitator. There's a lot of it about
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An authorised officer put in charge of hotel quarantine operations at Melbourne hotels says he completed diversity training, but was given no formal instructions on how to use personal protective equipment.
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@Siam said in Aussie Politics:
I think every Australian should watch this and then make up their minds from there.
Any idea what the post is?
There was a couple of these sorts of incidents here in the UK a few years ago - Dankula the most famous one. Not heard anything on that for a while though - doesn't mean it's not happening, just not getting MSM coverage.
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@MajorRage one figure I found, not exactly the same but similar genre of offence, recorded by police:
There were 103,379 hate crimes recorded in England and Wales in 2018-19, with increases seen in all categories of motivation.Police resources are being used to record these offences at a rate of 283 per day.
But back to the Aussie lass. I think if you explained that video to me verbally I would have left the conversation very very sceptical.
Every device in the house??!
For how long?
Arrest record?
For a facebook post? - it'd wanna be a juicy post! -
I fucken told her not to talk shit about the GF being given to Brisbane
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That's actually pretty scary. Governments are taking this way too fucking far now.
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