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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
The opposition are a mess.
Same as Victoria - hopelessly crippled by their own echo chamber ambition.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
The opposition are a mess.
Same as Victoria - hopelessly crippled by their own echo chamber ambition.
All of the oppositions are floundering right now - Federal, states and territories.
SE Qld particularly Brisbane is like a labor bubble. Central and Nth Qld is where labor are vulnerable and the best the LNP can expect is that preferences don’t flow to labor by some putting the greens above labor and they are a chance of picking up a few and possibly forming a minority.
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Interesting the polling numbers on the border were circulated around government prior to yesterday's announcement. But paluchchook didn't see them...
People still in favour of locking put Sydney because of 1 case...
FMD
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@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Politics:
SE Qld particularly Brisbane is like a labor bubble. Central and Nth Qld is where labor are vulnerable and the best the LNP can expect is that preferences don’t flow to labor by some putting the greens above labor and they are a chance of picking up a few and possibly forming a minority.
How do you square that circle? For the 25 years they have consistently returned Labor state governments (save for one term of Campbell Newman) but have had wafer thin support at a federal level (except for Rudd's election I think every election since Howard has been 20+ seats to the coalition, less than 10 to Labor or very close to it).
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@rotated said in Aussie Politics:
@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Politics:
SE Qld particularly Brisbane is like a labor bubble. Central and Nth Qld is where labor are vulnerable and the best the LNP can expect is that preferences don’t flow to labor by some putting the greens above labor and they are a chance of picking up a few and possibly forming a minority.
How do you square that circle? For the 25 years they have consistently returned Labor state governments (save for one term of Campbell Newman) but have had wafer thin support at a federal level (except for Rudd's election I think every election since Howard has been 20+ seats to the coalition, less than 10 to Labor or very close to it).
It’s quite something isn’t it. The post-JBP Qld has had pollsters and analysts scratching their heads trying to predict how things would play out both federally and state.
This was probably the easiest election to predict because the politics of Covid and the LNP were divided and void of a coherent platform up there.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
People still in favour of locking put Sydney because of 1 case...
Nothing like a bit of parochial state-hate to get a QLDer fired up. Only thing that makes them feel relevant
Freckle loses, concedes, and says she'll stay on. Nek minnit....
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Chinese government uses state media to confirm export suspensions as trade stoush continues
China's government has used its own media to confirm suspensions on seven types of Australian exports including wine and coal, in a multi-billion-dollar blow.
Earlier this week Chinese wine and lobster importers were summoned to a series of meetings organised by the Foreign Trade Department of China's Ministry of Commerce to be told imports of Australian wine, lobsters, sugar, coal, copper ore and concentrate, barley and timber would no longer be allowed after Friday.
But China's Commerce Ministry has publicly refused to confirm the reports and China Customs, as well as two major ports, have told the ABC they have not yet received instructions, plunging exporters into a state of uncertainty.
The suspension threatens to cut the value of Australian exports to China by $5-6 billion dollars annually if maintained.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
$6B? Just wind back Franking Credits. Fixed.
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So the High Court continues to water down our Constitution. s92 now means fuck all too if you're interested in going from one State to another.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
So the High Court continues to water down our Constitution. s92 now means fuck all too if you're interested in going from one State to another.
As Dennis says... In summing up it's the constitution, it's Mabo, it's justice, it's law, it's the Vibe and, no that's it, it's the vibe. I rest my case.
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@Tim said in Aussie Politics:
Chinese government uses state media to confirm export suspensions as trade stoush continues
China's government has used its own media to confirm suspensions on seven types of Australian exports including wine and coal, in a multi-billion-dollar blow.
Earlier this week Chinese wine and lobster importers were summoned to a series of meetings organised by the Foreign Trade Department of China's Ministry of Commerce to be told imports of Australian wine, lobsters, sugar, coal, copper ore and concentrate, barley and timber would no longer be allowed after Friday.
But China's Commerce Ministry has publicly refused to confirm the reports and China Customs, as well as two major ports, have told the ABC they have not yet received instructions, plunging exporters into a state of uncertainty.
The suspension threatens to cut the value of Australian exports to China by $5-6 billion dollars annually if maintained.
you'll note the lack of ban to iron ore...
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
So the High Court continues to water down our Constitution. s92 now means fuck all too if you're interested in going from one State to another.
Labor governments have always been very strong on border protection.
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@rotated nup. The way things are, it'll probably stir up some genuine shit and get their budgets slashed even further.
However they're getting a lot of pressure as it is, so might as well set fire to the joint on the way out.
I note Tudge has offered an apology, but Porter is threatening defamation. 🤣
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@rotated said in Aussie Politics:
I'm not sure that story does the ABC a lot of favours.
Good. Hopefully it hastens their demise sucking from the public teat.
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@antipodean aren't you in Canberra? Surely you'd value their commitment to rural towns in that light
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@rotated nup. The way things are, it'll probably stir up some genuine shit and get their budgets slashed even further.
However they're getting a lot of pressure as it is, so might as well set fire to the joint on the way out.
I note Tudge has offered an apology, but Porter is threatening defamation. 🤣
It is a self fulfilling prophecy with the ABC news department - pretty dubious public interest IMO.
The question is the ABC of all places breaking with all convention and do a tabloid hit job on Porter and why wait until late 2020? I may be too cynical but I think the answer is obvious.
It will be interesting if other media outlets now drop their standards after showing restraint in the past decade with senior ALP figures. I would hope not as the whole thing just came off as grubby.
That isn't to say if the ABC (or anyone) want to expose a "toxic culture" they shouldn't. But if you are going to take that tact you'll need to show a more wide ranging evidence across different parties, backbench/frontbench, journos/pollies etc. In this case it is a bit of a fig leaf to say it is a Canberra Bubble expose when their reporting seems to indicate Porter was the same way in Perth decades earlier?
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@rotated asked. The University stuff showed be was a young dickhead. I think anything from his working life onward is useful to display the fact he never stopped and that Canberra want they only factor in him being like this.
They only gave one line to the "Hey it's not just these two guys or this party" but if that was the case then they should have named names.
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