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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Aussie Politics:
For sure, but Victoria is pretty left-wing isn't it?
Yeah I suppose that's my point in a way, trying to counter the idea that Labor were killed by their approach to climate change.
If that was the central election issue, I would have expected a much better result for them in Victoria than what they achieved, given the way that state generally leans.
The fact they didn't swing wildly to Labor illustrates to me that economic factors may have been more prominent there.
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When you're an attention seeking fluffybunny drowning in self pity and hyperbole
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@antipodean it's extremely doubtful there were any blokes that would have happily had a beer with an insufferable twat like that anyway so I don't think his life is going to change much.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
When you're an attention seeking fluffybunny drowning in self pity and hyperbole
How pathetic.
A relative of mine sent out a Facebook message about cheap plants for sale that started with "I know we're all still reeling from the result of the election".
She works for the ABC btw.
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@rotated said in Aussie Politics:
@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Aussie Politics:
Climate hysteria cost Labor this election.
Amongst other hysteria. Don't think it was just climate.
I disagree, it was an issue that sucked a lot of resources and oxygen from both major parties, UAP and Get Up and that is hard to account for but electorally it ended in a stalemate.
The clearest path for victory for Labor was in the outer suburban and smaller city seats: Bass, Macquarie, Chisolm etc needed to go the way of Dunkley and Braddon. Their inability to move them was purely economic policy and Shorten IMO.
If Labor's policy was to open five new coal plants by Christmas they may have picked up two seats in Queensland and lost five senate seats to the Greens across the country.
Just on some of those seats:
Dunkley - the 2018 redistribution made that seat notionally Labor (like Corangamite), and given it was Victoria you’d be safe to say that the Coalition already banked on it being goneski.
Chisholm - given Banks defection it was already “lost” to the Coalition going into the election. The two major parties ran a middle aged Chinese woman as their candidate. Big Chinese population with Box Hill and Burwood - so it was a genuine fight and as shown by the result a very close run one.
Braddon/Bass - these were clearly targeted as ‘must win’ for the Coalition and given the number of times Morrison went down there and other high profiles, the polling must have been saying something about their reactions to Labor’s agenda.
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Now we've got AFP warrants being executed on a Newscorp journalist and the ABC for stories that occurred some time ago.
Coincidence that this happens after the election? Hard to say, but Morrison and Dutton are claiming they had no knowledge, so the conspiracy theories are running riot.
Concern for freedom of the press being expressed over here.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
Now we've got AFP warrants being executed on a Newscorp journalist and the ABC for stories that occurred some time ago.
Coincidence that this happens after the election? Hard to say, but Morrison and Dutton are claiming they had no knowledge, so the conspiracy theories are running riot.
Concern for freedom of the press being expressed over here.
My understanding is this is long running because the ABC report was based on classified information. They're looking for the source of the leak.
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@antipodean which figures as getting enough evidence together is a painstaking process. EDIT and at this point they're not arresting anyone.
The live tweet from the ABC honcho was interesting.
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Plenty of National Supporters (still) drinking from the same fountain of denial.
Same goes for the anti-Dons and Brexit remainersSign of the times
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Meanwhile the RBA have cut interest rates 50 points in a month, and we now have an official cash rate of 1%
Not looking great out there.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
Meanwhile the RBA have cut interest rates 50 points in a month, and we now have an official cash rate of 1%
Not looking great out there.
Increased liquidity from tax cuts eaten by real cash rate.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
Meanwhile the RBA have cut interest rates 50 points in a month, and we now have an official cash rate of 1%
Not looking great out there.
Increased liquidity from tax cuts eaten by real cash rate.
the savings on their mortgage might mean people can pay their electricity and insurance bills.
otherwise they will pay more off their mortgages to safeguard against future pain.
Do the old rules hold true any more?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
Meanwhile the RBA have cut interest rates 50 points in a month, and we now have an official cash rate of 1%
Not looking great out there.
Increased liquidity from tax cuts eaten by real cash rate.
the savings on their mortgage might mean people can pay their electricity and insurance bills.
otherwise they will pay more off their mortgages to safeguard against future pain.
Do the old rules hold true any more?
If they're smart (and able) they'll keep paying their mortgage at the same amount as their equity decreases but I have little (none) sympathy for those who bought at the top of the market chasing absurd capital gains.
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On mortgages and housing, we don’t seem to be hearing the “overheated Melbourne and Sydney” tag line being thrown around. Which is a good thing.
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@ACT-Crusader No, you just have vested interests talking about bargains and recoveries. Domain.com.au for example.
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Governments should be borrowing like mofos and financing infrastructure builds - particularly energy transmission infrastructure.
OR they could just hand out a high tax bracket break waaaaaay off in the distance and straitjacket future services funding. Whatevs.
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https://amp.abc.net.au/article/1128
Mine safety committee dissolved last year
Shortly before the State Government headed into crisis talks this afternoon, it was revealed a mining safety committee has been idle for six months because it could not reach a gender quota — during which time four miners have died.
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@NTA the numbers tell a different story Nick. Increased funding every year over the next decade for public schools, hospitals, bulk billing.
I agree that infrastructure is much needed and states and Commonwealth should be looking to push some of this forward.
Iron ore prices are high and Rio, BHP, FMG, Gina, can’t get it out of the ground quick enough.
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