Rent got high enough it matched the interest on a loan for me… so now I’m a home owner.

Understandably not everyone is in that position but I hope we can boost home ownership rates or we’re in for a very bad time.

There should be hefty fines, or even gaol time, for such blatant political interference by APS employees.

There was literally no downside for ATSI communities to vote yes.

Additional representation with no limitations on existing avenues of representation? Who wouldn’t sign up… assuming you’re included.

You are correct, I will leave my post as is though.

(To avoid confusion or making your comment seem irrelevant)

Australians do not vote for a Prime Minister, we vote for a political party which nominates its Prime Minister in the event of an election victory.

By convention parties nominate the PM before and promote them during the campaign. PMs can however be chucked out by their own party without a vote by the public, as happened with Kevin Rudd.

PMs do not simply have a carte blanche “mandate” to implement their election promises and must follow all parliamentary process.

Your post is poorly framed, I assume the title is something your partner said and not your actual thoughts.

“it’s a shame too, because they’re messaging wouldn’t have been so useful to a civil debate.”

Not the best quality from the editor there but given it’s in quote I wonder if it was intentional? Still doesn’t play well even if it is.

Literally everything owned by Murdoch is spewing non-stop propaganda.

$3.50 with onions but sadly the bread was a bit stale.

How dare you, the dropbear is a deadly predator and this sort of misinformation costs dozens of tourists their lives every year!

The democracy sausage underpins our nation, without it we’d have fallen to the commies.

Albanese’s defeat speach fell flat and was weak. Just more dithering and deflection. For a self proclaimed conviction politician he sure can’t muster any fire in his rhetoric.

Dutton’s speach was solid, hit all the talking points and will likely see an approval rating rise. Yet it was full of lies, promises of action on housing and cost of living issues which his government created. Promises to improve defence which rotted under Liberal leadership.

Promises for funds to communities in need, the same communities the Liberals stripped $500 million in funding from.

I was happy to hear a journalist call out Dutton’s claim that an audit into where the money is spent, as Liberals were in power for a long time and should know exactly where it went!

Australian police need to back the fuck down and accept that Australian’s have the right to peaceful protest, or they’ll get protests without the peace.

This especially goes for their actions against climate activists.

Massively increased population and flat fatalities, sounds like safety is still improving to me.

People voted for Brexit and a lot of them are unhappy about it, not that I expect the same would hold true of the Voice.

Pezullo is a threat to our democracy and should have been dumped the second Labor got in.

Failing to axe Pezullo was a sign of weakness.

The “progressive” no vote, I have some respect for, but I also don’t think it’s a mainstream view, nor is it actually reasonable.

Allowing people to conflate all no voters with Nazis, because yes there are Nazis around, is chucking the baby out with the bath water.

The progressive no campaign absolutely has a point. Arguably a treaty has been achieved in Western Australia with the Noongar people and the world didn’t implode.

https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-the-premier-and-cabinet/south-west-native-title-settlement

https://www.atns.net.au/hobbs-and-williams-on-the-noongar-settlement

There is the possibility that voting for a voice now means a treaty would lack political capital or public approval for decades to come because we already voted for a voice.

Despite what some here may claim I count myself in the progressive no camp; this won’t be solved until we have treaty and merely saying that we will “get to it” in the future isn’t enough.

Martin Luther King said this on white moderates and their timelines and I believe it is true here, where this referendum only reflects actions on a white moderates timetable.

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…

who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.

He’s lumping progressive no voters in with Nazis right out of the gate, you will get no where talking to him.

Oh so you know who the good people are because their opinions align with your own.

Nice to know you are the source of all morality, champ.

If the people living in the yes camp had 9 kids and you used that title this would be deleted within minutes.

Just to clarify, did you miss an “n’t” in there?