The Liberal party literally wrote all their questions to the Yes campaign and they refused to answer any of them.

Lidia Thorpe is an example of someone who thinks they are superior to everyone else, and who thinks everyone owes her something.

I’ve ended a relationship because the girl drove like an impatient bafoon. If you have a superiority complex about a speed limit in residential areas, I’ll sit in the passenger seat railing about how you’re such a shit driver. Just drive the speed limit and gently.

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.

It’s about as annoying as young people abandoning any and all punctuation entirely the amount of people that will write an entire paragraph and not use a single period is obscene if you can’t bother to organize your thoughts in the most minimal way I’m going to assume you have nothing of worth to say and just won’t read it and frankly, if what you’re saying is so boiler plate you don’t need punctuation then you really don’t have anything to add so probably just shouldn’t

Plus Tesla’s for the Australian market are built in China. Heck, I think some of the new BMWs are built in China now as well.

Because the Australian Teslas and Volvos are made in China. It’s a Chinese EV. Volvo is owned by a Chinese Company.

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.

Person who was charged and put on trial for murder died. It’s a legal term. Journalists can get sued for defamation for blatantly calling someone who is not convicted a rapist or murderer. You can safely call OJ an armed robber and kidnapper though.

That’s why the talking heads on tv tend to dance around the terminology and say “allegedly” and “accused of”

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

Guys it’s ok we didn’t really care about NOX emissions in 2006 relax. It’s more of a gen z problem.

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!

Living in apartments.

In a lot of cities and towns living in apartments is seen as something that young adults who are renting short term do, and definitely not families or older couples.

Living in an apartment is considerably cheaper for my situation. I drive so much less, I pay for less power, and I have all this parkland around me.

I’m a car guy and I don’t have a garage, that’s annoying, but I commute by escooter now and drive on the weekends. It’s much better.

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.

The royal family brings in a net positive amount of revenue of you account for receipts from added tourism and spending. The expenses for shipping around the US President for example is another story.