wolty wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 5:08 pmI'd say fingers crossed.
I'm holding onto the general tendency for the Australian electorate to give a new government a second go, unless there has been some kind of clusterfuck, political disaster or mega scandal. And there hasn't.
Also... nuclear?!??? It's pretty far out. It's radical, and the Australian electorate is NOT radical. Normally I am unhappy about this because I espouse left-wing radicalism. But if the boring, unadventurous Australian electorate rejects a radical from the right, I'm cheering it on. Vive l'ennui!
stylofone wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 8:20 pm
Also... nuclear?!??? It's pretty far out. It's radical, and the Australian electorate is NOT radical. Normally I am unhappy about this because I espouse left-wing radicalism. But if the boring, unadventurous Australian electorate rejects a radical from the right, I'm cheering it on. Vive l'ennui!
Fingers (and anything else crossable) crossed.
The Oz electorate isn't radical, but I fear that somehow the Murdoch mob-press/Sky Gnus etc might succeed in painting nuclear as a bit ho hum, no big deal, mundane, obvious fix, and sell it to enough punters in enough key seats... as if there's any real chance that they might actually build a single plant, let alone in time to "fix" the climate.
The cyclone here may well throw a spanner in the works with the calling of the election if it is to be April 12. It needs to be called a minimum of 30 days out so Monday after the WA state election. I'm guessing if Brisbane gets smashed it won't be called next week. The week after April 12 is Easter and school holidays (for two weeks I think) so that's out as well. This cyclone may well push the election back to May and it needs to be held by 19th May from memory.
wolty wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:19 am
The cyclone here may well throw a spanner in the works with the calling of the election if it is to be April 12. It needs to be called a minimum of 30 days out so Monday after the WA state election. I'm guessing if Brisbane gets smashed it won't be called next week. The week after April 12 is Easter and school holidays (for two weeks I think) so that's out as well. This cyclone may well push the election back to May and it needs to be held by 19th May from memory.
I think a May election would be better, simply on the grounds that the more exposure to Trumpism we get the less likely people will risk a vote for Dutton.
First they came for the 'illegal' immigrants...and i did not speak out because i was not an illegal immigrant.
Then they came for...
wolty wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:19 am
The cyclone here may well throw a spanner in the works with the calling of the election if it is to be April 12. It needs to be called a minimum of 30 days out so Monday after the WA state election. I'm guessing if Brisbane gets smashed it won't be called next week. The week after April 12 is Easter and school holidays (for two weeks I think) so that's out as well. This cyclone may well push the election back to May and it needs to be held by 19th May from memory.
I think a May election would be better, simply on the grounds that the more exposure to Trumpism we get the less likely people will risk a vote for Dutton.
And this will only make people more likely to vote for them, because he is absolutely right, and every Australian is probably thinking the same thing!
Richard Marles says he would not call US Vice President JD Vance a “knob”, distancing the Albanese government from the remark by Western Australia’s premier.
Roger Cook’s description of Mr Vance came as Australia vies for an exemption from the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium.
The Deputy Prime Minister said on Wednesday he “wouldn’t use that language” and that Mr Cook had acknowledged it “wasn’t a moment of the greatest discipline on his part”.
stevebrooks wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:18 pmAnd this will only make people more likely to vote for them, because he is absolutely right, and every Australian is probably thinking the same thing!
'Where do you stand on the "knob" issue?' is surely a key question in every political interview!
I vote he is a knob, can we have that added to the census questions please? It is vitally important we know the percentage of people in Australia who think he is a knob!
I thought Rudd was the man to provoke the orange fool and his crusade of stupidity but Turnbull is even better. Dutton's chances diminish in proportion to Australian antipathy to Trump, i'm sensing. Let him attack Australia with his idiotic tariff war, let them state openly that AUKUS is dumb, let them attack Australians - it will wedge the conservatives beautifully, so long as, and it's a big caveat, Albo can manage to find a spine somewhere and state what everyone can see, the US is not what it has been.
It seems strange to say but the ALP might be able to win over the nationalistic vote. It's something i hope they consider harnessing, just to keep Dutton out.
First they came for the 'illegal' immigrants...and i did not speak out because i was not an illegal immigrant.
Then they came for...
...sack all 41,000 federal public servants hired under Anthony Albanese if he wins an election billed as a “sliding doors moment” for the nation.
I just feel ill. I actually thought Dutton could see how fucking dumb following maga policy in Australia would be, but nah that's not the case. Politicizing the permanent public service is just anti-democratic, that's all it is. This woeful person clearly wants to bring the fascist revolution to Australia. We'll be fucked sideways if he wins a majority.
First they came for the 'illegal' immigrants...and i did not speak out because i was not an illegal immigrant.
Then they came for...
To be honest the reactions we have been getting to sign waving the last couple of weeks have been super positive. But it is Jim Chalmer's seat so make of that what you will.
