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​, Labor 50 (+3)
I think we're seeing that trend emerge.

I think we're seeing that trend emerge.

It has been but it's direction of travel towards an unaccountable low democracy organisation bent on trashing everything it is built on for corps is something that feels really ominous to me today let alone what it might look like in a generation.
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The way any worsenings are brought via in are also insidious in their nature.
Instead of actively making things worse it'll just be unaffordable to make things good via the threat of suits by companies.
It's a capitalists wet dream.
Turnbull's argument against the negative gearing proposal is hilarious in itself in the first place. "It'll reduce the price of houses so the only benefit of buying them is for people wanting to live in them". Where's his ivory back scratcher?Wow, not only have they pulled even on 2PP, support for restricting negative gearing to first homes is 47-31. Shorten might have picked a winner.
Most of all its bizarre to see someone put forward policy for the first time in months and the Australian electorate respond positively.
The Honeymoon is Over Baby!
I'm not sure what the Coalitions plan was, did they really think they could put out a glossy advertising campaign about "innovation" and then vacate the economic field until May solely relying on the PM's charisma to tide them over? He's constantly getting battered by the looney right in his own party and now by the electorate for not standing for or even being able to make a decision about anything at all.
Morrison is even beyond Hockey levels out of his depth and you can see his happy clapping, you're successful and rich because god loves you more Hillsong nonsense slipping out at the edges.
Turnbull's argument against the negative gearing proposal is hilarious in itself in the first place. "It'll reduce the price of houses so the only benefit of buying them is for people wanting to live in them". Where's his ivory back scratcher?
Im a political dummy, but why couldnt Scott Ludlum run for PM? Labors a laughing stock, Liberals are gross, wheres our Bernie Sanders?
Im a political dummy, but why couldnt Scott Ludlum run for PM? Labors a laughing stock, Liberals are gross, wheres our Bernie Sanders?
Without a clue of how politics and the senate etc. actually works, I'm kinda rooting for Dastyari right now. I know he's probably the youngest of the lot of them, but this article has swung me so quickly in his favour, it's given me whiplash.Albo + Ludlam 4 PM.
Why is Aus so slow on the gay marriage train?
We elected a shitty government three years ago who are trying to kick the can down the road.
Property Council NG scare campaign is using a literal house of cards as a stand-in for the housing market.
Quite frankly the most counter-productive analogy I've seen from negative gearing proponents. If you're admitting that the housing market is a metaphorical house of cards...
And the states don't have the power to legislate on it.
And we don't have a constitutional bill of rights.
Wow, the government is desperate to clean out the micro-parties, aren't they? If this backfires and more third parties end up in the senate, it'll be the funniest shit.
Well, some of the more fringe elements, sure. A more organized party with a less single-issue name might actually get some ground, though. But I'm betting popular senators like Ricky Muir and Lambie will probably stay now that their constituencies have seen what they can do in the upper house.
Ricky Muir has no chance of winning re-election. Lambie probably will though. But I really can't see how new figures from non-established parties will enter the senate, with the exception of a Nick Xenophon party. An election is only a short while away and I don't think there is enough time to establish a successful party that could overcome the new Senate voting system.
That's not strictly true. The thing preventing states legislating is Howard's amendment rather than an inherent lack of jurisdiction. That's why states can legislate Civil Unions. So the reason is that Howard was an asshat.
I'm not sure a bill of rights would help either. It seems unlikely we'd have gotten an American Civil War Amendment at the time it would have been drafted and that's what the whole thing hinges on in the US.
"Eleven-year-olds should not be persuaded into thinking they are sexually attracted to other people," he told ABC TV.
"What happened to allowing children to be children, to make mistakes, to learn resilience, climb trees, scrape their knees and learn how to deal with each other without being indoctrinated into a program most parents simply don't want."
The Australian Christian Lobby welcomed Mr Turnbull's decision.
Their managing director Lyle Shelton said bullying children was unacceptable, but the Safe Schools program went way beyond the purview of an anti-bullying program.
"Parents expect their children to be safe at school but encouraging boys who identify as girls to use the girls bathrooms and share school camp accommodation is not the way to do this," Mr Shelton said.
Mr Shelton said many parliamentarians were unaware of what Safe Schools promotes to children as young as four.
"Telling four-year-olds that no one can tell you what gender you are is confusing and indoctrination in contested and dangerous gender theory," he said.
"Safe Schools tells children they must have access to the Minus 18 website which instructs girls in chest binding so their breasts are flattened and penis tucking for boys."
So, dumb American poling my head in. Is this whole Turnbull a situation where he's the Last Sane Man (despite bad economic policies) but the rest of his party has gone so far off the rails that he can't save them?
Because from what I've read, Turnbull seems like the kind of guy who if he had even 5 or 10 other MP's like him could easily win an election, but when he has to name idiots like Morrison to front bench positions, he's essentially walking into a boxing ring with one arm tied behind his back and blindfolded.
I'm staggered that turnbull is apparently hostage enough to these idiotic conservatives who can't stand apparently that schools might potentially be safe places for lgbt kids.
INDOCTRINATION! INDOCTRINATION INTO KNOWING ABOUT GENDER STUFF! WATCH THE FLASHING LIGHTS BOYS
The fucking horror! girls might bind their chests! boys might put their bits in between their legs!
fuck off back to the stone age, wankers
If you want to stop indoctrination in schools then stop funding chaplains and private schools more than public ones.
Erica Betz about to come up on The Drum to talk about the damage treating LGBTQIA people with respect has caused to society! Ought to be fun.
Edit: Promotes Penis tucking and chest binding! Girls in boys toilets and vice versa!
He could probably do better and rack up some symbolic wins like a vote on marriage equality, and some sort of action on climate change, but the majority of his party is still absolutely intransigent on any sort of economic reform that isn't disproportionately aimed at lower income earners.
Like the Tea Party in the USA, they made an absolutely huge deal about the budget deficit for the past few years, attempting to pass a budget back in 2014 that was almost Dickensian in its details (and full of stuff they explicitly promised the public they wouldn't do at the election) and the public bucked hard.
Ever since then they've been paralysed.
Gloves are off. Caro is amazing.