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Present yourself as a safe option and make the LNP play to their extremist supporters...
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Negative Gearing is a tax quirk that unfairly benefits those with access to capital but it ain't:
- A primary reason for housing affordability
- Something that more than 5% of the population actually understand
- A vote winner
Same goes for Franking Credits. Smart to dump it. Remove the wedge and focus on real issues.
Absolutely agree, but the reality is that they have lost three elections waffling on about issues that most people do not care about. They tried to fight the last election on so many fronts; negative gearing, franking credits and the tax cuts, PLUS renewable energy, and it all went to shite.I actually find it quite sad that ALP has to concede on negative gearing, franking credits and the tax cuts as an election strategy to win voters.
I get why, and it might be the most sensible policy platform to lean on purely to get voted in, but is that the state we want our politics to be in? Especially when we have an existing government that is so deplorable, incompetent and blatantly corrupt?
Just pathetic.How does Labor win the next election?
By becoming the effing Coalition it would seem.
Labor’s capitulation on tax cuts shows the price it will pay to win power | Greg Jericho
What is the point of a progressive party if not to reduce inequality? This is madnesswww.theguardian.com
Just pathetic.
Policy driven by faceless Labor pollsters with no idea.
If Labor thinks it can win by matching policy they will lose part of their base and lose the election.
Present yourself as a safe option and make the LNP play to their extremist supporters...
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Labor can't win by being Labor, and it can't win by being not Labor.yeah, because the alternate worked brilliantly last time
They lost because they let the Murdoch press control the narrative.yeah, because the alternate worked brilliantly last time
They lost because they let the Murdoch press control the narrative.
They need to stand up to Murdoch instead of cowering and matching bad policy.
So which Greens policies are loony?The Greens are the loons, always put them last on the ballot paper.
Labor should distance themselves from them as much as possible.
Disagree. You need vision and a direction. All of the voters aren't completely stupidand thats not going to change now Nine is lock step with the libs.
you have to get into govt to change anything, and you have to do whats needed to do that. tilting at windmills keeps you in opposition forever
Disagree. You need vision and a direction. All of the voters aren't completely stupid
All they're doing is hiding in a corner hoping for the gov to make more mistakes.
Ivory Tower? Having good basic policy is not an Ivory Tower.they dont rate as important what you do. and yelling at them "you are wrong" wont change their mind
people want jobs and lower taxes, which is why the libs have been in govt pretty much most of the time over the past 25 years
lecturing from your ivory tower is doomed to failure, just as it did last election
the ALP has to pander, get govt, and then do necessary reforms
Ivory Tower? Having good basic policy is not an Ivory Tower.
They could easily sell a renewables revolution on economics alone.
Let's see what happens.
Which is policy that can be easily attacked.tried that last election - and the ALP were taking away the Australian ute and a weekend in the bush
Which is policy that can be easily attacked.
If they can't beat Michalea Cash's ute policy they don't deserve to be in power.it noone cared, because "they're killing the aussie ute" resonated more
If they can't beat Michalea Cash's ute policy they don't deserve to be in power.
Yes, I too can make up fantasy projections based on figures that popped into my head.Liberals hold Higgins 54-46 margin and that included a 6% swing against the LNP in the seat at the last election. This seat will become marginal at the 2025 election, but the LNP will hang on.
But they're not a centre-left party anymore. They embraced the Liberal agenda and are now a centre-right party, or centrist at best.In a centre-right nation like Australia, Labor can only be a centre-left party to get anywhere
Be careful about that word "never", because it represents an awfully long time, about which we know very little. I'm not saying it's likely, but it isn't impossible. In countries like France and Italy, we've seen traditionally centre-left parties collapse and be replaced by upstarts.Greens will never have more than a few seats in the lower house and a dozen in the upper house
How can you say Labor are tougher on climate change in any real way when Albo has abandoned setting any emissions target, and the party is approving new coal mines?Medicare, workers rights, tougher on climate change and now the ICAC. Off the top of my head
The Greens are the inner urban, uni educated multicultural elite. They are neither average Australians nor ordinary people.