Politics & Government 2019 Election: Australia's Shame

[Scotland]

Such misdirected anger.

 

[HairyO]

Such misdirected anger.

Wait til the Coalition evens up in the Polls then wins the election.

The Labor Party will then quietly remove the Rudd rule making it near impossible to remove the party leader.

 

[Procrastinator35]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Such misdirected anger.

No anger, not from me. Coalition would prefer more were sucked in by city vs city, state vs state, townie vs bushie bullshit. They'd win more. People would be distracted from their hard right agenda.

 

[Billy ray]

If the ALP don’t win this one they may as well chuck it all in and go the way of the former Australian Democrats.

 

[HairyO]

No anger, not from me. Coalition would prefer more were sucked in by city vs city, state vs state, townie vs bushie bullshit. They'd win more. People would be distracted from their hard right agenda.

The ALP are the ones playing city vs country.

Pro green in the cities, pro mining in the regions.

And Shorten is incapable of answering journo questions because he knows its all bullshit.

 

[JackOutback]

The ALP are the ones playing city vs country.

Pro green in the cities, pro mining in the regions.

And Shorten is incapable of answering journo questions because he knows its all bullshit.

They are both walking a tightrope on Adani, to pretend only one side is doing it is partisan flag waving.

 

[Scotland]

The Libs are just pro-Adani aren't they? Labor are having a bet each way.

Listened to the energy minister talk about it the other day, painful listening. We still need coal for the transition to renewables (correct) so therefore opening a big brand new coal mine (not power station, mine) is the right thing to do.

 

[HairyO]

They are both walking a tightrope on Adani, to pretend only one side is doing it is partisan flag waving.

Where have the Libs been against Adani ? Or any mining really ?

 

[JackOutback]

Listen to the Libs in Victoria; they desperately need to shore up some seats in that state, Victorians are nominating climate change as a major issue, so they have been treading the same line as Labor, trying to have it each way. Serious about climate change down south, serious about mining up north.

 

[Hamingja]

Same bullshit either way.

Better off just voting against the incumbent in your electorate, creating a swing seat that always changes hands, and watching the pork flow to your electorate.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Same bullshit either way.

Better off just voting against the incumbent in your electorate, creating a swing seat that always changes hands, and watching the pork flow to your electorate.

So much for voting on such inane & insignificant matters as policies & principles then.....Cynicism on tap.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

It's imperative Adani not happen.

As far as Australia’s response to climate change goes, it’s a high stakes election, that’s for sure. Imagine a mandate for the reverse – for policies against climate action – which is what the Coalition’s hardliners will claim they have been granted should they defy the bookmakers and win in May. Nothing crystallises the debate like Adani’s Carmichael coalmine in the Galilee Basin, one of a dozen or so globally significant “carbon bombs” that were identified almost a decade ago as collectively capable of releasing enough greenhouse gases to make maintaining a safe climate impossible. It’s alarming to say so, but it certainly looks, smells and feels as though the timing of the prime minister’s decision to call the election yesterday morning was influenced by the desire to have final Commonwealth approval for the Adani project and to avoid scrutiny of that approval in estimates yesterday. Both the approval and the calling of the election throw the focus onto Greens founder Bob Brown’s Stop Adani convoy, which will kick off next week in Hobart and travel to Clermont, near the Queensland mine site, before culminating in a rally in Canberra.

As the ABC’s Stephen Long and Michael Slezak wrote yesterday, Environment Minister Melissa Price has given a tick to Adani’s contentious groundwater management plan on the basis of a heavily qualified statement from the CSIRO, which suggested that more work remained to be done. It’s a decision that Queensland’s environment minister Leeanne Enoch said “reeks of political interference”. (For a thorough understanding of the Adani project, including the significance of the groundwater management plan and the threat to the Doongmabulla Springs out of the Great Artesian Basin, read James Bradley’s excellent essay “How Australia’s coal madness led to Adani” in The Monthly). Veteran political journalist and author Margo Kingston tweeted yesterday: “Govt’s approval of the #Adani groundwater plan was corrupt. It’s that simple,” adding: “This is the biggest Govt scandal of 2019 – and there’s been a few – CSIRO damned Adani’s plan, the Minister approved its amended plan without CSIRO even seeing it.”

https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/paddy-manning/2019/12/2019/1555048402/adani-election

Same bullshit either way.

It really isn't.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Any party that will give us decent internet

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Actually kinda annoyed because they've dicked around with the electorate divisions in the NT since the last election and it affects me quite a bit. We have 2 seats in the NT, Solomon and Lingiari.

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This is the electorate map at the last election. You can see Solomon covers the entirety of Darwin and its satellite city, Palmerston. That's the entire urban and suburban area of the NT; everything else is rural and is in the Lingiari electorate, which is based in Alice Springs. I live in the northwest of the Solomon division currently, and it's where I'm currently enrolled to vote.

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This is what they've changed the electorate to for this election. You can see that where I live is still in Solomon, but a swathe of Palmerston has been cut and transferred to Lingiari. Including the suburb I am set to move to literally next week. This will put me in an overwhelmingly rural electorate with its offices in Alice Springs that will be, and should be, primarily concerned with rural and remote issues. None of these issues will concern me living in a middle class suburb and I have very little in common with someone living in Tennant Creek or Alice Springs.

Because I'm still enrolled in Solomon, reckon I should just not change my address until after the election?

Darwin is probably growing (or the rest of NT is shrinking). Even allowing for distance, seats can't be too different in populaion.

 

[Smeg Head]

Any party that will give us decent internet

Sweet out of luck then.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Same bullshit either way.

Better off just voting against the incumbent in your electorate, creating a swing seat that always changes hands, and watching the pork flow to your electorate.

So much for voting on such inane & insignificant matters as policies & principles then.....Cynicism on tap.

Treat elections the the way the elected treat the elctorate.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[Gough]

If you hear any politician saying that we don't need a federal ICAC, the default position has to be that they're hiding something.

 

[Procrastinator35]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

'It horrifies me': Greens in fight of their lives to keep seats

By Judith Ireland
April 21, 2019 — 7.33am

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she is "horrified" at the prospect that her Senate spot could be taken by One Nation, as the Greens face losing two of their most high-profile parliamentarians at the upcoming election to Pauline Hanson's party.

Along with Senator Hanson-Young, the Greens' co-deputy leader Larissa Waters has an uphill struggle to hold on to her Queensland seat due to challenges from One Nation, Clive Palmer and far-right senator Fraser Anning.

The Greens have six of their nine senators up for re-election on May 18. "Our focus is on retaining our team of MPs," Greens leader Richard Di Natale told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, saying South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales would "come down to the wire".

Senator Hanson-Young said she was fighting for one of the last two Senate spots in South Australia with the Centre Alliance's Skye Kakoschke-Moore (who was forced to resign over dual citizenship in 2018), One Nation candidate Jennifer Game and the Liberal Party's third candidate, Alex Antic.

Senator Hanson-Young, who was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and is now seeking a fourth term, said the contest was "on a knife edge".

"It horrifies me that if I lose my seat, it could be taken by a One Nation candidate. I'm going to fight tooth and nail to make sure they don't get one."

Ms Hanson campaigned in South Australia last week with Ms Game, who is a former tax officer and adviser to the One Nation leader. While the Greens are calling for a 100 per cent switch to renewable energy, One Nation wants to see a new low-emission coal-fired power plant in South Australia.

Senator Waters said she was vying for the last Senate spot in Queensland with One Nation's Malcolm Roberts, Mr Palmer, Senator Anning, prominent same-sex marriage opponent Lyle Shelton (running for Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives) and Katter's Australian Party.

"Long story short … it's me or those five blokes," she said.

Senator Waters, who was first elected in 2010, had an unplanned break from politics in 2017 when she discovered she was a Canadian citizen and resigned from Parliament. She returned to the Senate in September 2018 after her replacement, Andrew Bartlett, resigned to contest the lower house seat of Brisbane for the Greens.

Senator Waters said she did not know whether the break had helped or hindered her chances.

"We'll all find out on polling day. People seem to know me a bit more than previous campaigns," she said, but noted this could be due to the citizenship debacle or the historic images of her breastfeeding her new baby in the Senate chamber in 2017.

Along with a strong emphasis on climate change action, senators Waters and Hanson-Young are both pitching their election contests as a fight for control of the Senate. It is possible Labor and the Greens will reach the 39 seats required to pass legislation, although other projections put One Nation or Centre Alliance senators in the driver's seat.

"The challenge for us is in this election is helping people focus on the importance of the Senate. It's crucial," Senator Hanson-Young said.
"Both here [in South Australia] and in Queensland, it's going to come down to us or them."

Election analyst Kevin Bonham described the South Australian contest as "possibly the diciest" for the party, given the Greens' vote in the state was not very high, but added that Senator Hanson-Young was not a write-off.

While unconvinced about the chances of Senator Anning and the Australian Conservatives in Queensland - based on previous election results - Mr Bonham said Senator Waters would also be competing against the third Liberal National Party candidate, Gerard Rennick, if there was not a big swing against the Coalition in the state.

"So long as there's a swing to Labor, I think the Greens should be OK in Queensland," Mr Bonham said.

https://www.theage.com.au/federal-e...heir-lives-to-keep-seats-20190419-p51fl5.html

 

[TJASTA]

'It horrifies me': Greens in fight of their lives to keep seats

well that is the point of elections

 

[PT Bar None]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

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"Just as bad as each other"