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  1. Caesar

    The Greens

    Sure, and GDP is up as well
  2. Caesar

    The Greens

    They’ll radicalise whether they want to or not. The Queensland and NSW parties are bigger, better organised and better funded than the Tasmanian and Victorian parties who have historically set the federal direction. Their focus on class warfare and social justice also resonates with a more...
  3. Caesar

    Why is abortion a live issue in Australian politics again?

    Yes, the real problem is that we do not really have a ton of legal protection around abortion - Australian governments have traditionally not wanted to touch it and taken a very hands-off approach, leaving it up to individual medical professionals This was fine when there were plenty of doctors...
  4. Caesar

    The Greens

    This definitely indicates a Greens party where primary control is shifting from the Vic/Tas bloc to the QLD/NSW bloc. Waters is much closer to the NSW socialist hardliners than she is to the Victorian technocrats like Di Natale and Bandt. It’s likely that under her the Greens will be more...
  5. Caesar

    The Greens

    Faruqi stays as deputy, Nick McKim stays as whip, SHY stays as manager of senate business… surely that’s the end of SHY’s leadership ambitions Penny Allman-Payne as the new party room chair is interesting, that is another role moving from a Victorian to a Queenslander Bit of a low point for...
  6. Caesar

    The Greens

    all the NSW Greens hate SHY because she publically slammed the caucus for siding too much with Gillard over Abbott... they think she is a tree tory She is also not very popular with the Tasmanian Greens because she was highly disloyal to Christine Milne when she was leader Pulling it off will...
  7. Caesar

    The Greens

    my guess would be Waters as leader, Faruqi remains deputy leader and SHY remains manager of senate business Faruqi was I think out of the race when Waters put her hand up, I don't think she can win without the Queenslanders backing her. SHY could maybe win with the Victorians and Tasmanians...
  8. Caesar

    The Greens

    The problem is that the ‘Australian Greens’ doesn’t really exist - the state ‘branches’ are really separate organisations who own the Greens brand independently in each state, and essentially have an agreement to caucus together in the federal parliament I come from New South Wales, where the...
  9. Caesar

    The Greens

    Faruqi will definitely want the leadership but the reduced Queensland contingent won’t help her case my money would be on a compromise candidate (not SHY) that keeps Faruqui in the deputy seat But that’s highly speculative, most of the people I know are from the NSW party and they aren’t the...
  10. Caesar

    Golf Golf Clubs/Equipment Discussion.

    Anyone got an opinion on these two products? https://www.drummondgolf.com.au/golfcraft-divot-board.html https://www.newygolfstore.com.au/products/divot-board I assume the Newy Golf one is made with more ‘premium materials’ but $200 vs $60 is a big difference…
  11. Caesar

    The Greens

    Because the media focuses on the big players, and she’s not one of them any more. Hasn’t been for a decade. 15 years ago when the parliamentary party was smaller and she was the Young Turk - yeah, she was prominent. But she torched all her credibility with left wing of the party by publically...
  12. Caesar

    The Greens

    Historically - because she has had no factional support The SA Greens do not have much power in the federal caucus because they are not close enough to the middle of the party to make them acceptable to the NSW and QLD Greens. That means someone like SHY needs strong backing from the VIC and...
  13. Caesar

    The Greens

    You’re proving my point - this is an example of it being handled internally using parliamentary procedures - as all parties expect it to be Going on a podcast and bleating about it is not how parties expect MPs to handle this stuff which is why he’s opened himself up to public criticism
  14. Caesar

    The Greens

    I’m saying nobody takes it personally if you paint within the lines, and Chandler-Mather didn’t do that As a consequence I’m not surprised Albanese has eviscerated him
  15. Caesar

    The Greens

    I’m not saying that none of them ever cross the line, just that they all know where it is Those who do cross it make themselves fair game for a slapdown, as Chandler-Mather has done here
  16. Caesar

    The Greens

    Politicians are like that, nobody takes the game personally until someone breaks the unspoken codes of political life. One of those is you don’t discuss internal parliamentary dynamics in public. Yeah that code is maybe a bit toxic but it’s one that the Greens happily participate in and benefit...
  17. Caesar

    The Greens

    It’s less about big structural changes and more about aligning with what people actually want Labor opening urgent care centres is a big structural change but it helps address a problem that people are screaming about - i.e. overcrowded emergency departments and a lack of bulk billing doctors...
  18. Caesar

    The Greens

    That’s all I was saying Big opportunity gone begging last few elections, that’s all
  19. Caesar

    The Greens

    their goal has never been to stabilise at 10-15% of the vote the major party PV has declined by almost 20% over the same period - spin all you like, that is an insane number of votes left on the table
  20. Caesar

    The Greens

    Who said anything about the Greens capturing the teal base? There are plenty of electorates where the teal vote is coming partially at the expense of Labor and the Greens, it’s a big question as to why this is the case. The Greens’ stated goal is to become a party of government and if that is...
  21. Caesar

    The Greens

    Of course it’s not a collapse, but it is kind of concerning when you look at the votes they are leaving on the table they should absolutely be grabbing a bigger share of the flood of votes that are going to teal candidates, and it’s a pretty reasonable question to ask why they’re not If they...
  22. Caesar

    The Greens

    Who? And let’s try to be realistic, the Vic and Tas Greens can’t install whoever they want any more
  23. Caesar

    Is this a two term win?

    Can’t see it Chalmers has no leverage for a deal right now and Albanese will be too keen to put himself up there with Hawke by winning three in a row. If there is a Kirribilli Agreement it will be for stepping down after the next election, not before
  24. Caesar

    The Greens

    If your problem with Bandt is he’s ’too Marxist’ then you really don’t want Shoebridge - he is probably the biggest socialist in the federal caucus. It always amuses me when people bring up Bandt’s PhD because in reality he is a reasonably moderate guy by Greens standards. The fact he has some...
  25. Caesar

    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    great let’s install a functional and non-corrupt government then that never ends badly
  26. Caesar

    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    Have you ever tried to do business in Indonesia The country is an utter basketcase, worse than India
  27. Caesar

    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    Her main issue will be factional backing, which historically she has lacked. The Greens are very factionally divided, with the two major blocs historically being NSW/Qld and Vic/Tas. NSW/Qld Greens are (to generalise) quite hard left. NSW in particular is very red, and they often work together...
  28. Caesar

    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    I highly doubt it is about stacking votes in seats (that is too hard with how our boundary system works, and anyway it takes too long for immigrants to become eligible to vote) If anything it is probably about not pissing off existing Labor constitutents, who are just as NIMBY as any other...
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    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    as much as I like and respect Green, I am hopeful that with his departure we will see a big step up in the quality of the ABC's pre-election modelling His election night model is amazing and a perfect tool for conservative, reliable deterministic modelling of expected outcomes. But there is a...
  30. Caesar

    2025 Federal Election: A Pox o'....Just one of your houses, apparently.

    boggles my mind that anyone can approach stuff like this with the attitude of 'too bad, so sad' burning communities to the ground is not the way to implement these kinds of changes unless you're genuinely indifferent to suicide rates, bankruptcies, poverty etc amongst a lot of genuinely...

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