Orrrrr, here’s another thought, Labor - maybe stop giving free kicks to the Greens over housing by putting up a joke of a policy and attempting to gaslight the entire nation that it’s not mammaries-on-bull useless and that it’s the Greens that are being unreasonable.
No, because although right wingers keep running it down, government is a brilliant system. I want my government to provide the things that government does so well, and I'm happy for them to take a bit of my money to do it.
You might like to read Anu Partanen's "The Nordic Theory of...
Well that didn’t take long.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/19/albanese-government-to-pledge-200m-for-womens-sport-after-matildas-inspire-australia
Great letter in today’s SMH:
Rather than a utopian call for “clear, convincing messages”, Anthony Albanese needs clear, convincing policies. He currently leads a conservative Labor government that is intolerant of dissent; pursuing tax cuts for the rich, new fossil fuel subsidies, weak...
Oooh, very classy!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/no-figure-s-stan-grant-lidia-thorpe-comments-labelled-disgusting-grotesque-20230814-p5dw9m.html
NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman has come out in favour of a Yes vote, saying the constitutional fears raised by the No campaign have no grounding in legal reality.
Speakman was NSW Attorney-General for six years, and has a law degree from Cambridge.
Peter Dutton is an ex-copper.
Probably the only time I’ll be saying these words, but unless someone can make a sound economic argument to convince me, I’m with Littleproud on this one.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/13/dont-call-me-captain-killjoy-david-littleproud-opposes-matildas-public-holiday
Sure.
Valid point. Millions of words have been written in thousands of books and essays analysing the pluses and minuses of governments around world and almost to a fault they've entirely concentrated on the stuff that you (quite possibly correctly) say doesn't matter.
We all keenly await you...
I don't think you're making the amazing point you seem to think you're making.
We all know that a lot of government is just nuts and bolts. But that's not what this thread is talking about.
Mate I remember Harold Holt disappearing!
I'm not a Labor barracker; they're much too right wing in most respects for me, and am happy to condemn their cheap politicking over the GST. A policy they had formerly proposed!
And no, they didn't ever talk about gun control, but it's worth...
But GST and gun reform didn't just suddenly appear like no-one had ever thought of them before, which seems to be your definition of "reform". They were (all-too rare) examples of a conservative government responding to a situation where the old structures had proved not fit for purpose, and...
I would contend there are just as many right wingers tumescing over such a prospect.
Right now there are literally tens of millions of Americans who would like to see a fair and square election result overturned and their orange-tinged crybaby leader installed for life.
I think Caesar's point is that government is different to corporations.
(It is, but I disagree with Caesar that this lets them off the hook for not moving things forward.)
Also, heartening to see such a pro-Greens piece, which takes their housing policies seriously, in a Nine newspaper.
I’d been despairing, having written several letters to the SMH recently pointing out the Greens opposition to the HAFF was not “grandstanding”; that their opposition to it was...
The business that exists only on predicting the likelihood of events with a useable degree of accuracy is not only hugely bumping up its prices, but massively declining bad business risks because their analysis shows an increasing likelihood of climate disasters...
I already knew Morrison was a morally bereft psychopath, but his smug demeanour in reaction to Shorten's speech was the clincher.
Everyone should watch it.
Supremely impenetrable arrogance. Ever so slightly tinted with an occasional, fleeting cloud of realisation that he is completely effed...
There's a heartbreaking piece in the latest The Monthy by the mother of a kid who took his life after relentless Robodebt hounding. So angry and so clear in her articulation of which pitiless scumbags are to blame.
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