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He barely scraped that election, to be fair. One of the few elections where the loser won the 2pp vote, after 1996, being one of the biggest wipeouts in electoral history

I would have a modified version of the policy: super payouts to be taxed like income tax but with a larger tax free threshold.

Yes, it does. The underfunding of aged care is a real problem and has been for a long time, but in terms of it being a COVID issue, to be frank, nobody saw it being a front line of defence against COVID till it happened.

In terms of how he changed Australia: - Dragged the Liberal Party hugely to the right. The politics of Andrew Peacock, Malcolm Fraser and John Hewson are almost closer to the ALP than the Libs now. - Gun control legislation, a huge positive. - Encouraged huge amounts of speculation on assets...

In fairness, Labor seems to have been the one to cop the wrath of the global economy time after time up till COVID hit. The oil crisis ('73), Black Monday ('87) and GFC ('08) were all timed with the ALP. COVID, on the other hand...

I find trying to pin this on the Premier of the state to be a real stretch. It's as though people expect the Premier - or, in fact, even the Minister - to be examining the contracts and the bona fides of the contractor for hotel quarantine security, or to make literally every decision involved...

Berejiklian. Though, that said, the damage really 'belongs' to COVID19, and it's the governments being unable to control that damage. Dan Andrews had the first major outbreak of COVID in this country, and as such he had to learn the hard way to lock it down hard, and lock it down fast. People...

I don't think they will be a panacea either, but I do think that it'll be the "well, we've done the best we can" shot.

Best of luck to her, but the supply ain't there yet.

Have to say, for all the s**t he copped back from June last year for lockdown, Andrews has been proven right again and again. Now that NSW has tried to go progressively on COVID - and it's starting to run out of control - it seems like it's now going to be a very close-run thing to get enough...

Lady Bower Kitchen and Sycamore Meadows were good back when I was there. That said, Sycamore Meadows got incredibly loud - no damping.

Ah, that was my story too - ten years in Preston/Thornbury, then moved out to Rezza because money is apparently a thing... now in Brisbane, moved for work. How is Rezza going? Not sure I'd trust a coffee from the kebab shop, or a kebab from the coffee shop...

Thank God. I'm sick of left-vs-right hijacking issues that don't really have a natural left and right.

I think what NavyBlues09 is trying to say is that Andrews said there was no crime epidemic in NW Melbourne, and now says that people are breaking the COVID rules in NW Melbourne. I don't agree with NB09's reasoning, but he/she said nothing about aged care workers.

Not enough to make them "scared to go out to a restaurant at night". It's just not an ever-present threat in the minds of most people like that, and so Dutton's comments came across as laughable hyperbole (or, at least, where I lived in Melbourne at the time). Certainly, it made people twitchy...

The quote is: " The Victorian public is really outraged by some of the goings on ... the reality is people are scared to go out to restaurants of a night time because they’re followed home by these gangs, home invasion and cars are stolen." It seems pretty full-on to me, and certainly Sudanese...

It just wasn't true, though. Melbournites weren't afraid to go out for dinner, and the otherwise healthy state of the restaurant industry (up until you-know-what) bears testament to that. It's like me saying that people are too afraid to go on long weekend holidays because of drunk drivers...

Didn't help when Peter Dutton claimed that Melbournians were "afraid to go out for dinner", haha.

People care, but the Vic Libs tried to run a whole election on it and got thumped.

Like they misread the amount of community concern about Sudanese gangs?

The major reason for the lockdown atm is they don’t know where or who they got it from. Ergo, there could be a number of people they don’t know about in Auckland carrying the virus.

Probably more like an NZ situation - normal life for a bit, then a clampdown with any case number blips every so often.

I should add, the state opposition didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory by spending most of the early stages shooting about how lockdown had just gone Too Far.

The characterisation of Melbourne as somehow being full of idiots as though the rest of Australia is not does get on my **** somewhat.

Depends. Has there been an August poll yet?

He wasn’t different, though - everyone used private security at first.

I’m a Joe Biden supporter in the same way I prefer to fly QANTAS economy over Air Afghanistan. It’s not exciting, it’s not fun and it’s not going to sit comfortably, but my God it beats the alternative

He’ll be fine. He is on a huge majority, and I think most people outside of BigFooty’s shouty SRP board and Murdoch media see privately contracted security as an error, but one that was made by all states He pushed the hard lockdown, harder than other states, and it has been shown that it was a...

Don’t kid yourself that Brisbane isn’t. My partner is a doctor and was halfway through a consult when the dimwitted patient revealed that her husband was in hospital, awaiting the results of a COVID swab...

Who on earth is perpetuating a holocaust?