Pauline Hanson - One Nation Party

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[Lebbo73]

I have heard many neoliberal types (economic right-wingers) say this. It is technically true, but this statement needs serious qualification:

1) Most of the jobs nowadays are in Sydney or Melbourne. Given their sky-high housing prices and rents, if you were to move down there for a job you would want to make sure it is 1) quite well-paying and 2) reasonably stable. If not, you could very easily find yourself in another city with no support from family or friends to fall back on and no way to pay the rent. Also relocating costs money.

2) The Australian workforce is becoming increasingly casualised and part-time, so one increasingly cannot expect to obtain stable, well-paid employment anyway. No reasonable person is going to move down to high-cost cities like Sydney and Melbourne just to secure a casual or part-time job.

3) Just because you are willing to work at any job anywhere does not mean that the business in question will hire you. For example, I am an accountant. When unemployed, I applied for not only accounting jobs but for a variety of menial jobs (I honestly lost count). Fast food, supermarket, cleaner, manual labourer. Not only did I not receive any interviews as a result, I had one guy ringing back asking me why I even bothered to apply in the first place (cleaning job). Let's be honest; those jobs have no shortage of willing candidates. Even with supermarkets, 15 years ago only teenagers worked such jobs. Nowadays, older people are also working at those places, so you have to compete with them too.

This isn't a criticism of you specifically, but I have noticed that people who accuse others of being picky about jobs are either 1) unwilling to walk the walk themselves or 2) just plain dishonest. For example, a former friend of mine who loved espousing neoliberal views claimed to have applied for 5000 jobs. Surely if menial, precarious work was easy to obtain, he would have at least obtained that type of work? He either never tried (making him a hypocrite) or he did try and concluded that it was too difficult (which means that he shouldn't be advising others to try it). To this day, he works in the family business.

Btw, when I was retrenched in 2014 from my previous job, I took up a shitty job as a cleaner.

 

[Power Raid]

Memo. Public health is serious diseases so much more rescources needed than for dinky private stuff

On the Howard private health subsidies the govt should have insisted in efficiencies in return. It's now a couple of decades since

and smash the medical lobbies and medical unions (AMA etc)

 

[Maggie5]

It is relevant. The welfare system should only be a basic safety net to stop you from starving. There is still enough jobs around if you are prepared to move and not be picky. It is like public health. It should not be gold plated. That is what private health insurance is for. Plus, there should be not 30% rebate on the premiums people pay for private health insurance.

Sorry but you have absolutely no idea. I don't even know where to start.
Part-time jobs in the hospitality area, yep quite a few if you are young and presentable but not for others. Very few full time jobs around that doesn't require formal education and or experience. When was the last time you looked for a full time job?
Health/hospitals, if you can put up with pain then the waiting list loves you. Even to take your kids to the dental hospital there is a sixmonth wait for non emergency.
Then there is education costs even at state schools a high number now expect your child to wear a uniform.
After all that you have to put food on the table, pay rent or mortgage, then utilities.
Yep, okay for you as you have your part-time job and as a stay at home dad have a wife that is a high earner.
Get real!!!!!

 

[DaRick]

Btw, when I was retrenched in 2014 from my previous job, I took up a shitty job as a cleaner.

Good for you. I wasn't as fortunate.

Did you obtain that job via family connections, perchance?

Was your previous background in a similar area?

Was the cleaning job just a temp job? If so then I can see why employers would be more willing to hire you, since you would soon be gone anyway. The fact that you might otherwise have left for greener pastures wouldn't matter to them (one reason why employers are often unwilling to hire people).

 

[Maggie5]

Things going swimmingly for Pauline, another candidate gone in Queensland.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/10/03/33/hanson-tipped-to-unveil-katter-vote-deal

Ms Cottam said she did not pay the money because she planned to get her son to provide campaign materials for "next to nothing" and was disappointed by the decision to disendorse her.

"I'm not upset with their decision but I am disappointed for the people of Callide, who I won't be representing any more," she told the Guardian.

She said she also refused to pay a $150 administration fee because she had stood as a federal candidate in 2016, though she was happy to pay a $250 registration fee to the Electoral Commission of Queensland.

Ms Cottam is the fourth candidate to stand down or be axed by the party since it unveiled its Queensland election team in December.

 

[Pessimistic]

Pauline certInly knows how to bleed her naive supporters

 

[Ok Boomer]

Things going swimmingly for Pauline, another candidate gone in Queensland.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/10/03/33/hanson-tipped-to-unveil-katter-vote-deal

Ms Cottam said she did not pay the money because she planned to get her son to provide campaign materials for "next to nothing" and was disappointed by the decision to disendorse her.

"I'm not upset with their decision but I am disappointed for the people of Callide, who I won't be representing any more," she told the Guardian.

She said she also refused to pay a $150 administration fee because she had stood as a federal candidate in 2016, though she was happy to pay a $250 registration fee to the Electoral Commission of Queensland.

Ms Cottam is the fourth candidate to stand down or be axed by the party since it unveiled its Queensland election team in December.

Absolute rabble. One nation is a vote in the toilet. Better conservative options.

 

[Maggie5]

Absolute rabble. One nation is a vote in the toilet. Better conservative options.

Would love to meet someone that voted for her and have a long chat with them face to face, not behind a keyboard.

 

[Ok Boomer]

Would love to meet someone that voted for her and have a long chat with them face to face, not behind a keyboard.

Apparently there is a heap in WA which is pretty embarrassing.

 

[Rob R]

Would love to meet someone that voted for her and have a long chat with them face to face, not behind a keyboard.

There is a heap where we work, used to be Labour and Liberal voters and are now proudly talking about voting ONP. It is pretty sad that the only parties that could even be considered as close to honest and having values are the Greens and ONP.

 

[Maggie5]

There is a heap where we work, used to be Labour and Liberal voters and are now proudly talking about voting ONP. It is pretty sad that the only parties that could even be considered as close to honest and having values are the Greens and ONP.

Gee I would think that Greens and ONP would be miles apart.
I vote Greens and can't see any values that the other mob have.
What are their reasons for voting ONP?

 

[iluvparis]

He means both parties are honest about the values they represent - unlike ALP/Libs

 

[Pessimistic]

I like how sino says they are 'sophisticated' now

AFAIKS they have moved on from indigenous and asian hating to muslim hating classic flavour of the month. if they were honest theysd say waht trump now knows - what they plan is not just immoral, its unworkable and illegal

Of course the 'plan' is to make the libs move further right and do the dirty work for them.

And wed love to see a convicted fraud run on a law and order ticket

 

[Xsess]

One Nation reaping a rich harvest from Malcolm's attempt to drag the Libs left. And stupid old Labor sitting their making zero inroads with their popularity rightfully in the gutter. And yet, even now all the libs would have to do to win in a landslide is pick up a few One Nation policies. You know the ones.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Part of me wants to see them elected just to watch them implode.
As they become a rubber stamp coalition member and start hacking at the safety nets of their supporters,while fronting the media to explain

 

[Maggie5]

Had to laugh, a woman on the panel (the Drum) said that Pauline is advocating parts of Sharia Law.
Two of her policies - prenups and low/nil interest loans. LOL Somebody better tell Pauline.

 

[Rob R]

Gee I would think that Greens and ONP would be miles apart.
I vote Greens and can't see any values that the other mob have.
What are their reasons for voting ONP?

They are opposite ends of the spectrum but at least both parties are consistent in their views and you know what you are getting unlike the two major parties who have lost all pretence of believing in anything but keeping their fat cat salaries. The Greens being in support of the environment (very worth); mostly socialist; believe in progressive justice; and the idealist view of international relations. The ONP being conservative in terms of laws; protectionist in trade (which the Greens at least in part are); anti-excessive immigration. I usually voted Liberal and probably stray ONP these days but I think Parliament misses people like Bob Brown because as poor as some of his policies may have been, he at least stood up for something.

 

[Maggie5]

They are opposite ends of the spectrum but at least both parties are consistent in their views and you know what you are getting unlike the two major parties who have lost all pretence of believing in anything but keeping their fat cat salaries. The Greens being in support of the environment (very worth); mostly socialist; believe in progressive justice; and the idealist view of international relations. The ONP being conservative in terms of laws; protectionist in trade (which the Greens at least in part are); anti-excessive immigration. I usually voted Liberal and probably stray ONP these days but I think Parliament misses people like Bob Brown because as poor as some of his policies may have been, he at least stood up for something.

It was of Bob Brown and his beliefs and policies that I was attracted to the Greens!

ONP are against so much of what I believe in, they are not anti-immigration, they are anti Muslim, don't believe in Climate Change, for heavens sake they want a RC commission into the Muslim religion, waste of millions. Bunch of Nutters.

 

[Fire]

they are not anti-immigration, they are anti Muslim

No they're broadly anti immigration.

Muslims are the current headline but Hanson had made it clear in the past that multiculturalism is a cancer and we can't have a unified nation with a people who are diverse. Shes cited Britain and the US as failed examples along these lines.

Make no mistake if they were in charge the boarders would be closed to everyone but majority white nations. However, even then they wouldn't be seen as Australian enough to come in anything larger than a trickle.

 

[Malifice]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/pauline-hanson-putin?utm_term=.pkk3YkD5g#.ak2d7LwGA

What the actual *?

Hanson is saying she admires Putin? He's a murderous tyrant dictator who literally orders the assasination of rivals.

Who is she going to express admiration for next? Franco? Musolini? Hussein?

I mean for *s sake.

 

[Lebbo73]

What the actual ****?

Hanson is saying she admires Putin? He's a murderous tyrant dictator who literally orders the assasination of rivals.

Who is she going to express admiration for next? Franco? Musolini? Hussein?

I mean for ****s sake.

That is the accusation against Putin. I do not trust him but is there any proof that he assassinates rivals outside of what the untrusted media reports with no factual proof?

 

[Maggie5]

That is the accusation against Putin. I do not trust him but is there any proof that he assassinates rivals outside of what the untrusted media reports with no factual proof?

Actually if you have been following it all there is quite a bit of information but of course no confirmation from Putin.

 

[Lebbo73]

Actually if you have been following it all there is quite a bit of information but of course no confirmation from Putin.

More like you mean there is only accusations from the western backed MSM who support all the NATO and US military bases and hardware that they have surrounding Russia.

 

[Maggie5]

More like you mean there is only accusations from the western backed MSM who support all the NATO and US military bases and hardware that they have surrounding Russia.

You really need to read a bit more Lebbo, I have and also watched some very interesting documentaries.
This is really serious stuff and not something to be taken lightly.
Not going into all that other stuff you mention as I am only referring to Putin and the incredible power he has.

 

[Dan Baker]

Both the majors are just lobby groups of big business. Hanson is the only one that has working people and the country at heart.

Shorten has GETUP social media team and newspaper that is funded by US billionaire communist George Soros. All the Labor Facebook posts are a USA GETUP social media contractor.