The Greens

[Borisdog]

my point is that people that complain about our immigration numbers consistently ignore the reasons for them and just want a scape goat for the current housing issue that isn't landlords and related government policy

there are more houses being rented than there are landlords
home ownership is going down among owner occupiers
but home ownership is going up among the investors

when 10% of the population own 40% of the housing there is a problem that isn't about immigration levels

I would suggest that it won't matter WHAT percentage of the population "owns" the housing if there are more people looking for a house to rent than there is available.

One way to reduce that imbalance would be, I dunno, reduce the amount of people looking for housing.

It's disingenuous to say that immigration levels aren't a contributing factor, they are by no means the only one though.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Voters head to the polls in Australia's biggest council election race that Antony Green describes as 'significant'

ABC chief election analyst Antony Green says there is interest in the looming Brisbane City Council election following the Greens success at the federal election.

www.abc.net.au

Antony Green says the Greens could win up to four wards in the Brisbane council election.

 

[Seeds]

It's cheaper than everyone relying on pensions

I dont think thats true. It would net out to being the same. But in your case you also have higher house prices making it harder for others.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Adrian Schrinner re-elected as Brisbane's lord mayor after day of delays at polling booths

ABC election analyst Antony Green called the vote for Adrian Schrinner shortly after 8pm, amid a swing to the Greens in some Brisbane wards.

www.abc.net.au

 

[hawkman]

Adrian Schrinner re-elected as Brisbane's lord mayor after day of delays at polling booths

ABC election analyst Antony Green called the vote for Adrian Schrinner shortly after 8pm, amid a swing to the Greens in some Brisbane wards.

www.abc.net.au

Looks like The Greens are nearly the number 2 in Brisbane now. Taken a few seats off the LNP but not far off Labor in total votes and will go close with them in the number or seats

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Looks like The Greens are nearly the number 2 in Brisbane now. Taken a few seats off the LNP but not far off Labor in total votes and will go close with them in the number or seats

Sadly we still don't know a lot yet beyond the mayoral result and a few wards. The Electoral Commission of Queensland were a bit of a shambles today, and there were long queues well past when the polls were supposed to shut. The ABC have been even worse, with their repeated calling and uncalling of seats and their algorithm going wacky several times.

 

[Chief]

Bizarre LNP ads about rubbish collection didn't seem to work.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Bizarre LNP ads about rubbish collection didn't seem to work.

I'd argue they might have, actually. The LNP vote remained pretty much the same while the Greens gains came almost entirely at the expense of Labor. Compare that to 2022, where the Greens gains came from both parties, which made the LNP easier to beat in the final 2CP vote. This might suggest that the attack ads didn't work on the previous Labor voters who switched to the Greens, but did work on the previous LNP voters who may have switched to the Greens or to Labor. And that's looking like it'll cost the Greens a couple of seats they might have wrested from the LNP, like Central and Coorparoo.

 

[Chief]

If a lot of Greens voters just numbered 1 instead of all boxes.

 

[Satan]

If a lot of Greens voters just numbered 1 instead of all boxes.

Is that invalid in qld ?

 

[Chief]

Is that invalid in qld ?

No it's optional preferential.

 

[Forward Press]

Improved showing in these elections and looks easily possible for the Greens to add more House of Reps seats in the Federal 2025 election but the Ipswich West result shows the State Labor government is likely to not survive the next election.

Oh well, it was a good run of wall to wall Labor on the mainland. Depending on how Tasmania goes, we could be 6 out of 6 for a little while.

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

that’s why i am deeply opposed to PR in the House of Reps.

We in the ALP spent 31 out of the next 34 years out of government when we last tried genuine socialism with Chif”s attempt to nationalise the banks. We have no desire or intention of repeating that experience and few Australian voters have a desire to return to an ideology that is dead.

They feel the same about letting the Greens have the BOP in the Reps after Gillard — 2013 should have taught Bandt something but, as with failing to stand up to the Faruqi-Shoebridge-Rhiannon run Trotskyist-Islamist internal faction in the NSW Greens, he has shown himself to clearly be a weak and cowardly man.

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Dear Senator Mehreen Farouqi: You are not only a scoundrel and a meddling fool, you are also A CRUSHING BORE!

 

[Festerz]

WTAF?

 

[Johnny Bananas]

She's lost it. Gone past her use by date.

 

[Satan]

Bf. Might be under the pump now