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Election day. Please, people of Australia, for the love of all that you hold dear, do not elect the Morrison government for a second term. This, from this essay:
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James Ley on Scott Morrison | Sydney Review of Books

The political implications of Morrison’s uncommon religion have inevitably been the subject of a good deal of discussion and a certain amount of speculation.
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"Morrison has led what may well be the most indolent, nasty, bumbling, dishonest, cynical and corrupt federal government in Australian history. In his term as prime minister, he has failed to achieve a single lasting reform for the long-term betterment of Australian society.

He failed even to propose one.

He has proved himself, over and over again, to be an abuser of executive power, a substantive policy vacuum, and a legislator of surpassing ineptitude. His ideological stance is little better than a collection of antipathies pursued in a spirit of vindictiveness. He is as dogmatic as he is shallow.

The keynotes of his time in office have been rampant cronyism, industrial scale rorting for partisan ends, the funnelling of vast sums of public money into the coffers of private vested interests, deliberate undermining of public institutions, and an evident distaste for the very thought that the federal government should use any of the vast resources at its disposal to help anyone who actually needs help."
 

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eth-dog said:
Great election for the Greens. Could have up to 4 lower house seats
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You nailed the independent call. I was way off the mark.
 
boncer34 said:
You nailed the independent call. I was way off the mark.
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I didn't expect them to beat Kenneally, but cheers. Labor should get a majority but it'll be a small one.
 
boncer34 said:
Well I voted for them
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They were preferenced by quite a few centre and left parties, I remember noticing them on all the how to vote cards (remembering they only had to include 6 on the HTV).

Although you can do your own preferences obviously but I think a lot of people just do what they’re told.
 

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Deakin and Macnamara both have Labor/Greens leads too. Menzies a 45 vote margin to the Libs
 
Since I don’t want it in the footy part of the board, I’m just going to leave this here.

 
The recent stand taken by the Diamonds netball team against Hancock Prospecting's sponsorship has led to a wider debate about sponsorship by businesses whose values are promoted by their sponsorship. The ABC reports that former Diamond Amy Steel says: "As an athlete, you have to fight so hard to earn the opportunity to wear the dress, and that takes years and years for some athletes.

"From a sponsorship perspective, to get on the dress seems like quite an easy venture. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of stringency around being able to earn a space on an Australian Diamonds dress — and for other codes as well.

"The sponsors should have to be put through some rigour to be able to earn their place, the same as we as athletes need to earn that privilege."

The article continues:

Sponsorships and 'soft power'​

It was climate concerns that also drove a group of high-profile Fremantle Dockers fans — including author Tim Winton — to speak out about sportswashing this week.

The group — which also included a former club legend and a former West Australian premier — penned a letter to the club about its long-term partnership with Woodside Energy.

In February, Winton gave an "uncomfortable" speech, denouncing Perth Festival's reliance on sponsorship money from fossil fuel companies.

"If we're trying to give ourselves any chance of meeting the climate challenge, the emergency that we're facing, then we've got to extricate ourselves from their influence," he said at the time.

I think the Diamonds players have been extraordinarily brave. Netball Australia has been hijacked by the AFL and has gone from being a well administrated sport, run on the smell of an oily rag to one that has gone away from its core values and strengths. It's no longer a women's sport, run by women with remarkable domestic and international success. Many girls who might have played netball have been seduced by AFLW. Women's sport has never been about money. Until now.

Interested in others' views.

www.abc.net.au

As Netball Australia's Hancock deal controversy continues, some professional athletes are breaking the 'golden rule'

What started as a request by Australian netballer Donnell Wallam to remove the name "Hancock" from her dress has erupted into a national conversation about sportswashing that some athletes and fans say is overdue.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au


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sameolds33 said:
The recent stand taken by the Diamonds netball team against Hancock Prospecting's sponsorship has led to a wider debate about sponsorship by businesses whose values are promoted by their sponsorship. The ABC reports that former Diamond Amy Steel says: "As an athlete, you have to fight so hard to earn the opportunity to wear the dress, and that takes years and years for some athletes.

"From a sponsorship perspective, to get on the dress seems like quite an easy venture. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of stringency around being able to earn a space on an Australian Diamonds dress — and for other codes as well.

"The sponsors should have to be put through some rigour to be able to earn their place, the same as we as athletes need to earn that privilege."

The article continues:

Sponsorships and 'soft power'​

It was climate concerns that also drove a group of high-profile Fremantle Dockers fans — including author Tim Winton — to speak out about sportswashing this week.

The group — which also included a former club legend and a former West Australian premier — penned a letter to the club about its long-term partnership with Woodside Energy.

In February, Winton gave an "uncomfortable" speech, denouncing Perth Festival's reliance on sponsorship money from fossil fuel companies.

"If we're trying to give ourselves any chance of meeting the climate challenge, the emergency that we're facing, then we've got to extricate ourselves from their influence," he said at the time.

I think the Diamonds players have been extraordinarily brave. Netball Australia has been hijacked by the AFL and has gone from being a well administrated sport, run on the smell of an oily rag to one that has gone away from its core values and strengths. It's no longer a women's sport, run by women with remarkable domestic and international success. Many girls who might have played netball have been seduced by AFLW. Women's sport has never been about money. Until now.

Interested in others' views.

www.abc.net.au

As Netball Australia's Hancock deal controversy continues, some professional athletes are breaking the 'golden rule'

What started as a request by Australian netballer Donnell Wallam to remove the name "Hancock" from her dress has erupted into a national conversation about sportswashing that some athletes and fans say is overdue.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au


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Netball can't live off the largesse of a massive TV contract. Unfortunately that will always constrict their potential. Their current problems started long before Gina, and will continue after she gets warned off.

Without a benefactor or some other pathway to sustainability, the future is pretty grim for the professional game.
 
Paddy Cummins wasn't keen on Alinta.
 
I work in a school where the sports houses are named after governors who promoted genocide. You're right. There is definitely a need to have values aligned if you also want to develop a positive culture on the basis of shared values. This is too much for some posters, who will see this as 'virtue signalling' and would rather their sport teams existed in a vacuum of ignorance.
 
tandino said:
Netball can't live off the largesse of a massive TV contract. Unfortunately that will always constrict their potential. Their current problems started long before Gina, and will continue after she gets warned off.

Without a benefactor or some other pathway to sustainability, the future is pretty grim for the professional game.
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The current problems started when the AFL got involved - from grass roots netball to NA. Netball was raided to provide stock for AFLW. Before that, NA had been managed perfectly well. The problems started when people who knew netball (like ex-diamond Kathy Harby) couldn't get onto the board of NA but, from memory, people like Eddie Maguire could...

The rules of the domestic comp have since been changed - which has led to variable success internationally - and the recent sponsorship controversy. The sport's not in a healthy place. The Foxtel deal means that audiences are limited and also limit growth of the game - again to the benefit of AFLW and the AFL.
 
I don't think Essendon's sponsors are generally terrible. Like there's no fossil fuel companies, no sports gambling companies. Powercor doesn't own any generators, they're just a distributor that owns a few poles and wires in the western suburbs.

List of sponsors: Official AFL Website of the Essendon Football Club

Our biggest issue is pokies.

Beyond that, you could get into things like Treasury Wine Estates and Carlton Draught, being alcohol brands, and we also have Macca's (which I think sponsors almost every club and the league itself).

And then if you really want to get out into the weeds you'd look at the sustainability of the products sold and the working conditions for the people who make the product, e.g. How Ethical Is Under Armour? - Good On You
 
Remember Bomberbets? Not only were we affiliated with a betting agency but the club gave out members details to them.
 
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