spiffmeister

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think the perception that the greens are arrogant is mostly a media thing to be honest, and I'm not sure how much they can do to fight that. Imo there is a general perception of any activist or left wing group that they're all arrogant/holier than thou types.

They ended up backing Labor's housing policies despite the analysis from think tanks like the Australia Institute saying they would do nothing. This all seems like a double standard anyway to me, did Labor change any policy on housing? It took months to extract some direct cash on top of the HAFF then they refused to negotiate, the greens at least tried to, yet the greens are arrogant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think this was the original proposal in 2007 when Rudd was pm. We've been flip flopping on subs for almost 20 years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the only public self-reflection they've done regarding the last term is that "Labor ran an effective campaign on us blocking the HAAF for a year" IIRC.

Basically no political party is going to have an open public discussion on this. There's clearly two "factions" of the Greens, one more pragmatic and the other more 'activist'. I think the observation that Labor ran an effective smear campaign on their own unwillingness to negotiate is pretty obvious (not to say that there isn't also some need for a discussion about how much blocking is the right amount). But everyone seems to think the Greens are "this must be perfect" type people despite the fact that they showed in the last term they were willing to reduce demands or vote for things they didn't like so I guess it isn't.

...Max Chandler-Mather's comments about other politicians being mean

Other MPs complained about how he was treated so... (See here).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they're not careful we'll also send them a strongly worded letter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

As a previous Greens' member (I live overseas now) I can say that my experience is that Greens' members are generally pretty sensitive to causing offence and are more than willing to apologise if they are told they're causing it, at least by other members. This is of course anecdotal though.

Also maybe changing your vote because you thought an individual action by someone was stupid is a childish way of thinking about politics?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Because his contexless stats is just 13/50 for indigenous Australians. I know it's popular with American conservatives to say that black people deserve it, but we can do better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've seen a lot of analysis and discussion for a very small percentage change in a single election.

Well you can't exclude the fact that it's fun to shit on the left wing party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Missabotti resident Spencer Parry said he, too, was given wrong information about how to vote, but decided to follow the instructions on the ballot paper to number every candidate.

Well at least one person did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

100%, saying fish and chips is easy mode for chip context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think the idea is that it stops rich AF people using their super to store wealth by sitting on assets and instead forces them to use super to invest, which can actually help the economy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Somehow there's never been any confusion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

But Labor has a mandate to be shit, albo said so.

 

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is urging politicians to shift further to the right and adopt US President Donald Trump’s polices as she blames voters and the “left media” for the Coalition’s disastrous election result.

I honestly wonder if she just wants to ruin everything for her own benefit, or she is actually lost in the sauce.

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