Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here

[earl]

Rubbish

No offense but I think I'm pretty much down the middle. Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon was and is a complete incompetent corrupt and immoral fool.

Everything he did and does is grandstanding.

He should be in jail.

He supports Putin.

A complete and utter POS.

If you agree with him you are basically stating it's cool to rape women and women don't have the right to have an abortion.

He is far extremist right.

I am voting Labour and a big reason is because Morrison has played to a much less degree that anti-woke BS that I can't stand.

I'm not exactly woke either.

 

[earl]

I would think the modest hike was done to not have a major influence on the election.

They should make decisions based on inflation. We've had low rates for years. It has to end.

 

[BZN]

First time I’ve agreed with you on any topic on this server.

Ahh...that's great, you've made me very happy.
Your not as negative as I thought you were 😆

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

My donkey votes are. I've done it heaps. You go and get your name ticked off and then you don't vote.

That's not a donkey vote?

 

[earl]

That's not a donkey vote?

Honestly I don't know. I assume that is what most people mean when they state a donkey vote. I've done it heaps. If you don't want to vote why would you even bother with numbering the ballet slip ?

 

[BZN]

Smart man, your mother's uncle.

Yep...a true gentleman in every sense of the word.
All my relos on my Mothers side were really decent people.
I cant say the same for my father or his relos though.

 

[jadtiger]

Honestly I don't know. I assume that is what most people mean when they state a donkey vote. I've done it heaps. If you don't want to vote why would you even bother with numbering the ballet slip ?

A donkey vote is putting 1 in the top box 2 in the second box down 3 in the third box down etc etc.Believe it or not it does make a difference to who gets elected as people who count votes on election day will tell you

 

[Tim Sheens]

Easy to see why Morrison only agreed to debate on supporting media channels and not our national broadcasters.

Absolutely terrible moderation allowing him to run the show and question once again at will. Sky was better than this rabble and the similarly friendly Stokes' channel seven had better step up to create a good debate environment.

Jedi will be happy that Uhlmann is still parroting on about gotcha questions.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Yep...a true gentleman in every sense of the word.
All my relos on my Mothers side were really decent people.
I cant say the same for my father or his relos though.

Sorry to read such of your father and his side of the family, though you seem to have managed to emerge from that with strength.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Easy to see why Morrison only agreed to debate on supporting media channels and not our national broadcasters.

Absolutely terrible moderation allowing him to run the show and question once again at will. Sky was better than this rabble and the similarly friendly Stokes' channel seven had better step up to create a good debate environment.

Jedi will be happy that Uhlmann is still parroting on about gotcha questions.

they are not giving Albo the free ride the National Press Club does, poor Anthony

 

[Tim Sheens]

they are not giving Albo the free ride the National Press Club does, poor Anthony

It has turned into a rabble because they let Morrison get away with questioning out of order once again.

Serious question, have you watched both of their most recent NPC addresses and the questioning? If so, can you please elaborate on the justification and differences of the actual questions?

 

[FinestTigers]

Easy to see why Morrison only agreed to debate on supporting media channels and not our national broadcasters.

Absolutely terrible moderation allowing him to run the show and question once again at will. Sky was better than this rabble and the similarly friendly Stokes' channel seven had better step up to create a good debate environment.

Jedi will be happy that Uhlmann is still parroting on about gotcha questions.

This bias is similar to the definition of a kangaroo court, which ignores rules and principles and comes to a predetermined conclusion.

 

[bathursttiger1]

I hope everyone budgeted for double digit interest rates. I know I did.

We got hit hard when we were paying 21% in the late '80 so we worked really hard to pay out our mortgage.
Unfortunatly a lot of people are going to get hurt by the intrest rates going up.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

We got hit hard when we were paying 21% in the late '80 so we worked really hard to pay out our mortgage.
Unfortunatly a lot of people are going to get hurt by the intrest rates going up.

Even if they go up 5% over the next few years they’ll still be manageable. That’d be around what they were when we first got a home loan in 2011 off or so.

Some stats passed on from a broker:

- In the past 2 years less than 10% of borrowers borrowed up to their maximum capacity.
- For the last 7 years loans have been assessed at a minimum of 4.95%, and around half assessed at 7.25%.

 

[stryker 69]

Albanese has this aweful habit of saying “that’s not right” when he is confronted by topics with gotcha style questions.
It makes him look very shady.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Albanese has this aweful habit of saying “that’s not right” when he is confronted by topics with gotcha style questions.
It makes him look very shady.

One thing that has shit me throughout this campaign is politicians getting poo face when they announce policy but can't substantiate it when pressed.

You know you'll be grilled, get yourself up to speed.

 

[stryker 69]

One thing that has shit me throughout this campaign is politicians getting poo face when they announce policy but can't substantiate it when pressed.

You know you'll be grilled, get yourself up to speed.

Especially saying shit like we’ll improve wages / we’ll get grocery prices down.
How? Mofo, How?
Both are guilty.

 

[TrueTiger]

Especially saying shit like we’ll improve wages / we’ll get grocery prices down.
How? Mofo, How?
Both are guilty.

This is why I think we could see a big shift from Lib/Lab/Greens this election with more people looking at the independents ....even though one of the 2 big parties will get in neither shed a lot of confidence to the voters atm...

 

[Tim Sheens]

Raising wages is pretty basic policy. Governments not capping rises in the public sector way below inflation for a start and federally making recommendations to the Fair Wotk Commission on the minimum wage.

 

[tigerballs]

John Howard said "there will never ever be a GST under my watch"
I'm mainly a Labor voter but I liked Howard.
How long have politicians been telling bare faced lies for.

Luckily, it was a lie.