Aussie Government blow it (Again)

[00seven]

NT COVID-19 update


01 May 2022

There were 279 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the NT in the 24 hours to 8pm on 30 April 2022. Of these, 234 were positive cases from a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT).

There were 159 cases recorded in the Top End region, 44 Central Australia, four in East Arnhem, 14 in the Big Rivers region, six in the Barkly region and 52 are under investigation.

There are currently 50 patients in hospital. There is one patient requiring oxygen and one patient in ICU.

The number of active cases in the NT is 2,807.

 

[Se7en]

Some decent policy at last.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-01/federal-election-live-blog-labor-campaign-launch-albanese/101028792

Nah - that list is mostly wishful thinking which will evaporate when Albo smashes open the piggybank to discover that Scomo has already blown the lot. Non core promises for sure.

But "Smirk and mirrors" - that's brilliant. Not quite "I'll do you slow" or "you're just a shiver looking for a spine to run up", but still a solid roasting.

Good enough for me to no longer vote for the neighbourhood pillow biter. Colour me teal for this election.

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

2h ago2 hours ago'We will implement the Uluru Statement in full', Albanese says

Slight problem with that statement.

Does 'a majority of voters in a majority of States' ring any bells?

IOW, it's not up to the Fed Govt. At most they can propose & run a referendum.

Which I predict will fail if they do so. I'd certainly never vote in favour of it until a few key things were determined first.

FKT

 

[ShortForBob]

Nah - that list is mostly wishful thinking which will evaporate when Albo smashes open the piggybank to discover that Scomo has already blown the lot. Non core promises for sure.

But "Smirk and mirrors" - that's brilliant. Not quite "I'll do you slow" or "you're just a shiver looking for a spine to run up", but still a solid roasting.

Good enough for me to no longer vote for the neighbourhood pillow biter. Colour me teal for this election.

I think I may have joined the teal brigade too. Alas It's unlikely my ballot papers will arrive in time even though i applied for them about 3 weeks ago. Something I probably cant blame Scottie for.

OTOH, Labor could actually take Higgins. It would be sweet to be part of that.

I can watch election night from France. Lovely as Astypalaia is, the wifi here seriously sucks.

 

[The Dark Knight]

Helping losers that have no concept of saving to buy a house is a recipe for disaster- as Thacher found out. Half of them will default on their mortgages and will lose their houses (and any equity they may have had) with in three years. And the cost of this to the tax payers will be astronomical. Nothing more than pork barreling on a massive scale.

The reality is that life isn’t fair and some people simply can not own their own home because they come from a long line of losers. It has always been that way and always will be. Communism simply does not work. 

Such a stupid policy, but what else would you expect.

Albos housing plan is about as in touch of reality as Scomo clutching coal in Parliament.

Time to wake up to the reality that Australia has changed. If you want to get into the housing market, you have to get realistic and buy an apartment. 

 

[The Dark Knight]

So who do you think will win the election!

ScoMo or AnAl?

 

[LB 15]

So who do you think will win the election!

ScoMo or AnAl?

LNP with an increased majority. Nothing has changed in three years. Labor are still not a credible alternative and the greens have never been more irrelevant. Rightly or wrongly no one gives a fuck about the environment or any of their woke lunacy with Putin, China and the economy as the real issues. Taxpayers do not want to see their money wasted buying losers a house and the losers can’t understand why the government won’t buy them a house in Point Piper, Sandringham or Ascot. Just because they are uneducated bogans why should they live in western suburb shit holes? 

 

[LB 15]

Such a stupid policy, but what else would you expect.

Albos housing plan is about as in touch of reality as Scomo clutching coal in Parliament.

Time to wake up to the reality that Australia has changed. If you want to get into the housing market, you have to get realistic and buy an apartment. 

50 years ago it may have been realistic that most Australians could own their own home. But back then it was fine for schools boys to take their guns to school for show and tell, drink driving was normal and every sport was sponsored by durrie companies. 

Things change but there always has been and always will be, an underclass. 

The socialists have only themselves to blame. The welfare state has grown the underclass. Multi generational losers should either work hard to rise above their lot or except their station in life and waste their money on cars and huge TV’s. Social media may have given everyone a soapbox, but it doesn’t mean they are right. 

Except me, obviously.

 

[The Dark Knight]

50 years ago it may have been realistic that most Australians could own their own home. But back then it was fine for schools boys to take their guns to school for show and tell, drink driving was normal and every sport was sponsored by durrie companies. 

Things change but there always has been and always will be, an underclass. 

The socialists have only themselves to blame. The welfare state has grown the underclass. Multi generational losers should either work hard to rise above their lot or except their station in life and waste their money on cars and huge TV’s. Social media may have given everyone a soapbox, but it doesn’t mean they are right. 

Except me, obviously.

It's not just the underclass that are complaining they can't afford to get into the property market, it is also the young and educated with good jobs who like smashed avo on toast.

From what I can see, housing affordability is mostly affected by two things, Keatings compulsory superannuation and that the Aus Governments keeping our economy growing through massive immigration. On top of that, new land for hosing developments are either limited or stupidly far from the CBD. 

It's time for young people to understand that they need to accept a more "European" way of housing, so if they want to buy a property, it should be an apartment .

Governments and councils need to acknowledge that there is a need for more high density property developments and not just within the CBD's. More suburbs along the suburban train routes need to embrace such developments and stop the NIMBY mentality.

Conversely I think they should stop allowing the outward expansion of cities especially when the surrounding areas lack the infrastructure.

But AnAl goes for a vote grabbing policy that makes no sense.

 

[Se7en]

So who do you think will win the election!

ScoMo or AnAl?

I suspect the premise of the question is wrong. Neither side is trying to win the election, rather both sides are trying to help the other lose. Not sure either side need that much help in losing, the race to the bottom is well underway.

LNP with an increased majority. Nothing has changed in three years. Labor are still not a credible alternative and the greens have never been more irrelevant. 

Not sure that being credible is the important bit. Simply being an alternative to the current clowns is probably all that is needed.

My bet is that we are heading down the NZ path with a bunch of pseudo independants likely to hold the balance. And just like silly Cindy over there, Albo will prostitute himself to all of them to cobble together some sort of Government. Will mostly be unworkable, so nothing much will get done (unless they are gifted another crisis).

The real work of the next 3 years is to clean out the Liberals, and get some new and useful folks in there to make a decent attempt at cleaning things up starting in 3 years or so. It is my unrealistic dream that the new Libs will start building and communicating a solid policy platform well in advance of next election, and that once we see it, we give them a mandate to get on with it.

For the first time in decades, my electrate - Goldstein - looks like being interesting. If Tim the tool fondler can't hold a seat that has never been other than conservative, then the Liberal party are fucked. He appeals perfectly to fiscal conservative / social progressives (like me I guess) - yet I'm hearing folks talk that they might vote against him as a protest against Scomo. I actually like Tim, but will be sending the message that Scomo's identity politics is not what we want. I'd vote for the Liberal party, but I'm not voting for the Scomo party.

 

[The Dark Knight]

The real work of the next 3 years is to clean out the Liberals, and get some new and useful folks in there to make a decent attempt at cleaning things up starting in 3 years or so. It is my unrealistic dream that the new Libs will start building and communicating a solid policy platform well in advance of next election, and that once we see it, we give them a mandate to get on with it.

For the first time in decades, my electrate - Goldstein - looks like being interesting. If Tim the tool fondler can't hold a seat that has never been other than conservative, then the Liberal party are fucked. He appeals perfectly to fiscal conservative / social progressives (like me I guess) - yet I'm hearing folks talk that they might vote against him as a protest against Scomo. I actually like Tim, but will be sending the message that Scomo's identity politics is not what we want. I'd vote for the Liberal party, but I'm not voting for the Scomo party.

This is going to be the problem for the Libs, the good ones can just as easily be booted as god bothering, climate denying idiots.

 

[HolUp]

betting markets have Albo in a seemingly comfortable position vs Scomo this morning. 

$1:38 v $3:00

 

[Dark Cloud]

I'd vote for the Liberal party, but I'm not voting for the Scomo party.

Once again, I will be voting for the least-worst option - which is not Greens, Labor, nor independents. You do realise that a vote for independents or Greens is effectively a vote for Labor?

 

[The Dark Knight]

Once again, I will be voting for the least-worst option - which is not Greens, Labor, nor independents. You do realise that a vote for independents or Greens is effectively a vote for Labor?

If the green candidate does not get in, then you are voting for Labor. However if the Green gets in, then you are getting a radical left wing nutjob Labor.

I'd say its better to put Labor ahead of a Green candidate. 

 

[Se7en]

Once again, I will be voting for the least-worst option - which is not Greens, Labor, nor independents. You do realise that a vote for independents or Greens is effectively a vote for Labor?

Pretty sure that somewhere in the blah blah blah that I typed and you didn't read, I mentioned that I think Albo will cobble together a coalition with independents / Greens / Teal coloured 'voices of' candidates.. So yes, I'd say I do realise that. Labour has no chance of winning in Goldstein, it's either Liberal or teal independant.

I disagree that Scomo getting another go is the least worst option. The main point of what I wrote above was that I think a Labour minority government that can't achieve much is the least worst option. Which will give Liberals a chance to get their shit together for the next cycle, and with any luck flush Scomo, Dutton, and that Barnaby turd for good.

TLDR: I think you are wrong, and I do understand.

 

[ShortForBob]

Once again, I will be voting for the least-worst option - which is not Greens, Labor, nor independents. You do realise that a vote for independents or Greens is effectively a vote for Labor?

Only if you dont know how to vote 

 

[00seven]

Alas It's unlikely my ballot papers will arrive in time even though i applied for them about 3 weeks ago.

Only if you dont know how to vote 

You can't even get your shit together to vote. You shouldn't try to lecture others.

 

[ShortForBob]

You can't even get your shit together to vote. You shouldn't try to lecture others.

It's pretty hard to get ballots before an election date is set you idiot.

now..was someone talking about corruption?

If 4 corners are right, it doesn't get much worse than this.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-02/aspen-medical-political-access-pandemic-profits-four-corners/101022230

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

 I'd vote for the Liberal party, but I'm not voting for the Scomo party.

Nice summary. I hope the LNP loses all their religious fruitcakes in the coming election but I'm afraid they won't.

If so, shrug, I'll vote independents and ALP. No way I'm seeing anything even close to a major party dominated by religious fuckwits if I have any say in it. Rather have secular fuckwits instead.

Albo getting up this time around wouldn't be the end of the world, especially if he has to deal with a Senate where he doesn't have a majority.

FKT

 

[HolUp]

feels like there's a lot of people saying "anyone but Libs & Labor". 

minority government on the cards?