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Australian Federal Election - 2019

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Ann said:
The Bullsh!t Thread
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I tell you Ann The Juice media videos manage to fillet and expose the rubbish that passes for Government better than any other media in Australia.

And just to give people a heads up. This company is run out of a families living room and paid for by a handful of people who recognize what a great piece of work Juice media does in cutting through the xrap.

https://www.thejuicemedia.com/
 
Paul Keating sat down for a chat with Andrew Probyn after the Labor Launch today and this ABC interview was a political godsend.
Vintage Keating stole the show, after the event!
I don't know if it's on Iview or YouTube, but if is, it's worth a look.
Keating retains a sense of global politics that few, if any, in the present Parliament possess.
 

He made more sense than anyone that day. The best PM we ever had, but unappreciated by most.
 
People with long memories are still wearing the battle scars of the Keating era. A lot of the greed we see from the business community today stems back to that near death experience of the recession we had to have. The Howard Govt then re-opened those wounds by feeding on that greed at the expense of the underdog. Reminds me of seagulls fighting over that last bit of morsel...

Paul Keating did everything he could to make me a lifelong Coalition voter.
Peter Costello did everything he could to make me a lifelong Labor voter.

They both failed

Oh yeah > Wealthy electorates are the least keen on Sunday penalty rates https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-06/federal-election-vote-compass-industrial-relations/11062258
 
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The curious thing about both the Keating / Costello era, and indeed as it is now, is that the main policies, the economic ones that matter most to an economy, seem to be in international unison.

So was it Keating's vision?

I know it sounds a little bit tinfoil hatish, but it makes me wonder.
 
Indeed...why are we making an enemy of China.If we want to ban Huawei why not Boeing?
 
It sounds like gobbledygook.
Economic policies are the main policies that affect an economy.
So international economies with economic policies will have these as their main policies, economically speaking, of course .
I am sure Keating - a Treasurer - had economic policies.
But maybe that's a a little bit tinfoil hatish.
 
Oh well, you can't believe it if you say it's propaganda.
 
First, they report survey findings, and they do not change on the basis of who reports them.
We got a predictable result.
Our government has been dogwhistling for years, and this is heard by an electorate which thinks our borders are being swamped by Muslim terrorists.
The disendorsement of many candidates already for posts on their social media accounts which are anti Muslim shows the extent that our population is misled by bigots.
Little wonder Jacinda Adern is more popular than any Australian politician.
 
Jacinda Ardern is an empty vessel.
Reminds me of the dill in Canada. Hollow gestures for media attention.
 
wayneL said:
Both appeal to virtue signallers.
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Ah yes... this is what those people who cannot mount a case will say.
No evidence to back themselves of course.
But say it often enough and they will even believe it themselves.
Catch phrases might be ok for electioneering, or social media, but they don't hold up to scrutiny.
 
wayneL said:
Both appeal to virtue signallers.
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My tribe is currently dealing with her and her ministers. And this statement is correct. Plenty of virtue signaling but no different from the last lot.
Politicians are all the same. The parties just set up their own interests.

Everyone thinks labor is for the workers. They actually are for big business. I was told years ago by a high ranking member that they prefer big business as they can more easily unionize, fight for wages and control the company through strikes. Those businesses that are union/labor friendly get contracts. And thats how they pump up their fees.

They hate small business as they can't spread that thin to monitor.
 
Yeah - but look what's happening in small business and non-unionized workplaces today.

Wages and superannuation are being stolen by employers on a mass scale. Unions can't control small business and that's fine. But when the law can't control them you have a major problem.
 
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