This election has been a big turnoff. Much worse than previous elections.
The problem seems to be the ABC, SMH etc are ratcheting up the anti scomo rhetoric, but it seems to be about issues that the mainstream public don't relate to, a lot of the issues are Sydney based, no one west of the blue mountains probably gives a $hit about the issue.
Absolutely. Pick up on Albaneses gaff and chew on it like a dog with a bone. Very little policy discussion, all petty point scoring. Very disappointing.The problem seems to be the ABC, SMH etc are ratcheting up the anti scomo rhetoric, but it seems to be about issues that the mainstream public don't relate to, a lot of the issues are Sydney based, no one west of the blue mountains probably gives a $hit about the issue.
The media needs to focus on issues that affect all Australians, because all Australians vote, not just Sydney/Melbourne, which as usual the media is focusing on IMO.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...d-as-pm-digs-in-on-deves-20220416-p5adw6.html
‘A matter for the NSW Liberal Party’: Payne refuses to endorse Deves in Warringah
Senior NSW Liberal Marise Payne says Katherine Deves started an ‘important discussion’ over trans rights in sport but refused to endorse the party’s candidate.www.theage.com.au
At the moment from a W.A perspective, all I'm seeing on the internet news is, some Liberal candidate doesn't like the idea, of blokes who feel they are women shouldn't be allowed to run in women's events or something like that. The media obviously think there is a storm in a teacup brewing, so are all over it as usual but most think 'what the', why does someone have to commit to agreeing with someone?everyone has their right to their opinion. Well that was until recently, when if you don't agree with the media opinion, then you are hounded to death.
This is starting to look like a train wreck IMO.
The media needs to back off on nitpicking the Libs and start and promote Albo's message, which as I said long ago he should have been rolling out much earlier.
It isn't as though he is a salesman, he is just IMO a decent bloke who would probably have a moral compass, the media isn't presenting that at all IMO.
But then again, who said the media had brains, they are just trained to present bad news in an exciting fashion.
This is the problem with all the news outlets centralising their news desks, it loses the local flavour and loses touch with local feedback, Australia has just become a Country that revolves around Sydney/Melbourne and the rest of Australia is a pimple on its ar$e.
Export tax on iron ore ? What is Clive mining these days ?Have to say the incessant ads for UAP is giving me the xhits.
They make the Greens look positively conservative. 3% home loans for 5 years to save your homes. 15% export tax on iron ore to reduce the National debt.
Yes what is he thinking of, helping those with a mortgage and getting extra tax on our resources, he must be smoking something everyone else who has suggested these sort of things has been really hammered.Have to say the incessant ads for UAP is giving me the xhits.
They make the Greens look positively conservative. 3% home loans for 5 years to save your homes. 15% export tax on iron ore to reduce the National debt.
I haven't seen anything close to realistic about how the 3% mortgage guarantee would work.Yes what is he thinking of, helping those with a mortgage and getting extra tax on our resources, he must be smoking something everyone else who has suggested these sort of things has been really hammered.
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They certainly seem to be intent on inventing reasons not to vote for them. I can't imagine any focus group of potent UAP voters coming up with those doozies.I haven't seen anything close to realistic about how the 3% mortgage guarantee would work.
Unless of course one nationalizes the banks or perhaps throws in any extra interest costs above 3%
A 15% extra levy on iron ore ? At the very least I'd like to see how that was achieved and some analysis of the impact it would have
In any case I totally and utterly despise/distrust Clive Palmer/ Craig Kelly and co. The bandwagon of COVID denial they pushed destroys any trust I could have in them. Their flagrant lies about the wondrous "history" of the UAP (Menzies, Lyons as Leaders ) raises the bile.
Just shameless.
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Just think if we were a republic, he would be running for President. ?I haven't seen anything close to realistic about how the 3% mortgage guarantee would work.
Unless of course one nationalizes the banks or perhaps throws in any extra interest costs above 3%
A 15% extra levy on iron ore ? At the very least I'd like to see how that was achieved and some analysis of the impact it would have
In any case I totally and utterly despise/distrust Clive Palmer/ Craig Kelly and co. The bandwagon of COVID denial they pushed destroys any trust I could have in them. Their flagrant lies about the wondrous "history" of the UAP (Menzies, Lyons as Leaders ) raises the bile.
Just shameless.
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Apparently the polls freaked out Labor and they had to go on the attack. Unfortunately they were just losing to much ground without it.This is the worst election I've ever seen when it comes to "legal" BS...
"Now claims that older Australians’s savings are at risk are back in twin scare campaigns: from Labor, arguing that pensioners will be put on the cashless debit card; and from the Coalition, that the retiree tax may not be dead."
Factcheck: is there any truth to scare campaigns about the cashless debit card and retiree tax?
Coalition and Labor are targeting older Australians with advertising featuring grave warnings for pensionerswww.theguardian.com
That's how you win elections these days - scare the crap out of senior folks
Radio jock Steve Price is a prime example. So called hard hitting veteran journalist who prostituted himself by going on "Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" to raise his profile outside of Victoria. It just pissed me off, listening to Price broadcasting in regional NSW from his waterfront apartment on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, and thought, FU don't tell me what to do.
The problem is, all the RWNJ's west of the Blue Mountains (and a good deal of them east of there, too) think that their yokel-based 'expert opinions' somehow hold weight.The problem seems to be the ABC, SMH etc are ratcheting up the anti scomo rhetoric, but it seems to be about issues that the mainstream public don't relate to, a lot of the issues are Sydney based, no one west of the blue mountains probably gives a $hit about the issue.
The media needs to focus on issues that affect all Australians, because all Australians vote, not just Sydney/Melbourne, which as usual the media is focusing on IMO.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...d-as-pm-digs-in-on-deves-20220416-p5adw6.html
‘A matter for the NSW Liberal Party’: Payne refuses to endorse Deves in Warringah
Senior NSW Liberal Marise Payne says Katherine Deves started an ‘important discussion’ over trans rights in sport but refused to endorse the party’s candidate.
At the moment from a W.A perspective, all I'm seeing on the internet news is, some Liberal candidate doesn't like the idea, of blokes who feel they are women shouldn't be allowed to run in women's events or something like that. The media obviously think there is a storm in a teacup brewing, so are all over it as usual but most think 'what the', why does someone have to commit to agreeing with someone?everyone has their right to their opinion. Well that was until recently, when if you don't agree with the media opinion, then you are hounded to death.
This is starting to look like a train wreck IMO.
The media needs to back off on nitpicking the Libs and start and promote Albo's message, which as I said long ago he should have been rolling out much earlier.
It isn't as though he is a salesman, he is just IMO a decent bloke who would probably have a moral compass, the media isn't presenting that at all IMO.
But then again, who said the media had brains, they are just trained to present bad news in an exciting fashion.
www.abc.net.au
Personally, I am of the view, that the chosen solution to the problem, is a long way short of ideal, as it appears to be undermining the integrity of outcomes, and thereby generating resentment towards the trans community.
^^ This is the only sensible approach.
I got to "RWNJ" and concluded this is waffle that should immediately be discarded from reasonable discussion.The problem is, all the RWNJ's west of the Blue Mountains (and a good deal of them east of there, too) think that their yokel-based 'expert opinions' somehow hold weight.
Deves should be hung, drawn and quartered for her comments IMHO. The ignorant Great Unwashed, including the PM and many conservative voters, are big on rhetoric and dog whistling, driving fear into themselves and others that somehow, trans people are taking over the world (wait until Hanson says that we are being swamped by trannies!). Deves' pile-on is completely warranted.
Let's look at the issue itself. Deves seems to be saying that girl's and women's sport should be 'protected' from supposedly physically superior Assigned Males At Birth competing against the females, simply because they purposely got their dicks cut off to win against them.
Does anyone here who supports Deve's or Morrison's stance actually know what the transition process involves? I didn't think so.
Androgen Deprivation Therapy must be undertaken for at least 12 months. Within the first month, testosterone levels are reduced to the castrate level. This is less than the small level found in people born and recognised as 'female'. So, 'natural' women have more testosterone than trans women. For trans women, purely due to ADT, muscle mass is significantly reduced, weight is gained, bone thinning is common, post-menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes are constantly endured, and, at best, depression induced from ADT is only just negated by the mental release from gender dysphoria. If a trans woman looks ripped it's because she's worked much harder in the gym than her equivalent fat male counterpart who sits at his desk eating donuts and thinks he deserves superiority, or some blonde bimbo from the northern beaches!
Opponents of trans women competing in female sporting competitions tend to focus on their winning records. From the following article I will highlight this -
The issue bubbles away, but every so often a sports story emerges that puts the issue back in the spotlight. Most recently it was American swimmer Lia Thomas competing in the NCAA college championships.
In mid-March Thomas made history by winning the 500-yard freestyle race, becoming the first transgender woman to win an NCAA title in swimming. Much was made of her performance in beating two Olympic silver medallists.
What wasn't explained was that the 500-yard event is not a distance contested at either the world championships or the Olympic Games. The two silver medallists in Thomas's race were specialists in other events. Thomas's winning time of 4 minutes and 33.24 seconds was almost a full 10 seconds behind the NCAA record for the event, a long way short of the "smashing" of the record others had predicted.
At the same championships, from 18 events, 13 records were broken, three of them by a single swimmer who nobody is talking about.
'It's not the problem they're making it out to be': Why trans sportswomen have become an election issue
Focus has once again turned to the issue of transgender women in sport, leaving more significant issues unchallenged, writes Tracey Holmes.
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