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@dogmeat said in Aussie Politics:
So both the major parties party votes are down with various loonies of different hues gaining. Is this disparity between party vote and seats down to the STV system?
Nah, the disparity is smaller under STV compared to the First Past The Post system that they use in the UK, which the Aussie parliament is based on
Pretty much every election in the UK a party that wins 35% or 40% of the vote will get 60% of the seats
Theres some weird shit that goes on with Senate preferences, but on the whole the Aussie system is far fairer and more democratic than the British
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
The question I have: will the submarines - due in about 20 years - get here before SMRs are viable in the market?
Ooft. France's aging fleet might need the SMR treatment before we do. Capacity Factor of 52% is rubbish.
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slight change in tack here
so, the independent who rolled Frydenburg
Prior to her new gig in parliament she was
Director of Neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital
Now, great that she feels the need to serve her community but
Is it churlish of me to think she could do a fuck load more for Australia in her old job than as an independent MP? She wasn't even a GP (not that we are flush with those) but so fucking smart and qualified she was heading up friggen neurology for kids!!!
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@mariner4life had the same thought in terms of patient care and outcomes. Could also argue that, as Director, she was a step removed from a lot of the day to day clinical care EDIT: and more about the financials and policy.
If she helps drive policy, it could be a much broader uplift in services across a range of disciplines, not just neurology (which is darts for medicos really).
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
slight change in tack here
so, the independent who rolled Frydenburg
Prior to her new gig in parliament she was
Director of Neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital
Now, great that she feels the need to serve her community but
Is it churlish of me to think she could do a fuck load more for Australia in her old job than as an independent MP? She wasn't even a GP (not that we are flush with those) but so fucking smart and qualified she was heading up friggen neurology for kids!!!
She's clearly smart. The question is she smart like Ben Carson..?
The reality is these smart, strong, independent women should've been walk up starts for the Liberal Party to assuage concerns about quotas, toxic politics, etc.
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@antipodean And that's the crux of the matter. Most of these teal candidates should have been Liberal candidates 5-10 years ago.
Instead they preselect a conga line of (largely) uninspiring blokes who occupy the back bench for term after term.
There are plenty of factors rolled into the teal vote, but that is definitely one of them.
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@barbarian Australia is not America, get rid of the happy clappers that seemingly took over the party.
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@mariner4life but recruiting happy clappers has worked at so many levels... Local, State, AND Federal!
It is only when it turned from your bog standard vanilla christianity to an overabundance of Pentecostals that it has seemingly become a problem.
I mean, look at this crazy shit: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/nsw-nationals-candidate-tells-congregation-of-her-aim-to-bring-gods-kingdom-to-politics
The National party’s candidate for the marginal northern New South Wales seat of Richmond told worshippers at a Pentecostal church that her “ultimate goal” in politics was to “bring God’s kingdom to the political arena”. The comments by the endorsed Nationals candidate, Kimberly Hone, have emerged alongside a series of old social media posts described by her opponents as “repulsive”, and include a post with a broken Facebook link from 2017 that says “one way to avoid domestic violence is to marry well”.
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interesting comments from one of the candidates to take the Nationals leadership off that stain of a bloke Barnaby
He probably fucked himself with these comments, but i thought they were incredibly honest and full of merit
Basically the views of some of the more "extreme" National party MPs contributed heavily to the losses suffered by the Liberals in the City seats. And if they are going to be good coalition partners, and get back in to Government, they need to recognise that.
Barnaby of course is taking the opposite approach. Because Barnaby only cares about Barnaby.
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@mariner4life prior to the election, the LNP were making scary noises about "hung Parliament" and "minority government"
We had a minority government for a decade; it's called the National Party
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A hung parliament is my ideal outcome. Imagine having a parliament where grown ups need to talk and agree on whether things are a good idea or not to get things done
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@gibbon-rib at this stage, the ALP will need to play nice in the lower house, even if they reach majority, because the senate will probably have enough greens or independents to hold the keys
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This is why I keep calling for Senators to be elected at the same time as State elections. That way they're more likely to do their job.
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The Australian Energy Market Operator yesterday took control of the electricity market with the ability to direct generators to provide electricity and cap pricing. This as the most populous State in Australia asks residents to cut their power use for the third night in a row.
It isn't the fault of the new PM, but this cartoon captures my sentiment well enough:
(for those not in on the joke, a previous Labor PM promised in 1987 that by 1990 no child would be living in poverty).
The sad reality is this was entirely foreseeable when you have a policy free zone, a lack of domestic gas supply and permit dependable electricity generation to become uneconomic.
All in a country with every possible advantage to provide dependable, cheap electricity.
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so turns out Scotty From Marketing may also have been
Scotty From Finance; and
Scotty From Health; and
Scotty From ResourcesThere's jobs for the boys, and then there's just swearing yourself in to jobs because you are a control freak.
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@mariner4life this would be funny as, if true. I mean, there's "I don't hold a hose" and "I'm just a backbencher". Worlds apart, yet still on brand.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life this would be funny as, if true. I mean, there's "I don't hold a hose" and "I'm just a backbencher". Worlds apart, yet still on brand.
Nice confirmation that he was ever motivated by a sense of public service. What a repugnant fluffybunny.
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