It’s a bit weird that Dutton doesn’t seem to have much of a plan for the campaign.
That’s what most struck me about this story. Is Dutton really just ad-libbing without a plan? Could it be some kind of Trumpian ploy to suck up attention?
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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Weird play.
I don’t think you’d get bi-partisan support for stripping citizenship so it’s a non-starter.
Who cares about four-year terms really? The main impediments to our democracy is concentrated media ownership, corporate campaign donors, and unregulated social media. Of course there’s no interest in tackling any of those problems is there.
Indigenous recognition is an interesting one. The LNP undermined the ALPs referendum on recognition. If the LNP floated their own then ALP would be under a lot of pressure to support it, but of course the LNPs “recognition” would be tepid and I’m almost certain would limit equality in the future rather than promote it.
It’s a bit weird that Dutton doesn’t seem to have much of a plan for the campaign. They’ve had forever to plan and nothing has happened yet.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 3 days ago
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Trump’s strategy is to “flood the zone” (as Steve Bannon puts it) so that all the oxygen for reporting on anything is sucked up. This was also more or less Scott Morrisons strategy when he won, they hired a pair of dweebs from NZ whose job is basically to flood social media with bad memes so that it’s all you see. So it wouldn’t surprise me if what Dutton is doing is a similar strategy.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I support longer terms. Every 3 years is ridiculous and forces governments to constantly be paying attention to their latest polling numbers rather than focused on delivering the best policy. In fact, I would support every 5 years, with 10 year Senate terms.
The LNP’s proposal was for recognition, nothing more. They don’t even pretend it’ll have any real benefit. They want to be able to say “look, we recognise them!” While not actually doing anything to help Indigenous Australians today.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’m not against longer terms, but I don’t feel it’s a priority, or worth a referendum at this time.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’d be happy with four and eight year terms. Personally, I think the UK has shown why five years is pushing too far the other direction.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Indigenous recognition is an interesting one. The LNP undermined the ALPs referendum on recognition. If the LNP floated their own then ALP would be under a lot of pressure to support it, but of course the LNPs “recognition” would be tepid and I’m almost certain would limit equality in the future rather than promote it.
I genuinely think the proposal, to recognise indigenous history in the constitution’s preamble, is that lukewarm that ALP could easily not support it. The vast majority of indigenous rights groups aren’t going to consider it good enough.
Minarble@aussie.zone 3 days ago
It’s bizarre he just seems to be letting rip with half formed brain farts.
At the moment their policy’s seem to be
Hi I’m Peter Dutton Elect us We will raise your tax We will cut your services We will cut your jobs And also force you to stop working from home despite your legally binding EBAS We will use your taxes to build nuclear power No we don’t have a plan for nuclear waste Albo wanted money on his election promise to have a referendum on the voice it was a terrible waste of money. Also we want to do the same thing on an even less important issue that will affect maybe 2 people a year We will also break the gas companies export contracts for undisclosed billions of dollars while also wrecking the water table in the east coast by fracking But it’s all ok because the bosses can have boozy tax payer funded lunches Also by the way I’m not a monster
Seems legit.