Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed.

Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it’s being reported like that in spite of great economic policies. Labor always outperform conservatives on finance, the only thing convincing them otherwise is misleading news reporting. The stats are open and free to the public and right there.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People have left reliable reporting and information sources behind and only subscribe to brain melting propaganda feeds which trivialize and distort.

  Emotional appeals such as ragebait and doomerism increase engagement and soc media platforms are all engagement farms. It is a combination of the algorithmic nature of those platforms promoting this sort of content and organizations that create content aimed at increasing societal division and undermining trust in government and institutions. As people are getting emotional manipulation in place of information it just naturally carries over into everyday conversation I guess as it fires them up.

  I admit I don’t follow the news like I did either. I would watch ABC/SBS news, longer form news/current affairs on the same platforms, multiple newspapers. I tend to just skim some web pages these days or find out about stuff because it gets mentioned here. I am much less informed than I was 20 years ago but with the media environment the way it is now I wouldn’t want to consume as much as I once did.

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  • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I suppose I’m guilty of a lack of awareness regarding my own habits. I listen to longer form, discussion style podcasts about complex issues and I follow the ABC’s coverage of Australian politics reasonably closely. Maybe this is having a bigger impact on my understanding of current affairs than I thought, which is why the (I assume) majority who don’t have these habits are now in a completely different world to me.

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  • blind3rdeye@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree with that.

    Many years ago, I had a paper subscription to both The Age and The Australian; and both were respectable publications at the time… Whereas now neither of them are. There is still good journalism happening, but it is no longer the norm. And so it isn’t as easy to consume it as a routine, or talk about it casually to people in slightly different social circles.

    I feel like almost every story is like “here is what some people with obviously vested interests say about such-and-such”. Or the other flavour of story which is basically “shit’s fucked. It sucks, right?” For politics in particular, I see so many stories about whether some policy is popular, and again opinions from vested interests… but very little objective comparison. Like, people aren’t proposing policy changes because they are complete idiots. They have reasons. So I’d like the reporting on them to say what those reasons are, and look into whether or not the policy will meet the goals of those reasons.

    Ok. I feel like I’m whinging and being a bit vague. Like I said before, there is still some good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it. So I shouldn’t complain too much about what I see. I guess I’m just bit a worried about what everyone else sees too. Rage-bait emotional manipulation, mostly.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it

      So, I have a list I’ve been slowly adding to over the last few years of independent media in Australia with journalists doing good work. There might be some in this you might be interested in.

      List of independent media in Aus

      • Ette media
      • Lamestream
      • Independent aus
      • Michael west
      • Deep cut
      • Crikey
      • Urban wronsky
      • Friendly jordies
      • The shot
      • The Klaxton
      • John Menadue
      • Cheek media
      • Abby Dib
      • Declassified
      • Equator (monthly politics,culture, not sure if this fits.)
      • Inside Story
      • Mayne Report (Shareholder Activist Stephen Mayne)
      • Antonylowenstein.com (Palestine Laboratory)
      • Overland
      • Greenleft.org

      If anyone has any ideas of what I should do with a list like this, except sharing it occasionally like this, I’d interested to hear about it.

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      • No1@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No Betoota Advocate?

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• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I too would agree that the only poll that determines the government is the one on election day and we’ve seen that go one way or the other because of a few days propaganda (<3 the westminister system, so good).

  I think it’s mostly that:

  a) very few people read any sort of long form analysis or really any news at all.

  b) rich people are highly motivates to distribute propaganda against this budget and to downplay how rich they are

  c) lots of people who are yolked wage-slave proles (almost all the population) don’t understand how low down the economic ladder they are and aren’t motivated to think about it since it’s humilating in a culture that equated wealth with worth and worthiness.

  d) shares are basically the only way you can (un)realistically dream of escaping your chains atm and “labour can tax you out of escaping” is easy propaganda for (b) to hit © with.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s probably just warped by social media, giving everyone their own little idealized version of One Nation while every little thing in Labor’s budget is peeled apart.

  I hate to sound so cynical, but I’ve seen this movie before.

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