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

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gawd. Prime Minister Pauline would make us long for the ScoMo era, I reckon.

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  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She’d be better because she’d be worse at executing her agenda and any government electing her would be wracked by infighting

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    • Wataba@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      She’d embolden the racist pigs out there to try getting away with more stuff.

      Im not willing to endure a pyrrhic victory here in copying the fucking stupidity of the US.

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• Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remain sceptical until an election gets closer. I don’t understand why the budget is being received so negatively, though. Is there something about it that is making people particularly concerned, or is just that there are no direct handouts or quick fixes so people remain entrenched in their doomerism? From everything I’ve read it does not seem to be at all deserving of this level of backlash.

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  • shirro@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨hour⁩ 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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  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It’s as if Labor designed a budget to turbocharge more anti-establishment sentiment and pump up One Nation’s tyres.

  Facts

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  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s actually pretty good though

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• KaChilde@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I always doubt these reports. The news media has proven that they will bias conservative parties in their reporting, in order to sway elections.

  By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.

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  • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.

    I don’t necessarily agree that it’s a case of “the news media” trying to "sway elections’, I think there’s a lot more nuance here than you’re suggesting. But I definitely agree that this constant fearmongering about One Nation in order to gain clicks is massively contributing to the mainstreaming of the party. I also agree that if One Nation finds success on election night, the panel of ABC journalists who have spent all their time discussing One Nation over the last few years will be predictably shocked and have absolutely zero self-awareness about the role of the national broadcaster here.

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