Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ? 23 minutes ago:
Life is not pretty good right now.
I’d say it is for most things
I have solar, a solar battery, and EV, stable employment, great job actually, not being invaded by Russia, Brisbane won like all the local sports tournaments, I have unlimited music on Spotify, AI has been huge for me, I’m getting so much more done, my local cafe makes amazing food, overall my life is no real complaints except
Housing
afaik housing is pretty much the only real negative we have here and it’s been a negative for me since at least 2012 when I was looking at buying a house for the first time
no one really wants to fix it.
I duno about that, outside of climate change I’d say it’s #2 on issues being tackled
Research by Gamlen and his colleague Peter McDonald shows that since around the turn of the century, conservative governments have made universities dependent on international student fees, created the 457 temporary skilled migrant visa, expanded post-study work rights, and signed nearly 70% of Australia’s working holiday migration agreements.
In contrast, Labor’s policies when in power have tended to tighten immigration rules.
When in government, Labor has raised compliance and labour standards on students and skilled workers, cracked down on shonky education providers and visa hopping, and tightened English language tests.
“There is no foundation to claims that Labor has followed a policy of ‘Big Australia’,” they conclude.
In other words, says Gamlen, “it’s the temporary program which creates a lot of the issues that the Coalition are most worried about, and yet they are the party most in favour of the temporary migration”.
theguardian.com/…/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-why-lab…
Labor has promised to support the build of 1.2m homes, and 55,000 social and affordable homes, by June 2029.
theguardian.com/…/labor-has-promised-12m-new-home…
I duno if they can build that many homes but tbh I’m not even aware there was a target prior to labor coming in
- Submitted 4 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 4 days ago:
but in context we must acknowledge that people like Pauline Hanson use anti-Islamic arguments as a proxy for racism against Middle Easterners
Is this what greens voters think? I can’t really attest to that, I get along with heaps of people from the middle east just fine, particularly the ex-muslims, in fact I get along better with ex-muslims than green haired melbournite left wing progressives lol
Islam and other religions
51% of Australians had unfavourable sentiments towards Islam, and only 10% looked upon the religion positively, making Australia more negative than 17 of the other 22 countries surveyed.
In fact, 37% of people said they were “very unfavourable”– the most negative response available. This was far higher than the milder option of “fairly unfavourable” (14%), and made it the single most common response to the religion. 23% of people were neutral.
theguardian.com/…/australians-accepting-of-migran…
Remade the chart using my fancy paint skills as it was red and dark red for favour and unfavourable (whoever made that chart at the guardian was clearly having a bad day)
New poll suggests 49 per cent of Australians back Muslim migrant ban
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/…/ilnh8288n
Australians hate Islam but only in left wing progressive circles is it a touchy racist!!!11 subject along the lines of what is a woman.
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 4 days ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oe1EXro6s
In this case no, I skimmed the video but in this case I don’t see her doing anything wrong
It’s a bit ironic that the greens lady in the video is so loud and outraged about someone wearing a burqa, maybe because most people feel this way, just not about Pauline in particular wearing it.
Unfortunately Nu Greens members have tied the party into a very odd spot, progressive and regressive simultaneously which is leading people to leave to labor, resulting in one of the saddest poll results ever:
The latest Guardian Essential poll also found One Nation’s primary vote has doubled to 13% since the May federal election, putting support for the hard-right party above the Greens.
theguardian.com/…/australians-back-labor-albanese…
Congrats to the greens, you played yourself
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 5 days ago:
Islam is not a race
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 5 days ago:
“If they don’t want me wearing it — ban the burqa,” she said.
Pretty much
“She is disrespecting the Muslims out there, Muslim Australians, it’s absolutely unconstitutional,” Payman said.
Wearing a burqa is unconstitutional? What?
- Comment on [Fortune] Nvidia CEO says the company is in a no-win situation amid AI-bubble chatter, leaked meeting reveals 6 days ago:
2026 I don’t think will be kind to our shares and super accounts :\
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- Comment on BREAKING: Trump's New Ukraine Peace Plan is a DISASTER 1 week ago:
breaking is absolutely dead as a term, just like strongly worded letters are now recognised as meaningless
- Comment on BREAKING: Trump's New Ukraine Peace Plan is a DISASTER 1 week ago:
bruh this forum gets 1 post every 2 weeks, if you’re unhappy with the source either ignore it or downvote and move on
You can have specific requirements on what type of type of post you want when you’ve actually got posts
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 2 weeks ago:
Should change their name to Facebook Party because that appears to be who they’re targeting
- Comment on What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ? 2 weeks ago:
life’s pretty good right now 😎
- Comment on Happy American import day 3 weeks ago:
Its been over 200 years since English first landed in Australia (none of them are alive)
People born in Australia are native Australians, I know this bothers you (because you’re racist) but feel free to take your own advice and leave :)
- Comment on Happy American import day 3 weeks ago:
I have no idea where this idea came from, that if you are an immigrant you can have no say on how the country is run.
- Comment on With the Social Media Ban coming in next month what's the plan? 3 weeks ago:
correct
aussie.zone has less users and content than the comment section on an average mildly popular youtube video
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- Comment on Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation] 4 weeks ago:
must have got that information or whatever they were after real quick
- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 4 weeks ago:
if mastodon had a shared block list where i could block all american politics
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 weeks ago:
Strongly worded letters lead to actions and reactions
If “lol no” is the reaction you’re after then yeah, they sure do get a reaction
The UN does a lot more than words
I know, they appoint some of the most oppressive countries for women as head of women:
Outrage as Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women
🤣
it delivers aid all over the world
So do lots of charities
the General Assembly provides a platform of relatively equal footing where the nations of the world coordinate, interact, and communicate the desires and directions. Communication on such a scale is key for stability in this world, where inconsistencies arise catastrophic blunders can soon follow.
I don’t agree at all, we’ve been on the verge of ww3 for a very long time
en.wikipedia.org/…/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar…
UN or no UN
Clearly doing a lot to stop the war in Sudan… or the war in Afghanistan or Iraq or Russia …
My favourite UN debacle is when China refused them entry to investigate the origins of COVID:
The lack of cooperation from Chinese authorities stalled the second phase, and the WHO eventually abandoned the second phase.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00283-y
They are a powerless time wasting body of bureaucrats, I would love to pull Australia out if I could
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 weeks ago:
Chappelle’s sketch leads to instability, fear and greater amounts of stagnation
He was saying exactly what George Bush was saying but in a humorous way, you’re trying to cling to something that never existed
You can simply look at all the wars China and USA have been engaged in over the last few decades and take stock. There’s a reason we tie our defence to Europe and America, it’s because the UN is utterly incapable of achieving anything other than writing strongly worded letters
- Comment on Financially illiterate Greens supporter appalled by PM schmoozing leader of world's biggest economy 5 weeks ago:
Implying she’s financially illiterate, when she made the only good financial decision Australians under 40 can make – having rich parents.
You want under 30, I’m 38 and doing fine
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 weeks ago:
‘Might is right’ is the world your wishing for
Not what I’m wishing for, it’s what exists?
What you’re wishing for is some sort of international world police? but this has never existed or had any real power
From 2004:
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 weeks ago:
No it doesn’t? Our freedom relies on our alliance to Europe and America, if China invades the ICJ will be about as useful as a lollipop stuck up a goats butt.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 5 weeks ago:
United Nations’s highest court 😂
- Comment on Breaking: Amazon cloud platform and other websites experiencing outages 5 weeks ago:
where did you see this?
i went to check reddit and it looks like they’ve blocked all vpns
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Teens charged with murder after deaths of Melbourne boys refuse to attend court 1 month ago:
ngl I didn’t know you could do that
- Comment on BHP agrees to settle some iron ore sales to China using RMB instead of USD 1 month ago:
crazy times
- Comment on Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’ 1 month ago:
if you’ve read history you know this isn’t unusual at all
- Submitted 1 month ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
