MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@aussie.zone
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 3 days ago:
This is on you then. Providing finished documents in an editable format just feels wrong to me
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 3 days ago:
Just lie. There is absolutely nothing unethical about lying about timeframes on your resume.
Looking for a job after being made redundant, but still in good standing with your former coworker or manager? Just say you still work there.
Otherwise they’ll have way more leverage when it comes to salary negotiation.
My friend did this when he got made redundant, landed a well paying job, after months of being unemployed.
You have no reason to have a gap on your resume because you’ll be unfairly punished for it.
Just lie. It’s 100% ethical.
- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 4 days ago:
Yeah I agree, it’s definitely on NSW to reform, not everyone else…
- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 4 days ago:
Wait NSW uses first past the post in state and local elections?
A search later: it’s preferential, but optionally so. elections.nsw.gov.au/…/examples-of-ballot-papers
I dunno if I’m a fan of less than 5 preferences being mandatory.
We must resist first past the post voting at all costs.
- Comment on [Satire] James McGrath urges public to wait for outcome of Harold Holt’s disappearance before jumping to conclusions about Liberal leadership 4 days ago:
I think the other guy was a former pollster for the liberals, who along with the guy sitting next to him (former pollster for the Labor party) both work for the ABC now.
That was my recollection anyway
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 1 week ago:
Unless Australians are comfortable with sending a much larger number of lower house members, that would make the electorates get much bigger than they currently are, and I would guess removing local representatives would not be a popular move.
I’m not entirely convinced that 1 liberal and 1 Labor would be locked in everywhere. I think the change in electoral system would produce governments much more representative of how people vote. It would change us to a system where forming a coalition is practically expected.
5 does seem like a reasonable working number of members to send as a combined “delegation” from an electorate, but that’d be the maximum desirable, in my view.
With 225 members and sending 5 from each electorate, that would reduce the number to only 45 electorates in the whole country.
Something, I’m totally fine with, I think federal electorates ought to be much larger than state or local electorates, but it would probably be a hard sell to many people.
Really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this :)
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 1 week ago:
I reckon we ought to increase the number lower house seats to 225 seats by combining electorates in groups of 2, and sending 3 candidates from each.
That ought to fix the representation issues we currently have in the lower house, without entirely removing the local nature of lower house electorates.
Say what you will about any party, but when you see a party routinely get 10-13% of the vote, but only manage to get 0.66 to 1.33% of the seats, it’s kinda hard to argue we couldn’t improve the system any further.
Even taking preferences into account, I think our current system favours larger parties too much because of single-member electorates.
Though, I am very grateful for the system we already have. Thank Christ we are not the US or UK (or Canada).
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 week ago:
This was my favourite part of tonight hahaha
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 week ago:
Scotty from marketing, a whole lotta words, not much substance.
- Comment on Liberal Party drops 'diss track' aimed at Labor 3 weeks ago:
I LOVE they had to add the authorisation at the end because of electoral laws haha
Icing on the cringe cake
- Comment on Coalition’s claim that fuel efficiency standard would raise prices based on car no longer on sale 3 weeks ago:
I expect it’s at the behest of the oil industry anyway, gotta keep consumption as high as possible.
Brought to you by my conspiracy theory, which seems very plausible given oil companies’ history.
- Comment on 'Read the room': WA Greens reschedule Anzac Day dance party fundraiser 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been rather turned off by Anzac Day growing up, since it’s felt more and more the narrative has turned to “mateship” and how heroic the ANZACs were, instead of the reality which is that Australians were sent into the meat grinder by the British Empire (which in fairness, I was taught at school), and that war is hell, and we ought to do everything we possibly can to avoid it.
That all being said, excluding more modern veterans is total bullshit and anyone suggesting modern veterans are any less deserving are being dicks*. And I say this as someone very critical of Australia’s involvement in America’s imperialist invasions.
It’s not our soldiers fault they were sent. They’re the ones who actually had to endure the trauma of war, not Howard, who sent them.
Really hope all veterans in good standing can take part in any march they desire.
*Criticising the military in general, and specific soldiers/units who engaged in war crimes is fair game, in my opinion.
- Comment on Past performance backs Labor as better economic bet 3 weeks ago:
Thanks to Trump’s far-right power grab, we may retain our centre-left government.
Dutton just has a face that makes you think of fascism (in my opinion). The harry potter films have cemented that image in many people’s minds, I would guess.
Thanks Trump haha
- Comment on [TW] Convicted r**ist runs One Nation election campaign 1 month ago:
I think your heart is in the right place, but they’re gonna know what the word is either way.
Content warnings are a valid thing, to warn you what’s about to be discussed.
But totally avoiding the topic all together in all contexts isn’t really possible, or good for society.
I think censoring words like rapist isn’t a good idea.
- Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise 2 months ago:
Here’s a crazy idea, we could just employ health workers directly. Cut out the practice owners making a profit/charging rent to the doctors practicing out of their location.
Just not make the insane mistake the UK made by not paying health workers competitively. There’s a reason we have so many ex-NHS staff working in Australia, lol
We are super wealthy per capita by international standards, we could absolutely afford it. (If we bothered taxing the multinationals shipping our minerals overseas…)
- Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise 2 months ago:
I’m not super versed in Medicare billing, but what I do know is doctors can set their own rates, for which part is covered by medicare, and rates have been going up faster than rebates.
There has definitely been price gouging, because shopping around on GP visits is a pain, and often people just cop it.
It’s been years since you’ve been able to get bulk billing within like 7 km from Melbourne CBD.
Some of it is genuine cost of living increases, but there still doesn’t seem to be any mechanism to control prices other than the “free market”
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 9 February 2025 2 months ago:
Turns out the City of Melbourne have a reporting form for illegally parked cars, which they action in real time.
Just got a Tesla fined for parking in a car share spot lol
Wouldn’t normally do this, but it’s always a Tesla or BMW parking in car share spots.