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- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 8 hours ago:
I actually just had a read of some of the submissions from farmers.
I’ll be honest in that they do raise some compelling points. Notably, as a major exporter Australia presently sets the standard of care for all nations, so I think there is some truth to the idea that animals will suffer more after we withdraw.
However, I hadn’t realised that a phase out is in place. 3 years doesn’t seem an unreasonable period in which to transition.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Ah, sorry… the “negative effects of the ban” are the deleterious effects on graziers. There are many farmers who had a flock worth $500k which is now worth $100k. Some large graziers are not breeding more sheep because they can’t sell the ones they have.
A lot of these operations are big businesses and in some cases the existing format just isn’t viable any more.
As I said I’m not very sympathetic because that’s just how things go if you want to run a business, but it’s definitely a big deal for some people.
For example, a farmer might be in their late 60s and saying “I’ve been working with sheep for 50 years and it’s all I know” and for their farm to continue they need to transition to cropping or some such.
One silly argument against live export that I heard some people parroting is that if Australia doesn’t do it some other country will and the standards of care for the sheep will be much lower than ours. That’s just bullshit IMO.
The requirement for live export is, as in all things, a money thing. It’s cheaper to ship them live because you don’t need refrigeration, and you don’t need Australian-Standards-Compliant abattoirs paying Australian wages.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
They’re really terrible at losing.
It kinda sounds like he’s saying that voters have made the wrong choice, and that more of the same from LNP next time round will win government for them.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Here in Albany those fucking keep the sheep signs are everywhere, a noisy minority indeed.
Personally I’m not sympathetic. Farmers just have a lot of tax concessions. It’s been plain to see for years that live export was going to stop sooner or later. If you were exposed to that risk, well, you should have taken action to manage it.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
I think the planets kind of aligned for Labor in a way they’re unlikely to again.
I’ll take the win this time and hope for the best in three years.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Our progressive party probably would have creaked through to a minority victory but this is a historic victory and we have brutalised the conservatives, and that’s due to Trump.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Duttons concession was shit.
“Labor lied about us so the voters got it wrong”
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Sure but wouldn’t those same maths and statistics allow electorates to be called?
I think maybe the ABC’s website coverage is stuck.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Well, it’s the biggest thumping we’ve seen in a long while and it’s on him.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
“Lets just wait for the numbers to come in”
Yeah fuck off James. No one likes a sore loser.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
I’m abso-fucking-lutely stoked at this result…
… but how have they called it already with only 2 seats declared ?
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Fuck yeah. Looks like Dickson has fallen.
46% of the vote counted and Labor candidate in the lead on 57%
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Jim is starting to look smug. I would too.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
To be fair, I wouldn’t enjoy being him over the next hour.
There’s really nothing that he can possibly say at this time other than “Lets wait for more votes to come in.”
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 day ago:
Pretty big swing against him in Dickson right now. He might lose his own seat.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 2 days ago:
Same. Safe liberal seat. Haven’t seen anything.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 2 days ago:
I despise the corflutes.
I tried having a whinge to our local council about the ones that seemed to contravene the rules but they didn’t seem to care very much, and the law is quite permissive anyway.
Sadly I think they provide candidates the best RoI. There must be a better way.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 2 days ago:
Labor will be more productive if they don’t have to deal with the greens.
- Comment on Nampijinpa Price contradicts Dutton, asserting Coalition will end school 'indoctrination' 2 days ago:
What’s Jacinta’s deal?
I’ll admit I’m somewhat naive to the struggles of first Australians but I always thought Labor would better represent the interests of minorities.
Why has she thrown in with the conservatives?
- Comment on Nampijinpa Price contradicts Dutton, asserting Coalition will end school 'indoctrination' 2 days ago:
I don’t think they really know TBH it just has the right vibe to gather up some right wing voters.
- Comment on How Antony Green sees his final federal election playing out | 7.30 2 days ago:
Can someone make an election results thread already?
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 days ago:
I’m conceptually opposed to oat milk generally.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 3 days ago:
I love my ebike.
I’ve been big into bikes forever, but the ebike just makes it super convenient to bike to work.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 6 days ago:
There’s a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
oddly enough, no one has suggested that I start an OF if I don’t have money /s
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Oh please.
Did you really just create a lemmy account to tell us about your best friend who is a top international high-end escort who also runs an extremely profitable OnlyFans account ?
I imagine lemmy is fairly low-yield as regards paying fans. The stereotypical lemmy user is young and broke.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
It’s never too early to efficiently count your sheep!
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Double entry accounting system.
I’m an accountant by trade. The double entry system wasn’t invented until the 15th century.
I could account for any lords various assets, goods, and livestock in an efficient, reliable and accurate manner
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
In my industry it’s an incremental improvement.
Potentially the current tech could make firms 10% more productive if fully realised. That’s my estimate anyway.
It’s not a game changer.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 week ago:
I know some people who eloped.
They went to the registry office with a witness then did a week of cycle touring because that’s their thing.
Posted it on social after the fact.
I thought it was a great way to go.