spiffmeister
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- Comment on Green Guillotine: how politics prevailed over principles in legislative avalanche - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
Pretty disappointed in the Greens tbh. What they got for guillotining debate seems poultry also,
$500m for social housing energy upgrades and commitments against fossil fuel investment.
Those better be some amazing commitments that Labor definitely won’t just not act on.
- Comment on 'Families are going to be ripped apart': Labor's 'brutal' migration law trio, explained 3 weeks ago:
It also clears the government from legal recourse for negligent decisions, making them immune from civil lawsuits in relation to the removal of a person or their treatment in a third country.
Surely this can’t stand up in courts? The government can just pass a law effectively saying it’s above the law?
- Comment on Labor, Coalition to suspend Lidia Thorpe from the Senate after she tore up a motion by Pauline Hanson 3 weeks ago:
Yeah don’t suspend Pauline for being a racist though dw about it.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 weeks ago:
Keep Peter Dutton out? The Greens? Consider the seats the Bandt has explicitly said the Greens will target at the next election: Sydney, Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond. All Labor seats.
This is true.
I wouldn’t say they’re cannibalizing the nationally left party though, Labor is centre left at best and we don’t have a purely 2 party system like the US so a left wing party could easily run in coalition. Otherwise you could also make the case that the nats cannibalise the libs.
which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government
If neither major party has the numbers to form majority government next election then they will deal with a minor/independent to form government, the Green’s obtaining more seats means if Labor is serious about forming government they would have to deal with them.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 weeks ago:
“And our government is not going to wait around while members of the Greens political party call for more housing in the media while opposing it in their electorates and voting against it in the parliament,”
I already said Labor would like credit for the $2B.
Nonetheless, the Greens say they will now “wave through” such terrible legislation.
So on one hand the Greens should get out of the way and pass Labor’s policies on housing, but also they shouldn’t pass this because it’s not good enough. I recall the help to buy scheme at least was assessed by the Australia Institute to make literally no difference because of the scale.
vote for the greens is a vote for the liberals
Ok champ.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 3 weeks ago:
They can go fuck themselves to be honest, I cannot believe in a housing crisis the greens are the ones holding up housing of all people…
I worry that a lot of people will feel the same.
Do you think if the greens just waved through the haff as-is, we would have gotten $2B extra for public housing? This funding only came after the Greens blocked the haff with extra funding a demand (though I know Labor take all the credit for it).
This is how independents and minor parties work, they can’t pass their own bills so they have to negotiate by holding government bills up.
- Comment on Greens to hand Labor win on two key housing bills after lengthy stand-off 3 weeks ago:
Nah, certainly not. I think Albanese’s biggest failure, so far, was not having the next part of this parliaments story ready to go as soon as the referendum was over.
The fact that Labor hasn’t been constantly screeching about having to clean up 10 years of the LNPs mess is a good indication they have no idea how to run a campaign anyway.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
The Australia Institute also has a new youtube video on this bill.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
You’re right the bill does not do that. The point I’m making is that the way in which you remove money from politics is important, not just the removal of it. If the bill essentially removed the ability for any other group to run other than the two major parties then it’s not a good bill.
Do you think that donations are the only way of biasing a party or candidate? How many have gone to work for consultants afterwards?
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
Would it be a good bill if donations were banned but only the two major parties get public funding?
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 5 weeks ago:
Advance has already said they will be targeting the Greens this election, and given both parties opposed the “truth in political advertising” bill you can bet it’s going to be a shitshow of misinfo.
- Comment on Nacc to reconsider whether to investigate robodebt after ‘apprehended bias’ finding against commissioner 1 month ago:
Borderline corrupt behavior by the corruption commissioner okay because he didn’t mean it. Ok.
- Comment on The Labor Careerists Wrecking Australia’s Construction Union 1 month ago:
Isn’t this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?
- Comment on A Queensland student loses case alleging school's uniform policy was discriminatory against females 2 months ago:
If they’re “permitted to year shorts” why not just skip the skirt and let them wear shorts?
- Comment on Academic publishing - pfft 2 months ago:
Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.
That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.
- Comment on Failure to launch: why the Albanese government is in trouble 2 months ago:
It really can’t be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.
- Comment on Six killed in Israeli strike on medical centre in central Beirut, Lebanon officials say 2 months ago:
Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they’ll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there’s none left in the region
- Comment on NACC redacts from FOI docs name of deputy leader who chose not to investigate robodebt 2 months ago:
Guess we need the NACC to investigate the NACC
- Comment on David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Albanese and Dutton as warning ahead of election 3 months ago:
It’s okay, they can use AI to teach it to save money
- Comment on David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Albanese and Dutton as warning ahead of election 3 months ago:
Fines that were actually enforced properly might work. In general though I think the feds probably need to run an education campaign about AI.
- Comment on A bill to kill a union: What is actually in the government’s CFMEU legislation 3 months ago:
It’s funny because I can’t even see the LNP coming up with something this bad.
- Comment on AUKUS revamped: Australia to indemnify US and UK against 'any liability' from nuclear risks 4 months ago:
This has already cost what, $430B? We should just throw in another few billion and build our own diesel subs for safety.
- Comment on Nine digitally altered female MP into 'more revealing' outfit 10 months ago:
I wonder if the new excuse any time a media company does something dodgy is “oh it was the AI sorry!”