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[SeaEagleRock8]

How to I delete a mistaken thumbs up as I went to write?

Just go back to that post, hover over the 'Like' until the options appear, and either select a different one, or if you select the same thumbs up it will remove it.

 

[lsz]

Aware that I am going to potentially open a can of worms up but here goes

Thoughts on the Australian election?

 

[The '47ers]

Aware that I am going to potentially open a can of worms up but here goes

Thoughts on the Australian election?

Not really, it's just more of the same from both.
Lispy limpy vs Voldemort is hardly inspiring, now promises will get broken (both sides do it) and they'll now both blabber their way towards the next election so we can do it all again.

 

[Brookie1973]

Not really, it's just more of the same from both.
Lispy limpy vs Voldemort is hardly inspiring, now promises will get broken (both sides do it) and they'll now both blabber their way towards the next election so we can do it all again.

That’s a nice summary.

Dutton lost (in a landslide) what should have been an unloseable election given the governments poor performance over the past 3 years. I put it down to;

• Duttons personality - unrelatable and unlikeable
• conservatives once again afraid to take strong policy positions and have the courage of their convictions in apparent fear of left wing media attacks. They seem to never learn that they won’t beat the left by just trying to be a little less left.
• the stupid nuclear policy
• the Reserve Bank interest rate cut at the start of the election period
• people worried about the massive changes trump is undertaking to reverse decades long trends like taffiff imbalances.

There is no sugar coating it, the election was a disaster for conservatives and in my opinion, for the country. All countries need a balance of left and right wing ideologies to strike the right balance - I fear the magnitude of this defeat will swing us too far in one direction. Can we survive another 3 years of sky rocketing energy costs, mass immigration on a scale never seen before (750k a year when the people we have here now can’t afford a home) and further cultural division?

Those taking pleasure in this result should ponder whether what we have been served up over the past 3 years deserves another 3, and where will we be at the end of it. Some of us lived through the Whitlam years when the country was very nearly run into the ground. Here’s hoping we can avoid that this time around.

 

[The '47ers]

Should've run with John Dutton

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

As John Howard said, “The Australian people always get it right.”

 

[lsz]

That’s a nice summary.

Dutton lost (in a landslide) what should have been an unloseable election given the governments poor performance over the past 3 years. I put it down to;

• Duttons personality - unrelatable and unlikeable
• conservatives once again afraid to take strong policy positions and have the courage of their convictions in apparent fear of left wing media attacks. They seem to never learn that they won’t beat the left by just trying to be a little less left.
• the stupid nuclear policy
• the Reserve Bank interest rate cut at the start of the election period
• people worried about the massive changes trump is undertaking to reverse decades long trends like taffiff imbalances.

There is no sugar coating it, the election was a disaster for conservatives and in my opinion, for the country. All countries need a balance of left and right wing ideologies to strike the right balance - I fear the magnitude of this defeat will swing us too far in one direction. Can we survive another 3 years of sky rocketing energy costs, mass immigration on a scale never seen before (750k a year when the people we have here now can’t afford a home) and further cultural division?

Those taking pleasure in this result should ponder whether what we have been served up over the past 3 years deserves another 3, and where will we be at the end of it. Some of us lived through the Whitlam years when the country was very nearly run into the ground. Here’s hoping we can avoid that this time around.

Re the media considering the views of the Murdoch press do you really think it was that much of an influence? Or are you talking about the “alternative “ media?