Did you read all of that tweet.
The next line provides context.
Come on dude, seriously.
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They like a sit in protesting planter boxes on the footpath.
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Deceptive packaging, or companies knowing the price point people are willing to spend.
Shopping centres already have unit pricing, came in 2010. It does nothing to address high prices or shrinkflation.
but yeh quick and easy to compare best value if you ignore the sale docket and look at unit price cost. E.g 3 different sizes of vegemite. $/100 grams
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as any member of bomberblitz should already know, posting isnāt meaningful action
Who are their more ānormal votersā though?
If you note the polls, all polls, are indicating the LNPās primary vote is edging up towards 37/38% again, comfortably above the last election. Thats a clear shift in sentiment.
Theyāve abandoned (rightly) inner city elites who vote Green or Teal. That shouldnāt be their target moving forward. Instead, theyāre targeting the voters in the middle / outer suburbs / regions whoāve been abandoned by Labo whoāre busy trying to chase green voters whoāre encroaching on their left flanks.
The QLD election is a tale of inner city Brisbane (Labor / Greens) Vs the outer suburbs and regions (LNP). And yes, QLD is unique in part.
But the traditional allegiances are changing and the major parties are transforming and chasing different voters. Abd whilst some think Dutton is a flop, heās resonating with straight talk, an alternative policy direction built on traditional conservative values and his message is gaining traction.
Heās going after the supermarkets as itās an easy political ploy. All sides of politics do this, feeding off ignorance of shoppers / voters. Reality is, inflation is driving up manufacturing costs and this is feeding into increased pricing on the shelf. Or creating more air in chip bagsā¦ Thats in part government driven.
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As a greenie (small āgāā¦) I reckon that if thereās going to be fixed election dates, they should be in March. That way, when people vote, the recent bushfire season is firmly on their minds. Part of the reasons n that the dire Morrison/Turnbull/Abbott governments won elections is that they were lucky enough that elections never came along immediately after bad fire seasons, so which is when the biggest pressure to do something on climate is applied.
Iām not sure about 100% public election funding, either. I see the attraction in principle, but you have to put a limit on it somehow or people will just sign up as candidates to rort the system, but on the other hand, if you gate it too hard you just end up locking in the incumbent parties, and making the barrier too high for independents and smaller parties (like the major parties have done in Vic, in a deliberate attempt to lock in the duopoly)
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Thatās just the anyone but Morrison voters coming home. There was a significant amount of people at the last election that were pretty solid liberal voters that wanted nothing to do with Morrison and were happy to vote him out. Itās unlikely they were going to become life long Labor voters.
If traditional conservative values include dogwhistling appeals to racism, the dangers of giving visas to refugees because some might be criminals or terrorists ( or supporters of terrorist organisations) tarnishing Muslims, preference to white Christians, thatās going to go down well in electorates with high numbers of ethnics.
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I havenāt really been following the polls or anything (lifeās too shortā¦) but it depends where this primary vote is coming from. Remember last election was held right in the shadow of lockdowns and One Nation, Palmer, and various other cookers were riding high. If itās just those people coming back to the Libs, then the parliamentary needle wonāt move at all.
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Some of the pollsters are predicting minority governments as a fixture. No bad thing, going by the progressive legislation that was passed in the Gillard Government.
The ACT has been in minority government, ALP and Greens for around 20 years.
Many Continental European Governments function on the basis of minority Government. They are not all bad.
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Thatās true, but quite a few of those were disaffected voters who were the more conservative voters whoād lost faith in Scomo whoād failed to fight for conservative values. Heād become more Labor light in their view. And some were the more wealthy left flank who went to the Teals. Since then theyāve targeted middle / outer suburban voters whoāre more focussed on traditional values like cost of living and how that touches their lives in every sense: Immigration, housing, energy etc.
Dutton seems to be trying to look after the voters Albo has abandoned whilst also playing to his conservative right. As Iāve said previously, if interest rates come down I think the landscape could shift again away from the Coalition. Thatās to be seen.
I think thatās a bit rich. I think thatās where the āleftā are losing ground and proving to be out of touch in a bid to stave off the greensā¦
Rather I think the Coalition recognise Australians understand the record and excessive migration has resulted in higher inflation and a squeeze on housing and infrastructure and that is driving up cost of living which in the end is all voters really are concerned about. So, you might argue itās about racism. Iād argue itās confronting failed Ponzi scheme government policy which most Australians, sitting around their kitchen tables, recognise needs to be altered to take heat out of the excess demand relative to supply in the economy to help make their lives better. And the polls indicate Australians are responding to this change in course.
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When the Australian, of all rags, runs a headline that the weekly grocery bill is causing Australians the most stress, you call out politicians responding to this problem as an easy political ploy, does that reflect traditional conservative values?
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Unfortunately, I live in an area where my vote does not count either in state or federal elections, but in the case of Victoria, I would for the first time like to vote out the Victorian Labour Government, purely for its past and continuing financial mismanagement . I am happy to vote for my Teal representative next year
The current Victorian Government now has so much baggage, its time. It has the stink remeniscent of the Tricontinental/Statebank era, and as was with Joan Kirner, the current Premier has accepted a poisoned chalice.
Victoria is still living with the Kennett legacy.
Once upon a time, Victoria had the likes of Hamer and Thompson, going against the Bolte legacy . Today, we have Liberals plotting to bring down a Liberal moderate in Pesutto.
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Typical Albo - recycling an old old story. Graham Kennedy did this in the 1960s, ffs 
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You want to turf the current Gov in favour of voting the preferences to the LNP who have imploded, have weak leadership and is about to dump their leader for a very right-wing player?
If thatās the case, itās likely to have zero electoral impact if they move back to the Coalition though.
Voters who thought Morrison didnāt represent conservative values would still have preferenced the coalition over labor last election, even if their first preference went elsewhere - to Hanson or Palmer or the Lib Dems or somewhere. So even if they come back en masse, it isnāt going to help the Coalition win seats back from Labor.
And voters who went from the Libs to the Teals because Morrison wasnāt credible on issues like climate, corruption, women etc arenāt going to be lured back in great numbers by Dutton either.
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