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Advertising on radio constantly about an upcoming ToP’s event in Adelaide featuring Babet and some other rabbits with live feeds to Tucker Carlson and some other flogs. Ticketek selling them for $45 a pop and selling like hotcakes.
Now when is that meteor strike coming!
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Huh ! Judge as harshly as you want , but in a tough period of world conflict, poor world economic growth, Albo’s mob get at least a pass mark from me. Sure I always want more, but maybe you need to give some credit to things that have moved forward from some bleak years of Morrison and don’t forget those lingering COVID effects.
THE ALBANESE LABOR GOVERNMENT
So far in office we have delivered
Cost of Living Relief:
- Tax cuts for all Australians
- Two years of energy bill relief for every household and small business
- We’ve increased Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 45%
- We’ve introduced 60 day scripts and delivered cheaper medicines – saving Australians $1 billion.
- We’ve funded a 15% pay rise for early childhood educators and aged care workers while requiring childcare centres to cap fees to support affordability and fairness
- We’ve wiped $3 billion from student debt for more than 3 million Australians, and we’ll wipe another $20 billion if re-elected
The Economy:
- Delivered the largest back-to-back surpluses in history, halved inflation from 6.1% to 2.8%, and returned 82% of revenue upgrades ($285 billion) to reduce debt, saving $80 billion in interest
- Created more than 1 million jobs, the most of any first term government!
- Unemployment is at 4.1%, the lowest average unemployment rate in over 50 years
- Our 2024-25 budget invests $22.7 billion over the next decade to build a Future Made in Australia. This includes a new front door to make it easier to invest in Australia, production tax incentives and programs to support solar and battery manufacturing
Labor Priorities:
- Real wages are up 3.8% (almost double the 2.2% under the Coalition) – we’ve achieved the fastest turnaround in real wage growth on record
- Same Job Same Pay is now law, minimum wage earners are up $7000, the gender pay gap is the lowest it’s ever been with women $1900 per year better off
- We’ve building 1.2 million new homes across Australia, plus the biggest investment in social and affordable housing in a decade
- Making home ownership possible through Help to Buy schemes so that you can buy a home with a deposit as little as 2%
- We’ve strengthened Medicare by tripling bulk billing incentives and opened 84 Urgent Care Clinics (including in Oxley and Cornwall St), delivering 1 million free GP consultations so far, with 3 more clinics set to launch this financial year
- More than 30 of the 61 planned Medicare Mental Health Centres have been rolled out, providing free mental health care to everyone who walks through the door, in every state and territory
- We’ve passed landmark legislation to lift Federal Government funding to public schools above the 20% cap introduced by Malcolm Turnbull
- We’ve also made $16 billion of additional investment for public schools available to help fill the gap
- We’ve funded 500,000+ Fee-Free TAFE and training places across key areas of national priority and legislated 100,000 free TAFE training places annually from 2027
- 99% of nursing homes are now staffed with a registered nurse on-site 24/7, legislated bipartisanship reforms for certainty within the sector and an additional 3.9 million minutes of direct care every day, including 1.7 million minutes of care from registered nurses in residential aged care
- We’ve created the National Anti-Corruption Commission. After just 12 months of operation it has 31 corruption investigations underway and five matters before the court
- Passed legislation to ensure that multinationals pay their share of tax in Australia
- Implemented the biggest reform to mergers laws in almost 50 years to make the economy to stop damaging anti-competitive corporate acquisitions and to make economically beneficial mergers quicker and simpler
- Introduced laws to protect Australians from debt spirals associated with using Buy Now Pay Later services
Renewable Energy and Towards Net Zero:
- In just two years, we have ticked off 65 renewable projects – enough to power more than seven million homes; by the end of 2024 our grid will be powered by 42% renewables and we’re on track to achieve our 82% target by 2030
- We’re electrifying everything that can be electrified, powering it with renewables, and building large-scale storage through batteries, pumped hydro, and hydrogen—creating thousands of jobs across our regions
- Through the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund and the Buy Australian Plan, we’re modernising and diversifying our industrial base, unlocking the capability to manufacture these cutting-edge technologies right here in Australia
Top Environment Portfolio Wins:
- Investing $550 million to protect our threatened species
- We’re increasing recycling by more than 1.3 million tonnes a year & stopping paper, soft and difficult to recycle plastics from going to landfill
- Having the first Environment Minister to block a coal mine
- Saved Toondah Harbour from destruction. The Labor Government is protecting internationally important wetlands
- We now protect 52% of our oceans, more than any other country on earth!
- We’ve protected 70 million hectares of land and sea – an area bigger than Germany and Italy combined!
- Set up new Indigenous protected areas and expanded the Indigenous ranger program
- We’ve doubled funding to national parks
- We’ve stopped Jabiluka from being mined for uranium – and will add it to the Kakadu National Park World Heritage instead
- We hosted the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit (which got a shout out from The King on his recent visit) to drive collective action and private investment in nature protection and repair
We’ve also introduced world-leading legislation to enforce a minimum age of 16 years for social media.
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And @wimmera1 , while the Victorian State Labor Government gets smacked for running up debt, I would rather have all the schools, roads, hospitals etc that this debt has provided.
Again we always want more and more, but what Dan and Jacinta have done, is better than anything done by others.
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Does someone wanna tell him?
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I don’t know if that should be considered a win. They ignored expert opinion, didn’t consult properly, and were goaded into it by the LNP.
It also has no real chance of working.
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I’d love you to tell Carlson that he’s worth USD$30.
Yeah, that ain’t happening.
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At the end of the day people will compare their time under Morrison and their time under Albanese and probably happily go back to the Morrison days. Despite all the nice words you’ve just copy/ pasted, people are struggling significantly, and have seen a significant increase in cost of living pressures under Albanese (or at least that is the perception).
Nobody cares about the how and why. Whether theres enough people who do may very well determine the upcoming election.
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Some of us care, and while I am more critical of Voters than most, Albo’s mob have achieved so much more than the previous turds.
That said, I was with a group of ADF Veterans yesterday who were saying how DVA has really got on top of support issues for Veterans and the suicide occurrences have fallen greatly. I have not checked if this is true, but no doubt in my Son’s case, he has been well looked after.
I asked them about the coming election, and from their answers it was obvious they did not relate DVA improvement to the Labor Government. Sad, but probably not surprising. No disrespect for these blokes from me, but trying to have a political discussion with them is impossible. Most have chronic mental and physical health problems, and the Liberal years and previous Labor years to that did very little for them.
Normally, I’d think that would be enough to win the LNP this election. Still could.
But we aren’t living in a vacuum. Global instability very strongly favours incumbents and there seems to be a fair bit of that. Even more since the Trump administration began.
So it’s a pretty hard one to predict. I guess which ever force has stronger pull will determine it, but I can’t confidently say which that will be.
No mention of Duttons Fuel excise cut in half. (for 12 months only 
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Dutton is all about long-term boosts in productivity. No sugar hits for you!
Townsville used to be one of the 3 or four Queensland swing seats, with the results influenced by the quality of the candidate.
The build up of the garrison in Townsville has almost guaranteed it as safe Coalition.
In the ACT, the few booths with Lib majority votes are located at Duntroon or close by, where the Cordies live off base.
So is anyone happy with 40k public jobs cut?
This one really appeals to the ‘it doesn’t affect me’ crowd.
People love ‘fat’ being ‘cut’. The same people who apparently also love offshoring telephone services and in general just more inefficiency and less oversight or regulation, and handing contracts to private companies. Because that just ‘works’ right?
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Most of the ADF folk I deal with are Lib voters as a rule but not helped by Marles being on the nose. Seems plenty not too happy with him
Howard did the same thing and it cost us farkloads, but it won him Government.
Marles is the only reason Defence spending is up and the AUKUS sub contract was continued. He loves a war, and any ADF person should love him.
He was in Bacchus Marsh last week making election promises, and he is just underwhelming, just like Army wankers usually love. We have never been friends, as I find it hard to warm to Labor Right Wingers, though Bill Shorten was an exception.
You didn’t like Hawke and Keating? Both from the Labor right. Likewise Chalmers and Bourke.