#auspol get on to this! Election analysis and discussion about the community independent movement

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We agree John - we’re going to do some strategy work, get some ideas in place and then look for a candidate for 27/28. We plan to get a great candidate happening next time 100%

Labor set to oppose Greens' plea to establish a Murdoch royal commission The Greens are trying to establish a News Corp royal commission. Now they need to find votes.

Come On @albomp.bsky.social
We really need sunlight on this communicable disease.
Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws.

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Foreign streaming companies keenly take profits from Aussie subscribers, but resist funding Aussie content. They’re secretly lobbying to limit local quotas with Tony Burke rejecting transparency and stifling public debate. Jacqui Lambie and I are now fighting him in the ART. #FOI #auspol

We would like the media to also acknowledge that the supposed bonanza of employment due to fossil fuel extraction is a total furphy. More regional employment would more likely stem from a commitment to renewables

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#auspol we think this is a much more effective way for the regions to be heard in Canberra. Go independent!!!

They believe that technology and planning will save us. True. And then are skeptical of any new tech and of possibly “woke” planners

Soon, there will be only a few people who can tell what’s real

It is an issue from which almost every other issue follows. Top priority and no mucking about please #auspol

Attacks on Australia’s preferential voting system are ludicrous. We can be proud of it | Kevin Bonham It’s been argued the election would have had a different outcome with first-past-the-post voting. I cannot overstate how unsound this assumption is

It’s been argued the election would have had a different outcome with first-past-the-post voting. I cannot overstate how unsound this assumption is, writes Kevin Bonham.

Compulsory national service is a significant factor I would venture. Tends towards a singularity of thinking

It’s complicated… but mainly lack of imagination

He’s never had to listen to anyone other than his own tribe in order to get elected. Definition of an echo chamber. Happens here in Nicholls as well

Productivity with purpose: Roy Green, structural reform and Australia’s place in the world Roy Green’s recent article on productivity reform offers one of the most cogent and hopeful visions for Australia’s economic future.

The Productivity Commission’s new pillars; dynamic economy, digital capability, clean energy, care sector efficiency are welcome. But unless they are integrated into a national ambition to break out of our low value-adding trap, they risk fragmentation. #auspol

We also were hearing that an informal vote was its own version of a protest vote - that none of the candidates were worth supporting. We disagree with this tactic, but it’s important to find out why it’s happening #auspol

This may be a positive step for rural electorates who are being smashed by the effects of climate change? Watt has some experience outside the capital cities #auspol

You can look at that in two ways: 1. It exposes the parties for having very little talent or 2. It allows new faces to be seen and learn the job and come out from behind the old smokescreen. I wonder what it will be?

News article about flood insurance

#auspol a pressing issue in Nicholls that needs urgent attention

Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right? | Ece Temelkuran Like clouds, far-right ideology moves here then there with absolute randomness. The danger is that those who can, shrink under their umbrellas, warns political commentator Ece Temelkuran

Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
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Fascinating! We would also like to see this broken down into local media as well, not just the big publications #auspol

While we squabble over the Murray Darling basin plan, the rivers will dry up. We must start thinking decades in advance, not next season

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A frightening but essential read

Seems like a sadistic move, to be honest. Punishing people instead of making a system better🤷‍♀️

How city voters all but wiped the Liberal Party off the map In a wipeout that began with the former Morrison government, Scott Morrison’s former seat of Cook could be the only inner metropolitan seat the party has left.

It is ... peculiar ... that the Liberal party are in a Coalition with a country party, yet also unable to win any city seats. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Also a reminder that every electorate is different and while national trends are helpful, local issues can take things sideways

Wish we could debate this without it becoming nasty. Many rural people abhor the idea of nuclear, many don’t. It’s very difficult to talk sensibly though when pollies like McKenzie get hold of it

John Curtin hopped from England to the USA when it was necessary - alliances can change, though this would be a biggie

There aren’t actually many farmers in rural electorates - it’s the rural poor and those who aren’t engaged who continue to vote the same way again and again. Plus Labor offers very little to the regions that’s obvious to the average Joe

Many independents are ahead by only a few votes, with possibly weeks to finalise a result
🟢Zoe Daniel only holding Goldstein by 95 votes
🟤Kate Hulett ahead in Fremantle by 196
🟠Jessie Price ahead in Bean by 206
🟣Nicolette Boele ahead n Bradfield by 416
🔵Monique Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 1406

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