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I always doubt these reports. The news media has proven that they will bias conservative parties in their reporting, in order to sway elections.
By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.
By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.
I don't necessarily agree that it's a case of "the news media" trying to "sway elections', I think there's a lot more nuance here than you're suggesting. But I definitely agree that this constant fearmongering about One Nation in order to gain clicks is massively contributing to the mainstreaming of the party. I also agree that if One Nation finds success on election night, the panel of ABC journalists who have spent all their time discussing One Nation over the last few years will be predictably shocked and have absolutely zero self-awareness about the role of the national broadcaster here.
I've seen the way the press frames things in Victoria, they definitely are pushing an electoral agenda.
It’s a case of news media trying to sway elections toward the right, in the current case One Nation.
Ten minutes of watching Barr and Speers alone answers that.
Gawd. Prime Minister Pauline would make us long for the ScoMo era, I reckon.
She'd be better because she'd be worse at executing her agenda and any government electing her would be wracked by infighting
She'd embolden the racist pigs out there to try getting away with more stuff.
Im not willing to endure a pyrrhic victory here in copying the fucking stupidity of the US.
Yeah same. This isn’t worth rolling dice on.
That's true, but we'll also have the pleasure of having to listen to her blithering even more frequently.
Might make for some sweet singles put out by based drag queens?
It's as if Labor designed a budget to turbocharge more anti-establishment sentiment and pump up One Nation's tyres.
Facts
It's actually pretty good though
One Nation? No thanks
The budget you silly sausage. Unsurprising that you think it's a bad one with reading comprehension like that
It is bad, the changes discourage investment in creating new businesses in Australia. It's going to screw the country in the long term
citation needed.
CGT changes are adjusted for inflation and still represent an extremely attractive vehicle for people. What else are you going to do with money you've amassed, sit on it like a dragon?
All it does is shift some or the tax burden to rich arseholes and make hoarding land less attractive (even adam smith thought landlords fucking sucked).
Increasing CGT to one of the most expensive in the world doesn't need a citation... Engage in some basic thought.
You create a business, take on massive risks, fund it yourself even, then when you go to sell you're looking at essentially 100% capital gain
That's not extremely attractive. Why not create the business in New Zealand where that would incur 0% tax, because they don't have CGT?
why not create
Because people choose to open businesses based on the market they’re targeting, not CGT. That might be a factor with a comparable business, for instance a corner store, but you’re not likely to start a reptile relocation business in NZ or a fjord touring company in Australia.
You’ll open it where the demand for it is.
CGT isn't really an issue for corner stores... It's for businesses that grow that provide a lot of jobs
That's a hilarious misrepresentation of tax laws in NZ lol but just taking the logic, why doesn't everyone just only invest in panama or some other tax haven?
Could it be because more than just "how lowest tax?" goes into where people can start businesses? Hmmmmmmm?
Yeah unfortunately, that part of the budget is probably the decent bit.
I hear your point on business outside housing investment and agree with it somewhat, which could be amended, but these tax concession changes where housing is concerned are well overdue.
Makes sense for housing but don't understand why it wasn't just for housing
No it isn’t, it’s terrible.
It’s got one decent thing, the overdue tax concessions which are cynically used to cover the cruelty and the infrastructure gift, which no one seems to have a clue about.
It's pretty good for a neoliberal government. Better than we've had in a long time, there is at least some substance beyond bribes to mates.
NDIS was always gonna get slashed, you can't afford to deliver healthcare through a chain of parasites and the government is too neoliberal to actually run anything anymore.
propaganda, obvs
Why are they referring to us millennials as young?
Because we live in a period of ideological stagnation. Millennials are forever young because so many of them were prevented from participation in the traditional rites of passage to adulthood, like owning a house and having children.
I don't think infantising us is doing us any favours and while the numbers aren't great it's a bit hyperbolic to imply like hardly any of us own a home, 55% of us apparently have a roof over our heads that we own:
Over half (55 per cent) of Millennials, 25–39 year olds, are homeowners compared with 62 per cent of Generation X and two thirds (66 per cent) of Baby Boomers when they were the same age.
I'm not infantilising us. I'm pointing out why I think the media infantilises us. Most of the millenials I know are more mature and more media literate than all of the boomers I've known. Home ownership and child rearing rates are lower than previous generations. Most of my mates who have had kids only did it with family support. That wasn't the case in the 80s and 90s. The ones who have mortgages probably won't pay them off before they die.
Mid-forties is the new mid-twenties, or something.
The "first past the post" victory narrative is idiotic yet here we are being inundated, even in the ABC, by this bullshit.
We have preferential voting and Poorline will never be elected in Australia.
Polling also claimed they'd win SA.
She's attacked the majority of Australians. And, especially with the new tax changes, fairly sure younger people in particular are going to find them a good thing. The claim it's a death tax definitely isn't being accepted lol
Every left wing person will put her close to the bottom
But a lot of right wing people don't want to wake up each morning to read about the stupid shit Pauline did yesterday too
I feel like ABC have only started sucking up recently, because they know if she wins enough seats she'll kill their funding otherwise.
polling also claimed they'd win SA
Um, thats not correct. Nobody thought Malinauskas wasn't romping it home. Predictions were pretty unanimous for Labor domination.
Antony Green's Election Blog, 2026 South Australian Election Preview
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The oligarch media are pushing One Nation hard because they want Trumpism here so they can continue to do oligarch stuff without interference.
Well that's terrifying.
One Nation should not be anywhere near the reigns of power.
It is inequity in the whole taxation system, housing is the major pain point but the system is unbalanced and favours those with assets (property, shares etc) especially the 1% which explains the volume of the squealing!