Labor wins S.A. election

[willedoo]

You'll know Labor is concerned about about voter base erosion if they start talking about One Nation and not the Coalition. If Labor loses a fair bit of the blue collar vote, some might go to One Nation. But if they get tired of that, they might walk past the Coalition on the way back and stop there for a while. Either way, it's no time for the true believers to be gloating. I don't think they are, they seem to be taking a bit of notice of what's happening lately.

[onetrack]

They are defunct as a political party, just as they have done to themselves in W.A. They've simply lost touch with the voters, the current makeup of the Nation, and the everyday persons desires.

 

And by far the biggest problem all parties will have to address soon, is the unaffordability of housing, the thing that is uppermost in the everyday voters mind.

Too much overseas investment money allowed into our housing market, the Chinese must own over a quarter of Australian housing at present.

There's a house just around the corner from me, it is brand new, it is ten years old, and has never been lived in. It is owned by Chinese investors. They need to be taxed out of the market.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by onetrack

[willedoo]

Probably the only place the Coalition, or in our case the LNP is doing well is here in Queensland. They're a popular government and polling suggests they're weathering the One Nation storm well. State labor doesn't look to have much chance of returning for a long time yet. None of that's unusual as Queensland quite often goes against the national trend, and state and national issues here are always clearly defined. It's quite normal for us to have a Labor state government and no chance for them in a federal election, and the same the opposite way around at times.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

The Qld Premier has that policy of reducing youth crime ...who wouldn't vote for premier like that?

 

Unfortunately NSW has no such premier.

[willedoo]

7 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

The Qld Premier has that policy of reducing youth crime ...who wouldn't vote for premier like that?

 

Unfortunately NSW has no such premier.

David Crisafulli is a very good politician. He's a bit like the South Australian premier in that he's skilled in making political things not sound political, and a very good people person as well. His team is competent enough, but the premier is the glue that holds it together.

Edited 6 hours ago by willedoo

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

How's that policy going, any reduction in youth crime yet?

[willedoo]

The government is saying there is, the opposition says they're fudging the figures, usual BS politics. The premier is from North Queensland so he has a good understanding of the problems in Townsville which is one of the worst spots. The previous premier was born and bred in Brisbane and did a PhD on the trade union movement, so he's in that bubble and good luck to him. People are just glad there's some adults in the room now.

[nomadpete]

23 hours ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

drop their lefty progressive mindset.

Nothing personal, GON, but why do you object to a progressive mindset?

 

We need to make progress. Without progress we are stuck in 'same old, same old' systems.

 

I wish our politicians started making progress toward fair policies.

 

Progressive is the opposite of 'stuck in the past.'

[facthunter]

GON Lives in a distant Place. Blaming lefties is SOo Trump. Trump is all but GONE. He's to obsessed with eliminating anything with a touch of Obama in it.  He has the ANUS touch, Everything he does turns to $#!t. Fair chance we will end up with a World Depression, like 1929. Nev

[Marty_d]

4 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Nothing personal, GON, but why do you object to a progressive mindset?

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Progressive is the opposite of 'stuck in the past.'

I think you answered your own question...

[facthunter]

GON would be unhappy IF he was Happy. nev