Australia General Discussion 2.0

[Lachi]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has shown that if the election was to be held on Saturday, the Government could lose 24 seats, including cabinet ministers Peter Dutton, and Christian Poter, along with junior ministers Ken Wyatt, and Luke Hartsuyker.

2PP
LAB: 56% (+4)
L/NP: 44% (-4)

PRIMARY VOTE:
LAB: 34%
L/NP: 33%
GRN: 16% (unusually high, also the reason why labor's primary vote is so low for the 2PP)
OTH: 17% (They don't separate PHONy from the others)

Under a uniform swing, that would get Labor to 93, and that's if the Greens don't gain seats from that high of a primary vote, as I would think that the Greens word take at least 1-2 more seats.

[Lachi]

Hahaha!  Hopefully that will teach Turnbull not to waste his diminishing (diminished?) political capital on watering down race-hate laws.  What an idiot!

Ikr, and people thought we was gonna have a polling bounce.

[Lachi]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has found at 8/10 Australians polled disapprove the proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

Link (profanity warning): www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-eight-in-10-voters-oppose-turnbull-governments-18c-race-hate-law-changes-20170327-gv7dlq.html

[Lachi]

The apex gang has now been declared a non-entity by Victoria police, with essentially the entire leadership now behind bars

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-12/victoria-police-declare-apex-crime-gang-non-entity/8440312

Vic. Police has also come out saying that the gang was never overly african in composition, in contradiction to what the (mostly Murdoch owned) Australian media has been showing (Thank god for the ABC, and The Age existing in today's society...).

[Lachi]

The ABC I watch routinely runs scare stories about African youth, playing the same few clips over and over in stories where the footage is completely irrelevant.  In fact, in their neverending effort to not be defunded by the Coalition, they are always trying to present a false "fairness" which elevates blatant lies by the Coalition to the same level of merit as actual facts.  Sadly the ABC is complicit in the dumbing down of our political atmosphere.  Still, they are alone among the basic networks in providing any reasonable television coverage.

we could probably blame that on that Murdoch puppet Director, Michelle Guthries.

[Lachi]

The weekly "bludgertrack"



Source: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2017/04/17/bludgertrack-52-9-47-1-labor/

You gotta love the 2PP graph trend since the election.

[Lachi]

Turnbuull introduces tougher tests on citizenship for Africans.

More questions about wife beating and child marriage etc plus a 4 year wait for citizenship to be granted.

We are getting a lot of weird anti-social crime from our Sudanese immigrants perhaps?

The crime stats for Victoria show that only 4.8% of aggravated crime is committed by residents of African origin, so, at least in Victoria, the answer to that is no. 

[Lachi]

Turnbuull introduces tougher tests on citizenship for Africans.

More questions about wife beating and child marriage etc plus a 4 year wait for citizenship to be granted.

We are getting a lot of weird anti-social crime from our Sudanese immigrants perhaps?

The crime stats for Victoria show that only 4.8% of aggravated crime is committed by residents of African origin, so, at least in Victoria, the answer to that is no. 

In Victoria? That is the worst state for African crime:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/who-let-in-the-sudanese-amanda-vanstone/news-story/9497646aaac16f3fdfa11673d2a12ea4

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/melbourne-cyclist-critical-after-slashing-by-gang-youths/news-story/39cd1f3a2bd26f7e83a2cd8b7c66dc29

The one where three African immigrants stopped a woman on her bicycle and permanently disfigured her face with a knife.

That was freakin' disgraceful.

I am all for immigration, and pound for pound, Australia takes more UNHCR sponsored refugees than any other country on Earth.

We take more UNHCR refugees than the USA in total.

But, clearly.....Turnbull is responding to the increase in African immigrant related crime here.

Dude, you're desperate if you are quoting that Murdoch toilet paper you call "news"

[Lachi]

Weekly bludgertrack, April 23rd: Labor now leading 2PP in all states and territories:



SOURCE: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2017/04/22/bludgertrack-52-8-47-2-labor-3/

[Lachi]

Cory Bernardi's one-man-band, Australian Conservatives, is set to merge with Family First. Well that lasted long.

EDIT: The initial headline was misleading, Family First will be absorbed by AC at the state and federal level. However, Lucy Gichuhi will apparently still stay in a rump Family First. How silly.

Family First is a joke anyway. Bernardi's new party seems to be very SA-focused. Mark my words, in six years, the Conservatives are going to dissolve when Bernardi runs back to the Liberals.

Let's be honest, the Conservative party is too.

[Lachi]

A former Liberal Party state director has said in an interview that the Liberals could be 'decimated' If something does nit change.

Link: http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/04/27/liberal-party-insider-speaks-out/?utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170428_TND

[Lachi]

HEMP NOW CONSIDERED SAFE TO CONSUME BY FEDERAL GOVT.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/health-ministers-approve-the-legalisation-of-hemp-for-human-consumption-20170427-gvttq3.html

This also means that  hemp will also be considered legal to sell and consume.
 
Hemp has almost no THC, unlike Marijuana, so if you where to consume a product that includes hemp, you probably won't get any side effects from it

[Lachi]

Well, budget day is on Tuseday, and another blow for people. Funding for unis are to be cut, fees are going up, and Abbott's 100,000 dollar degress are coming back.

Can we just have another election now, we already know people want this to end.

[Lachi]

The victorian state budget for 2017/18 was released today.

The things the state government has done, and it has a good sized surplus to boot (1.2 billion surplus for 2017/18, with a projected 5 year surplus of nearly 9 billion)

The 2 major priorities currently for the current Labor government is improving the standard of public transport across the entire state, and tackling crime. The budget for crime has increased by a whopping 2 BILLION dollars, and funding for various transport projects across the state is up by around that much as well.

Here is the overview papers for the full budget, the full budget can be accessed at the bottom link.
Overview: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/budgetfiles201718.budget.vic.gov.au/Overview.pdf

Suburban: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/budgetfiles201718.budget.vic.gov.au/Suburban.pdf

Rural & Regional: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/budgetfiles201718.budget.vic.gov.au/Rural+and+Regional.pdf

Link to budget: https://www.budget.vic.gov.au/budget-papers

I must also say that I made an error with my last post. Federal budget day is next Tuesday, it was not today.

[Lachi]

A poll released today says that 40% of people polled could potentially flip their vote if the coalition doesn't do anything about it by the next election.

The same poll also shows support for a SSM plebiscite has fallen to just 27%.

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/gay-marriage-could-cost-coalition-government-galaxay-research-poll-shows/news-story/fa7c6e20a170995a56773396fe725601
(Don't read the comments, unless you want to be exposed to all this homophobic garbage)

[Lachi]

So I haven't followed Australian politics since the election. Why is nothing happening with regard to gay marriage? Wasn't there going to be a referendum?

It was not a referendum, as marriage is not a constitutional issue. It wuld have been a NON-BINDING plebiscite, which would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, would have been divisive, and several MPs were going to vote no regardless of the result.

Btw, we already know that nearly 80 percent of Australians support SSM, which would make the whole thing pointless anyway, and show something we already knew.

[Lachi]

I have a question for everyone.

In, which Labor member do you think is the closest analogue we have to Bernie Sanders? This includes policy, personality, everything.

[Lachi]

Turnbull's premiership is a lesson for those on the left who think a President John Kasich or a Prime Minister Ruth Davidson wouldn't be so bad.

This. They might be nice people out of politics, but they would be useless as leaders.

[Lachi]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-21/pauline-hanson-under-fire-repulsive-bigoted-comments-autism/8640328

Ready for PHONy to nosedive in the polls.

[Lachi]

So, reachTEL have released a poll in their own partisan ways for next years state election in Victoria, and they are showing that the L/NP is up 53-47.

Well, they would, but I don't trust a poll that has NO PRIMARY VOTE FIGURES!
And also, like the last one, it is tucked away behind the paywalls of News Corp's newspapers, but literally nowhere else...

[Lachi]

So, reachTEL have released a poll in their own partisan ways for next years state election in Victoria, and they are showing that the L/NP is up 53-47.

Well, they would, but I don't trust a poll that has NO PRIMARY VOTE FIGURES!
And also, like the last one, it is tucked away behind the paywalls of News Corp's newspapers, but literally nowhere else...

Its paid for by the Lib/Nats afaik, which means its garbage.

I know it was, I just forgot to put that part in.

[Lachi]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/massive-boost-for-regional-rail-after-victoria-secures-extra-600m-from-turnbull-20170626-gwz015.html

all this money, yet my line gets LITERALLY, ABSOLUTELY ING NOTHING!!!
IT'S LIKE MY CITY DOESN'T BLOODY EXIST!!!

[Lachi]

/rant

Anyway, under the new census figures out today, the size of Australia's House of Reps is set to increase to 151, with one seat gained in Victoria, and the ACT, with one lost in South Australia

http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2017/06/2016-census-figures-cause-change-to-state-representation-in-house-of-representatives.html#comments

[Lachi]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-praises-fine-man-cardinal-george-pell-20170629-gx17uk.html

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Pls roll him out of his seat lib party.

[Lachi]

The Adelaide street preachers are back at it, this time in pamphlet form, and out of everywhere they could have targeted, the targeted my city of Shepparton... (I burnt the one that was delivered at my house, the bin didn't deserve to hold this vile piece of sh**t...)

http://www.sheppnews.com.au/2017/07/21/100681/pamphlet-upsets-angers-many

Here is a page of the pamplet:
https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20245607_1626284794083054_8759911503090746077_n.jpg?oh=38bbd9de0c15a7e10cc706763d0187bf&oe=59F8392F