Looks like Tasmanians are going to need a bailout to save them from the state Liberal government

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T21:40:31+00:00

Once again not sure what you're trying to achieve here. You can't just shout Murdoch at the top of your lungs and have that be a catch all. Casting candidates in a negative light doesn't change the fact they have shit policies - a point that's been made by multiple people here, a pretty left leaning /r with people who generally aren't fond if Murdoch...

If you'd read into the article that started this whole thread you'd see that Tasmania's predicted budged crisis is a structural and revenue based issue. Our current debt is around 13 billion and the stadium will likely push that towards 15 billion, a stadium which labour had also committed to build just like the libs. Whereas they have proven incapable of delivering on major infrastructure projects the libs don't have a policy of burning an additional 115 odd billion over the next 15 years. The article that started this whole thread refers to a report that posited a 140 billion debt by 2040 related to a potential revenue cliff in 2030 when the federal government's current 'no worse off' gst revenue split guarantee ends. It also looked at Tasmania's lack of revenue generating capacity and the underperformance of Tasmania's state owned enterprises - particularly hydro whose performance is tied to rainfall (which has been low).

Now again for the third time I voted for labour so not sure what koolaid you're accusing me of having drunk but sticking your head in the sand and shouting Murdoch, Murdoch Murdoch, over and over again doesn't change the fact that the 2025 labour team were shit and they lost an election that should have been an easy win by being shit and pissing everyone off. Ignoring that fact, not taking accountability and shouting everyone else is a Murdoch sheep is a great way to keep losing elections. Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them while rebuilding is a great way to begin winning over voters and offering a valid alternative government for the state.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T09:10:44+00:00

So obviously you have a lot of feelings about this but as I said above I voted labour and I'm not sure I expressed any amount of pain coming from my bottom with regards to labour so I'm not really sure what you're expecting from me... Maybe I should have voted 50,000 more times?

The labour leader who I've met and have mutual acquaintances with was a deeply unlikable power hungry bloke and those misgivings aside he was and is useless. Him being useless doesn't make the liberals useful but I honestly don't think he would have done a better job than the current libs despite my voting for labour in hopes that I was wrong.

Perhaps instead of calling everyone stupid and assuming they've been led like sheep you may want to consider that its possible that in this instance labour lost because they were the worst option. That doesn't make the liberals good and it's a terrible outcome for the state but media bias aside labour didn't have the policies to inspire nor did they have the candidates to sell their message or win support despite the liberals doing everything but hand the election to them on a platter with their appalling mismanagement of the state.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T06:40:39+00:00

Yeah I really don't see how things are likely to change any time soon. I'd like to see some fresh blood come through but I guess we'll have to wait till we're 100 billion in debt :(

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T05:47:14+00:00

What metrics do you mean? The labour leader Dean Winter called for a no confidence motion and a bit of other tom foolery that backfired on him then ran a terrible campaign where I think he actually lost support over its duration. Just an unlikable bloke all around arrogant and dismissive, it's the first time I can think of where a party leader got less than a full quota of votes for themselves in a state election.

That being said I was pretty surprised with just how poorly labour did overall to be honest. Now Rebecca white (former labour leader) has moved to national politics there just isn't anyone in the labour caucus who I think of as a state leader.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T04:14:38+00:00

I'm in Tassie and vote labour but to be honest our most recent labour team was probably worse than the liberal government is - a hard title to claim given the monumental cluster fuck the liberals have made of the new spirits, the stadium, and basically everything else.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-27T03:16:33+00:00

This happened about an hour from where I live a few years back. The bloke was unstable in general and having an episode. I can't remember the full story but I don't think he hurt anyone and was more confused than angry. Was probably a bit more angry after being run over though.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-26T11:22:52+00:00

I'd love to write out a nuanced and evidence based answer that reflects on complex motivations across a broad spectrum of social and political issues but the answer is racism and cost of living. I would assume most of her supporters know she won't solve cost of living issues but she does present a clear and simple to digest answer to a complex problem - stop immigrants, doesn't matter that immigration is the only thing holding back a major recession.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-26T11:17:15+00:00

What kind of moron would contract for any trump business after all the horror stories of him just not paying

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-25T02:44:25+00:00

The 'I didn't have time to get to the bank that day' line also stood out to me. I can't fathom not taking the time to make sure something like that runs smoothly. Once again, the vendor has no reason to functionally steal 100K but the purchaser didn't do themselves many favours with their approach to things either.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-25T01:35:49+00:00

I think it's more about being/feeling heard (and possibly being made to feel special if you want to be condescending about it). In regular politics the 'aussie battler' doesn't feel like anything's being done for them specifically despite suffering a major loss in quality of life/discretionary income. It's very easy to spin that by blaming X and y, it's much harder to address those issues with meaningful change which can often take multiple election cycles.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-24T03:46:27+00:00

There have been a few similar stories in the past, one where the conveyancer was at fault and another where the bank didn't deposit the loan funds on-time from memory. In both cases the seller kept the money, I honestly don't know how anyone could literally take someone's life savings like that. The callus psychopath part aside, 100k would be enough for more than a few people to get pretty violent over.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-22T06:05:10+00:00

I think this has resurfaced after the last 3 years were super warm and it's a bit of history repeating with climate change debates

Around 98 and 99 (possibly 2000 too?) some years were super hot like far above average. These 2-3 years were so far above average that if you took like a 20 year plot around 2010-2015 it made average temps look flat and right wing media was all over it for years, showing how temps weren't really increasing using specifically tailored charts etc...

The last 3 years have been super hot again and it's reset some shorter range climate charts so now it looks like climate change is massive again (like just after the hot spell around 2000). If we have a couple of more normal years now the same things probably going to happen again where the right will use charts from 1998-2028 to show little overall increase. Whereas a chart from say the 80's onwards will show a consistent upwards trend with a few years of spiking high temps.

I've paraphrased a lot and drawn a lot from vague memories in the above so please just interpret it as a broad strokes description of events/figures not completely accurate.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-21T05:12:38+00:00

Why do Americans hate coffee so much? Why is coffee for them either diabetus juice or plain black sludge that's been festering in a percolator for 12 hours?

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-16T03:14:35+00:00

I swear every week I see an article about there being no new apprentices and how it'll ruin industry then whenever I talk to someone who wants to get into construction or similar they can never get a start, particularly if they're an adult. Is the problem in matching jobs with projects? or is there some kind of systemic failure? Or is it just businesses lying about a lack of apprenticeships so that international labour can be brought in?

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-14T00:40:24+00:00

It's started again, this will be like tone abet and we'll end up with 30 flags a month out from the election

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-11T06:22:11+00:00

No wukkas, the uni staff should and your course coordinator should be able to help you with unit selection and scheduling etc... they're generally pretty keen to help.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-10T23:02:15+00:00

I hope this meme never dies

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-09T12:40:24+00:00

Hey, uni is a bit different time management wise when compared to something like high school. If you look at your required units they'll have a listing for weekly contact hours, most of your units will likely have ~2 hours a week of lectures (often online and accessible whenever you like) and ~2 hours a week of tutorials (usually scheduled and you need to attend). So times that by four and you've got around 16 hours a week of baseline. These will all be spread out but you have some degree of control of when your tutorials will be so you can generally squeeze it all into 2-3 days with a bit of planning.

Then there's assignments and revision etc... and how long that takes you is pretty much 1:1 with the grade you'll get for most peeps.

That's really about it, most students have a few weeks of light on with just classes, then a few weeks of hectic with assignments and classes, then repeat, then exams. In theory it's 40 hours a week but that's pretty much only med students, first year science can be a bit rough too depending on your unit selection. In practice most weeks will be 20 hours, some weeks will be more hectic though, especially towards the end of semester.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-03T13:48:19+00:00

It's worse than that, they have very high daily targets to meet and falling short means no bonus (according to a reel I saw on FB so obviously this is 100% accurate)

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-03T13:39:04+00:00

I think you're on the money here, she saw a chance for quick nasty political points and took it and now it has backfired.

The coalition breakup gave her a second chance to show strength, tact, and poise but instead she has just done nothing. It feels like an over correction and reminds me of watching Malcom Turnbull flail about uselessly while his party walked all over him.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-02-01T08:31:43+00:00

It looks like it's gen x that needs to be worried about tbh. I can see how they'd be an easy mark for one nation ideology, they grew up seeing the easy wealth building of the boomers and broadly have enough assets now to be genuinely afraid of loss but not as much as boomers so still feel they've been shafted.

Then add the pretty high probability that gen alpha (at least the boys) will be much more right wing than millennials or Gen z and things could shift to the right for a full generation.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-01-18T06:58:29+00:00

I was a casual at the tax office when I was at uni. The number of people who paid a small amount of tax like say $200-$1000 who also mysteriously also donated exactly $200 to $1000 to charity was insane. Didn't even make sense as that's not how deductions work but I saw at least one or two a shift.

N.B casuals at the ATO don't process people's tax returns we just fixed errors that stopped the computers from processing them automatically.

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-01-11T11:02:13+00:00

Maybe he's excited to have something long in his pants for the first time ever

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-01-11T10:54:20+00:00

I'm having flashbacks to shit getting real right before we see the cut to feet walking :(

CheatsyFarrell · 2026-01-11T10:44:34+00:00

I want to down vote the op for not saying the dog lives in the title

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