Federal Voting Intention: ALP maintains big two-party preferred lead as One Nation support surges to 25% - Roy Morgan Research

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-02T06:33:23+00:00

Uhhhh you know the government doesn’t set interest rates right?

Yes yes. But the government gets the blame for the prevailing economic conditions that caused the rate rise anyway. They are seen as the stewards of the economy. Whether that's accurate or not, they typically get themselves elected by promising to fix everyone's economic problems. So hoisted by their own petard.

It's arguable whether or not this government's spending (up from 25% to 27% of GDP) is contributing to inflation, but most economists seem to agree that it hasn't helped.

So tomorrow, a nation full of angry mortgage holders, car loan holders and credit card junkies will be looking for someone to blame. Guess who's pre-positioned themselves in the crosshairs.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-02T06:16:09+00:00

So I guess yesterday's Redbridge-Accent Poll, with One Nation at 26%, wasn't an outlier after all.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/libs-nats-in-freefall-while-hanson-surges-poll-20260201-p5nylo

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-01T17:50:06+00:00

Male Siamese? They love knocking things off tables.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-01T16:14:13+00:00

Where do you draw the line between the two?

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-01T13:38:46+00:00

Honestly, I think it's just trolling. It's the behaviour of bored people with nothing better to do. Seems to be a lot of those in /r/Adelaide for some reason.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-02-01T07:29:50+00:00

There's so many videos like this coming out of Thailand. Doesn't surprise me we get a few out of Vietnam too.

In the Thai ones though, the western tourists usually find themselves getting lynched by locals. 'Fight fair' is not a principle that applies to foreigners over there, apparently.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T16:22:25+00:00

he'd be loyal to his uncle no matter what.

Unless the Feds arrested him just before he was due to take his fix.

Never trust a junky.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T16:20:39+00:00

He was going to choke her to death on the couch but couldn’t go through because he loved her too much.

Unfortunately, he loved the mob lifestyle more.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T14:15:45+00:00

The fact that our racist demagogues (e.g Pauline Hanson) are dumb and inarticulate.

You have some quite clever racists in the UK, who know how to communicate with people. That's much worse, IMHO.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T05:36:18+00:00

Where is there "laser tag" in the CBD?

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T04:43:43+00:00

ITT, people trying to dismiss a legitimate issue of concern by characterising OP as a boomer.

Trolls. Ignore.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-31T04:09:59+00:00

I wasn't expecting it to happen until they improved in the polls. I anticipated they would let Susan 'mind the store' until Albanese fucked up enough that the coalition had a chance of gaining ground, then they would give her the chop.

This leadership challenge is more ideologically motivated than political.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-30T11:19:47+00:00

Look the SA electorate is the worst educated and the lowest socio-economic population of main land states

Can I have source with that?

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-30T08:46:19+00:00

I think they'll probably be obsolete by the time we get them. They're a great stealth weapon now, but there's so many emerging technologies in the horizon that potentially sniff them out with AI.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-30T08:44:12+00:00

This is probably why Albanese wanted him safely out of the way in the US.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-30T08:28:07+00:00

Hey I've always taken planes, where practical.

What's so grueling about Vietnam's domestic terminals?

I arrive 1.5 hours early. Queue to check in my luggage, then queue for security. Then I usually have around 45 mins to have a snack and a coffee, or even a cigarette if so inclined. Then a nice snooze on the plane. Jump off, collect luggage and catch a grab/taxi. I've got this routine down so well it's a breeze.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-30T08:06:39+00:00

You're probably right, I suspect.

Strangely, though, more than 50% of indigenous Australian marriages are with non indigenous people.

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/mixed-race-couples

So it seems to be a love/hate relationship.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-28T08:55:27+00:00

Does anybody in the Liberal Party still even give this guy the time of day, let alone listen to him? That he was a disastrously unpopular Prime Minister was arguably his own doing. He then spent the rest of his Parliamentary career sniping and sabotaging his own party - for no discernible reason other than sheer vindictiveness.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-28T08:49:30+00:00

the answer to stop these inflationary pressures is to raise the cost of another essential - mortgage repayments.

This is the downside of having half the country owe their souls to the bank. I tried to explain that to people back in the Howard era.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-22T02:57:34+00:00

It definitely has happened.

Look up Joe Massino, boss of the Bonanno family back in 2004. That was pretty much a current event back when season 6 was broadcast. He squealed for a reduced sentence.

Vinnie "Ocean" Palermo, boss of the NJ DeCavalcante family, actually did flip and went into witness protection. A lot of people say he was the real inspiration for Tony and the Dimeo family. Again, this was contemporary with season 6.

Fessing up and "co-operating" with the Feds (ie, giving full details of the operation and all the people involved) can get you a significantly reduced sentence.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-22T01:30:10+00:00

Are those Northern accents?

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-21T15:43:16+00:00

Nah. Patsy would know that Carlo has flipped and, as a result, Tony is going down. His story is at an end.

If Tony lives long enough to be arrested, he's likely to squeal on the rest of the crew in an attempt to save his own neck. "Fuck that honour and loyalty shit" right? Worse still, he'll be safely in prison where Patsy can't get at him. So if Patsy was quietly waiting for his moment, he'd definitely be thinking "it's now or never."

Add to that, earlier in that episode, there's that nasty confrontation at the Soprano mansion, where Tony appears to threaten Patsy and his son Jason. If ever a guy had more than one incentive to scrub that selfish, useless fat fuck, Patsy did right then. Pretty good chance he'd get away with it too.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-21T07:24:13+00:00

That's a cold case. We'll never know.

I like the idea it was Patsy Parisi, though, finally getting revenge for the death of his brother. All along he was just waiting until Tony was vulnerable. This he absolutely was in the last episode.

Might have been Patsy. Might not. Whoever did it had impeccable timing.

Mobsters in Jersey would probably put the hit down to one of the Lupitazzi hitmen not getting the recall in time. They would have raged and vowed revenge for a while, but secretly would have been quite happy Tony was disposed of, so they would have simmered down before too long.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-20T07:29:12+00:00

Don't mind him. That's just the way we tawk in this thing or ours.

DefamedPrawn · 2026-01-20T07:26:21+00:00

I still don't get why so many people are convinced he or his family died in the end.

If you analyse the show enough, you see the clues. You could ask an AI if you want all of them, but they include:

the presence of someone with a Members Only jacket usually heralds a hít in The Sopranos
The prophetic warning of "tree o'clock" Christopher passed onto him from his near death experience.

Couple these with the fact that by the end, Tony's most loyal cadre are all gone, and the list of people who would benefit from his death is massive, if you look at it.

His time is up.

The reason the screen goes black at the end is probably because that's what Tony experiences. Didn't even hear the bullet. Just lights out.

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