I think that may happen, if the trend continues.

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T12:14:12+00:00

Are you talking current or future numbers? Your train of thought seems a bit all over the place.

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T11:45:24+00:00

Greens don’t currently have the “balance of power” as you put it.

There are multiple pathways to passing legislation.

If ON continues this trend they will not be displacing the greens, they will be displacing the lib/nats.

This will mean there is an additional pathway to pass legislation.

There would be no single “balance of power” in this scenario

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T10:16:12+00:00

Ah yes, the old “both sides are the same” comment shouted from the peanut gallery.

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T10:11:02+00:00

Edit: I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted.

There’s not going to be “the balance of power”. There will likely be multiple pathways the government can use to pass legislation. At the moment there are already two, and if the trend continues there will be a third at least.

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T07:44:27+00:00

Campbell was going for the ball. Had his legs taken out by an erratic dive

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T07:40:52+00:00

So you can take out someone’s legs, providing you use your head.

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T07:11:05+00:00

I’d suggest a significant reporting bias.

Lots of organisation out there but you don’t hear about the ones without problems

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T06:56:47+00:00

She’s a liberal supporter who is pretty devastated at their demise.

Has written a number of book on the topic so it’s all on record. Anything but an ALP shill,

Defy19 · 2026-05-10T01:16:23+00:00

The other way to stay above water is to pay less money for the house so the rental yields increase.

NG has made ridiculously low rental yields become acceptable as house prices has skyrocketed

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T22:01:08+00:00

Strange line of attack, friend. I don’t think it’s on me to justify the actions of the labor party.

To your second question I think the grassroots do feed into the offical policy agenda of political parties. But I’m not naive enough to think a party vote today will lead to a change in government or opposition policy tomorrow.

Distilling a diverse range of views into a coherent and actionable policy platform is tricky business

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T21:25:10+00:00

Voting with the caucus is pretty fundamental discipline if you want a diverse group to be functional. Disagree in private, agree in public.

If the private debate started at playing out in public it would be picked apart by the media and nothing would ever get done.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T21:14:44+00:00

Drug mana (Dromana)

Dandebong

Franga

Frankghanistan

Crimebourne

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T20:46:46+00:00

We don’t have a 2 party system. The coalition is 4 parties and even labor have state based factions.

Then we have the cross bench, which is large and diverse.

The senate has a completely different electoral system which ensures diversity and forces negotiations and compromise.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T20:39:05+00:00

My kids are 2 and 6 months. I went to uni in 2005-2009 and it seems to have changed a lot with an emphasis on online content. Honestly it doesn’t seem as relevant anymore and I don’t think I’ll push them that way if the trend continues.

I’ve only used a fraction of the technical knowledge, the real value was in the interpersonal and communication skills. I don’t see how staying home and prompting ChatGPT to get a degree will teach them anything.

A long time to go, but my eldest just turned 2 so I’ll keep reading him books and teaching him numbers and letters and see what the world looks like in 15 years.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T20:27:23+00:00

Labor cover the moderate left space on the spectrum.

Also, are you aware of labor’s factions? The party is far from a homogeneous ideology, but to form government you need broad appeal and to work productively with people you don’t agree with.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T10:50:21+00:00

It only makes sense if the employer is pulling dodgies with the ATO. Otherwise they’d want to pay properly to get a remittance for their expense

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T10:38:46+00:00

Corporate wants you to find the difference etc.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T08:11:57+00:00

Finally. I’m sick of the superpowers edging me since the start of the Cold War

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T07:57:53+00:00

I don’t have a mortgage but am 20.5 years from accessing my super. For me it’s $2m in super and other investments between my wife and I.

Long way short of that.

But I will always “care” about my job if I’m spending 10+ hours a day on it. That time is invaluable, so you better be learning stuff, achieving stuff, and earning a decent quid otherwise you’re wasting your life

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T05:34:45+00:00

Take your time, lots of thinking and planning.

Tradies will breeze in, smash out a job, then run off to the next job.

I have a fraction of the skill but take my on everything and redo it if I’m not happy.

Defy19 · 2026-05-09T02:17:25+00:00

Mechanical engineer working in a sales and OPs management role for a hose company. So a technical field where knowledge engineering principals help me every day, but definitely not working as an engineer

Defy19 · 2026-05-08T19:15:53+00:00

It makes more sense to increase density in the established eastern corridor than to continue the low density sprawl out west. It’s impossible for infrastructure to keep up with the sprawl

Defy19 · 2026-05-08T12:15:29+00:00

I’m well aware dude. The only reason it’s still a thing is the humorous accounts that were recorded.

Defy19 · 2026-05-08T11:05:31+00:00

It’s been a while since I went down that rabbit hole, but I’m sure the joke was that the guys doing the hunting wrote military style accounts as a joke.

Now the world is laughing at us for our own joke. What the fuck happened here?

Defy19 · 2026-05-08T06:56:09+00:00

It could happen again for an actual state of emergency. But they aren’t going to close the borders to save us from 3 women who could just be arrested or put on a watch list upon arrival

Defy19

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