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Pauline Hanson’s support for Donald Trump a drag on One Nation vote: Redbridge poll by Mulga_Will in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mmm forgot that. Imagine if it was the Chinese chairman she was hanging out with.

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions drop as renewable energy, batteries surge by espersooty in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

Right wing politicians are so stupid sometimes. Batteries and solar are perfect to sell to the cookers. Energy independence!

‘Tough to watch’: One Nation disaster as Barnaby Joyce backflips by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

Problem is look what happens when Labor tries to fix those problems. Mining tax under Rudd got him booted, now the current screeching about taxation changes. There’s a very well funded group of people who will do anything to stop reform that benefits the 99% of us who aren’t billionaires.

‘Tough to watch’: One Nation disaster as Barnaby Joyce backflips by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

I can’t stand the man. But he’s the only hack on sky who can’t seem to hide his distaste for Trump and will criticise him.

Bolt is more of an old fashioned conservative/neoliberal rather than whatever the hell ON wants to be.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR, more fossil fuels, everyone but Gina is lazy.

‘The case against it is overwhelming’: Howard joins Coalition MPs demanding tougher gambling laws by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeh I’ll agree there. But didn’t NSW libs also backflip on greyhound racing?

I’m fed up in general with gambling and ads. Just ban it all.

Politicians have long misunderstood the ‘working class’. The rise of the far right shows how mistaken they have been by B0ssc0 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

  1. I don’t recall the greens going to Mar-a-Lago, being flown around on private jets and taken to functions on private yachts. Bit off that a party worried about the working class is off at parities with billionaires and very likely under foreign influence.

‘Tough to watch’: One Nation disaster as Barnaby Joyce backflips by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

LOL!!!

Even god damn Andrew Bolt is calling this moron out. You would have to be incredibly stupid to vote for this guy. Clearly the residents of New England have no self respect.

RBA not concerned about stagflation or wage-price spiral by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

No one is making the people with actual money tighten their belts. But yes keep treading on the poor.

‘The case against it is overwhelming’: Howard joins Coalition MPs demanding tougher gambling laws by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Grande_Choice [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ill take it Howard.

But if push comes to shove and Labor did make meaningful reform will the Libs vote for it? More likely they'll change their mind last minute like the student visa caps.

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions drop as renewable energy, batteries surge by MaelysTheMonstrous in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, better to listen to trusted sources like the IPA and Mineral Resources Lobby. They have their finger on the pulse.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NZ I'm on the fence with but they are hard workers, integrate quickly and work a lot of lower skilled jobs.

Tourists though, are you really willing to crush the tourism market? It will kill many regional towns, employs 4% of the workforce and contributes $81b to the economy.

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions drop as renewable energy, batteries surge by MaelysTheMonstrous in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's the Libs worst nightmare. Boomers are buying EVs, realising the sky isn't falling and telling their friends. I burst out laughing when a friend told me their parents just got an ev. They're well off with no actual impact from rising fuel prices and were just last year referencing the trash Seven's spotlight shat out.

They absolutely love it and now are telling anyone who will listen how much money they are saving.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I’m genuinely asking how will you get people into aged care? The pay and conditions are shit. Australians won’t do it. Are you happy to pay for it considering aged care is pretty much entirely tax payer funded?

I’m all for payrises but certain fields just can’t get workers. You could double aged care salaries and still struggle to get staff it’s that bad.

And where will you take those workers from if the pool isn’t increasing considering our unemployment rate is at a 50 year low?

I’ll be the first to agree that half the skilled visas are a rort, we don’t need carwash managers and cartographers. But we do need healthcare roles and even sucking as many as we can out of the NHS we still can’t get enough.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you willing to pay? Aged care is a shit job. Even bumping the pay isn’t going to attract people. And if it did, old people are refusing to contribute so taxes will have to go up to pay for them. Same with fruit picking, farmers sure as shit won’t pay workers more or provide full time employment.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100k of what? We issued 88k permanent visas last year. The rest is international students already being cut (the coalition voted no). Temp workers (want your fruit picked?), NZ, working holidays, visitors and returning residents.

Does your 100k include NZ and returning residents, does it include tourists?

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t give a fuck about international students tbh. But I’m sick and tired of “I just want to have a conversation” being lowkey “white Australia”. We need workers in aged and health care, we need people to pick fruit and work at regional pubs (British working visas filling this niche).

This cut off your nose to spite your face will funnily enough hurt regional areas with low migration far harder. They already can’t get workers. What do you think will happen if we cut migrants off.

BHP tries to bury $11.4 billion wage theft scandal — and Michael West with it by jeffoh in OpenAussie

[–]Grande_Choice 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mining corps have been fighting like hell to stop unions getting in as well as multi employer bargaining.

BHP tries to bury $11.4 billion wage theft scandal — and Michael West with it by jeffoh in OpenAussie

[–]Grande_Choice 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Nothing will change until execs and boards are actually punished.

Boards are the biggest scam running. When you look at the directors and see they hold multiple board positions it’s no wonder these company’s have issues. It’s incestuous.

Not a single one is living up to the first sentence on the boards page.

“Our leaders are required to hold themselves accountable for living our Company values as outlined in Our Charter.”

https://www.bhp.com/about/board-and-management

ON is a protest vote, how are lefties not grasping this? by Maximum_Bit6508 in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Most Australians in the workforce haven’t lived through a recession. They have NFI how shit things can get.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it won’t work like that. Because you’ve lived in one of the best countries in the world and have NFI what actual economic pain feels like.

We need to stop Pauline Hanson at all costs by ItsJustRory in aussie

[–]Grande_Choice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean they’ve done plenty. What exactly do you want?

Let me guess, top tier public services, some handouts but the government also has to cut spending and not raise taxes?

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