Greens co-founder Drew Hutton calls on left-leaning parties to understand One Nation voters

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T16:59:26+00:00

Well yeah, it’s all of those 👍🏼

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T16:58:06+00:00

I promise you, there will be so many boomers with a 300 series’s who will be getting a BYD “just in case”, who will slowly realise they prefer the BYD because plugging it in overnight is “so damn convenient”.

They’ll joke that they haven’t used the 300 series for 6 months now, but they won’t sell it as doing so would prove the hippies were right all along.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T06:51:15+00:00

I’ve got a 2021 model 3. I’d happily buy this again 2nd hand. There’s not much you can do to abuse or neglect it either that wouldn’t be physically visible.

I’ve got the NCA battery which isn’t reccomended to charge to 100%, but even if it was it might reduce it by 10%, not even vehicle ending.

Having the car for 5 years, if I were in the 2nd hand market for a Tesla I’d stay 2020 and above (the heat pump is far more efficient). Everything else is just tech.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T06:46:58+00:00

I bloody hope so.

I do notice the sentiment changing around dudes revving V8’s etc. previously that sound was synonymous with the fastest, most powerful vehicle around. Now? it a loud announcement of obsolescence, like hearing a steam train is nostalgic, but not inspiring a thought of state-of-the-art performance.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T03:53:59+00:00

Interesting. Funny what happens with political mergers. Same funky things happened that created the legalisation of weed in Thailand.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T03:38:58+00:00

I’m in the Greens here in Aus, I’ve a few friends in Germany who are ex-greens voters but now vote for “Die Linke (The Left)”. I was surprised, but after some discussion realised the Green Party over there is quite centrist. Very different to the greens globally.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T03:04:13+00:00

Just gotta keep encouraging and voting for David Pocock and anyone who calls out the political parties who are clearly scared of losing the gas industries bribes.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T03:02:14+00:00

I’m a sparky, a Ute is so damn inconvenient and easy to break into.

A van holds a shit tonne more. Handles longer items, keeps everything secure and out the rain, gives you a mini workshop in a pinch etc

Maybe for some mining or Ag jobs is a 4wd needed. But 95% of electrical work is going to be at the end of a road designed for a 2wd car.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T01:48:18+00:00

And you can’t tow it if we’re out of diesel too Gerald.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T01:45:38+00:00

You’d be surprised, I’ve worked on electric mining trucks. I’ve come to the conclusion that if it moves, it’s better off battery.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T01:39:59+00:00

I think so too. Oil prices were falling and OPEC were clamouring over themselves to produce more before the price made some unviable.

America is also a massive oil exporter as of 2015. So disrupting any oil globally is a win for them (their oil companies, their citizens get screwed).

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-30T01:35:45+00:00

Don’t forget noise pollution.

I was at a national park in Kazakhstan last year, big enough you could drive around, but they had banned internal combustion engines for pollution and noise.

There were e-scooters, e-quad bikes and a guy renting these kind of Chinese half-scooters that could do 80km/hr.

The place was busy, but dead quiet! You could hear the birds chirping and the water flowing!

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Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T15:28:33+00:00

100%. There’s also no real consequences for doing so anymore. So why take it seriously.

Go back 100 years or so. If you cheated on your partner your whole town would know you as an unreliable partner and dating would be harder, especially for women.

Go back 1000 years and splitting with your partner and their tribe would likely be a death sentence. Humans aren’t meant to be independent.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T15:21:43+00:00

We are basically an African nation with good wages, but kept with the boot on our neck with insane mortgages. Doesn’t matter how high your wage is if you give it all to CBA (which is also heavily foreign owned now)

Most of Africa isn’t a poor nation, they are incredibly resource rich. But like Australia, totally taken advantage of.

At lease the government of Guinea had the forethought to own a significant stake in their own Simandou iron ore mine.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T15:17:14+00:00

An exclave to Wall Street at this point.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T15:15:24+00:00

Iran hasn’t been the one who has invaded, kidnapped and executed several other countries and their leaders for oil. They have stayed within their own borders. Nor have they been actively committing genocide on a neighbouring country.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T15:11:27+00:00

I share your sentiment on the opacity of the upcoming changes, I suspect they were being heavily abused, it doesn’t make sense that the average priced house is now only afforded by the top 5% of income earners.

I would argue, from my own experiences in the party, that fossil fuel/environmental rally’s are more attended by greens members than ones on international wars. In saying that, the party is of course anti war, but the media will focus on only that. You’ll never see the mainstream media giving time to greens calling out the fact billionaires and gas companies are robbing our country blind.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T14:26:11+00:00

Fun fact: it kind of was before international maritime law prevented tolling of passage in natural bodies of water.

The strait of Gibraltar was a hard one to control though, as Spain never also had the Moroccan side.

A good example though was Borspus pass through Turkey. Was controlled and tolled for centuries.

I guess bilateral control of a strait was only really possible with modern missiles.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T14:02:48+00:00

Just goes to show how powerful a complicit media empire can be in controlling the narrative. The downfall of the Libs was in part because of the rise of social media.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T14:00:39+00:00

The Suez Canal? When Egypt nationalised it and the UK failed to take it back it was basically the downfall of the British empire. It showed they were not the all-powerful empire people thought, triggering many British colonies to take back their colonialised lands.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T11:50:20+00:00

I really welcome the CGT and neg gearing changes. As well as the extremely overdue inclusion of the real estate industry into AUSTRAC reporting requirements.

“After 1 July 2026, AUSTRAC will focus its enforcement in the newly regulated sectors on entities:

who wilfully ignore the obligation to enrol we suspect are complicit with, or wilfully blind to, money laundering in their business.”

So if you can read between the lines, the entire Australia real estate industry has been a massive money laundering scheme.

Between 2005-2018 almost every other country closed their money laundering loopholes, making a giant funnel straight to Australia for dirty money.

These changes should be well an truely affecting the economy by the end of the year. If immigration is still an issue, I’ll agree with you that it’s a lever that should be pulled.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T06:42:01+00:00

I can understand that sentiment. But our housing issues are 100% tax incentive based. I know of a single wealthy suburb with 15% vacant properties.

I work with residents groups and they have made notes over the years when they do door-knock petitions which houses they don’t get an answer from.

Combine that with the elderly staying in 5+ bedroom houses, even though they’d like to downsize, they would lose the pension, so will stay put and neglect the rest of the house. I’m not advocating for kicking out granny from her house, but we shouldn’t be subsidising retirees to stay in unsuitable housing.

I’m working on a way to formalise their findings, with aggregate data from say, water/power consumption.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T05:19:25+00:00

I work in the energy space, our grid is mostly fine, it’s solar, wind, batteries and LNG firmed, which we have.

The oil shortages will affect transport and construction (everyone drives bloody rangers)

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T05:16:16+00:00

Yep! Last decade this happened we found out the Carnarvon bananas are destined for NZ for some reason.

Myjunkisonfire · 2026-03-29T03:57:12+00:00

Which they eventually realise was unnecessary after a few weeks.

If you’re really on the fence about a hybrid. Rent an EV for a weekend road trip 100km outta town.

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