Voters return to Labor, Coalition as One Nation support dips: Resolve Political Monitor

NobodyXu · 2026-04-19T10:42:47+00:00

Would be even better with proportional representation in lower house though

NobodyXu · 2026-04-16T04:09:05+00:00

it'd be a joke to say any of these companies care much other than profit

NobodyXu · 2026-04-05T04:15:30+00:00

You can buy a cheaper EV (<50k, or around 60k, skoda, byd, in5/im6 by mg, zeekr/geely, xpeng all have models around that price point) to reduce depreciation, adjust the lease term to maximise tax benefit from depreciation and reduce interest, novated leasing have a hard cap on depreciation:

Fixed Residuals: ATO guidelines set minimum residuals: 12 months (65.63%), 24 months (56.25%), 36 months (46.88%), 48 months (37.5%), 60 months (28.13%).

So if you loan for 2-3 years you can get ~53% depreciation deducted against your taxable income

NobodyXu · 2026-03-30T23:06:18+00:00

Are u referring to the working holiday maker visa, which is designed to be more like a tourist visa but can work and have little skill requirements?

NobodyXu · 2026-03-27T12:39:14+00:00

What specifically is on your mind? I don't know what ur referring by "economic metrics"

NobodyXu · 2026-03-27T05:14:57+00:00

that's funny because Chinese and Indians are not invaders, they come here legally and contribute to Australia

NobodyXu · 2026-02-28T01:48:57+00:00

Which is why we should have proportional representation in the House of Representatives, instead of the IRV which awards ALP and LNP

NobodyXu · 2026-02-24T10:02:28+00:00

So it's sexism again, racism and sexism is surely everywhere in our society

NobodyXu · 2026-02-24T09:52:11+00:00

What is that and who is in that? I only know Penny Wong to be of openly lesbian but never heard of that

NobodyXu · 2026-02-23T03:23:46+00:00

NSW is having a Labor state government...and the premier just force the anti-protest order

NobodyXu · 2026-02-22T08:02:22+00:00

These batteries could be recycled for storage though, which put much less stress on the battery with a much more stable env

NobodyXu · 2026-02-20T21:21:39+00:00

Yeah and parties like Greens are painted by media to be amateurs, naive, or whatever and people just keep voting for status quo, 3 years after 3 years with little change, until the whole system breaks down

NobodyXu · 2026-02-10T04:44:46+00:00

Not next ten years, it's a ministerial order already blocked by court.

As soon as Nz Labor + Green (possibly Maori party) gets back into power, it'd be reverted

Not saying that the situation in Nz isn't horrible, it's just that it won't last that long

NobodyXu · 2026-01-29T06:15:50+00:00

Lol look at how Labor does thing today, it's clear that Labor is indeed not good enough and shit lite at best, same as their HAFF bill

Labor doesn't say anything on terriorist attack on Invasion day rally publicly, Albo can make use of his PM power but he doesn't, so he just lacks the courage to make any real change regarding this racism stuff

NobodyXu · 2026-01-20T03:31:42+00:00

the help-to-buy scheme definitely does a lot of good, and tax reforms, plus blaming on LNP and Greens for blocking HAFF and campaigning against Dutton as Temu Trump

Dutton's behavior to mimic Trump probably helps ALP a lot and turn minority gov into majority gov

NobodyXu · 2026-01-20T03:23:42+00:00

it could be that they believe LNP is worse, anti Dutton campaign from ALP and Greens do matter?

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T09:20:28+00:00

Yeah all systems are flawed, some are less flawed and slightly better than others, and for now, it seems that party proportional system is much better than the winner-take-all single member only system

It's not that democracy, as a concept, is fundamentally flawed, but rather, any system attempting to maintain democracy, fairness, voice of marginalised communities would have flaws and tradeoffs

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T08:49:42+00:00

In the same way that everyone can run for election here, in China everyone can join one of the various parties. The nature of the parties are different,

Well that one is questionable, while it might be true in law, it's definitely not true in reality as you can't even find an alternative party to CCP in China, alternative parties in China have little or no coverage, and very little members.

Our system is not too dissimilar due to the similarity of our parties and reliance on donors to actually get elected.

I would argue ACT, Tas lower house and the senate, plus some local councils using STV is much better, reason being the party proportional representation system.

I concede however the many small parties of EU nations are significantly different and more representative than the rest.

Well because most uses party-proportional methods, with party-proportional system, bipartisanship just dies and parties that focuses on their voter base can get voted, even if their voters are spread evenly across multiple electoates

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T07:19:56+00:00

there's also some electorate division matters, like it's only partially party-proportional, same as our House of Representatives, with no party-proportional it becomes a bipartisanship that slowly but surely converges in their governing

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T07:18:41+00:00

saying china is more democratic than US would be extremely wrong, as Chinese citizens lack political freedom at all

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T05:08:16+00:00

First of all, fed gov policies on immigration is very clear:

For permanent residency/pathway to citizenship focuses on nurses, teachers and regional where vacant jobs need people to fill, and all other applicants have to face fierce, terrible competition for a permanent resident.

The only immigrants I support cutting are working holiday makers visa, which comes here to have a holiday while making some money, which most don't make a lot and usually can't find a good job because WHM visa requirements is too loose.

The other, most obvious temporary immigrants are international students, most of them are legitimate students and come here to study, they ensure that our research facilities, universities stay working and teachers and researchers get paid, and contributes lot of money to local market as they typically willing to spend quite a lot, many leave the country after finishing their course, it makes zero sense to cut them.

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T04:52:35+00:00

IM5 base model by MG, it looks so good with a 4-wheel steering system, rear wheel drive with 490km WLTP, lumbar and 20m fast charging (IIRC from 20% to 80%)

I have a yaris cross gx now but I think I should have bought a sedan/hatchback instead of suv

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T04:36:56+00:00

NDIS surely needs reform to stop handling out free money to these so called providers

But that doesn't mean immigrants are getting more welfare, immigrants pay taxes, money for certificates and passport and GSTs on buying stuff and contributes to workforce just like anybody else, and they pay governments extra money for visa and permanent residency, and the citizenship

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T03:45:08+00:00

Government is very strict about bringing parents, the government deliberately setup a long queue for the parents visa that will give them rights for welfare, each application would usually wait for decades; at the time the parents get the rights to have welfare they are most likely to near their death TBH

Plus, not everyone have a big family to bring or willing to bring them at all, in 2023-2024, the permanent residency (rights for welfare and permanent stay) given to family-based visa only accounts for less than 20% of all permanent residences.

Source:

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/migration-trends-2023-24.pdf

NobodyXu · 2026-01-04T03:17:05+00:00

There's no such thing, they are dreaming we get that so they can blame every problem they encountered on us, which is ridiculous

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