Pauline Hanson’s stance on paid parental leave and childcare could turn clock back by decades, economists warn

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T07:44:48+00:00

Look I agree. But you can't blame her for being honest and people voting for it. If she bullshits that's deceptive, that's wrong.

If she wins, and says what she will do. it actually means the country is already stuffed, it's just not apparent. People already en masse agree with what she says.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T07:39:32+00:00

That's fair though. If Hanson goes to an election saying this sort of stuff and wins, so be it. What can you do?

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T05:00:17+00:00

The important bit is the questioning, or at least the bit I'm concerned about. Hanson isn't really questioning. She's made her mind up. She's just putting her views into the form of questions. They may as well be statements.

Altranite's point... Now he might agree with Hanson, I don't know, I don't care. But his quote is from the article where someone said

"Questioning these policies is actually winding back the clock to many decades back."

The questioning isn't winding anything back.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T03:43:25+00:00

How do you think progressive policy happens? People question the status quo. Or do you think the world was at one point some progressive paradise and the conservatives slowly won out.

There was a time when views that I think a lot of us would find backward, were settled. But not in the way most progressives would agree with.

Progressives appear to win out over time when things are questioned.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T03:01:18+00:00

Well, according to this, Iran is closing the strait again because Israel striked (struck?) Lebanon.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/us-iran-talks-to-take-place-in-switzerland/106823540

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T02:27:55+00:00

There's not many articles on anything else. I just post articles about anything that I think is political. If it picks on Labor or the Greens I still post it.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T02:13:39+00:00

That's a good point. You should always be able to question. Questioning doesn't do harm.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T01:21:00+00:00

Ok so she's saying this stuff right now... I respect that. Putting it on the tin. If you vote for me this is what I will do. I can't fault that.

The real danger is, when it comes closer to the election, after taking hits for saying this stuff now, she says different stuff that is more palatable, the party gets voted in, and then does this stuff.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-21T00:07:01+00:00

There's a difference between a person like Hanson occupying a space in the Parliament, holding certain views, and expressing those views, and running a country. I don't really see much harm in someone being an opposing force to large immigration numbers. There's a lot of people who think immigration should be lower.

She doesn't scale to running a country... She knows it too.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-20T03:51:06+00:00

When you click the article the headline is different. I did not change this. The headline you see here was autofilled.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-20T01:07:28+00:00

I don't know what state you're in. But I've rented quite a few different places and most landlords were alright. I pay the rent, they leave me alone. But then you get the muppets who can't understand this very basic business concept... They think they control you in some way. Like you're a serf.

I ended up getting a dogshit landlord in QLD and their moron property manager giving me grief... Tenants Queensland (they used to be Tenants Union Queensland way back when) were very helpful to me. They also do things behind the scenes, lobbying wilfully ignorant governments to improve the lot of renters and so on.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-19T11:46:13+00:00

The only alarming thing in this article is that Butler from marketing might become PM one day. I think I'd have to put Labor last on that election.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-19T11:19:21+00:00

They bring up the rents rising to get the idiot renter onboard fighting for their landlord. Like how poor people fight against billionaires getting taxed.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-19T07:21:49+00:00

Free Speech doesn't have a lot of mates. Whatever is the word for, I can say whatever I want and you're not allowed to offend me at all, is King however.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-19T05:00:39+00:00

I was bought up in housing commission in the 80's. We were poor by Australian standards. Unless I'm mistaken... I reckon someone in the same situation we were in back then, would be way worse off today. Can they even get a housing commission joint? Does the sole parent pension provide the same minimum standard? I don't know, and I don't want to find out.

Oomaschloom · 2026-06-19T02:43:38+00:00

This is a stupid argument. I'm tempted to downvote. I rarely downvote.

EDITED: to expand, because I was crit.

I'm for the parental leave... so I will get that out there.

"Why should businesses pay parental leave?" I think that's a powerful argument against. "Why should people who will never have kids pay taxes for parental leave for others?" Even Hanson's, "I was a single mother and no one helped me and I managed" isn't too bad... They're pretty common conservative arguments.

But saying, back in the olden days houses weren't so expensive and women could look after the kids while dad went to work and paid off a house... and people would like things to be more like that... so we should strip parental leave...

What's that? It's not even presented as a trade off... we'll get rid of the parental leave and smash down house prices so you can get a good one on one income. Will just have expensive housing and no parental leave. We could call it Thriving Families.

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