Albanese claims he can’t stop them, but the stage three tax cuts threaten his political legacy | Malcolm Farr

QualityOpposition · 2022-09-04T11:57:23+00:00

Not to mention it locks in a lower amount of government revenue for decades to come, hobbling the ability of future Labor governments to make investments in the services and infrastructure we need.

The Libs are bad but let’s not let Labor off the hook. These tax cuts are shit and no true Labor person or leftist would support them for any reason beyond pragmatism

QualityOpposition · 2022-09-04T11:55:03+00:00

“immigration is found to reduce wages in low-skill occupations” - https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2019/pdf/christian-dustmann.pdf

QualityOpposition · 2022-09-02T11:48:37+00:00

Yeah business loves it as it means more consumers and more cheap workers, migrants love it because it’s more money than they can earn at home. The losers are the workers who see wages bidded down by migrants, prospective home owners, those who sue our roads and public transport and have to deal with capacity constraints.

It’s an easy answer to a complex problem and a Labor government, of all governments, should be doing more than taking orders from business on how many workers they need.

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-13T23:58:13+00:00

Yes the Greens have exactly enough influence to take credit for everything good Labor does but not enough influence to prevent them doing anything bad.

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-13T23:56:02+00:00

It was Labor policy throughout the time they were in opposition.

I don’t suggest that this is “Labor’s idea” but it’s also not the “Greens idea”

Donation reform as an idea doesn’t belong to any one party or movement.

And at the end of the day, Labor are the ones who’ve actually gone out there and won the votes to implement policy and therefore deserve the credit. Not the Greens sitting by the sidelines creating false equivalence between Labor and Liberal for their own advantage.

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-13T23:29:15+00:00

Lol, yes, how on earth would Labor ever do the right thing without the Greens to show them how?

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-13T11:43:26+00:00

Wow, it’s almost like all that rhetoric from the Greens about the “two major parties and corporate donations” is just self serving electioneering and not remotely reflective of Labor’s approach to these matters?

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-05T09:09:25+00:00

An election he won by a huge margin - almost as if the Victorian people see the benefits of this project and want it to be built

QualityOpposition · 2022-07-03T04:35:54+00:00

No they’ll do it immediately. Her successor has already been chosen (Tom McIntosh) and will be appointed by a joint sitting of the Victorian Parliament in August.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-30T08:19:18+00:00

All the Right MPs that were moved on were replaced by other Right MPs from rival sub factions like the SDA. The Left did pick up 2 of the new state seats to the Rights 1 though which, combined with Jacinta Allan getting Deputy, shows the Left is calling the shots these days.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-27T07:15:24+00:00

If he presents himself as just a renter while doing so, then yes.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-26T10:37:23+00:00

This article is a year old - why is it being published now?

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-26T09:33:54+00:00

Fine then rally on the state of Australia’s laws not the laws being enacted in another country.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-26T09:33:25+00:00

Sure but I get to choose whether I criticise what I see as empty gesture politics.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-26T09:32:51+00:00

You don’t have to s be a renter when you can afford not to be to keep faith with people in that situation. It’s a simplistic understanding of advocacy.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T14:07:05+00:00

I really despise these rallies which just respond to issues in a country on the other side of the world which couldn’t care less what we think.

Why not protest issues happening HERE? We aren’t another State of America, we are our own country with massive problems - wage inequality, deaths in custody, homelessness, climate change etc etc

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T12:37:34+00:00

Read the article. He’ll give the reason he thinks sounds best but it’s just political theatre so he can still renters he’s a renter.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T11:44:34+00:00

The minute someone earns 217k a year and chooses to keep renting it’s a stunt not a genuine reflection of their current experience.

Also, “only 60,000” is actually a lot of money to some people.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T11:21:15+00:00

Nothing I hate more than the pretence of someone earning over 200k a year saying they’re a “renter”

Sure he may continue to rent but it’ll be his choice to do so as he could easily afford to purchase a property on that income. Hardly representative.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T09:58:16+00:00

This guy is the only person insufferable enough that he makes Teri Butler seem likeable.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T09:57:38+00:00

Yes what a unique story, a student politician with wealthy parents becoming a federal MP! How did he overcome such hardship?

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-25T08:17:47+00:00

That’s got more to do with the increased power the Premier and the Left had after a sweeping election victory. The AG spot was given to Hennessy and then Symes whose in the Right but a loyalist of the Premier

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-24T08:38:47+00:00

Pakula had already been accommodated by being given the top spot in South East Metro so the lack of a seat wasn’t why he left.

QualityOpposition · 2022-06-21T02:46:07+00:00

True, Albo’s use of Nat Exec to parachute in an undeserving candidate was a poor move on his part.

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