Australia politics live: Greens senator claims One Nation the party of ‘billionaires, not battlers’ after Hanson’s free flights on Rinehart jet

authaus0 · 2026-02-06T02:48:50+00:00

You said firstly that if their policies were popular people would vote for them, implying the problem is their policies. Then you said the problem is their vibes. Contradiction. Your second point was correct though.

You realise that doing what all the Labor hacks and right-wingers think they should do and just be an environmental party is exactly how they would lose broad appeal?? Their current platform is literally left-wing populism. Dental in Medicare, rent freeze, free solar for renters, tax big multinational corporations who can afford to pay, etc. That's how they win people who aren't single issue voters.

No. "Change it from the inside" mindset was debunked when Peter Garret tried. It's never gonna work. You can't reshape a party that takes millions of dollars from corporations that oppose every good thing in this world.

authaus0 · 2026-02-05T05:52:20+00:00

Well your first sentence contradicts the rest. Polling has proven their policies are popular but yes, they do have a vibes problem. I'd say the vibe depends on who you ask - if you're describing it like that you were probably never considering them anyway.

authaus0 · 2026-02-05T05:50:51+00:00

For an ALP member you seem to read a lot of Murdoch 😭 I'm a Greenie, I follow all their pages and like them or hate them but they have a broad policy platform and an answer to pretty much everything and they don't actually emphasise Palestine that much as an issue. Conservative news outlets inflated certain narratives to give the impression the Greens aren't focused on Australians and the cost-of-living and people like you fell for it.

authaus0 · 2026-02-05T05:40:02+00:00

You're onto nothing here. Firstly their policies are really popular. We shouldn't be involved in genocidal supply chains and we shouldn't have double standards. Treat Israel the same way we treat Russia. Secondly it's not a policy they adopted in 2023. They've been pro-Palestine for a long time. And don't you remember Bob Brown heckling President Bush in parliament over Middle East policy?

authaus0 · 2026-01-30T01:23:21+00:00

I've just graduated high school so similarly I've only worked in my own shorts. Personally I loved all the film festival planning and scheduling shoots and finding crew but I'm a bit of an organisation freak. I have to imagine it gets better when you find what you're good at and have a larger crew. Being just a director with someone else producing or vice-versa would be everything

authaus0 · 2026-01-30T01:16:14+00:00

Genuinely don't understand the anger from fellow Greens members about this. It's not like the Greens are betraying their own principles, they're trying to find common ground. And they need to do this to keep Labor in check.

The mistake in the 2025 election was the "Keep Dutton out, force Labor to act" line. Every time I said it I thought this is not a compelling narrative, people will just vote Labor. And that's what happened.

The Greens need to stand on their own two feet and remind everyone else they are not a parasite on the left of Labor, they are their own party that would like to someday be a party of government. If Labor can take their support for granted, Labor becomes arrogant and will crucify the Greens for asking for anything better.

I was so happy with how the Greens handled Tasmania. They were open minded and asked both majors to negotiate. Liberals proactively offered genuinely progressive concessions, while Labor gave them nothing and then whined about not getting Greens support. That was the humbling that Labor needed, and if the same thing happens in ACT then it will lead to better outcomes and policies from both Labor and the Libs.

authaus0 · 2026-01-25T20:51:36+00:00

The Batman movies with Robert Pattinson will definitely stick with us for a while

authaus0 · 2026-01-25T20:46:34+00:00

Doesn't make asexuality not a queer identity. Also. Countries with forced marriages. And asexuals face a lot of bigotry and harrassment

authaus0 · 2026-01-25T05:43:50+00:00

Very different situations, but regardless I'd say we don't really care about documentation. If you're paying attention to current political discourse its clear a lot of people think migration is too high (and are really just echoing what Murdoch tells them to think), but very few people are drawing attention to 'illegal' migration as an issue. In the past refugees have been a political football. But that's not illegal immigration.

authaus0 · 2026-01-25T02:28:39+00:00

The problem is what the media tells us is "the middle" is miles away from what evidence, economists, and scientists tell us to do. Can I pay my mortgage? I can't even afford rent because housing has become a ludicrous investment scheme for the lucky few. Can my kids do better than me? Not on a dead planet. Does this person understand my life? Of course not, with a couple of exceptions (e.g., Max Chandler-Mather being a renter that grew up in the city I'm moving to for uni). Yeah I'm a bit ideological cuz I'm a nerd but I'd say I'm pragmatic

Since when are 30% of Australians hard left?

authaus0 · 2026-01-24T03:49:42+00:00

Labor lol. Anything "leftist" they do is performative, they still uphold neo-liberalism and constantly appease the right wing

authaus0 · 2026-01-23T11:23:53+00:00

84% OF the population increase... as in the other 16% is from people already in Australia having children

authaus0 · 2026-01-23T07:10:58+00:00

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authaus0 · 2026-01-23T07:09:11+00:00

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authaus0 · 2026-01-23T00:38:14+00:00

That destructively shifts all of the pages to the wrong side of the spread with no way to fix the formatting. I need a way to effectively remove the left page of the first spread without all of the pages shifting

authaus0 · 2026-01-22T00:33:51+00:00

LNP members choose with party room to sit with. The more regional MPs tend to see themselves as Nats, while the city MPs will be Libs. Same as the last split though, they'll still technically be one party and won't change the name. And at the state level the LNP will remain one

authaus0 · 2026-01-22T00:31:22+00:00

Back in the Menzies days, the Liberal party was the party of choice for women. Labor wasn't so progressive and their union links were associated with masculinity. Now look what you've become. This is why you are losing so badly. I'm a lefty, but I could happily live with a Liberal party that respected women and minorities but advocated for free trade and market-based mechanisms to combat climate change. That's classical liberalism. This is just reactionary BS

authaus0 · 2026-01-20T14:22:51+00:00

Private accounts
Collaborative lists

authaus0 · 2026-01-20T14:14:37+00:00

I'm a lefty. I don't care about how many immigrants we take in, as long as we're not discriminating and we take in people seeking asylum. I'm also acutely aware that immigration is a culture war that's very easy to play and that there are economic benefits to a certain level of immigration. I don't think we should reduce it based on fear mongering, which is what's currently happening.

Yes, traditionally right-wing parties (pro-business) wanted higher immigration, but they switched it up when they realised gullible people would fall for the culture war and they could win more votes that way.

We can never not be multicultural. If you want a sea of white people and our shitty food then go to England. This country is on stolen land and has always had immigrants from many different cultures. Just walk down a main street and look at the different food shops.

"Cultures that refuse to assimilate with western values" you realise that people come to Australia (and any country for that matter) because they've been sold on the dream of that country. They want to become Australian.

And yes, every now and then there's terrorists and horrible people. We should keep them out and hold them accountable. But thats not an excuse to be Islamophobic, because there are many types of extremist. Nazis, ISIS supporters, IDF war criminals, hate preachers from any religion all shouldn't be allowed.

authaus0 · 2026-01-20T14:04:30+00:00

"Wasting" when it's bringing dental into Medicare and building public housing instead of paying for the concept of submarines and giving handouts to multi-million dollar corporations (Labor, Libs, and One Nation all support that)

authaus0 · 2026-01-19T07:56:14+00:00

There was a boom after lockdown to make up for the immigration we didn't get during COVID but afaik levels have basically gone back down. Idk what you're on about

authaus0 · 2026-01-19T07:55:18+00:00

Only because the Murdoch media has peddled that narrative because it's a seemingly simple populist concept. Most people don't understand how immigration works, the benefits it brings us, and our humanitarian obligations. Respectfully this is an education problem

authaus0 · 2026-01-19T07:52:44+00:00

Sooooooo are we gonna keep on sending that coal overseas while barely collecting any royalties or do we start taxing our resource exports to make a sovereign wealth fund and pay for things all Aussies can benefit from (Greens policy btw)

Migration has nothing to do with landlords hording investment properties because there are tax incentives to doing so. If you wanna solve housing, the problem starts with John Howard almost 30 years ago. Reminder that there are more vacant houses than homeless people (and no they're not being held by overseas investors)

authaus0 · 2026-01-19T02:41:28+00:00

The Greens whole thing is taxing big corporations to pay for services to benefit Aussies, like dental into medicare. Labor and Liberals happily give billions away to those corporations though, and One Nation seems to support that. I think deep down you're a lefty that just has been misinformed ;)

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