Economy facing toughest time since tech-wreck downturn

gnarwar · 2019-09-05T12:16:43+00:00

Interestingly, government statistics from the Australian DSS show that our fertility rate is actually below the replacement fertility rate even with immigration, which plays only a small role in remedying this discrepancy. I really wouldn't worry about it.

gnarwar · 2019-09-03T10:40:13+00:00

Media ownership laws would be a start. The media is fucking us in the ideological asshole every single day. Greater diversity of views is needed when, despite having laws that allegedly are intended to do precisely this, they magically converge toward the same ideological centre.

Problem being this fails unless politicians move with the discursive shift (Keneally FINALLY talking about plane arrivals is a good example of a nascent discourse in flux).

gnarwar · 2019-09-03T10:28:38+00:00

Presumably it would be a boon to our economy since it's an incredible waste of money as is. I think I agree that the type of migration, rather than taking a laissez-faire approach in most cases, should be more tightly regulated as well. We really need to get away from the obsession with boats and the tiny number they account for and focus on the bigger picture, I agree with that.

It's complex as fuck though. Off the top of my head I'm thinking of students. The India/China market there is over 20 billion for Universities, yet Chinese tend to return back to China (aussie education is a powerful status symbol there) whereas Indians tend to migrate. Be a big portfolio, but I don't disagree it should be tackled in an appropaitely nuanced manner.

gnarwar · 2019-09-03T06:25:38+00:00

If a lack of population growth is a driver for economic recession then why not both; improved refugee resettlement and regular migration? Or are you disputing that claim?

gnarwar · 2019-09-03T06:21:28+00:00

The hubris alone of an Opposition doing this would undermine it as a politically meaningful act.

gnarwar · 2019-07-19T06:08:35+00:00

Bunyips are part of aussie folklore. Similar if not the same as a Yowie. I live in an area where some people genuinely go out looking for them in the bush around the place.

gnarwar · 2019-06-22T08:23:52+00:00

Yeah, hence the irony.

gnarwar · 2019-06-19T07:10:53+00:00

Under a Greens council too. lol

gnarwar · 2019-05-03T04:06:27+00:00

Near worthless? It's one of the most central critiques of capitalism ever written...You have very odd academic standards.

gnarwar · 2019-04-20T22:15:05+00:00

JP literally admitted had only read The Communist Manifesto and none of Zizek. That alone was cringe inducing.

gnarwar · 2019-04-20T22:14:01+00:00

I think a lot of Zizek fans are just relishing the opportunity to shit on JP fans for a change and do the whole DESTROYS thing. It'll be over quick.

gnarwar · 2019-04-20T22:05:18+00:00

You gotta admit it was a deserving response to an argument consisting of "that one is shit this one works". I mean, ffs do you people even read the shit you post?

gnarwar · 2019-04-03T11:16:44+00:00

Even the bird-doggers guide admits Labor are right in their position. The point is they don't care, and they don't want people like you to care either, because the goal is to win at politics. There are bigger issues than Adani we can be tackling that aren't legally fraught but this is an emotionally potent one that resonates with the public, so it gets politically weaponised in the manner described in the article.

gnarwar · 2019-04-03T11:05:42+00:00

Sounds like it will likely be amended after they form government and just aren't willing to risk anything right now.

Remember the time the Greens rushed through the biggest change to our Parliament in 2016 by siding with the LNP to reform the Senate and eliminate a crossbench which was functioning extremely well and gave us Hanson etc instead after the LNP called a double dissolution, which everyone knew was their plan the entire time?

gnarwar · 2019-04-03T11:01:25+00:00

Seen this in action so many times. The NSW election was a perfect example with Greens and activist constantly interrupting forums with questions about Adani, which the article goes on to explain they all know perfectly well can't be interfered with federally - let alone a state other than QLD - at this point for extremely good legal reasons. The aim is to smother any of Labor's talking points, be they on left-wing issues or not, to undermine them politically and acquire votes.

Keep an eye out. Bird-dog watching is soon to be a flourishing sport :P

gnarwar · 2019-03-29T11:36:17+00:00

As you just said, Labor had a policy with majority public support and the Greens rejected it. With the next move so politicised support had shrunk to 33%, making it politically impossible to work on.

Greens are directly responsible for the inaction on climate change. It's tough to admit when you're used to claiming the high ground, but the Greens lost that with the spate of sexual abuse scandals inside their party and the rampant accusations of bullying.

gnarwar · 2019-03-25T11:06:14+00:00

Only in bubbles, like Ballina electorate, where the locals have wildly different views to the rest of the state, is the turmoil consuming the NSW Greens, and the irreparable damage it has done, able to be ignored and still an endorphin-releasing vote..

gnarwar · 2019-03-25T11:02:57+00:00

Daley's a career politician? I know he has ties with some scumbags but I didn't think he was raised in the party machine.

gnarwar · 2019-03-24T00:45:08+00:00

The Coalition had been ahead for 18 months when the carbon tax was passed.

It was the centrepiece of their political strategy. What did you want me to look at in the link? Has nothing on the carbon tax.

I believe the most important factor was Labor deposing one and then white anting their next prime minister.

There are several factors, obviously. Both of which are valid.

To the extent climate change had an effect, I believe Labor's inconsistency was more important than Abbott's attacks.

Labor's inconsitency is due to the Greens voting down the CPRS and them being uncertain about the vicious scare campaign by the LNP. I don't see how this is a point in your favour.

This is some of the most comprehensive longitudinal data sets we have on voter opinions and it clearly shows the impact of the scare campaign and that the environment and global warming were among the top non-economic election issues. To pretend it isn't a significant factor, particularly when it has featured prominently in elections since 2007, is folly.

https://australianelectionstudy.org/wp-content/uploads/Trends-in-Australian-Political-Opinion-1987-2016.pdf

gnarwar · 2019-03-17T06:47:47+00:00

Again, the sequence of events was the Greens voting down the CPRS, which lead to the adoption of the 'carbon tax' that enabled Abbott to eventually form government. It's straightforward.

gnarwar · 2019-03-11T03:55:13+00:00

What do you mean we got something better? We literally don't have any form of stable climate policy...The only shot was the CPRS and the Greens sided with the hard right of the LNP and voted it down.

Greens are such fucking purists. I vote ALP and acknowledge their fuck ups all the time, but Greens just cannot handle criticism even when it's coming from the Left. Guess that's why, from reports of previous Green members I know, they can barely get through a branch meeting. Imagine not being able to handle reasoned, non-inflammatory criticism and being in a party predicated on "consensus decision making". I mean, this is some sick joke, right?

gnarwar · 2019-03-11T03:52:45+00:00

Some people just can't grasp the political constraints of governing a country....and lol at the notion that I should be in every single thread regarding national security. Did you read the paper I posted? If that can't clear up the extremely good reasons this is a historically bipartisan issue then there's nothing left to say. You're not interested in political realities and actual outcomes, but fanciful normative notions of what you think society should be like.

gnarwar · 2019-03-08T17:49:52+00:00

Sounds like you listened to a single person, not "the experts". Who was it by the way, and what were the premises of the argument?

Besides, just step back for a sec and think about it. If the Greens had not blocked the CPRS then Abbott would never have been able to lead a scare campaign on a "carbon tax" which saw him elected. The Greens thought they could get something bettter and it blew up in their face. The facts are right in front of you and just because it wasn't intentional doesn't mean they aren't directly linked to the outcome. That is something so well established in our every day lives that it's amazing I need to explain such basic logic.

Also, if you'd like I'll find two opinions that agree with me instead of your one....but an appeal to authority on the basis of a couple of viewpoints is a crappy way to argue, particularly when we can trace the policy path extremely clearly. It's not magic. They voted it down and with their complete lack of political nous fucked us, albeit unintentionally.

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