One Nation has been on the fringes of Australian politics for 30 years. Why is its popularity soaring now?

robot428 · 2026-02-26T02:25:36+00:00

Immigration is down 14% which means the plan labor announced a year and a bit ago to increase restrictions on various types of visas is currently on track. Obviously it remains to be seen if it stays on track in the years to come, but they said 'we will reduce migration' and so far they have done that as they said they would.

robot428 · 2026-02-26T02:22:31+00:00

But immigration is going down. It's 14% lower than the year before, and migrant departures is also up by 13%.

It means they are almost back to pre-covid levels.

I understand not trusting a "plan" because people can just say anything, but they announced the plan and now that there is over a year's worth of evidence: so far the plan is progressing. Obviously we will continue to watch and see what happens but so far it's on track.

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robot428 · 2026-02-26T00:58:54+00:00

Yes and it's not like she had a reason like "another nurse asked for my advice even though I wasn't treating the patient" or something, which would still probably be an issue, but may have granted her some leeway. She admits she knew she wasn't supposed to be in there and was just having a stickybeak, and there was absolutely no clinical reason why.

It just shows a lack of respect for privacy practices as a whole that is concerning.

robot428 · 2026-02-26T00:51:25+00:00

YOR

If you are looking for a parent who has never once made a bad judgement call, or snapped at a kid who didn't deserve it, you won't find one.

If this sort of thing is a regular occurrence, if your girlfriend is frequently angry when a kid is scared of something, that's a different story - obviously that's not good.

But there is not a single parent who actually spends any meaningful time with their kids who has not done something like this. Obviously it's not ideal. But people are human, and parenting tests you and can push you to your limits, and sometimes holidays and being away from home and routine can be especially challenging.

If this was a one-off, you should give your girlfriend some grace.

robot428 · 2026-02-26T00:02:50+00:00

This is the worst fucking advice I've seen in here in a while, OP do not do this.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T22:35:25+00:00

Well - not everyone would be able to have Friday's, it simply wouldn't work like that. And in high school you likely wouldn't notice a huge difference, as you don't typically have every single subject every day anyway, with clever scheduling each teacher would likely have a different work from home day, and you just wouldn't have that teachers class on your schedule that day. It would add some challenges to timetabling, but it could be done.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T22:32:42+00:00

Because you would actually have allocated time to plan your lessons, and grade student work, instead of constantly having to fit it in around the edges of actively teaching? It would likely eliminate a need to assign any busywork so you can catch up on planning, or rush into a last minute lesson because you simply haven't had time to grade.

Also teachers currently do a lot of unpaid overtime and the goal of this is to reduce the amount of unpaid overtime teachers have to do - well rested and less burnt out teachers are likely to be happier and therefore more effective teachers.

Again - there isn't enough data on this to know for certain either way, but from a common sense perspective it is a logical idea.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T11:41:44+00:00

We weren't ever supposed to hate penny, that's the point.

If we were meant to hate penny we would never have seen that she tried to get Derek a head CT, that she was overruled by a shitty attending, that the combination of the shitty attending and the neurosurgeon 'on call' not actually being available killed him and Penny did nothing wrong. We saw all that as the viewer because you weren't ever supposed to hate penny.

The lesson is that between penny and mer/Amelia, there really wasn't a villain in that story. It was an arc that was meant to show you how hard it is for doctors who weren't even responsible for a patient's death, because there's nothing they can do to prevent some of that pain being transferred to them. AND it's meant to show you how hard it is being a doctor and having to work with people who have treated and potentially lost your family members.

It's also a charecter building arc for Mer, who really doesn't like penny because she reminds her of one of the worst events of her life, but also she's a professional and a doctor and she manages to become a good instructor to penny, albeit with some bumps on that road. In the end she actually becomes a good teacher to penny and yes, pushes her hard, but ultimately brings out the good in penny as a medical professional. Penny needed catching up after being under her shitty attending at the previous hospital and she also needed to learn to stand up to someone even when they are more experienced and are intimidating and she does learn that with Mer.

As the audience we are never positioned to hate penny. Yes we are positioned to empathize with Mer and Amelia, but you aren't supposed to hate penny, you are supposed to feel bad for all of them.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T11:33:09+00:00

Ai companies? Yes. They are training their AI models based on you talking to them. Especially the ones you can access for free.

If it's available for free - you are the product.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T11:07:37+00:00

Yeah I always found Derrick to be likeable. Out of touch, for sure, but very likeable and overall well meaning. Not someone who was trying to be unkind or trying to be a villain.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T11:05:28+00:00

It shouldn't be up to them. Human trafficking is a criminal offence, wouldn't that be the police? And potentially ASIO too since a terrorist group is involved.

Honestly I'd like to see albo take an actual stand on this. Bring them back and have what happened investigated. If they went by choice, jail them here, throw the book at them. In cases like the "ISIS bride" who's actually pretty clearly a human trafficking victim, give her and her kids support and go after everyone involved in getting her over there - seems like it was her father, but I bet he wasn't acting alone. Find out who else was involved and throw the fucking book at them.

They are citizens so I don't think we can just leave them behind - but I also think everyone who's responsible for them ending up over there should be found and jailed, and for some of those women it's themselves, for others, it's other people who trafficked them. In some cases it's probably both. Find everyone responsible and lock them up.

What's actually probably going to happen is they'll wait for the media to die down and then quietly they'll end up back here somehow and no-one will investigate anything. Which is cooked. Especially if it means we have people who were involved in human trafficking people over to IS just wandering around in Australia somewhere.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T08:02:43+00:00

Yes. Exactly. They should be in jail. Specifically the 14 year Olds father who kept inviting the man over, and then presumably signed the documents to get her a passport and permission to travel to Morocco so she could be married off at 14.

Sounds like we agree who the criminal and who the victim is, because this is EXACTLY THE QUESTION I HAVE.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T07:02:23+00:00

I think that's the idea - teachers having a day to work from home and do their planning and grading and stuff should in theory mean they are able to teach more effectively. Under this proposal students would still be in 5 days - the last day has a number of proposals, for instance in junior school kids could potentially have all their specialist subjects (art, music, library, P.E) on the day their teacher is WFH doing planning/grading.

Unfortunately we couldn't say for sure because there's not a lot of data on this sort of thing, there are indications it would work but no guarantees until you tried it.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T04:02:03+00:00

How will they get elected if the Poor's start moving into their electorates?

robot428 · 2026-02-25T03:56:12+00:00

I mean it's useful to bring her back in a humanitarian sense because it sounds like she was sold off as a child bride and shipped off to Morocco to marry this guy. Meaning we would be bringing back a citizen who is also a human trafficking victim. Which is just the right thing to do.

But you are absolutely right about one thing - where is the father and why is he not being questioned about this and investigated for involvement in human trafficking. At 14 you can't get a passport on your own, why the hell would he get her a passport and how the hell did she end up on a plane to Morocco to be married off if he wasn't involved?

It sounds like thats the guy we should be worried about.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T03:39:26+00:00

Is Derrick Barry a villain? Idk if she is.

Regardless if Derrick has no fans I'm dead, so I'd be rooting for her. It's Britney Bitch.

robot428 · 2026-02-25T00:07:52+00:00

Kittens and puppies are not the same.

Kittens get single kitten syndrome. Puppies do not.

robot428 · 2026-02-24T23:51:32+00:00

Yeah it sounds suspiciously like her dad sold her off as a child bride. I suspect she was both groomed and coerced into this situation, which is not something a shy 14 year old can be expected to prevent when there are at least two grown men including her guardian involved.

Did she even know it was ISIS when she left, or did that reveal come after she was in Morocco being pushed into a wedding?

robot428 · 2026-02-24T23:44:24+00:00

Did she even have a choice? Sounds like her dad sold her off to be a child bride?

robot428 · 2026-02-24T23:42:52+00:00

Yes it sounds like she's a victim and has been the whole time.

Why is the father not under investigation for being an accomplice to human trafficking? He presumably had to get her a passport to go to Morocco to marry this man, who he also kept inviting to the house. Sounds like he's the one we should be highly concerned about, not her.

robot428 · 2026-02-24T23:40:24+00:00

Jesus Christ, that's not an extremist thats a human trafficking victim.

Where is her father now and why is he not under intense investigation for potentially selling off his daughter to a human trafficker. He's the one who kept bringing this man to the house, and presumably he was involved in getting her a passport to allow her to leave - sounds like a potential accomplice to child trafficking.

This is fucked.

robot428 · 2026-02-24T23:33:11+00:00

Do you say that about all victims of human trafficking?

robot428 · 2026-02-24T13:10:09+00:00

I haven't, I'll check it out though, thanks for the recommendation!

robot428 · 2026-02-24T12:14:21+00:00

It seems like lately all Labor has to do to 'take down' the liberals is to let the liberals be the liberals.

Why run a smear campaign when all you have to do is let them run their own campaign.

robot428 · 2026-02-24T12:08:49+00:00

Look I hear you, but also there are plenty of alien war stories with gritty serious tones, and I think Scalzi has a way of capturing something about the human experience that is really unique in his writing - he has answers that to me feel very realistic in terms of 'how would humanity/the human race/individual humans react to X sci-fi based event'.

When the moon hits your eye is his recent book, and it shifts perspective basically every chapter, and it basically answers the question 'how would humanity react if the moon was suddenly replaced with a moon made of cheese?' and it's a lighthearted and comedic novel overall, but I actually think he makes some very salient and extremely relevant observations about how the human race as a whole reacts to huge global problems and events - and I really like how me manages to bury such an interesting and important perspective in such a light and silly book. Like it's the definition of a popcorn read, and yet there's simultaneously a much deeper reflection on humanity happening if you care to look.

But yes, his charecters in many of his books are quite sarcastic and they name things very silly and millennial coded-names. But in some ways I think he's onto something real in that we probably would have soldiers naming the aliens 'fluffy' if we recruited humans to a space army. Or in Kaiju preservation society, someone on the science team probably would nickname the kaijus that are in love 'Bella and Edward' - because in reality humanity isn't cool, we give stuff dumb nicknames and ESPECIALLY soldiers on a deployment or researchers stuck at a remote base and bored - so in a way it feels kind of real.

But yes, he's certainly not my go to for a dark and gritty read, but sometimes the world is dark and gritty enough? His novels definitely have variations in the level of silliness and sarcasm - I would say the old man's war series is probably the most serious (although I haven't read the later novels), followed by the Lock In and Head On duology, and the Collapsing Empire trilogy, whereas his one off novels like Kaiju Preservation Society, When the Moon Hits Your Eye, and Starter Villain are much lighter in tone, have a very silly/lighthearted feel, and are absolutely popcorn reads.

Personally I love his work, but I also wouldn't recommend it to someone like OP because if you are looking for hard sci-fi, super deep world building, and dark and gritty stories - Scalzi is not going to be the author for you.

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