Riiiiiight I thought you meant in terms of politics and my response about the Greens was being sarcastic. Though the Greens and LNP get dragged into culture wars alot easier than Labor

But uhh…I’m not really sure how this is relevant to this thread.

Idk I was interpreting their comment as saying that Labor aren’t very popular which is true at least in terms of first preferences

Yeah I don’t think people will want to skip the Olympics—I’ll probably just watch highlights and the Equestrian Eventing (No Andrew Hoy this year unfortunately), it will all be on at a really early time anyway

Guess I won’t change what I’m doing then. Do they deserve more money for writing absolute drivel and propaganda? Given how much their company makes from it maybe

Yeah I meant to include a “/s” because I’d probably associate Greens, Labor and around the “Malcolm Turbull” part of the Liberals with the Democrats, and the Nationals, One Nation, UAP and the rest of the Liberals with the Republicans

Seriously though, there is a multitude of other reasons why people might be calling centrelink

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No, @Zagorath@aussie.zone did some analysis a while ago and found that Labor were overrepresented in parliament based on first preferences nationally, ignoring the electoral boundaries. The Greens, One Nation and various independents would have more representation in parliament if we didn’t use localities to determine the makeup of parliament

Yeah I was thinking that too. Really good fog, couldn’t see much of the city driving in, disappointed when I discovered that it was still there.

Holy shit, this is our Taylor Swift/Superbowl thing. Something will happen and she will endorse Anthony Albanese for another term in government

Given that they’re taking the view from everyone I don’t think that should be a cheap way to live

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We have two republican parties

LNP and the Greens?

I sometimes watch friendlyjordies but I have to take a break because it makes me feel really hopeless about society

Melbourne don’t have any emojis going on

Yes and we’ve probably got it worse because we also have 7 and 9 which are Coalition propaganda as well. The ABC is somewhat neutral, and 10 seem to be Liberal-leaning. No left-wing/Labor biased media to balance the rest and people’s trust in the impartiality of “the news” will only lead us further down this route

Looks like they’ve used Material Design 3 (I think) or at least heavily inspired by it

I’d argue we are:

• We have two heavily entrenched major parties, at least wholly or partially owned by corporate interests (ALP less so than LNP)
• Politicians going out of their way to create needless division and damage social cohesion, turning Australians against each other (see “antisemitism” and voice to parliament)
• Most people are politically disengaged voting along previous party lines or doing very little research due to hopelessness
• Political advertising and campaigning is becoming more and more disgusting with very little care given to facts, logic and science with an emphasis on “CoMMOn SeNSe”

It’s a little harder to go full fucked up US here owing partially to our mandatory preferential voting system (but don’t worry the QLD LNP are promising to get rid of that if elected). The system could be made much better though, we should ditch the idea of region based electorates and use some kind of proportional representation so that no matter where you live your voice will be heard.

People had time to vote, they had time to research things and take part in political discourse

Which is precisely why it should be mandatory, otherwise politicians can just go about making life difficult for people to suppress votes. There is no place for political disengagement in a democracy