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This is a hoot - Senate's 'average' guy Ricky Muir parks the enthusiasm
My seat of Lalor remained ALP - though with a big swing against of over 10% - by 62% TPP. Last election Julia Gillard had a positive swing of over 6%.
Ranked,
ALP (down 18%)
Libs (up 6%)
Greens
Palmer
Sex
Family First
Independent
DLP
Rise Up
Aus Christians
Stable Population
Bit of a sad result in that the Greens dropped more than 2,000 votes. Only ALP, the Libs and the Greens got quadruple-figure votes in 2010; Stable Population was the only one not to get quadruple-figure votes this time around. Enrolment was down by nearly 10,000 and turnout was down by nearly 13%.
I guess I'm just not comfortable with the left painting the Libs as this extremist right-wing party. This is absolutely not personal towards you (or Charlotte), but that Buzzfeed article for example - I get the impression that some of the people whose blogs were lifted for that article aren't joking. I know the Libs have some horrible policies and ideas on things, but I like lefties when they aren't quite so knee-jerk.
I'm not really expressing myself well here.
I totally concede this point.
Also happy to concede this one, as I know very, very little about it. From the tiny knowledge I have of the word "conservatism" and how it relates to the LNP, it would to me seem to make sense that they would, typically, look for a cheap, short-term option.
My seat of Lalor remained ALP - though with a big swing against of over 10% - by 62% TPP. Last election Julia Gillard had a positive swing of over 6%.
Ranked,
ALP (down 18%)
Libs (up 6%)
Greens
Palmer
Sex
Family First
Independent
DLP
Rise Up
Aus Christians
Stable Population
Bit of a sad result in that the Greens dropped more than 2,000 votes. Only ALP, the Libs and the Greens got quadruple-figure votes in 2010; Stable Population was the only one not to get quadruple-figure votes this time around. Enrolment was down by nearly 10,000 and turnout was down by nearly 13%.
I really don't see what was particularly inaccurate about Don't Be A Fucking Idiot and it even acknowledged that the ALP had some pretty poor policies - just not as indescribably shit as this wretched government we've just elected.
I guess I'm just not comfortable with the left painting the Libs as this extremist right-wing party. This is absolutely not personal towards you (or Charlotte), but that Buzzfeed article for example - I get the impression that some of the people whose blogs were lifted for that article aren't joking. I know the Libs have some horrible policies and ideas on things, but I like lefties when they aren't quite so knee-jerk.
I'm not really expressing myself well here.
It pretty much will if Tone is given free range on his approach to the climate. Seriously, do you want a Great Barrier Reef? Australia needs to act pretty quickly and pretty substantially on climate change. The ALP were half-arsing it, but at least they were sort of trying. The Coalition do not even begin to comprehend the significance of the environment and are openly dismissive of science that does not provide the conclusions they desire.
I totally concede this point.
Your right-wing Twitter dude is in about 1% of technophiles. There's a reason every ISP and IT consultant in the country is flipping their shit about FTTN replacing FTTP. There really is no competition; if we half-arse the NBN to save a few bucks in the short-term, we will only have to spend even more to re-do the system in a few years' time. It's actually cheaper to do the job properly the first time, no matter what bollocks the Liberals try to spin. If you think this policy is entirely Turnbull's or even largely his, you're kidding yourself. Here, good technological policy long since became subservient to a particular economic ideology that involves slashing public expenditure. The suggestion that major Liberal backers such as Murdoch/Foxtel are not keen on FTTP and have leaned on the party to promote FTTN to help protect their business model is not entirely baseless either.
Basically, if you are going to develop infrastructure, you aim to introduce the most comprehensive system possible. Any good project manager will tell you that you need to future-proof it and allow for demand far beyond the present. FTTN will barely even meet present demand, let alone future usage. In essence, the Liberals want to do with the NBN what successive Victorian state governments have done with the railways - run 21st century trains on 19th century track and alignments. The ALP's NBN is visionary and forward-thinking; it will serve Australia well for decades. The Liberals' NBN cuts corners to simply meet present demand; but then again given the profound lack of vision and imagination the Liberals show with most policy, it's par for the course.
Also happy to concede this one, as I know very, very little about it. From the tiny knowledge I have of the word "conservatism" and how it relates to the LNP, it would to me seem to make sense that they would, typically, look for a cheap, short-term option.