This has been the case of a while in Victoria already. Makes sense to me, and hardly much of an imposition since you have to renew your driver's licence from any country eventually anyway.
And yeah, if you're just visiting or on a temporary visa, no probs
The Juice Media are forever questionable to me for recommending the teals as a blanket "not shit candidates", despite some of them, not unsurprisingly, being against workers rights.
Next thing you're gonna be telling us is to bring back public servant building surveyors as the only building surveyors, to stop the conflict of interest that the builder paying the inspector directly causes.
Bloody madness, clearly the private market is more efficient /s
Our housing regs are a joke since they're not even well supervised
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they're not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Even under our current capitalist model, I think there are practically no benefits for privatisation of necessities. (Management of each being equal, that is. People pointing to "government inefficiency" are naive to think there aren't just as many private orgs who run very inefficiently.)
What's the point of having energy transmission private? I can't well plug in a different network. I'm stuck with one, and then have to do a stupid dance with the retailers who "compete".
What's the point of having the airport be privately owned? It's not like we have much of a choice of which airport to fly out of.
What's the point of paying private schools with government money? That's just money that could have been spent on public schools.
All of which we have to pay cost + profit. Instead of just cost.
While a large part of the population is mislead about capitalism or benefitting from the system themselves, I think you'll find your sentiments are shared by many. Especially here on Lemmy.
This system sucks.
But yeah, our media is so fully captured by corporate interests that any proposal tooooo socialist is promptly demonised.
Oh those profits from our minerals? Nahhhh the foreign companies deserve that. Can't have a mining tax.
Breaking up monopolies? Nahhhh that's practically communism (despite competition being part of capitalism's rhetoric)
Big sad :(
At least Trump will likely secure us another term without an LNP majority government hehe
Aldi is a nice way to save, but, their fresh food selection is pretty meh, and often not great quality (as in, going mouldy fast, I don't care about how they look).
I usually pair going to Aldi and an Asian supermarket
You have lowered my bar for success, challenge accepted (should I remember the next time I encounter one in the wild).
And jeez, sorry for apologising, I guess?
I don't think it's a straw man to say there are many people out there who look at countries that hold or held the banner of communism or socialism through extremely rose tinted glasses, and many of them are on Lemmy.ml
Annoys me because I'm a socialist (in my eyes) and think these people detrimental to convincing others of socialism's merits.
The monarchy is a rubber stamp at best, and a foreign actor at worst (Whitlam Dismissal).
Though I agree, this year may not be the best time. Over the next decade where we cross our t-s and dot our i-s, still a totally good as time as any to become a republic.
Republic doesn't mean the USA. Thankfully.
We don't need an executive with way too much power
I'm still really unsure why some socialists have decided that because China carries the flag of socialism, that it means they're automatically good at everything, ever. And everything bad about it is western propaganda.
I'm a socialist, hell, I even like China in many regards, much more than many of my fellow Australians.
But damn, why so many people on Lemmy.ml stanning for them? Makes no sense.
That being said, much of the infrastructure they have, is indeed nice (all the massive amounts of coal we sell them, notwithstanding).
But there are a bunch of inefficiencies and issues.
Ya know, like any other country.
China isn't a utopia, it's a place, with good and bad points.
MisterFrog @ MisterFrog @aussie.zone Posts 2Comments 52Joined 2 yr. ago
This has been the case of a while in Victoria already. Makes sense to me, and hardly much of an imposition since you have to renew your driver's licence from any country eventually anyway.
And yeah, if you're just visiting or on a temporary visa, no probs