Their new leader needs to be able to solve environmental problems with holistic solutions.
We need renewable energy, but in order to get there we need a Secondary and Tertiary manufacturing industry.
Someone needs to (responsibly) build the consumer solar panels and batteries for us to install in our Garages and Roofs.
Someone needs to build the equipment for the solar farms, solar ovens, wind farms and hydro batteries (responsibly).
Meanwhile, it is not enough to just ban outdoor industry, the land maintenance that High Country Grazing, Logging and Mining were (or should have been doing) previously needs to continue being performed and funded by someone. Otherwise there will continue to be unfettered Bushfires and Poisoned mining ghost towns.
I’m a bit extremist that I would love to see Australia follow Papua-New Guinea and ban Facebook, but the legislators need to be a helluva lot more intelligent and dynamic than their predecessors.
They had Zuck hand their arse to them with their last attempt. It isn’t surprising that Rupe and Kerry lost out in that altercation.
I was quite happy when the little Primary School kid tried to short-change me when I gave him a $10 note for a $3.50 sausage and a $2 warm Sunkist and he gave me 50c change.
I unsuccessfully tried to give him an impromptu maths lesson, but after a small amount of dickering, I settled on only being stiffed by $1.
He really loved playing with his EFT terminal though!
My feelings are not hurt, my tolerance for hypocrisy is what being tested.
Don’t get me wrong, the Greens are currently the only way out of the Fossil-Fuel-Funded Two Party system we are currently in, but do they really need to do the exact opposite of what they are campaigning for?
Things that are 100% recyclable are not always (actually hardly ever) recycled at all, let alone to 100%. They should be using biodegradable, renewable materials, or even better, don’t publish them in the first place. The absence Greens Junk Mail would be a better message to send their constituents than continuing to status quo.
I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.
The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.
One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.
I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.
The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.
When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.
I got partway through Vote Compass, until it started asking Data Harvesting questions.
Why does it need my Income, gender and gender identity to tell me how to vote? Religion should also be irrelevant!
The answers were pretty generic too.
How many asylum seekers should we let in? “At least as many as required by UN obligations.” None of this “Much More”, “More”, “Same”, “Less”, “Much Less” rubbish!
I think he is being as contrarian as possible to lift up his pet I dependants.
His party should receive no votes, but he wants to divert those angry votes to the Independents that still take his money.
If you vote independent, (which I believe everyone should), make sure it is for someone who is honest about where their funding is coming from.
However, I’m sure that if anyone campaigned on changes to the SPAM ACT to remove political exemption, they would win by a landslide.
Australian Road Rules are a lot different to road rules in other countries.
Reiterating them with people who know how to drive, but don’t know how to drive in Australia will certainly make DashCams Australia less interesting.
That said, for every one person using an Overseas licence who drives in a reckless manner (by Australian legal standards), there are dozens of people with Australian Licences who drive recklessly due to arrogance, stubbornness or just pure selfishness.
I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.
That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.
I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.
She is right, it is the Voters that they saw through the lies and bullshit that her extreme Right-Wing media was spouting.