If the Teals have the funding behind them of course, but because they are not an organised party, it would be difficult for them to run a campaign and gather enough support.

2022 was very good for the independents, but overall, that’s not a common result. The Teals pretty much fill the vacuum between Labour’s centre right MPs, and Dutton’s wacky right wingers

So they don’t want to get into government.

They won’t have a path to 76 seats if they can’t win back the Teal seats. Seems like they’ve given up on that, and they are trying to rally their right wing base in QLD just to keep hold of that region.

Yeah English police are much more welcoming than the US police.

It’s about as annoying as young people abandoning any and all punctuation entirely the amount of people that will write an entire paragraph and not use a single period is obscene if you can’t bother to organize your thoughts in the most minimal way I’m going to assume you have nothing of worth to say and just won’t read it and frankly, if what you’re saying is so boiler plate you don’t need punctuation then you really don’t have anything to add so probably just shouldn’t

Plus Tesla’s for the Australian market are built in China. Heck, I think some of the new BMWs are built in China now as well.

Because the Australian Teslas and Volvos are made in China. It’s a Chinese EV. Volvo is owned by a Chinese Company.

Well this is just impossible. The UK tried to do this and failed. Plus I’m not sure how this is going to reduce DV? Is there a problem of kids strangling their partners during sex? Isn’t there a better way to educate them?

Don’t count your hens I remember when all the consoles had backwards compatibility, until they didn’t.

So a non refundable return of over 10% with an expected break even at year 10. Hmm, that’s not a good investment. Also I adds no value to your property.

I’m gonna call it, the farmer put up $100k in solar and sold it for $200k with a dividend plan for what it produces.

Government financed IVF will not solve the birth decline, nor will a plethora of government carrots and incentives for short term fixes. Because Australia has a long tradition with immigration I don’t see low birth rates as a dire problem, it is bad news for older homogenous societies like Russia, China and Japan. What will be necessary though is a shift in our composition of tax policies and handouts. Much more tax collections will have to come from non personal income.

Hang on hang on hang on let me spend $100,000 on consultants to tell me what I want to think.

The beauty of preferential voting is that the major parties are incentivised to cater for their opinions to gain more first preference votes in the next election. Climate change was frankly a non issue 15 years ago, now where I am in Kooyong (now with a teal independent), it would be impossible for a candidate to win without a climate policy. Victorian liberals tend to be much more moderate (think Frydenburg) than your Queensland liberals (Mr Potato head).

Last time I went to the polls I voted in order, Greens, Teal, Labor, Liberal, right wing independents.

Some seats are safe seats, in that case parties are less incentivised to throw money at your electorate. In marginal seats like Kooyong you’ll see a corflute sign on every corner, and will get doorknocked every second day by a volunteer.

The best thing you can do is volunteer. The teals would not have won without thousands of volunteers doorknocking.

Person who was charged and put on trial for murder died. It’s a legal term. Journalists can get sued for defamation for blatantly calling someone who is not convicted a rapist or murderer. You can safely call OJ an armed robber and kidnapper though.

That’s why the talking heads on tv tend to dance around the terminology and say “allegedly” and “accused of”

An action to make society more democratic is one I can get behind. Few countries can really call themselves democratic.

If you’re under 30, full-time job, no looming debts, no kids, then the 6 months can really be 3 months or around $10,000. If you have a partner, you are even more secure. Remember this is a figure derived from very conservative financial commentators who assume you have a linear college and job progression (which is rarely the case). Even a 1 month savings buffer will save you for 90% of the unexpected expenses.

If you’re in your late 50s, finding a new job will be tough, especially if you are laid off during a recession. In that case a generous buffer beyond 6 months would be good.

Either way, having savings is a good thing. Yes you will miss out on those “epic Bitcoin gains”, but once you have made an emergency savings buffer, then you can really knuckle down on contributions to retirement.

I live in a small unit that had dusty ultra-compacted dirt around the house that was called a lawn. I broke the soil with a hoe, threw a few bags of soil mix down and planted some moss I harvested growing wild down the laneway. 2 years later the ground is mostly covered in a spongey moss. Give it a few more years it’ll be completely covered and thick.

It requires virtually no mowing and needs little water. Apparently growing moss is even good for air and ground water purification. Not sure how much purifying it’s doing but it’s good to know I’m doing my little part.

If you have a small yard, grow moss.

“Hi, uh good morning, is this the place where I say my thoughts out loud and potentially put myself and my family in danger?”

“Yes it is.”

"Oh thanks. Well can you write ‘I can’t wait for all the Palestinians (including women and children) are shot or starved to death so we can bulldoze their homes and communities to build some luxury condos for my billionaire buddies.’ "

“…naire buddies. All done sir, was their anything else?”

“Not at the moment thank you madam.”

I think your you got your righty tighty lefty loosely muddled up.

That or Saudi Riyal. People are going to vote for this guy?

If people think porn is too “accessible”, look up New York Time’s Square in the 70s and early 80s. The whole town was practically porn central.