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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-knives-are-out-dutton-has-to-win-over-voters-and-win-back-his-party-20250414-p5lrmf.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-knives-are-out-dutton-has-to-win-over-voters-and-win-back-his-party-20250414-p5lrmf.html</a>QUOTE BEGINSFor weeks, Peter Dutton has behaved like a man doing high-speed doughnuts in one of those monster utes, hoping the smoke from the burnouts will cover the wreckage left behind at his last stop.First he was against working from home, then he wasn’t. First he wanted a series of referendums, then he didn’t. First he was gushingly pro-Trump, then he wasn’t.After Donald Trump expressed contemptuous delight in having world leaders line up to kiss his arse, Dutton toned down his boast that he would be able to secure a better deal with the US president on tariffs.Then along came Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whom Dutton appointed as opposition Indigenous affairs minister in 2023 to destroy the Voice referendum. Price, a compelling speaker, gave white Australians permission to vote No.Deploying those same skills, without even realising it and without a functioning political radar to sense the dangers, Price on Saturday parroted Trump’s slogan, promising the Coalition would “Make Australia Great Again”.If he loses, that will be seen as one of the (many) key moments of the campaign. Price drove a nail into Dutton’s coffin. For those who believe in these things, it will be remembered as karma played out live in full technicolour.Dutton needed to use Saturday to frame his launch on Sunday. He should have been trying to build momentum for a faltering campaign. Yet, instead of stepping gently around the latest self-inflicted disaster, he leaned in, pointedly interjecting at his press conference to urge journalists to keep asking Price questions. More damage, another precious day lost.The next day, Dutton unveiled billions in spending which risked being branded as too much, too late. Thanks to Easter, Anzac Day and the school holidays, voters have only a few days to digest the competing offers.Dutton’s pledge to allow tax deductibility for mortgages at least gives him a story to tell, if he can stay disciplined enough to tell it.It has been a haphazard campaign studded by policies thrown together in haste with increasing concerns expressed privately about the disconnect between Dutton’s office and campaign headquarters.Dutton’s freelancing hasn’t helped, including on Sunday, when he insinuated the prime minister had been drunk when he called in to a Darwin radio station to gazump the opposition’s Port of Darwin announcement. It made Trump calling Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe” positively benign, especially as Anthony Albanese has been near teetotal since January. Launch speeches are designed to show leaders are ready to be prime minister. It was off-piste and definitely off.Afterwards, one seasoned Liberal campaign official described it as “the most uninspiring campaign I have ever worked on”.Before Price’s weekend comments, there were murmurs about Angus Taylor positioning for a post-election challenge to Dutton’s leadership. By Sunday night, angry Liberals reported “the knives are out”.Another pivotal moment for Dutton was on March 3 when opposition finance minister Jane Hume announced a Coalition government would end working from home for public servants – that’s if they still had work.Within hours of Hume’s speech, senior Liberal women who sensed the dangers urged the party hierarchy to dump it. Immediately. They were ignored. Dutton stuck with it for more than a month.Another senior Liberal who last year dared to dream the Coalition could win, or at least form minority government, answered their phone at the end of last week without even saying hello to predict:“Labor majority or Labor minority.”Dutton has no choice now except to knuckle down and concentrate on selling the fuel tax rebate and tax relief for mortgages.There are still plenty of soft voters waiting to be won over who could be tempted by two fists full of dollars. Others will not be swayed by hearing the son of a wealthy politician complain about the difficulties of buying a house.It highlighted something else very wrong with this debate. Poor old taxpayers are expected to fork out billions for housing because it’s now seen as unfair for kids to expect help from the bank of mum and dad. Even if they are loaded.If the Coalition loses this election, the size of the loss will determine the extent of the post-poll bloodbath. If Dutton gets to 68 seats but fails to secure minority government, it will be seen as a respectable loss. He will be re-elected as opposition leader, assuming he wants it, and live to fight another day.If it turns out to be a status quo election, Taylor is expected to make his move. Taylor is already being blamed for the policy failures, even though in theory and in practice everything flows from the leader and his office. The briefing against him is designed to thwart his leadership ambition.According to my sources, Taylor’s surrogates have spent weeks sussing out the disposition of colleagues, taking the kind of temperature checks regarded as precursors to a move against the leader. He has made some surprising gains across factions and states.Weeks ago, I said on ABC’s Insiders there were three leaders running in this election, and only one of them was definitely not Trump. Yesterday, in response to this masthead’s Resolve poll showing how much Trump had wounded him, Dutton insisted there were only two – him and Albanese. Too late, she cried.Dutton’s campaign needed to be blemish-free in the days before, during and after his launch. It wasn’t. It needed to grab attention. It did, although again not always for the right reasons. Time is running out. He needs to win every one of the few remaining days.Although Albanese has campaigned better than expected, it has not been fault-free. Trying to pretend he hadn’t fallen off the stage when he had was dumb. Almost, not quite, as dumb as continuing to show his aversion for Tanya Plibersek.<ul><li>Niki Savva is a regular columnist and author of The Road to Ruin, Plots and Prayers and Bulldozed, the trilogy chronicling nine years of Coalition rule.</li></ul>QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NikiSavva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NikiSavva</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:Tis Amy! <a href="https://omny.fm/shows/follow-the-money-au/the-cruel-housing-hoax" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://omny.fm/shows/follow-the-money-au/the-cruel-housing-hoax</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114342612451380656" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114342612451380656</a> I already know the winner, so do not need to waste time on this fluff.Greens & Prog Indies!<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News<blockquote>Dutton pressed on offering for female voters</blockquote><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/dutton-pressed-on-offering-for-female-voters-20250416-p5ls7v.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smh.com.au/politics/dutton-pressed-on-offering-for-female-voters-20250416-p5ls7v.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed</a>🦗🦗🦗<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News<blockquote>WA news LIVE: John Howard in Perth to help Liberals win key seats</blockquote><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-news-live-john-howard-in-perth-to-help-liberals-win-key-seats-20250415-p5ls1n.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-news-live-john-howard-in-perth-to-help-liberals-win-key-seats-20250415-p5ls1n.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed</a> Ahahahahahahahahaha...🤔Ahahahahahahahahaha 😆 🤣<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:Someone not previously known to me PMd me with the helpful suggestion, which i share here now for other Greens voters, of adopting this new hashtag <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a> as a protest that political commentators, journos, & especially also the bloody ABC, continue propagating the myth of 2PP, eg, the last & next "leaders debate" only including the pathetic Libs & Labs, ignoring the approaching parity of non-"majors" support. I reckon this is a fine idea! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IncludeAdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IncludeAdam</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:I hate our pathetic electoral laws... <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/15/2025-election-peter-dutton-collapse-liberal-party-future/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/15/2025-election-peter-dutton-collapse-liberal-party-future/</a>quoteIf the polls are right, the Coalition is headed for defeat. Where does that leave the Liberal Party, which has abandoned so many of its traditions to get here? Peter Dutton is in heaps of trouble. Three polls were put out in the past 24 hours, all showing a growing swing to Labor. They’re just the latest in a growing list of polls indicating that at first the Coalition’s momentum had halted and then, point by point, has gone into reverse. When Anthony Albanese talked about kicking with the breeze in the last quarter, he wasn’t wrong.Worse, Dutton’s own personal numbers are declining while Albanese’s are improving. It’s almost as it, as voters have paid more attention to the leaders as the campaign got under way, they’ve decided that they don’t like what they see in Dutton.And Dutton has fired his big guns: a revamped low and middle income earner tax offset, and tax deductibility for mortgage interest, announced at the campaign launch on Sunday, added to the petrol excise cut from the budget reply.But Dutton’s pal Donald Trump has sent the oil price plummeting with his policy chaos. Unlike 2022, no-one is lamenting how much it costs to fill up at the bowser. And the tax offset and tax deductibility were announced at the same time as Labor was offering its own (further) tax cut and 5% deposits for mortgages. Your average disengaged voter would only have noticed both sides throwing money at them on the weekend — or Jacinta Nampijinpa Price channeling Trump. And economists have spent the past 36 hours bagging both sides for wasting money and further buggering up the tax system.So after nearly three years, and with just an Easter/ANZAC break and a week of campaigning to go, there’s a non-trivial chance that Labor could actually increase its tiny majority, leaving the Coalition in an even worse position for the 2028 election than Scott Morrison left it in three years ago.While Dutton and his campaign team think about how they can turn the campaign around and pull Labor’s lead back, and hope for a 2019-style polling error in their favour, others within Liberal ranks might be reflecting on where such a result might leave them.Failing to win back teal seats (or, in the worst case scenario, failing to win them back and losing more, like Bradfield and Wannon) would lock in those independents and make a medium-term return to government for the Coalition much more difficult. Likely, the Liberals would have to wait until the current incumbents decided to leave politics to have a crack at regaining their seats.If the loss of teal seats was offset by success in outer suburban seats, that would be some comfort that Dutton’s strategy had been partly effective. But what happens if the latter don’t swing to the Liberals? Does that mean the strategy was right, but the execution flawed? Or is the whole strategy of refocusing away from what used to be the Liberal heartland in favour of lower-income, more multicultural communities never going to work?That mirrors the Liberals’ ideological dilemma. If Dutton entered the campaign having tossed aside some fundamental Liberal beliefs, with his big-government nuclear power plan and using divestment against big corporations, it is the Liberals’ core competence of fiscal discipline that has been thoroughly trashed in the past few weeks.However ill-deserved the Liberals’ reputation for good fiscal management might be — they have long been the party of higher spending and higher taxation, as measured by proportion of Australia’s GDP — voters have until recently assumed that the Liberals would always balance the books. But in the face of voter disenchantment with the benefits of fiscal discipline and the need to combat a fiscally reckless Labor government, Dutton has gone for broke with handouts galore (with more to come on defence spending as well). Unlike John Howard in 2007, however, Dutton is doing so while the budget is mired in deficit, with no return to surplus on the horizon.Angus Taylor, desperately trying to fly the Liberal flag in an outfit run by a Queenslander, can insist the Coalition will have a better fiscal outcome when they release their full costings — at this rate, presumably one minute before polls open on May 3 — but a Dutton government would still deliver deficits into the 1930s, like Labor.When voters clock that endlessly running up bills on the national credit card only leads to spending tens of billions a year on bond interest rather than, say, health or education, will they remember the now-distant Howard years when achieving surpluses seemed easy (chiefly because Costello taxed us so much?) Or will the Liberals just be Tweedledee to Labor’s profligate Tweedledum?A win, or a narrow defeat, would vindicate Dutton’s strategy and his abandonment of Liberal traditions. But a loss along the lines currently suggested by the polls would leave them ideologically and strategically bereft. For Liberals — including the last remaining actual liberals in their ranks — there’s more at stake than merely who forms government on May 3.unquote<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/14/getup-ceo-departs-group-missing-2025-election-campaign/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/14/getup-ceo-departs-group-missing-2025-election-campaign/</a>QUOTE BEGINSThe once-mighty progressive group is barely running digital advertisements, hasn’t put out a media release this year, and has reported a significant drop in donations since 2022. GetUp!’s CEO has quietly left the organisation just weeks before the federal election, as the once-mighty progressive advocacy group reports a drastic fall in donations and has so far been missing in action during the campaign.This apparent turn in fortune comes amid the ascend of the group’s right-wing counterpart ADVANCE and the emergence of other progressive grass-root campaigning groups like Climate 200.GetUp! chair Glen Berman confirmed that Larissa Baldwin-Roberts resigned as CEO last month. “We want to thank Larissa for her hard work and dedication to GetUp! and its members. We wish her all the best in her future work,” he said in an email.GetUp!’s chief operating officer Dr Lachlan McKimmie has stepped in as the group’s acting chief and “myself and the rest of the board are taking a more active role in supporting our team,” Berman said.Baldwin-Roberts was appointed CEO in late 2022 after stints as the group’s 2022 election campaign director and First Nations justice campaign director, according to her LinkedIn. She remains involved with Common Threads, a First Nations summit that is “delivered in partnership” with GetUp!.Her departure from GetUp! and McKimmie’s appointment in the crucial weeks before this year’s federal election was publicly announced. Baldwin-Roberts updated her LinkedIn to show that she had finished at GetUp!, but without it alerting her network that she had done so. Her X profile still lists her in the role. She did not respond to LinkedIn or Instagram messages from Crikey seeking comment.GetUp! has been notably absent during the 2025 election campaign. The once formidable digital campaign juggernaut has spent as much as $768,000 on Facebook and Instagram political advertisements since 2019 (Meta’s Ad Library gives a range of spending when data is pulled from its service, which is why this isn’t a precise number). But in the past 90 days, GetUp! has spent a grand total of $3,615 on 15 total ads. For context, political parties, candidates and groups spent more than $11.38 million during that same period.Similarly, the group hasn’t spent a cent on Google ads in that same period (although the group has never been a big spender on Google, only running $10,000 worth in 2021). GetUp! remains active across social media platforms, doing organic posts on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.However, the group has not put out a media release since November last year, nor has it released any new reports. It’s also closing its petition platform, Campaigns by Me, at the end of the month. Berman said GetUp! is set to unleash an online advertising blitz across eight electorates before the election. “We’ve delayed this compared to previous years to ensure it’s as impactful as possible.” The group is also doing billboards and street advertising in Melbourne and Brisbane electorates, he said.Nevertheless, GetUp!’s finances look increasingly grim. According to the group’s real-time tracker, it has received $4,269,574 in donations in the past 365 days. This is a significant drop off from its last reported receipts of $6,703,280 in donations for the 2022-23 financial year, and far less than the last election year of 2021-22 where it reported $10.05 million. Berman alluded to this reduced war chest: “Our plans this election are focused on centring our members’ priorities and maximising the impact of our member donations. Over 7,200 members have already donated to our election campaign.”He pointed towards GetUp!’s involvement with the Yes campaign during the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum as disrupting the organisation’s preparations for this election. “This election cycle is unique for us because of the impact of the Voice referendum — effectively we ran a national election-scale campaign in 2022 and 2023, which means that we’ve not had as much time as usual to renew the organisation and rebuild our financial resources before embarking on this year’s election campaign,” he said. In 2023, The Sydney Morning Herald reported “mass redundancies” at GetUp! following the organisation’s decline in influence.The University of Glasgow’s head of division for political and international studies, Professor Ariadne Vromen, who has published research on GetUp!, said the group had changed approach after being criticised for a “failed” campaign in the 2019 election. She said that it had pivoted to doing more local electorate work in 2022 — which could explain some of the difference — and that Climate 200 had somewhat “outgunned” the group that election. Still, Vromen is surprised by GetUp!’s lack of digital campaigning and profile in 2025.“They have always had leaders with a public profile so it seems very strange to be mid-election without a spokesperson,” she said.Berman said that the progressive group remains a political threat.“GetUp! remains member-driven, focusing on empowering members and mobilising for change. We know that progressive advocacy is more critical than ever, especially in light of shifting political landscapes, and support from our members and donors will be key to securing a future where GetUp! continues to be an impactful force in Australian democracy.”QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GetUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GetUp</a>!

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/15/2025-election-party-machinery-squashes-independent-campaigns/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/15/2025-election-party-machinery-squashes-independent-campaigns/</a>QUOTE BEGINSIn 2022, independent Jo Dyer unsuccessfully contested the seat of Boothby. A member of her team explains just how heavily the odds are stacked against grassroots campaigns. Running an independent campaign for federal office is terribly hard. They need $100,000 to get the foundations in place, create a full campaign team out of nothing, find hundreds of volunteers, and as many people with election experience as possible. Every volunteer has to letterbox, attend rallies and functions, morning, noon and night. They have to be willing to openly canvass for their political preference.I didn’t know any of that when I volunteered to help Jo Dyer in Boothby (SA) in 2022.After my spirit was broken in that campaign, I thought I’d never get engaged in politics ever again.I was wrong.2022: Harsh realitiesWe had a team of about a dozen people working on the foundations of Dyer’s 2022 campaign: getting websites set up and phones connected, registering with the electoral authorities, building media contact lists. And we started letterboxing as soon as we could get the pamphlets printed.Dyer was up against the ALP’s Louise Miller-Frost and Liberal candidate Rachel Swift. They were all seeking to replace sitting member, Liberal Nicolle Flint, who’d resigned saying politics was too personal.On one hot, dusty day I went to Plympton to letterbox (hoping to hit 1,000 homes). The letterboxes were full of material. Flint had used her parliamentary allowance to create a final “newsletter” to the constituents, despite not running for reelection. The party machine had clicked into gear, producing a multi-page newsletter paid for by the taxpayer.With letterboxes already stuffed, I had to force our little flyers into the slot.It was physically exhausting, and as the day wore on and I got further behind schedule, I became mentally deflated. How was our cottage campaign supposed to compete?Later that day, I accompanied Jo to a public event at a bowls club in Glenelg.A woman in a Liberal t-shirt was protesting about transgender rights, and the team from the Liberal Party showed no embarrassment. I filmed the woman.No-one at the event asked candidates about transgender rights. Most were elderly and worried about their pensions.As I was leaving, a snappily dressed chap asked me what I planned to do with the video. What interest did he have in it? “I am a policy adviser for Penny Wong, I’m running Louise’s campaign.”That hit me like a clenched fist to the jaw. A full-time staff member from Wong’s office was running a Labor candidate’s campaign. More party machinery.Just then it seemed to me the forces marshalled against Jo were overwhelming.I went home delighted with Jo’s performance in public, but wondering how anything we did would make a difference. I told her about the video and she made it clear we’d never release it: “The transgender community doesn’t need this bullshit”. A few nights later, at a candidates’ forum in Mitcham, the same chap asked me about the video. I explained Jo didn’t want it released. “Give it to me, we’ll release it and no-one will know,” he said.In the end Jo received 7,700 first preference votes — about the margin that Swift lost to Millar-Frost. We consoled ourselves that we’d done valuable work in keeping Scott Morrison from winning reelection.I felt I had run my last campaign race, but I did doorknock for the Yes vote during the Voice to Parliament referendum. The campaign in my area was run by full-time ALP staff who showed me how NationBuilder [a database management software] works. I was flabbergasted by the detail we could collect and save.We lost, badly. The meanness of spirit against Indigenous peoples was devastating.I was done.2025: This could be our last chanceEarlier this year, when Labor’s Don “The Godfather” Farrell colluded with Peter Dutton to create new legislation that will make it nearly impossible for independents to run in future elections, I started to feel the need to get back in the ring — no matter the size of the opponent. Does anyone care about grassroots democracy anymore?Candidates from the most prominent parties — ALP, Liberals, the Nationals and Greens — don’t have to spend hours drawing letterbox maps, or beg for corflutes to be erected, or decide which areas of an electorate are a campaigning priority. It’s all in a file on some software like NationBuilder, ready to be dragged out each election. They know names, addresses, religious preferences and which people will vote by mail. They practically know how you think and vote.The parties know their budgets before they start campaigning, and can book out billboard sites months ahead. But the independents start from scratch.I’ve dusted myself off and am volunteering again in 2025 for Dr Verity Cooper in marginal (0.5%) Sturt, South Australia.This time around, the letterboxes contain an “annual report” from Liberal incumbent James Stevens. A frisson of outrage ran through our campaign office when we got wind of an (unconfirmed) rumour that Labor has printed 6,000 corflutes, and the Libs 100,000. Verity can afford about 400 — good luck trying to find them in the lead-up to polling day.Unlike Jo’s 2022 run, Verity has financial support from Climate 200 for this campaign, although it’s only enough to put the campaign into action. We must fundraise relentlessly to be able to truly compete.So I donate a bit harder, walk a bit faster, attend more trivia and film nights. The deck is stacked against us, but we’re in the game — and it might be the last hand.QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114337964608310684" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114337964608310684</a> If the denizens of Goldstein perpetrate a defeat of Zoe & a resurrection of the nasty TW, it will say an awful lot about those electors, with none of it pleasant nor complimentary. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114336989510235999" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114336989510235999</a> If you vote Liebs & Nuts, you are hideous... i want nothing to do with you. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:This <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/labor-announces-10m-to-provide-inclusive-culturally-safe-healthcare-for-lgbtq-australians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/labor-announces-10m-to-provide-inclusive-culturally-safe-healthcare-for-lgbtq-australians</a> sounds good afaict, but it's still no reason to vote Labs 1. Most certainly the Greens will also want positive initiatives like this, so i look fwd to it in a post-election Greens + ProgIndies + Labs shared govt. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lgbtqia</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#respect</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:As well as his cowardice, & do-nothingness, & pathological Greens hatred, there's also his rank hypocrisy.<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/labor-launches-election-campaign-in-wa/105171826" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/labor-launches-election-campaign-in-wa/105171826</a><blockquote>There was an embrace of WA Premier Roger Cook</blockquote>Yet...<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/i-shouldve-done-the-elbow-bump-plibersek-and-albanese-brush-off-awkward-greeting-at-labor-election-campaign-launch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/i-shouldve-done-the-elbow-bump-plibersek-and-albanese-brush-off-awkward-greeting-at-labor-election-campaign-launch</a><blockquote>the prime minister appeared to block a hug from the environment minister, insisting that the pair are good friends ... Plibersek went in for a hug and a kiss, at which point Albanese grabbed both her hands and blocked her from getting any closer.</blockquote>...leaving the ever-faithful Tanya, for whom being publicly screwed-over by this bloke has become just another Tuesday, to again mop up the mess...<blockquote>During an election campaign, the last thing you want is to catch a cold from someone – so that’s on me. I should’ve done the elbow bump, I reckon</blockquote>I'm so over Elbow. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComeOnTanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComeOnTanya</a>! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatsAreNuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatsAreNuts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckRacists</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8939915/opinion-what-peter-dutton-got-right-about-gas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8939915/opinion-what-peter-dutton-got-right-about-gas/</a>QUOTE BEGINSIt's not often I agree with Peter Dutton, but I can admit when he's right and he's right about two things.Australia doesn't have a gas shortage, Australia has a gas export problem; and putting a levy on gas exports will help fix the problem.Unfortunately, Dutton's wrong on almost everything else.Gas is driving up the cost of living. After Australia started exporting gas, wholesale gas prices in Australia tripled.You now pay global prices for Australian gas. For over a decade the gas industry has been pushing the lie that Australia has a gas shortage, but the problem is we export around 80 per cent of our gas.No matter what crap the gas industry tries to feed you - Dutton has correctly identified Australia has a gas export problem.For the first time in over a decade, all sides of politics in Australia agree that we're exporting too much gas, including the Labor government, the Liberals and Nationals, the Greens and most of the independents who sit on the crossbench.It's a remarkable political consensus. Politicians now have the opportunity, in the middle of a cost-of-living election, to finally put a stop Australians getting ripped off by the gas industry. It would be a win for the economy, a win for your back pocket and a vote winner for politicians.To fix Australia's gas export problem, the Coalition is proposing to tax gas exports to ensure our gas flows first to Australian businesses and households.This, too, is a huge shift in Australian politics. For too long, governments have let multinational gas export companies get away with windfall profits exporting our gas, while paying no company tax and no royalties, and charging Australians a fortune for gas to boot.There is plenty of surplus gas that isn't under long-term contract. Basically, if gas companies choose to supply the lucrative global spot market instead of Australian consumers, Dutton will put a levy on the exports.Unlike Donald Trump's tariffs, which are paid for by American consumers domestically, Dutton's proposed tax on Australian gas exports will be paid by the multinational gas companies who have been ripping off Australians for years.Gas companies will pass that cost onto other countries who import Australian gas on the spot market.Putting a tax on gas exports is an easy way to ensure that more of Australia's gas flows to Australians at cheaper prices.Gas companies will whinge that this will dry up investment.Firstly, good.The United Nations, the International Energy Agency and the world's scientists are all clear, there is no room for new gas fields on a warming planet.Secondly, this is plain rubbish. The gas is here underneath Australia. Gas companies can't just move it overseas along with their headquarters. Where would they go? To Norway or Qatar, where taxes and royalties are way higher?The gas industry impoverishes Australia when, at the very least, it should be making us richer.Australia collects a pathetic $1 billion or so a year from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. In comparison, Qatar collects around $50 billion a year and Norway around $20 billion.Multinational companies are making ridiculous profits exporting Australia's gas while paying diddly squat in taxes and royalties.Young Australians pay more in HECS repayments than the gas industry pays in the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Zero royalties are paid on over half of the gas exported from Australia.Australia Institute research shows that over the last four years, multinational gas export companies made $170 billion - that's billion with a B - exporting Australian gas while paying zero royalties. Gas companies $170 billion; Australia $0. It's highway robbery. Many gas export companies pay no company tax either. When Australian teachers and nurses are paying more tax than the entire gas export industry, something is seriously wrong.As two-time Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz says "As an economist, that makes absolutely no sense. The result of this is that is Australia as a whole is becoming a poorer country."Do you have any idea what Australia could do with an extra $20 billion a year?According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, Australia could put dental into Medicare and we'd still have $6 billion a year in spare change. If we made as much additional gas revenue as Qatar, there is basically no problem Australia couldn't fix if we chose to.The Coalition also says it will also speed up the approval of new gas projects.To be clear, this would be disastrous for the climate, the environment, farmers, and Australia's cultural heritage. These new approvals will only increase gas exports, further exacerbating gas price problems.Peter Dutton won't admit it, but renewable energy is far cheaper than gas, even with the cost of firming and additional transmission. It is far cheaper to heat houses, provide hot water and cook with efficient electrical appliances than with gas.Dutton's gas export levy is probably the most popular policy the Coalition has proposed this election. Attacking working-from-home arrangements went down like a fart in a lift, especially with women. His nuclear power plan, always a distraction, has disappeared without a trace. Sacking 41,000 public servants in Canberra has been clocked as more cruel than efficient and few believe it won't impact on front-line services.And all the Coalition's policies to make housing more affordable will only push up the price of housing, benefiting existing homeowners and no one else.In the lead-up to the election, it looked like Dutton would ride the wave of Trump-led populist politics to victory. Around the world incumbent governments fell election after election and the polls had the Coalition drawing ahead of Labor.But now that Australians have seen firsthand the carnage of Trump's policies unleashed in real time, Dutton's Trump-like policies have turned from populist to perilous. But a levy on gas exports? Dutton's on a winner.<ul><li> Ebony Bennett is deputy director for The Australia Institute and a former Greens media advisor and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times</li></ul>QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8941018/mark-kenny-peter-duttons-alliance-gamble-amid-us-tariffs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8941018/mark-kenny-peter-duttons-alliance-gamble-amid-us-tariffs/</a>QUOTE BEGINSPeter Dutton said only what most Australians were already thinking after Donald Trump flatly penalised America's most dutiful ally.Tellingly though, the plain-speaking indignation from Australia's political class was reserved for the Liberal leader.By raising the US alliance during trade frictions, Dutton had broken the major-party omertà.Defence Minister Richard Marles called him "reckless". A former DFAT trade negotiator told the ABC it might be "dangerous".Even John Howard, when asked about the Liberal leader's comments, raised his famous eyebrows, saying, "...we should never treat that [the US-alliance] with contempt that using it as a bargaining chip would represent".Anthony Albanese jumped in too, declaring the Liberals "simply aren't up to" national leadership."They are reckless and there is a huge risk from Peter Dutton," Albanese intoned.Risky. Dangerous. Reckless. The hyperventilations came from everywhere. From all the men of unbreakable US devotion, all the serious men of defence, all the president's men.Dutton's sin?"Resolving this matter [tariffs] will centre around the defence relationship," he had said. "We have troops in the north of our country, we have the AUKUS deal, we have the ANZUS treaty."Presumably, Dutton believed such comments were of a piece with his breathless refrain that Albanese had not muscled up against Trump's tariffs whereas he, Dutton, would've played hardball and secured exemptions.But it wasn't Dutton's unprovable boast that brought reproach. It was the terrified thought that an offended America would fold its tent and withdraw.Summoning his trademark piety, Marles accused Dutton of engaging in "reckless and dangerous thought bubbles"."What we will do," Marles reassured quaking voters, "is engage Australia's national interest".The "national interest" is a political term of art. As an unquantified "good" it can justify anything - holding or denying negotiations, joining or not joining wars, and even signing up to alliances unscrutinized by the people or their parliament. It also validates keeping schtum in the face of economic harm and insults lest a powerful "friend" takes offence.A case in point. Foreign Minister Penny Wong was asked on Melbourne radio if she trusted Donald Trump. The short answer, of course, is no. This would also be the sane answer.Yet sane can also be crazy. Touching off a Twitter war with the man-child in the White House would be "unhelpful" in an election campaign and could even spark more punitive sanctions on Australian goods.Wong's answer then? "I trust him to do what's in America's interests." Invited to say something negative, Wong cleverly finds something positive instead. At one level, this is a skilful diversion. At another level, it is not even correct. There are no credible economists, trade experts, foreign governments and non-cult Americans who believe Trump's mayhem serves US interests.What they do accept reluctantly is that Trump alone gets to define those interests right now. They accept, too, that MAGA America has changed the world, fundamentally and irreversibly.In Australia, we seem much slower on the uptake. Dutton's indiscretion, however, has invited us to do some fresh thinking.In its unvarnished disdain of friend and foe alike, Trump's belligerence offers an insight to security ties as well. Bluntly, it is this: if attacked, the US will come to Australia's aid if, and only if, such involvement serves Washington's perceived advantage at that time. That's it. End of.Emotion plays no role. Or, to paraphrase the great British statesman Lord Palmerston, a country has no friends, no enemies, only interests.Fretting about America's feelings in the way Howard and others insist we must misses the real basis of US defence ties with Australia - the projection of American power in the Western Pacific through an ongoing allegiance with Australia, its unsinkable aircraft carrier.US strategic bombers now operate permanently out of RAAF Tindall 300 kilometres south of Darwin. There are also US Marine rotations in the NT, and other air and naval assets routinely positioned around the country. US nuclear submarines regularly visit and will operate permanently out of Submarine Rotational Force-West and from a new east coast submarine base in coming years. With the crucial Pine gap facility, all would be early targets for the Chinese in the event of war with the US.Australia needs to get real. Trump's lack of sentimentality articulates a cold truth - what America feels for Australia is not amity but utility. This is why AUKUS is so iffy. Australia's major parties make out this $368 billion multi-decade punt to be somewhere between an article of free-world faith and the only certain path to national survival. But is it?MAGA Republicans are not interested in safeguarding liberal values, democracy, free trade and the rule of law. They detest these things.The British Parliament has initiated a review into AUKUS in light of the wooliness of its obligations, its large costs and distended timelines, and the changed geo-strategic environment - to wit, a rising China, a resurgent Russia and an unreliable America.A parallel Australian inquiry is a must.Ordinary Australians know America has upended the global trading system and weakened the international settlement.Sometimes, in foreign policy, it serves a useful purpose to remind a partner "democracy" that Australia has voters, too. If they lose confidence in the value of an alliance, it will affect American interests.<ul><li> Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast.</li></ul>QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:toughness and punishment, including tougher jail sentences for malefactors. He thinks ministers are too constrained by administrative law, procedures and requirements about natural justice, human rights, and due process. With the help of weak and woke judges and quasi-judges in administrative tribunals, bad people, or people we can do without, are getting away with murder, he believes.The shortage of developed policy is not necessarily a big minus among ordinary voters. Most expect a return to the broad policies of the Morrison government and its style of operating. That ought to strike horror among those who saw robodebt, the scale of party-partisan rorting and the lack of transparency and accountability in that government, with Dutton as much responsible as any other senior ministers. But incompetence and maladministration are not to be taken as what voters want, even if there is a serious risk that it is what they will get. Rather they expect a government in which the Coalition will preside over the economy, responding to events without much in the way of an agenda.In many respects, though they will deny this absolutely, they mean following the broad guidance of experienced and bland public servants with the attention to detail Coalition ministers and minders tend to lack. The task these days, after all, is more about outputs for favoured constituencies than outcomes for the citizens who need it most.That, alas, under Albanese as much as Morrison, is the new reason for winning elections.<ul><li> Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.</li></ul>QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/JackWaterford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JackWaterford</a> 2/2

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/10/peter-dutton-federal-election-2025-media-training/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/10/peter-dutton-federal-election-2025-media-training/</a>QUOTE BEGINSPeter Dutton likes a friendly face, as evidenced by his endless interviews on right-wing radio and TV. Is that why his back-of-an-envelope campaign is struggling so badly? Peter Dutton’s biggest problems in the election campaign so far have come from poorly thought-through policies and his own indiscipline in failing to stay on message. Both are at least partly the result of the echo chamber in which Dutton has immersed himself for the past three years.As opposition leader, Dutton has been highly averse to being challenged by journalists. According to his transcripts, he’s done just 16 media conferences in Canberra — either full-blown media conferences where he has faced probing by the press gallery, or doorstops which provided fewer opportunities for journalists. And as time has gone on, he’s done fewer and fewer — just three in the last year. He went seven months without doing one in Canberra from July last year to February.He’s also been reluctant to submit to questioning by the ABC: the total of his interviews and appearances on the national broadcaster (which seems to lead half its political stories with “Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says…”) over the past nearly three years is just more than 30 — which includes interviews on ABC local radio as well as major television interviews.Then there’s his now-famous habit of hiding from the media after a bungle, or bad news for the Coalition, often leaving shadow ministers to front the media instead.But if Dutton doesn’t like the press gallery or the ABC, it’s clear who he does like: he’s done 26 interviews with right-wing shock-jock Ben Fordham, and spoken more than 50 times on now-retired Ray Hadley’s program. And he’s appeared on Sky News programs over 80 times, more than his Canberra press conferences and ABC appearances put together.The results of that refusal to allow questioning are now clear. Dutton and his team have been living inside an ideological bubble detached from what the majority of Australians think.Take his working from home debacle, or the promise to sack tens of thousands of public servants. Both policies, taken directly from Donald Trump, naturally went down a treat with audiences on Australia’s own version of Fox News. But both — especially the attack on working from home — went down like a bomb with voters, and have now been shelved in humiliating backflips. It was a political version of Sky News’ shitflingers’ lamentation that their own audience was biased after the latter declared Anthony Albanese won the little-watched debate earlier this week.Worse than concocting policies in an alternate reality where Trump is revered is that Dutton just isn’t used to being challenged. He now finds himself having to face journalists every day. His training for this? Being asked softball questions about how awful Labor is by buffoons like Sharri Markson, rather than explaining his own policies to a sceptical media.As a result, Dutton has no experience in unveiling complex policy to critical journalists (remember his dud nuclear costings, released in December while Dutton was in Queensland, safely away from the press gallery). It’s staggering that even now, key details of his gas reservation policy — which increasingly looks like a cobbled-together, back-of-the-envelope job dreamt up because of heightened expectations around his budget reply — are unclear, including when consumers might ever see the tiddling savings that are supposed to flow from it.A match-fit politician used to being grilled by sceptical or even hostile journalists — what Labor MPs face every day from News Corp’s and Kerry Stokes’ outlets — understands the need to have key details nailed down, knows what messages they want to emphasise in relation to a policy, knows how to stick to a line, and has wargamed with their staff what could go wrong with an announcement or how it will be portrayed. But if you spend your life being asked to explain in detail how terrible Anthony Albanese is, those skills are left undeveloped.So Dutton is now on a steep learning curve, a lot like Albanese was in 2022, when the people he regarded as his friends in the media suddenly turned into yelling, baying critics. Liberal MPs will be hoping he’s as quick or a quicker learner than the prime minister. In a highly concentrated campaign already interrupted by holidays and Easter, he has time to turn things around, but not much.<ul><li>Bernard Keane is Crikey’s politics editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.</li></ul>QUOTE ENDS<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty1</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShitParty2</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsLabor</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzElection2025</a>

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