This whole country is frothing at the mouth to make sure as many kids are born as possible so they can proceed to neglect them and throw them in jail when they understandably lose it.
I fucking hate this shithole. I know it’s not the peoples fault they are bombarded by fear and propaganda, but at the same time I find it hard to relate to a society that hates their own children. I feel surrounded by monsters. 
Oh, also voting is mandatory here. So all those libs thinking anti-electoralism is your biggest hurdle to winning? Yeah, no. Your biggest hurdle is your own parties total refusal to stand up to the far-right and deliver on any promises. Failure to oppose imperialism. Your support of capitalism. Your funding of far-right proxy wars. Failure to present any real counter argument. Your support of private companies and insipid courting of right-wing voters that will never respect you. And most of all your hatred of the left and refusal to work with them and your insistence on compromising with capitalism.
You are pathetic and the only one to blame for people like Trump is yourself, not “Tankies”
I’m a Queenslander and the number of people I heard saying “We’ve had the Labor party for a decade now, I’m voting the LNP to give them a turn” - fucking idiots who can’t take 5 minutes out of their day to check what a parties policies are is crazy, we live in a world where the sum of information is in your pocket. It makes a great case for abolishing our compulsory voting laws, when people can’t engage.
Not only lament the erosion of rights under the conservatives, but the loss of all the green energy projects the previous government had in the the pipeline, as well as these new fuckwits cutting the tax on resources and mining that their overlords wanted. With the resource tax gone they’ll be in debt inside a year (which they’ll blame on the outgoing gov) and we’ll be back to job cuts and austerity just like the last time these people of reduced governing capability were in power here.
“Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?” — Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong, 1930
Democracy is when you average policies of two groups of weird elites. The more average the more democracy.
btw slur in post is a bit unpleasant, mayhaps edit it?
Imagine being an enlightened centrist image macro.
The resource tax Labor put in was only at times for very high coal prices - they’ll continue to pay like $13 a ton while the price is $150. I reckon LNP will get rid of the lower and 40 percent tiers for symbolic reasons but I’d be surprised if they cut the taxation amount below the $150 price tier.
Ripping out all the renewable programs won’t have an immediate impact, but in 8-12 years there will be huge issues as the coal plants continue to degrade and reach their end of life.
This article suggests the pre 2030 renewable projects will probably still happen and some of the wind, Perhaps they will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, or we’ll spend the next decade load shedding