Wow that comes across as quite cynical
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I think the way it happened shows that many people did put thought into it rather than just flipping to the other side (which is the easy option). The fact that most the votes lost went to the independents shows that it was specifically issues like climate and integrity that people were responding to, not just kicking one side out to let the other side in (because in many ways, both sides are exactly the same). Both major parties were down on vote percentage compared to last time.
I don't know about no measurable impact. I can't afford to buy a home due to prices, my shitty wage and the insane rent I need to pay to support my family. We live within our means as much as we can also.richo wrote:I wonder how many people voted for change rather than any real interest in what goes on in the country? Not that either side has any measurable impact on our day to day lives .
Wow that comes across as quite cynical
They moved my electorate boundaries from Parramatta to Bennelong just in time to be part of Howard's removal. I'd have to say the result this weekend here has given me some small satisfaction.
Yeah, it has bounced around a fair bit, but looks less likely now.Cursed wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 8:00 pmAnthony Green says no when I looked: https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/f ... lts/senate
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Pretty fair assessment.It was widely noted that they didn’t get women, though, as Samantha Maiden noted, it was women who finally got them. At root, the problem was that they didn’t get people: not the old, who were left to die unnecessary, wretched deaths while they went to the cricket. Not anyone under 40 who would never own a home, nor the trans kids they damaged or the poor they may have driven to suicide with the illegal and evil “robodebt”, wasting nearly $2 billion of our money in the service of persecution.
They didn’t get kindness or decency, that the suffering in the theatres of cruelty they called border defence not only distressed but shamed many Australians. They didn’t get that their ceaseless rorting and corruption offended people who built lives around trust and honesty.