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Martin McKenzie-Murray's avatar

and so, Dutton has shit the bed

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KSM's avatar

I’m hopeful of an increased number of independents (who are not batshit crazy) will work hard to make policies happen that improve housing access, and everything else that improves the inequality balance. And taxing resources-drunk corporations effectively and reforming taxation system and and and….

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Jane Rankin-Reid's avatar

Me too re independents but alas, some of Labor's rustiest nobodies have been returned at the expense of integrity and depth of moral imagination.

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KSM's avatar

Yes, agree. Polloes are pollies after all. But maybe, just maybe, these results will embolden the good guys to openly discuss ‘braver’ policies.

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Jane Rankin-Reid's avatar

There aren't many good guys or girls in the mainstream parties in my part of the world - Tasmania - they're all pro-contaminated salmon and other low/no speed reforms.

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KSM's avatar

That is so so bad. Agree. Peter George not getting in was a blow to me. Why why why does Labor support big international companies???? Not logical to me.

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Jane Rankin-Reid's avatar

To me, it’s due to a lack of experience or ‘worldliness’. The salmon story is a debacle of virtue signalling in completely the wrong direction.

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