2025 Federal Election: A Pox o' Both Your Houses

[Achy Blakey Heart]

How could they oppose the smallest possible tax cut if this is their policy on their website?

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[Rotayjay]

What’s in it for me ….. Australian Culture

Community-mindedness has gone out the window in Australia over decades. The result is the shitty, unaffordable country we have today.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Sorry i should have been more succinct. You are right it's not high, however, it's still precarious with various economic drivers that could easily place it at risk again.

Still. Why are we continuing to provide tax relief, our spending is hugely bloated? We need to tax more if anything.

Inflation is heading in the right direction and this budget won't change that. Most economists have acknowledged this. It's in line with most of the OECD countries ATM, the USA inflation rate is expected to climb to 3 per cent very soon because of reckless decisions by Trump. There isn't much reckless decisions making here more so incremental improvements across the board. It's a socially conservative budget from a Labor right politician in Chalmers.

 

[Forward Press]

" They want to cut education, they want to cut health but what they won't want to cut is peoples' income taxes. "

Just repeat this ad nauseum until election day in my view. It's a free kick for the ALP that the coalition voted against the tax cuts.

 

[DaRick]

As to the poll question, historically I've probably voted the Coalition a little more than Labor, but this time, well plainly put I don't like Dutton and some of the Liberal MPs seem to display a want to emulate Trump type rhetoric (see the DOGE copycat thing), which is a red flag.

The devil we know seems a bit safer ATM.

This sort of sentiment explains why I've always been very sceptical about Dutton ever becoming PM.

He's despised in the seats he needs to win back (the teal seats, VIC), he's not particularly popular among minority groups (so Bennelong isn't the fait accompli that it should be) and the LNP already has the seats which suit his style better (Flynn).

I frankly expect a status quo ante election, with the LNP picking up a few seats (Gilmore, maybe Ryan/Blair/Tangney/Pierce), and maybe losing Sturt (a blue-ribbon seat in a state which dislikes Dutton).

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Sorry i should have been more succinct. You are right it's not high, however, it's still precarious with various economic drivers that could easily place it at risk again.

Still. Why are we continuing to provide tax relief, our spending is hugely bloated? We need to tax more if anything.

We need to tax the right people/companies more.

 

[Rotayjay]

Ah the optics of politics.

Endless arguing about the $275 annual power promise but similar legislated annual tax cut is ‘an insult’

People get paid fortnightly, weekly or sometimes monthly. So $5 per week is not even noticeable in terms of a better lifestyle during that week.

But people whinge about power bills (despite being a small percentage of spending) because you pay that in one hit, once a quarter. Imagine paying for your groceries once a quarter.

I set up a recurring payment to my energy provider so that when I get the quarterly bill it's bugger-all.

 

[hamohawk1]

Cyclone Alfred could be the best thing to happen for Labor re delaying an election and really bad for libs unless things change quickly

Dutton just seems more inept by the day and this is with an arm chair media ride.

 

[aCunningPlan]

Cyclone Alfred could be the best thing to happen for Labor re delaying an election and really bad for libs unless things change quickly

Dutton just seems more inept by the day and this is with an arm chair media ride.

Dutton's going to throw the kitchen sink at it and the media will eat it up, it's going to be entertaining to watch. Everything hinges on tomorrow night.

 

[DaRick]

Cyclone Alfred could be the best thing to happen for Labor re delaying an election and really bad for libs unless things change quickly

Dutton just seems more inept by the day and this is with an arm chair media ride.

Albanese was also much more present during that crisis than Dutton, despite the latter being a Queenslander.

The latter also went to an out-of-state function when Alfred looked like bearing down on Brisbane.

Not quite Hawaii ScoMo, but not a great look.

 

[DaRick]

Dutton's going to throw the kitchen sink at it and the media will eat it up, it's going to be entertaining to watch. Everything hinges on tomorrow night.

Dutton doesn't have the charisma to pull off a stunning rebutal.

And how many people actually listen to budget replies, anyway.

 

[Carn The Berries]

Dutton doesn't have the charisma to pull off a stunning rebutal.

And how many people actually listen to budget replies, anyway.

I imagine very few actually watch/listen to the reply (and a similarly small amount do the same with the Budget itself) but being an election year whatever he says tonight will get plenty of airtime.

I'll be tuning it, but I'm a self-confessed political nuffie.

 

[Rotayjay]

3 May it is. Blow the siren and bounce the ball.

Albanese to call May 3 federal election on Friday morning

The prime minister is poised to call the election tomorrow, to be held on May 3.

www.abc.net.au

 

[DaRick]

So he's going for a short, sharp election campaign?

IMO that's the correct move - current polls do not flatter the LNP, and Trump's stench hangs over them right now, so pre-polling (which matters more in shorter campaigns) won't favour them like it did in the QLD election.

Moreover, I don't think that stench would have disappeared by election day.

Although I doubt that Dutton would outdo Albo on the campaign trail, a shorter campaign limits any shift to the LNP should that happen.

 

[Sphynx]

Rubbish … we are fast tracking our move towards renewables and they’ve created the Future made in Australia fund.

Oh joy.

Because Labor Governments have always protected our natural resources so brilliantly?

Why not just publicize and build the infrastructure required for processing and refining rare earths outselves?

How about we invest and reap the benefits in the sovereign manufacturing of renewables, ourselves?

How about instead of just handing out corporate welfare and government subsidies to foreign companies and foreign capital investment firms we actually reap the benefits for once?

Why would you assume this is protected under the ALP, they’ve already introduced and passed laws that mean foreign investment can come here, claim subsidies, then undercut local content and workers. They introduced the worst legislation for local manufacturing in decades. Why would they be the savior? Because they have simply opened the cheque book to anyone?

 

[E Shed]

Dutton's going to throw the kitchen sink at it and the media will eat it up, it's going to be entertaining to watch. Everything hinges on tomorrow night.

I'd really like to see him do stand up comedy and maybe some juggling. Then don blackface makeup and do "Mammy" and Jacinta can come out and tell everyone what a stand up bloke he is for black-fellas.
Then his Wife can close the show with an all singing, all dancing version of "He's not a monster".

 

[aCunningPlan]

So he's going for a short, sharp election campaign?

IMO that's the correct move - current polls do not flatter the LNP, and Trump's stench hangs over them right now, so pre-polling (which matters more in shorter campaigns) won't favour them like it did in the QLD election.

Moreover, I don't think that stench would have disappeared by election day.

Although I doubt that Dutton would outdo Albo on the campaign trail, a shorter campaign limits any shift to the LNP should that happen.

I also think its fortunate timing that canada is going to the polls at the same time. The media were frothing over Trump when he won yet a much, much closer friend in canada is going to swing left which shows the world doesnt have to march down the extreme-righf path.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

It’s possible that a Sith Lord declares victory on May 4th.

 

[Saint]

God the Libs are going to be so insufferable on ANZAC weekend. I'm glad I'm going camping.

They're probably going to thump the bible all Easter weekend too (I'm also going away).

I think a lot of people will be on holidays for a good chunk of the campaign with school holidays in Vic, followed by a 3-day week.

I might get the kids to keep count of the political billboards we see on our drives, might be a good game to add. Might ask them to keep watch of the gender of each candidate by party too.

 

[pjcrows]

The documentary for this election will be called "Five Weeks In Hell".

 

[The Punter]

I might get the kids to keep count of the political billboards we see on our drives, might be a good game to add. Might ask them to keep watch of the gender of each candidate by party too.

Or instead you could choose to have fun

 

[Saint]

Or instead you could choose to have fun

Ever been on a 6 hour drive with 3 kids through outback Vic/NSW? It's attrition, not fun.

Anything out the window we can play a game with, we will.

 

[The Punter]

Ever been on a 6 hour drive with 3 kids through outback Vic/NSW?

Yes. All sorts of things you can do before "Tories hate girlies 101"

 

[nobbyiscool]

You really have to have semen spawn for politicians to care about you in this country, hey?

We really need an electoral reckoning in this country. We already have an election framed around issues that ignore people who aren't "working families", and that ignores anyone under 30 years of age.

I wish young people would start to pay attention, cos they're the key to any electoral reckoning. Instead they've gone the other way, they've given up on politics being something for them by the time they turn 18.

It's wild that they make me vote, as though I feel anyone of them deserve validation. They don't.

I've never been more disappointed in a leader than I have been in Albanese, and I'm so sick of him talking about his mother to try and humanise him and to present him as someone who understands disadvantage - he deliberately doesn't understand or care about anyone else's disadvantage, which is why women like his mother are increasingly finding themselves facing housing challenges because politics ignored a generation of women who never had "career jobs", and are now in their 60s/70s, unable to work, had bugger all (if any) super, receive a pension that doesn't cover rent, and are on their own from being divorced or widowed.

I'm also sick of idiotic blunt instrument policy like this stupid tax cut. We need housing reform, not 5 bucks a week. But it's too hard an it upsets investors... who don't vote labor anyway.

I hate this campaign and it's an hour old.

 

[Saint]

Yes. All sorts of things you can do before "Tories hate girlies 101"

It's funny that I said I'd get them to count the gender, and you automatically assumed they would deduce that "tories hate girlies". Resigned to that being fact?

The fact is that I was in a "leadership" meeting yesterday with 25 men and zero women from one Department (multinational company), so yes, they're probably going to learn one way or another that this is a man's world and that some groups are more responsible than others for perpetuating that.