Anthony Albanese - How long? -3-

[faible]

not sitting on the public’s dime becoming a professional student , child maker or doing nothing at all..

This would reflect a very, very small minority of the people on jobseeker. Making policy based on a very small number of people, that impacts a large number of people negatively, is stupid.

 

[Saint]

Albo's Govt inaction has seen the odds of an ALP majority govt drift to 14-1.

So, we're going to either get a conservative Govt (LNP with teals), or an ALP minority with Greens and/or Teals.

I'm not sure why the ALP takes an approach which near-guarantees a single term as a majority Govt.

Doing nothing works for conservatives because that's what they want their Govt to do.

Doing nothing does not work for progressive parties because their supporters expect them to do something.

Is there a guru somewhere telling them to do nothing and that will expand their support, or is it that the conservatives in the Union movement insist on inertia?

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Doing nothing does not work for progressive parties because their supporters expect them to do something.

Is there a guru somewhere telling them to do nothing and that will expand their support, or is it that the conservatives in the Union movement insist on inertia?

Whoever is driving labor strategy is simply a moron and should be sacked.

 

[Saint]

Whoever is driving labor strategy is simply a moron and should be sacked.

If you were the LNP and could request what the ALP does while in Govt. It's pretty close to what the ALP actually did.

 

[Vindicater]

Whoever is driving labor strategy is simply a moron and should be sacked.

It has been clear that Labor's entire policy hinges on a rate cut or two coming just before the election.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

It has been clear that Labor's entire policy hinges on a rate cut or two coming just before the election.

Which is dumb. Why rely on external things you can't control.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Albo squibs it again: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...ads-until-after-election-20250129-p5l838.html

He made such a big song and dance about honouring Peta Murphy's legacy and then dropped any crackdown on gambling ads like a hot potato after Labor won the byelection. Now it's 'we might do something after the next election'. Pathetic, just pathetic.

No balls whatsoever

Labor need to show people that they’re on their side.

I mean they’re so clearly not, but it would be an election strategy to at least pretend. They’re not even doing that.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Whoever is driving labor strategy is simply a moron and should be sacked.

It's redundant to say a Labor strategist is a moron, that's self evident in the fact that they're Labor. You should have just said "whoever is driving Labor strategy should be sacked".

 

[Chief]

yes when they want to do something it gets done very quickly

when they dont it needs a working group, white paper, consultation etc

See the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal in the UK. No money for compensation to illegally imprisoned citizens, until a TV show throws a spotlight on it, then the money is announced and legislation passes.

Note: some people still waiting for money I believe.

 

[Gralin]

See the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal in the UK. No money for compensation to illegally imprisoned citizens, until a TV show throws a spotlight on it, then the money is announced and legislation passes.

Note: some people still waiting for money I believe.

Oh they'll announce that stuff quickly but getting the money to the people tends ro be very slow

See literally every single disaster relief package in Australia

 

[nut]

 

[nut]

The do nothing government?

 

[Vindicater]

I just got an email from Labor saying there is less than 110 days until the election.

 

[Bloods86]

I just got an email from Labor saying there is less than 110 days until the election.

Well, yeah. There has to be.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I just got an email from Labor saying there is less than 110 days until the election.

Well Labor are ****ed then. It’s “fewer” not “less”.

 

[Rotayjay]

Why should tradies be a protected class? They're generally not struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

I believe tradies are essential workers (no plumbers and no sparkies means no sanitation and no power, for example). But they have been a protected species in Australia for decades now.

 

[Kram]

Why don't you guys do the 4 year apprenticeship and take it up yourselves if it's so awesome.

 

[Rotayjay]

I bought my first house about 3 months before the GFC. The bank offered us a stupid amount of money. Because we were entering into a contract for someone to lend us half a million dollars, we actually put time and effort into building a budget so that we could understand what we could afford. We ended up borrowing about 60% of what the bank said we could have.

This RBA thing is the biggest cop out of all time. Rates were at ALL TIME LOWS during the pandemic and could only ever go one way. If that put people into mortgage stress in 2023/24, it was going to put them in mortgage stress in 2026.

Seems personal responsibility is going the way of the Dodo...

When Phillip Lowe said that interest rates are likely to stay low for another few years, no one with half a brain should have taken that as gospel.

 

[Kram]

I bought my first house about 3 months before the GFC. The bank offered us a stupid amount of money. Because we were entering into a contract for someone to lend us half a million dollars, we actually put time and effort into building a budget so that we could understand what we could afford. We ended up borrowing about 60% of what the bank said we could have.

This RBA thing is the biggest cop out of all time. Rates were at ALL TIME LOWS during the pandemic and could only ever go one way. If that put people into mortgage stress in 2023/24, it was going to put them in mortgage stress in 2026.

Seems personal responsibility is going the way of the Dodo...

Finally someone saying how it is.

Generally the posts on this board on interest rates and the rba are so embarrassing.

 

[carltonchelsea]

I believe tradies are essential workers (no plumbers and no sparkies means no sanitation and no power, for example). But they have been a protected species in Australia for decades now.

Not a fan of ‘Fight Club’, we are the glue mate, no us, no you!

 

[peetoo]

See the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal in the UK. No money for compensation to illegally imprisoned citizens, until a TV show throws a spotlight on it, then the money is announced and legislation passes.

Note: some people still waiting for money I believe.

They are spending billions to not compensate the victims

I don’t know what management was doing all that time according to their statements they knew nothing

 

[Gralin]

When Phillip Lowe said that interest rates are likely to stay low for another few years, no one with half a brain should have taken that as gospel.

I think if the governor of the RBA is on public record saying something people are going to take it at face value

Especially when it's something he has control over

We had over a decade of low interest rates during which the housing market inflated in a way that even small increases to interest rates would have a large impact and the RBA did this


We didn't have that big or fast a climb during the GFC

 

[Chief]

They are spending billions to not compensate the victims

I don’t know what management was doing all that time according to their statements they knew nothing

You can't trust them.

There's a video I watched recently that summed it up. I can find it in a sec.

It's the same thing everyone has been saying. These people say whatever needs to be said in the moment to get what they want.

You see it in these finance dorks, management dorks, gaslighting DV perpetrators, rich d/h's, politicians.

They look at this moment and work out what needs to be said so they get what they want. If they don't know, they probe until they hit on the right words.

Trump did it in his speeches. Talked and talked and talked until he got the "lock her up" chant and people stopped walking out of his speeches.

Psycho management with the Royal Mail just act like "oh of course it's terrible what all those other people did to the innocent victims". Despite their names being on emails and their voice being in recordings.

 

[Rotayjay]

At this pre-campaign stage, I believe the probabilities stand thus:

Labor majority govt: 5%
Labor minority govt: 60%
Liberal minority govt: 30%
Liberal majority govt: 5%

For reference, on the eve of the 2016 election, I believed Hillary Clinton had a two-thirds chance, and I thought the Crows were a two-thirds chance ahead of the 2017 grand final.

I don't believe Labor has much of a path to majority because of inflation the worldwide incumbent-killer. I don't believe the LNP has much of a path because of the teal seats.

 

[peetoo]

The liberals have spent decades pissing off teal seat voters

They won’t get them back in a couple of months pithy scarecampaigns