I would suggest that it won't matter WHAT percentage of the population "owns" the housing if there are more people looking for a house to rent than there is available.
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I dont think thats true. It would net out to being the same. But in your case you also have higher house prices making it harder for others.
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Looks like The Greens are nearly the number 2 in Brisbane now. Taken a few seats off the LNP but not far off Labor in total votes and will go close with them in the number or seats
Adrian Schrinner re-elected as Brisbane's lord mayor after day of delays at polling booths
ABC election analyst Antony Green called the vote for Adrian Schrinner shortly after 8pm, amid a swing to the Greens in some Brisbane wards.
Sadly we still don't know a lot yet beyond the mayoral result and a few wards. The Electoral Commission of Queensland were a bit of a shambles today, and there were long queues well past when the polls were supposed to shut. The ABC have been even worse, with their repeated calling and uncalling of seats and their algorithm going wacky several times.
I'd argue they might have, actually. The LNP vote remained pretty much the same while the Greens gains came almost entirely at the expense of Labor. Compare that to 2022, where the Greens gains came from both parties, which made the LNP easier to beat in the final 2CP vote. This might suggest that the attack ads didn't work on the previous Labor voters who switched to the Greens, but did work on the previous LNP voters who may have switched to the Greens or to Labor. And that's looking like it'll cost the Greens a couple of seats they might have wrested from the LNP, like Central and Coorparoo.
Is that invalid in qld ?
Greens councillors tear up membership, slam leadership over ‘surveillance, disinformation, fear’
Two more councillors have quit the Victorian Greens – and up to five more are tipped to soon follow suit – as a broader internal dispute threatens to split the party.www.theage.com.au
Goodbye, transphobes. Rest in piss, you won't be missed.
What you're asking for is for the Greens to be the party they were back in the 90s and 00s. Thing is, they were irrelevant then, with no lower house seats and a couple of Senators, because most people don't care as much about ecological sustainability and social equality as they do about other issues. It's the Greens' direction over the past five years that has won them multiple lower house seats and two Senators in every state (until Thorpe left. In fact, Thorpe leaving is evidence for the Greens not actually being rigid in identity politics).
This sounds like wishful thinking to me. I predict the Greens will increase their seat count at the Queensland state election and maintain all their current lower house and Senate seats at the next federal election.
It's not wishful thinking, I've preferenced the Greens first at every election in the lower house since I've been old enough to vote and most times in the upper house too. Their vote has increased over the last 15-20 years but that's largely to do with the change in demographics over that time. Most people are drawn to the Greens initially because of their environmental policies. They have done well to identify the rental/housing issue as a potential vote winner but internally their politics still seem like they are stuck at the uni level, worrying about the fringe identity politics I mentioned above. They are very dogmatic which I guess you have to be to a certain extent as a political party but hounding out your would be supporters because they disagree with you on one or two issues that the wider populous don't have much investment in seems pretty silly and could end up leading to stagnation or regression for the party as more minor parties pop up on the left.
Well tell me, would they be justified in not wanting to have racists representing them? Homophobes?
