The sky propaganda said this after the last election, the libs put Dutton as leader and did just that. Historic loss for them.
Again they are saying it now. I look forward to the libs following the advice more and getting reduced to a minor party.
I used to think that a majority labor govt should have fixing media concentration as a top priority.
I think they should still do it, but it's becoming less of an top priority issue these days.
Murdoch and Packer/Gina propaganda failed this time and last.
I think that the billionaires have learnt it's easy to negotiate in the background with labor to get their reforms through as far as cutting red and green tape goes.
Bolt is just salty because he built his whole fake media persona on culture war outrage. The worst thing that could happen to him is happening, that is him and the rest of the sky talking heads are losing audience share and fading in to irrelevance.
I used to work for a company that agreed with you, well at least some clown in management did. Even though it was an Australian company, at least part of the problem was we had an office in Manila, and they speak "American English" which seemed to include the awful date system too. We dealt with a lot of files being issued to clients / received from vendors etc. Because the "official" system used those fucked up dates, everyone ran their own secondary sets of data folders in / out with everything done in ISO dates so you could actually sort it properly.
It's hard to imagine how the keep the sheep campaign will make any difference in urban seats. People tend to vote in their own interest first, myself included. Live sheep exports would surely be a long way down the list of concerns for urbanites.
I also find their campaign a bit on the nose. Why should I or any other average millennial vote to keep live sheep exports for the profit of farmers? Farmers reliably vote for liberals / nationals who have gone out of their way to fuck over anyone not born in to wealth since at least the Howard era. Why would they think we would vote against our interest for them when they didn't do the same for us?
I always wondered if anyone actually votes for ungrouped independents other than their immediate family.
I couldn't even be bothered searching for them when I made the O.P.
We have pretty much the same policies as the USA when it comes to digital rights, including border force being able to search your devices upon entry.
I tried this then it wanted me to do a verification video of my face.
We have:
Preferential voting.
Proportional representation (at least in the lower house)
Independent organisation that sets seat boundaries.
compulsory voting
no electoral college system
Our system is completely different to the USA. Granted our media landscape is still just as fucked as theirs.
First preferences also result in funding going to that party provided it meets a minimum threshold. Putting others ahead of the major parties sends them a message to do better. It has also resulted in a number of seats being held by independents.
Unless you actually live in the seat the party leader is in, you are not voting for that party leader / giant douche / turd sandwich.
As much as I love the south park analogy it simply doesn't apply to our system at all.
Having to manually share ICS was a bridge too far for me. Especially if event details get updated.
Can be fairly sure they are in the USA.
To grossly simplify a very expansive topic of concrete vs asphalt, vs bitumen...
Concrete = more upfront cost, slower to built. It is more durable. Costs more to repair. Less traction. More noisy to drive on due to joints.
Bitumen = cheapest up front to build. Less durable, but can still get a fairly good life out of it if designed to meet expected loads. Can be repaired more cheaply.
Asphalt. Middle ground between the two. (It's effectively bitumen with cement binder added) Most of our freeways, major arterial roads here are asphalt.
Things that effect the choice: Different CAPEX vs OPEX strategies, especially with politics for public roads.
Local availability of materials.
Local environmental conditions i.e. freeze / thaw cycles we don't have to deal with in most of Australia. High temperatures we do get, which does effect bitumen.
Fair to say that costs in one country for different labour and materials look a bit different too.
What a daft cunt, the liberals under Howard massively increased immigration. He speaks if the libs donors from the real estate lobby and the business council would let them touch immigration!
And as for Gina opening her mouth in an anti immigrant direction... The same one who wanted to bring in migrants for her mine? SMH. https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/rinehart-plan-to-offshore-australian-jobs-shows-worlds-richest-woman-cares-only-for-profits/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-29/rinehart27s-overseas-worker-push-facing-union-rebellion/3921700