It's simple: I will vote for any party that will not tell us what to wear.

Specifically, vote as I do for whichever party(s) will not send the cops after you just because you ride a bicycle.

Don't you find it outrageous for others to order you what to wear? Today a helmet - tomorrow a burqa!

Yuyutsu

So you have no objection to anyone wearing what they like.

You wouldn't mind if people wore the white klux klan robes around the streets, or the nazi German uniform.

Would you tell them what they should wear.

Runner,

We are supposed to separate church and State.

If you can vote a Christian party in as government,then people
could also vote any other kind of religious party into power,
like a Muslim government or a Hindu government.

I don't think religous parties should be allowed to run for government.
How can we have secular governments, if we allow religious parties
to stand for election. It makes no sense.

It's just breathtaking, the way Morrison continues to present in interviews. The twisting and turning, the misinformation, fabrication, the grins, the threats and that tiresome, yet still hysterical blaming of Labor (he was litteraly spitting with fake anger yesterday).

Journalist, I believe, are missing
the really stark situation the Government finds itself in. That is, as it pursues its irrational, indefensible economic course, the insurmountable evidence in wave after wave of damning data, contradictory academic commentry and analysis (even the business community is moving a contradictory agenda) is revealing the Liberals entire economic philosophy as patently irrelevant and one which cannot possibly address Australia's contemporary economic reality.

The only consistent economic policy position they've steadfastly maintained over three years is to cut company tax. Yet even our business leaders think this is useless!

We've just been warned that if the Government maintains its Dad's Army economic march, our credit rating is guaranteed to collapse along with our 1950's mining and cattle economy.

So it's not just the weirdos like (please don't check my cellar) Christensen and Andrews, and old white-haired moral delinquents like Abetz and Brandis, it's the fundamental Liberal model of economic stewardship that has ceased to make any sense. It has intellectually atrophied.
And we are about to pay a terrible price.

That says it all Granny.

Even so, as usual, I'll be examining the policy offering and making my choice based on them and the historical and intellectual integrity of the party or independents promoting/promising them.

I'm looking for genuine tax reform that simply cripples the tax avoidance industry and all those who benefit from it.

Then I'll be looking for a pragmatic education package that focuses on best possible outcomes for students, not education departments or teachers union or the patent incompetents they seem to foist on us or protect?.

And that only needs to change the funding paradigm to one that put a means tested education endowment in the hands of responsible parents, who would then be free to send their tin lids to whatever school they could reasonably chose, and just on the basis of published results and genuine autonomy. [I just won't be holding my breath!]

Even if that required some portion of the GST be appropriated as part of the mix.

Have you ever noticed the more money the federal government pours into education and medicine the less the states contribute. Ditto public health or aged care!

If just one tier of government collects tax, then the funding should come directly from them rather than be channelled through empire building state bureaucracies!?

Which parenthetically, adds around 30% to the education and health funding bill.

Better that same very finite bucket of money be directed a benchmarked best practice outcomes? And with the implementation of proposal, end forever the very convenient blame game the states and the federal government have at their blame shifting disposal!
Rhrosty.

It is important to be rid of Turnbull, but how can that be achieved without voting Labor, which is not a political party, but a filthy disease of our political system?
We need the polls to show Labor ahead, so that the Liberal dopes will bring back Abbott. Otherwise, the least worst government might be the greens, as someone suggested earlier.
We are in a bad way.