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Voting independent? It can be a risky move : Comments

By Scott Prasser and Nicholas Aroney, published 2/5/2025

While the latest polls suggest Labor might scrape into forming a majority government, a minority government, propped up by the Greens, is still a real possibility.

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Yes, yes, yes! So much better to have a majority government that implemented Robodebt without any interference from those intruders into the realm of the two mafia-like old Parties. And it is really just an apparition that the Teals injected integrity and rigour into Albo's legislations.

Ah, old ideas. They die hard, just like the Yellow Peril we have seen in many re-branded offerings during this election campaign.
Posted by Chek, Friday, 2 May 2025 9:10:02 AM
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WTF?
It was always going to be difficult for the authors to make their point with gems like these:"... while the Greens have used their leverage in the Senate to drive an independent inquiry into the robodebt scandal" followed up with "A Labor-Greens coalition in the House could see the Greens trading their Senate clout for policy win."

Surely a coalition of these parties in the lower house could have prevented a robodebt in the first place.

What about this one: "The Greens have also used Senate power to push renewable energy; One Nation has championed regional jobs; but all these cost money." So what? It's the government's job to spend money the way the electorate wants. Should this exclude these parties from having a greater say in the lower house?

I'm glad we have preferential voting. I never thought I'd be putting some candidate below the TOP candidate but here we are.
Posted by WTF? - Not Again, Friday, 2 May 2025 10:02:56 AM
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