Yesterday at pre poll far far away from Queensland I noticed one thing
Voters asked me, ALP, for one nation forms?
Not kidding last election was the same, not sure why
ON never mans a booth in this area
Clive Palmer outnumbered even the seat holder [and will hold it again] Nationals
Rumor went around that they are paid to work
Last minute poll SMH confirms news corp 51/49 poll
But highlights bigger margin in Victoria
We shall see

It seemingly pays to upset the dearies at their ABC.

A bloke doing an exit poll at our polling place told me that Frazer Anning is polling very well. Apparently his candidate for the house is doing surprisingly well, for a new party, & a bloke unknown to most of us.

If ever I decide to stand for election I will have to come up with something the lovies at the ABC could not resist screaming about.

Good Company, Pauline, Anning & Hasbeen, all thanks to the ABC fools.

Hi Paul,

Is it my imagination or have the Greens backed away from penalising negative gearing and franked dividend tax refunds ? i.e. the issues which benefit 'the big end of town' ? I wonder why that is.

Could it be - from a Marxist, i.e. class-oriented viewpoint - that the superior class, the virtuous knowers, are actually quite an affluent class. Well-educated, but like Lenin and Mao and Marx himself, they are knowledgeable BUT kept out of power by an unjust established capitalist class, away from the power which is naturally theirs. Yes, there is the Pre-Schooler Wing, but clearly, as mostly uni students, they fully expect to join the elect/elite in due season.

It seems (please correct me if I'm wrong) that voters in Greens-held seats tend to be much more affluent than average Australians. Many, of course, are in double-income relationships. So what can they invest their rightfully-earnt savings in ? Clearly, they can't get into mining shares or any of the conventional capitalist ventuts.

But capitalism is ever-innovative, and now it has discovered the vast earning power of the Greenhouse Gas Bandwagon. Oops, I should use the current term: Climate Change. Or is that morphing into Pollution, which is indeed a horrendously huge problem ? So energy companies are backing out of oil, coal and gas and getting into renewable subsidies. Oops (I just can't get the jargon right, can I ?) concern for the environment. i.e. socially-concerned capitalism.

So anybody with a stream of available revenue can invest much of it (as well as those overseas trips by plane, i.e. with their huge carbon footprint), in socially-responsible, innovative AND well-paying capitalist companies while appearing to be hostile to capitalism and 'the big end of town'.

Brilliant ! One can appear to be virtuous AND

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One can appear to be virtuous AND be assured of a lucrative revenue stream.

On a different topic entirely, is it true that Tanya Plibersek owns four properties ? (I will refrain from pointing out that Julian Burnside has a $20 million property portfolio). Little Aussie battlers. Kerryn Phelps also seems to have quite a bit of real estate, so my bet is that she opposes changes to franked dividend tax refund policy and negative gearing. But that might be quite unkind.

A new capitalist class ? Not so new, it's been around for centuries: Marx himself, and Mao and Lenin were members. Yes, capitalist is endlessly innovative, in all sorts of unexpected ways.

Cheers,

Joe

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Looking good guys!