Unfortunately, people like Indy suffer from the "sin" of envy, the other bloke's getting something I'm not getting, it must be a rort! This entitlement attitude runs deep in society and is ingrained in some people.

Foxy you made the mistake of saying; "We have a large wealthy electorate" that enraged Indy to the point of attack, he said; "overpaid non-performers driving up rates & most costs for those who work for a living!" Most unfortunate.

Dear Paul,

The Australian Bureau of Statistics gave all that data
that I cited.

In my electorate - people work very hard.
There are a variety of businesses - from healthcare
professionals - ranging from GPs, to specialists,like
cardiologists, oncologists, eye-specialists, geriatric
consultants, and many more. As well as tradies, plumbers, electricians, builders, architects, et cetera.

There's also people working at more
than one job. And the list goes on. I'm not sure how
indyvidual makes his assumption about "wisdom," regarding
complete strangers and about an electorate he doesn't know.
That's why I said - none of his logic makes any sense to
me.

Now back to the topic:

Both parties have released competing health and public
transport promises. And there's probably more to come in
the next couple of weeks. What seems to have registered
with many voters here was when the Premier announced last
week that he will bring back the State Electricity Commission
(SEC) and generate government-owned renewable energy.

Not sure how that will affect things.

We're receiving some very derogatory advertising from
the Liberal Party in our electorate prior to the
Victorian election. It's very disheartening because they're
using the old tactics of "attack" and not offering what they
will do if elected. This is an out-moded tactic - and no longer
works. It's actually a turn-off for most voters. And it's not
a very wise move to do this in a safe Liberal seat.

A Melbourne lawyer has written a piece on the "draconian measures " introduced by the Victorian dictator during Covid, and how the dark side of human nature was exposed, and the ease with which Victorians embraced the "new authoritarianism".

The Victorian Charter of Human Rights is not worth the paper it is written on. Human rights advocates, academics and officials are not interested in human rights.

Victorian government agencies are criticised, including VicPol - the "partisan arm of the executive enforcing its will rather than independently upholding the law".

The majority of Victorians are described as "submissive fools, vassalages accepting the protection of the all powerful state"; and that state is like "the Stasi in the final days of the German Democratic Republic ''.

The GDR is now freed and reunited with the rest of Germany. Are there enough Victorians wanting to free themselves from Danistan? The opposition might be rubbish, but they are not evil

Attacks on Premier Daniel Andrews are part of
News Corporation's long abuse of power. However,
the Labor government still looks set to be returned
on November 26th.

What we are currently seeing is the capacity of the
Murdoch media to try to influence electoral outcomes in
in Victoria. However their influence is much weaker than
it once was. Mud chucking in the hope that it will stick
no longer works with most voters.

A recent example is The Herald Sun's resurrection of a
nine year old motor accident involving not the Premier
but his wife. It published an online video-taped interview
with the cyclist involved in the collison and his father.

The interview was long on innuendo and short on facts. It
insinuated that in some undefined way the Premier improperly
used his power to deny the young man justice and that the
legal system let him down.

News Corp is cradled in influence peddling and propaganda, all
for the purpose of advancing the Murdoch family's interests.
Abuse of power is baked into its culture. This does not excuse
what the Herald Sun and others are doing. But it helps explain
it.

Dear Foxy,

Indeed.

If there was any inclination to put the Libs ahead of Labor the utter toxicity of the Murdoch press and the brain dead fools who regurgitate this stuff will turn a lot of people off.

The HS lead today with a picture of the stairs Andrews had his quite serious accident on.

Zero debate on policy issues just diving for utter gutter journalism which has been the hallmark of the Murdoch press.