Australia, Explained

Used to post about how government works, but it's a dumpster fire cess pit of awfulness.
Get Mad. Stay Mad. Act accordingly to Righteous Justice.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Probably the most accurate representation of the difference between Left and Right Wing politics and political beliefs for this day and age.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Dang…. This is so TRUE!!!

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Ellen, maybe you haven't had the internal briefing yet...but The Greens are a Radical Left Wing Extremist Group who abandoned their morals and principles decades ago. You've been captured. You're either part of the mutinous infiltration, or you are a prisoner. Do you need help escaping?

[Deepstash @deepstash]

If you were sick, would you vote on the treatment or ask a doctor?

Socrates asked Athens this about democracy. Athens answered by sentencing him to death, by vote.

Deepstash: real ideas from great thinkers, in a feed you’ll want to scroll. 📲

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@TerpsSonja Are they "winding back" all abortions?

Or wanting to draw a line in the sand regarding unwanted pregnancies being aborted at 40 weeks?

Asking as a child who survived an abortion attempt, and still support my mothers choice to do so as it was within the first 8 weeks. 👍

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@Leo_Puglisi6 Leo the 14 year old Journo turned 19.

I feel older somehow.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Chris Bowen is lying to the world, and committing fraud against the Australian people.

This graph is from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment, and Water's own March 2026 Quarterly Update, I took this screenshot myself.

Look at the top graph, it shows cumulative change in Co2 emissions broken down by sector. Most of the sectors are clustered around the '0%' mark... some above, some below, the average of them all would be close to ZERO change in 21 years.

But there's one outlier... ONE line that dive down from the 0% (equal to 2005 levels) and down past a 50% reduction... PAST a 100% reduction (which is mathematical nonsense but I'll explain in a moment) past a TWO HUNDRED PERCENT REDUCTION, and has hovered between 150 and 200% reduction for the last few years.

If you look at the key, that dotted green line is a thing called 'LULUCF'. What's that?

"Land use, land use change, forestry"

In practical terms ALL of the supposed '25% reduction compared to 2005 levels' that Australia has achieved has come from changes in land use and forestry in this country.

What does that mean in real terms?

1. it means our economy is NOT 'decarbonising' at all, the wider project is a complete fail despite all the money spent, making Bowen and co a bunch of liars.
2. All the jobs we've lost, the manufacturing and heavy industry, the offshoring of real productive capacity... all of the independence and sovereignty we've given up in the name of reducing Co2 emissions... has at BEST brought the INCREASE to a standstill... not reduced the Co2 emissions of Australia's economy.
3. it means that productive land is being 'locked up', land that was cleared and producing food and fibre is being left fallow or being planted with things that have no value to us EXCEPT that they take Co2 out of the atmosphere and the government is willing to pay you to do that.

I will note specifically that the biggest 'loser' besides land use, is electricity generation which is claimed to be 26.6% lower Co2 emissions today than it was in 2005 which sound impressive until you realise that means there's 73.4% still to go and we've already spent insane BILLIONS just getting to where we are, and the bit we've already done? That's the 'cheap' bit... from here each bit of 'progress' gets more expensive.

If you just look at the lovely green bar graph as it drops away you'd think WOW we're going great! if you just believed the nonsense 25% claims then you'd be conned into thinking that Australia is kicking goals.

The truth is we're just locking up productive land, calling it a 'carbon sink' and cooking the paperwork to make ourselves look good.

Australia is a fraud on the world stage, Bowen is a liar, emissions reductions are a failure, and it's time to admit the emperor has no clothes.

Project 800ppm all the way!

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@angijones I had to email communicate with a "Mx" pronoun today. 🙄

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Kon makes a dangerous false claim about One Nation, but doesn't include the facts of the matter.

One Nation or No Nation.

[Aussie Battler @stisafety]

@Kon__K Correction, Kon: Guardiani didn't "step down" and it wasn't reluctant. One Nation dumped him the day his post surfaced and said such views have "no place in One Nation". Sometimes the truth hurts those who live in a dream world. @OneNationVic #VicVotes

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@Kon__K So by this example will you condemn publicly, the far left Greens and Socialists parties that openly support political ideologies that are dangerous, divisive and harmful to our entire community?

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Instead of the government inserting itself into the wage debate,

Two other meaningful ways government could help workers:

Increase take-home pay through targeted tax relief. Expand low-income tax offsets or introduce a refundable worker tax credit, with gradual withdrawal as earnings rise. This increases disposable income without increasing employers’ wage bills, although it requires public funding.

Reduce the cost of working. Expand affordable childcare places and improve public transport to employment centres. This leaves workers with more money and makes additional shifts more worthwhile; childcare costs and benefit withdrawal can substantially weaken financial incentives to work.

One Nation has policies that support both of this options 👍
See: One Nation -
Family Tax Policy.
Cost of Living Measures.
Transport and Infrastructure.

Let me know your thoughts once you've read them 👍

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

So basically Jess,

Because we hate Labor so much, we should give you, the Liberal Party, who has ignored its voter base for going on ten years now, our number 1 vote?
No way.
Vote 1 One Nation.
Core 2 for the Libs if you want. It still guarantees Labor is gone, and forces Liberal to come to the table with One Nation.
You deserve this Jess. You don't deserve to lead in your own right. One Nation needs to be there to put your party on the straight and narrow, because you have strayed far to left.

[Timjbo 🇦🇺 @TimjboAU]

Jess Wilson asked about preferencing One Nation. Watch her duck and dive.
#springst #vicpol

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Minimum wage increases can have downsides, particularly when increases outpace businesses’ ability to absorb them:

Higher prices: Businesses may pass increased wage costs on to customers, eroding some of the purchasing-power gain.

Fewer hours: Employers may reduce shifts, leaving some workers earning no more overall.

Less hiring: Businesses may delay recruitment or offer fewer entry-level opportunities.
More automation: Higher staffing costs can make replacing roles with technology more attractive.

Pressure on small businesses: Firms with thin margins have less capacity to absorb higher costs.

Seperate to that, wage is typically associated to job type. Creating a mandatory minimum wage, suggests that regardless of the work being done, the wage is set. I don't think that is fair. Additionally, minimum wage removes opportunity for kids to get jobs when they are young, inexperienced and require supervison.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Isn't it great that this has opened up the conversation (finally!) to what Labor and Liberal have even doing for DECADES, in creating feeder votes to their own party.

It's so easy, why wouldn't you??

There is a guaranteed 3 to 4% bump in some electorates if your feeder party pulls number 1 on the ballot, because of lazy idiot voters who walk in and vote 1, 2,3,4 in order.

It's basically putting your own name down multiple times to be pulled out of the hat, and increases your chances of getting a top 3 spot, because if Feeder gets 1, a left aligned gets two, and Labor gets three, will, you've significantly bumped your chances.

[Commentary Australian Greens @GreensAU2]

The Darebin City Council in Melbourne's north has over $20m in overdue rates because locals are drowning under immense cost-of-living pressures.

The council answered by spending $30,000 to paint a rainbow on the pavement and then throw themselves a self-congratulatory party.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@BenCarrollMP BREAKING: If you could start with banning men from female only space that would better.
Stop pandering to the ideological confused gender bending misfits.

Men are not women, and can never be women, and have NO RIGHT to female only spaces.

Make this right Ben Carroll.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

David, I'm just curious how you are suckering voters in....

I guess you don't lead with your "We support men in women's jail where they rape women", or

"Any one who claims they are a woman is one, and we will defend that "right" down to the very last safe sex-based space for actual women".

Or you're most obvious policy position "We hate Jews. If you're an antisemite, join us!".

David, the Greens stopped being a Principled Party on the Environment the day
they voted for a deal that guaranteed continued native-forest logging in 2013.
Just like Labor, and just like The Libs, you have lost your way.

Anyone voting 1 for The Greens, I hope you know what you are supporting.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The blunami is turning Green!

A massive community-powered Green wave is set to overtake Labor in the latest Victorian election polls.

Money and greed might be a feature of politics, but people power can defeat them. Victoria, better days are coming. ✊💚

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

If you want the Liberals to lead, but are angry at their lack of 'Liberalism' these past ten years,
Vote 1, One Nation.
Vote 2, Liberals.

This way, you send the clear message to the Liberal Party that you want (however, they haven't listened these last ten years, who knows if they will now).

Libs still make a small majority in the LH (or share balance with ON), but with a decent smattering of One Nation LH members too; forces Liberals to be...The Liberal Party.
Not Labor Lite
Not the Progressive Right.
The Liberal Party..who has lost their way, and need One Nation to be held accountable. Otherwise you just get
Labor Lite, and if you're happy with Labor Lite, vote Ben Carroll. He is from the Labor "right" faction.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Socrates was worrying about this more than 2,000 years ago.
His criticism of democracy wasn’t simply “stupid people shouldn’t vote.”

His view was that we treat political judgment as though it is the one important human activity requiring no knowledge, effort or expertise whatsoever.

Now, we expect doctors to understand medicine, pilots to understand aviation and builders to understand construction. Yet someone who spends years following politics, reading legislation, examining competing arguments and understanding the consequences of government policy gets EXACTLY the same vote as someone who has paid absolutely no attention, has no idea what the parties stand for, and chooses on the basis of a slogan, the looks of the candidate, or an advertisement something they heard that morning (or more often than not - easy promises for "free stuff", also known as Pork Barreling).

Socrates’ great fear was what follows from that: demagoguery.

Politics becomes less about persuading an informed electorate and more about discovering which messages, fears, promises and slogans can move the greatest number of people. (Does this sound familiar yet?)

Governments and political parties haven't somehow evolved beyond this problem. Modern polling, focus groups, targeted advertising, social media campaigns and carefully tested slogans have made political persuasion vastly more sophisticated. (Remember Dan Andrews "nudge" unit? - your tax payers hard at work looking to understand how to psychologically "move" you to "the Left".

Making voting voluntary wouldn't magically make politicians honest.

It wouldn't eliminate propaganda, manipulation, tribalism or demagogues.

Politicians would still try to persuade people using exactly the same techniques.

But what does change is who MUST participate.

Australia deliberately brings almost the entire electorate into the process: turnout has remained above 90% at federal elections since compulsory voting was introduced, and it was about 90% again in 2025.

Under voluntary voting, someone who doesn't know, doesn't care and doesn't want to make a political choice can simply stay disconnected. They don't have to vote. They don't have to turn up and sign their name off. They don't have to pay any attention at all.

That doesn't mean everyone who abstains is ignorant, or everyone who turns up is informed - uniformed voters will stay turn up and vote on pork Barreling promises or pretty faces.

But it does remove the legal requirement for the politically disengaged, and there are plenty of them that would choose to not turn up at all.

I think the deeper, enduring problem with or without compulsory voting to all of this is; the political system rewards campaigns/parties for learning how to activate people who aren't engaged rather than giving people compelling reasons to become engaged.

Perhaps Socrates' question remains the better one:
If political judgment matters so enormously, why do we design democracy around maximising the number of people who cast a ballot rather than maximising the number who understand the decision they're making?

Why isn't [neutral] Politics a HUGE educational topic from Kinder to University? It affects so much of our lives, yet the only thing the kids are learning in school these days is

"How to take the day off to protest the red haired lady who said something we don't like".

I'm sick & tired of hearing people say "I don't know anything about politics", as if this admission of their inability to read something online other than cute cat memes is cute.
If we can't force people to be educated on something they get to have a vote on (which then impacts us all positively or negatively), than they shouldn't be allowed to participate.

Thoughts? What's your vision of a better way? Not a fake utopia that will never happen, but real improvements & most importantly, positions Australia as a more secure, stable, sensible Nation who got "Politics as right as it could be".

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

@FutureShrekd @reignitedem Actually, I just scrolled your page....you don't need to reply. I can see you aren't serious about improving political integrity....you are just embarraing yourself online with immature posta and "I think this sounds like a based insult".

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Well that's one way of looking at it, however if you were wanting to convince Australians, or Victorian's in the lead up to this election of your claims, evidence is generally the most effective way of doing that....

otherwise you just came across as a bitter ex-employee that no one will hire now because you have shown that instead of resolving your concerns professionally, you run your mouth off to the media - with no evidence.

Also, I wasn't clear on what your actual allegations were - the story had so many different angles, it wasn't clear what you were trying to say, which is disappointing, because if you had genuine evidence regarding illegal activity, we could have seen it.

Have you reported illegal activity to the AEC or VEC, or other relevant bodies that have the legal authority to investigate such matters? You didn't mention (or it wasn't shown in the clips) that you had raised your concerns appropriately in the first instance.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

The likelihood of someone going to a polling booth and voting 1,2,3,4 etc is absolutely diminished when there is no requirement of them to do so. Also, my other suggestion would reduce dumb voting. Even people who vote for Socialism which I think is incredibly dumb, would at least be voting for it after having been educated across the political spectrum.