@JEChalmers The only thing Labor’s delivering is the accelerated destruction of the Australian way of life. Not all change is for the better, we’re not better off now compared to only a few years ago. You’re ideology captured and too arrogant, or maybe ignorant to see the disastrous effects.
Labor is more democratic”? Pure self-serving spin.
You won in 2025 after promising—over 50 times—no new taxes on super, negative gearing, capital gains or trusts. Then you rammed through the changes anyway once the votes were locked in. Broken promise after broken promise. Not democracy.
You sold “honesty and transparency.” Instead FOI full grants crashed, Senate document compliance hit multi-decade lows, and you lean harder into secrecy than the governments you once slammed. Most secretive outfit in a generation. Not democracy.
Taxpayer cash-for-votes funding keeps the Labor/LNP duopoly flush while making it brutally hard for anyone else to challenge. Not democracy.
And the staffing cuts for the opposition and crossbench? Convenient way to starve scrutiny so fewer people can research and expose the next round of spin. Not democracy.
Diversity photos at the 50th conference don’t paper over the fact that every major step this government takes tax bait-and-switch, secrecy, entrenched major-party cash, reduced opposition capacity erodes the accountability that actual democracy requires. The movement looks after itself first.
@JEChalmers If having an ABN is considered “starting a business”, take out all the NDIS support workers who are paid as subbies and then run the numbers.
@Kon__K You are drawing a really long bow with that one. There’s a huge difference between not wanting someone to practice their culture or speak their language vs wanting them to ALSO speak the language of the country they choose to live in.
@JEChalmers No it’s not once you consider the cost of living skyrocketing, as well as all the not so obvious tax increases. People are struggling more now than ever, only people who are grossly out of touch would try and convince you otherwise.
@belinduhpyne A good friend of mine was offer a late term abortion because the babies head was apparently measuring outside of the usual range, and that *could mean something is wrong. That baby is 4, and came out looking absolutely normal. Regardless of what you think, it is happening.
@JacintaAllanMP They are disparaging you and your poor track record, not women as a whole. Ironically you and your party promote corrosive and divisive language all the time, you just lack self awareness, and are ignorant to the fact. You are now reaping what you’ve sown.