Brisbane Electorate Voter

A Brisbane Electorate resident learning about (and concerned) for how my LNP federal MP votes on my behalf.

[Paul the other one...🇳🇿🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇲 @paulcshipley]

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Or... is Donald Trump lying? 🤥

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Ban gambling ads today.

Listen to Australians, not gambling companies and broadcasters.

Act in the national interest, not for vested interests.

[xanthe ajax difficult woman 😷🌈💖🐯🦄🍉 @AjaxXanthe]

So since 13 of the 18 gold were won by Aussie women. Does that mean women’s sports will get the money, sponsorship, media coverage and respect they deserve moving forward?
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[Zoe Daniel (she/her) @zdaniel]

Get it done Labor. It’s your time.

Ban ALL gambling ads. Now.

https://t.co/tqKzLwbrGP

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Partial ad bans don’t work.

Australians want to see a total ban on gambling ads, as recommended by the Murphy review, nothing less.
https://t.co/GVjNaXOzW8

[Brisbane Electorate Voter @WilliamsBne]

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[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

OMG, I'm dead 😅🤣😂

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Massive Trump scandal Uncovered

The frightening truth about Trump's lack of concern about votes has been revealed

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Please take a few minutes to watch this. Great reporting by The @washingtonpost

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a horrifying moment, Donald Trump congratulates Vladimir Putin. Trump has long sided with Russia and Putin, but congratulating him at a campaign rally is as anti-American and repulsive as it gets. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Chris Hahn @ChristopherHahn]

Project 2025 is the most un- American platform since succession.

It must be stopped.

[Brisbane Electorate Voter @WilliamsBne]

@OccupyDemocrats Donald Trump is a thug, a bully, a liar, a convicted felon. President Biden is a decent man trying to debate a thug using the thugs tactics and it didn’t work for him. It just doesn’t suit Biden to say mean nasty things. He’s too decent &unfortunately he came off looking weak.

[BFPCA @BFPCA_]

BFPCA asked whether the parties will support #Brisbane communities affected by aircraft noise. Here are the results in our 2024 #Council Election Score Card.

You can read each party’s full response: https://t.co/KJol1wpybi

Make your own assessment, and make your vote count 🗳

[Brisbane Electorate Voter @WilliamsBne]

A train from Melbourne to Sydney takes 11.5 hours. What a disgrace. The fossil fuel & aviation industries have completely captured elected officials in Australia. #auspol #ClimateActionNow

[💧simon holmes à court 🦋 @simonahac]

🤓 an interesting thing about the govt's proposed 'new vehicle efficiency standard' (NVES) is how they're consulting.

they've put 3 options on the table, and are wanting to hear the public's views.

but first, a little 🧵 about the NVES:

[Brisbane Electorate Voter @WilliamsBne]

Join me in supporting the BFPCA Campaign https://t.co/mIXqJC1Aya

[Peter Botsman @PeterBotsman]

The Ugly Australian*

Australians are apt to think themselves better than Americans or Brits: frendlier, more informal, egalitarian, more worldy than most insular "septic tanks" and less class bound than "poms".

After October 14, 2023 the lie is exposed.

The 1958 novel The Ugly American was about the innate arrogance of American diplomats in South East Asia and their failure to understand local culture in the context of the Vietnam war.

After the 2023 Australian Referendum we can now talk about the Ugly Australian. The Ugly Australian is someone who suggests:

- people are people no matter what the colour of their skin/but knows no-one but their own insular mainstream Australian family group

- Aboriginal people should not see themselves as victims/without reflecting on their own relative wealth and affluence and where it came from.

- Aboriginal people should just get a job and live like everyone else/total ignorance of the cultural differences and unwillingness of many first nations people to assimilate into what they consider a destructive economy and society

- 'real' Aboriginal people did not really want “the voice”/this fabrication reflects a long tradition of listening to Aboriginal people who say only what the mainstream society wants them to say.

- Australia should not be divided on racial lines/complete ignorance of the massive inequality and racial division that exists in Australia

- Spiritual connections with Aboriginal people were more profound than ‘political connections’/again this is a construction of acceptable Aboriginal people and beliefs that do not threaten the status quo

- Constitutional change was permanent and might cause harm over a long time/exhibits complete ignorance about the nature of the founding Commonwealth document written by white misogynistic horse and buggy era colonialists which in itself is damaging and destructive.

- Politicians of all persuasions cannot be trusted/while believing the worst racist, fear mongering populists and just being lazy about learning anything about civil society and its functions.

- People are people no matter what race or colour and should not be treated differently/this is again just another sop for a status quo in which White and mainstream Australia lives supreme.

- The Uluru Statement of the Heart was not a true reflection of the deep spiritual sovereignty of Aboriginal people/ this once again cherry picks Aboriginal people who mainstream Australians want to hear as against those they dont.

- “The voice” would be another welfare rort for grifters, bludgers and elites that wouldnt do any good/blatent lie that in fact protects the many mainstream Australians who benefit from what is called the Aboriginal industry, the voice would have reformed and brought accountability to the “Aboriginal industry”

- Recognising Aboriginal people symbolically was safer than allowing them to question the nation’s government and politicians/ another indicator of laziness and mainstream Australian protection of their own insular culture and lifestyle

- The voice would be a permanent place for Aboriginal people to complain and not take responsibility for their own issues/again just a fabrication the opposite was the case

- Aboriginal people just need to connect back to their roots and their own spiritual needs/plain hypocrisy when most Australians have no connections to land other than to benefit from its exploitation and abuse

- the Aboriginal world and the world of politics and government should not be mixed up with one another/this is just another rationale for assimilation and for not being “different”

- Like lock-downs and vaccination the voice was just another exercise in big government that would take away every one, including Aboriginal peoples’ freedom/in fact it was a product of a process of deliberative democracy in which Aboriginal leaders wanted to take responsiblity for cleaning up welfare and government spending in their own communities.

- The best way to help Aboriginal people was to police their communities and stop child abuse, violence against women and bludging/this is short hand for police state, apartheid, justification for the extreme levels of Aboriginal incarceration.

- Welfare and sit down money is the main reason for Aboriginal people’s problems they should just work and earn a living like everyone else/Aboriginal Australians have their own culture, economy and society, welfare or market capitalism, expresses that reality.

- voting no in the 2023 referendum was not about racism or guilt, it was just common sense, only politicians, academics and bleeding hearts supported the voice and they were a cancer on our society. They did not have a practical bone in their body/In fact the no vote was impractical and unwise. It sets Australia on a more confrontational, rights based, courts based process to determine how Aboriginal and mainstream Australians live alongside one another. This now seems to be the main pathway to ensuring that the 97 per cent of new Australians respect the rights, culture and society of the first peoples of Australia.

- the ugly Australian like the ugly American of the 1950s has no concept of how he/she is viewed by the world and by anyone other than an insular peer group of like minded people of limited culture and intelligence. Social media confounds this issue.

4 November, 2023

*feel free to tighten this up and share

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[Brisbane Electorate Voter @WilliamsBne]

@AdamBandt Pleased to see the Greens seats of Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan all voted YES despite the despicable no vote from the rest of the State.

[Zoe Daniel (she/her) @zdaniel]

Love, trust and kindness for our First Nations peoples is being asked by them as we approach the referendum.

Let’s respect and recognise the ask that is being made of us.

Yes or No is your choice. It’s a change only you can make happen.

[The Hon. Matt Kean @honmattkean]

As a Liberal MP, I am voting yes to the voice because we have two Australias now and I want a united one. Check out my op-ed which makes the Liberal case for voting Yes 👇

https://t.co/3KCZVxEt9u