imho, she should leave the abortion topic off the table for now. Its not on the table for anyone else. She will lose if she comes to the table with it.
She has a solid chance of taking the 18-35 demographic, but unfortunately they love abortions.
From a position of power, present the arguments to the people.
You missed shared morality, this is a big one.
The morality of Australia was built on Christian roots. Most people accept we want a society where theft, assault, rape, paedophilia and murder are as close to non-existent as possible.
Some cultures openly accept these things, especially when performed against "the infidel."
The shared morality is also how you explain some historic enclaves integrating, while some do not.
I will not compromise on needing this, and its far more important than the points you listed.
Answer is simple: Dont have a Road Maintenance Tax..
Roads are indirectly used by everyone. Whether it be trucks supplying goods that everyone consumes, people get to their jobs in them and subsequently service everyone.
Taxing the car/fuel isnt efficient. It should be a budget line under standard taxation.
@MatttDavey@MarkoMatvikov I think your point is spot on from your original post.
People will regularly lean towards whoever is considered an "acceptable" choice. They ramped up the One nation backlash on all major news platforms, its caused some pause.
I changed my stance on Abortion as I got older.
The question I began asking myself is "at what point does this new person deserve the protections of state, and inherit the human right to exist"
If I was incapacitated temporarily, or dependent on my family, should my family be able to legally kill me?
Logically, they are roughly equivalent.
@bowtiedstocks The world functions of a demand based model.
Pricing usually aligns with (amount of people who can afford to pay X) = (the amount that can be supplied)
@endozduopoly Lets not pretend the ABC hasnt been a "central influencer" for Greens/teals and 7/9/10 havent been a "central influencer" for labor/liberals since the 1970's.
Been involved in hiring before. Wont hire anyone with a university degree.
They are entitled, they think the wrong way, and productivity is always low.
With AI, the only benefit of University is teaching people how to think, and they currently mould students into being the worst candidates.
@TopherField We need a seismic shift in attitude from our politicians from "rulers" to "representatives"
People like Chalmers and Albo seem to think they have been given the right to "rule" over us, rather than "represent" us
its called the house of representatives for a reason..
@OMGTheMess The allowances are what really do it.
Imagine you earn an average salary, even 80k, but you have no expenses. All food, travel, accommodation (at least partially, if not fully), all on the Australian tax payer.
Its very easy to accumulate wealth if you have zero outgoings.
@AvidCommentator Its a maths question.
If you have 1000 builders who can build 1000 homes in a year, and you want 1000 builders to build 2000 homes in a year, how many homes will be completed?
The answer is either 1000, or 2000 half finished projects.
@MarkoMatvikov A "Fair go" as Chalmers likes to put it, shouldnt involve more tax to one side, and no benefits to the other.
A "Fair go" shouldnt look to stifle high performers to bring them down to the mean.
false on almost all levels.
The current electricity/water/sewage systems could not handle 2x, let alone greater.
Current schools, hospitals and all of the bucket known as "infrastructure" could not handle 2x.
Under your Nirvana where you see people being packed in like sardines, are they going to be present in the same rooms as young couples bonking to start a family?
What about crying baby's?
You going to let the two homeless men sleep in your 5 year old daughters room?
What about the heroin addicts in your 8 year olds room?
Do you envision every home owner has an 8 bedroom 4 bath place?
I dont know what planet you are from, but its not the one of this reality.
It is estimated that we are short approximately 1 million houses.
Even at a conservative figure (say 500k dwellings), assuming the building industry continues to operate at currently level, we would need 3 years of zero immigration to just catch up.
The "cutting back on immigration" figure is yet to be realized statistically in net migration year on year.
@MarkoMatvikov every scientific study proves this to be demonstrably false.
small variance is acceptable, but who would win a soccer game:
11 soccer players
vs
1 soccer player, 1 nfl player, 1 ice hockey player...
There needs to be significant amount of common, shared ground to strong.