@botliff @zdaniel@GrogsGamut That would force candidates to think a little more carefully about what they promise. Some promises are broken because they are “non-core promises” and sometimes changing circumstances need changed approaches.
Don’t promise what you can’t be sure you can deliver!
@sussanley LEY’S LIES LOST!
And how many by-elections has this government WON this term? Voters have almost always used by-elections to hand the government a defeat but, despite protest swings, this mob seem to be winning.
Not a bad result really.
@lauren_vasiliou @deemadigan Would it make ANY difference if the offender were not a “foreigner” - as it appears to be now the Police have acknowledged they got the wrong person in the first arrest?
What has nationality to do with this?
@moonlightami@TaskerLady89977 That’s $15 a week Dutton wants to give to those with $200k incomes. How dare Labor give that to people who need it and will spend it keeping the economy moving?!??!
@PeterDutton_MP So, just for the record, how many of these released detainees were actually serving a sentence for the crimes attributed to them? If a citizen serves a sentence, they are released with or without conditions. Why is this different? Because they're migrants?
@GeorgeKluger@PeterDutton_MP And yet there’s no confected outrage when Australian citizens who commit these same, and worse, crimes are released without conditions at the end of their sentences. Why is being a refugee different?
@andrewprobyn Not a fib; not even what John Howard would have called a “non-core promise” - a recognition of a necessary change to bad policy.
When policy is bad, GOOD politicians fix them.
What’s on offer from the other mob? Whinge and gristle.
@CommBank @acccgovau Just received an email purporting to be from CommBank telling me a statement is Ava’s and providing a hyperlink to NetBank login page. We all know a reputable financial institution will NEVER send such links. Yet the statement was real. #scam#hacked?
@KosSamaras A breach of uniform policy needs to be addressed. AJA need to understand support for Palestinians/opposition to IDF and Israel action is not the same as anti-semitism. Gaza does not equal Hamas. Israel, while ruled by Jews, does not equal all Jews around the world.
@FranMooMoo@KosSamaras Oh you are soooo right! It’s be so much more appealing to look out over a massive open cut coal mine our a refinery belching flames and black smoke.
And only a fool would argue that we should give up our dependence on carbon emitting, environment destroying fossil fuels!
@JulianBurnside There’s a big difference between anti-semitism and anti-IDF. The former relates to hatred based on religion; the latter to hatred of indiscriminate brutality against a civilian population.
@johnnyboyjt@bicycle_network The routes which are unsafe are the ones where drivers are impatient, impaired and/or inconsiderate.
Perhaps the focus need to be more about behaviour rather than infrastructure!
@MayneReport The Liberal Party complained that the Voice was not of the grass roots but, rather, a city elites’ idea. And then all the indigenous folks in grassroots polling stations voted YES while the cities voted NO. In the immortal words of Senator Hanson: “Explain please?”
@DrVicFielding We seem happy enough to listen to elite disabled sports heroes about disability issues. Why wouldn’t we listen to indigenous people about theirs?