@CxuAsx@AlboMP I believe it’s ro stop flight of capital from housing to shares.
I’m not sure why they won’t say this out loud. It’s not that hard to understand vs the word salad when they attempt to avoid saying it 😂
Condensed down to 1.6mins (~10min) train-wreck interview of Joyce, on One Nation's Housing Policy. The basic question,
"Does it include permanent residents?"
*Repeatedly misuses basic terms 'Errr, um, yes, definitely yes... errr no.🤣 #Auspol
Full clip🔗👇
https://t.co/GRySvjHBqN
I just don’t see how anyone could ACTUALLY vote for those clown car?
I get people are angry but putting an idiot and a possible alcoholic in charge of the country is NOT the answer.
One Nation have no idea what they are doing.
We don't know their policies, because they don't. 😳
Barnaby Joyce’s on-air backflip over One Nation’s housing policy during a trainwreck interview with Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
#auspol
@parnellpalme I’m seeing a startling number of obviously party political boosted posts (not ads) from “private individuals”
The #AEC should probably take a look 👀
@UDiamondBalls As long as Trump doesn’t make up any new reasons for tariffs or Trump doesn’t bomb Iran again or Trump doesn’t invade Cuba … we should be ok.
Australian politics is no longer a contest between two parties, and our polls can no longer be read as though it is. The addiction to interpreting polls via a two party system lens has created or should I say, triggered, a new generation of anti intellectuals, otherwise known as poll deniers.
It has now been widely reported across numerous polls, including our own RedBridge Accent poll published in the Australian Financial Review that One Nation leads on the primary vote. That does not mean Pauline Hanson can become PM.
Our country is transitioning into a multi party system and hence, the conventional ways of reading polls can be miss-leading and at times, lacking nuance. And nuance is the key word here because it matters a lot more in 2026.
In a multi party landscape, a national primary vote and a two party preferred figure tells you almost nothing about where seats fall. This is precisely what our recent MRP was designed to illuminate…..what the electorate actually looks like once you stop forcing it into a two horse race, with only two riders.
This is how to read polls.
Firstly, polls measure electoral sentiment now, today, this week. They are not a crystal ball, revealing an electoral result in 2028.
One Nation is dominating the regions. Its support concentrates among older, trades-qualified communities, people who built their working lives around skilled manual labour and critically among those now experiencing financial stress. It also polls strongly across a band of peri-urban suburbs, such as Camden, Melton, Ipswich, where that financial pressure is equally acute: mortgage-belt households, long commutes, the sense that the cost of simply breaking even at the end of the week, does require the shopping trolley to be at times, half full.
Labor, by contrast, holds up well in most urban settings, particularly in electorates with larger numbers of younger voters and more diverse communities. The picture here is almost a demographic mirror image: where One Nation draws support from older, financially squeezed, less diverse communities, Labor’s electoral coalition runs through the younger, the more educated, and the more multicultural parts of the country. None of this rules out some of those voters backing One Nation, but the numbers there are far smaller, and the broader trend matters here.
The real big insight this week is the huge existential problem facing the Coalition. Post Budget, they continue to lose support, across all published polls. Having already surrendered significant ground in a number of high-wealth electorates to the Teals, the kind of blue-ribbon seats that were once safe, it has suffered even steeper attrition across its regional base, where One Nation is now eating directly into its vote. It is being pulled apart from every direction at once: bled at the top by voters who have drifted to the centre, and hollowed out at the bottom by voters defecting to its right. And it is compounding the damage itself, pushing diverse communities further away with an anti-immigration narrative, closing the door firmly shut from diverse Australia. The Coalition cannot survive by alienating urban Australia while simultaneously losing vast stretches of regional Australia.
@patrickadownes I live in hope 😂
Crazy amount of FUD about the budget and general hysteria from the international wars is driving it
Talk about capital flight though - if PHON formed government I’d be selling everything and headed overseas for sure. Total economic disaster would be inevitable
@MarkJos23109465@blakandblack I’m not sure running a fish and chipper makes you any more or less qualified than a PAYG worker but it’s abundantly clear that she’s not intellectually or temperamentally suitable for a position of high responsibility in government.
A North Carolina bill that imposes requirements on data center development also requires Duke Energy to get "permission" to build at least 1 GW of nuclear capacity before it's allowed to retire fossil plants. Article link in reply.
"Permission" means "a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a nuclear plant".
The idea is that they don't want utilities to close fossil plants w/o building non-intermittent generation to replace them. The intentions is maintaining grid reliability.
The woman who would be Prime Minister … she’s only marginally literate (at best), she’s uninformed, has no worked through policies, worse, she has no idea of the impacts her uninformed rants would have on the economy, if implemented…