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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @aussie.zone

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  • What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ?

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  • Tell me your age group without telling me your age group lol.

    Younger people who are themselves doing well, at least would recognise how much the ladder has been pulled up behind the older generations.

    Housing is an absolute joke in this country, and for some reason no one really wants to fix it. (The reason is greed/entire life savings in the unproductive asset they live in)

    "Labor" has been a misnomer for a long time. Hopefully a true left-wing party can gain some traction (not the greens, who are champaign socialists who don't even democratically form policy within their party, their membership gets no say in anything)

    Life is not pretty good right now.

  • The Whitlam Dismissal - 11 November 1975 | Constitutional Clarion [50 year anniversary]

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  • The crown, who was complicit, including our current king. The LNP who've never apologised?

    There's plenty to rage at about this.

    Conservatives, when presented with a choice between upholding democracy and seizing power, choose the latter every time.

  • EU increasingly focusing on Australia to secure access to critical raw materials and reduce dependence on China

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  • They would indeed go on to fumble this. Neo-libs gotta neo-lib.

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • Ahhh I see.

    I mean, who's reading the chat history anyway?

    If you add someone to a chat you should say hello! Problem solved.

    Further, people are already used to this with WhatsApp which functions on the same protocol (with Meta harvesting the metadata and connections of course)

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • There is chat history, you just have to back it up

  • WeRide: Cycling community celebrates reinstatement of e-bike standard

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  • As someone who rides an e-bike with 250w power, 250w is plenty for one person.

    Perhaps cargo bikes should be permitted to have higher wattages.

    Want more than that? Should be licenced as a motorbike, in my humble opinion.

  • Australian wholesale electricity prices are falling. So when will power bills stop rising?

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  • It's almost like privatisation of natural monopolies makes no sense 0_0

    Bring back the Victorian State Energy Commission (to be the retailer and distributor), I'm aware that it's "back", just in a very small way with renewables generation.

    Hell, private generators and commerical users can keep their purchase agreements for all I care. We don't need to nationalise every single part of the energy system (though, that'd be preferable, in my view).

    But for the rest of us retail users, let's stop doing this stupid dance where you "shop around" for an electricity plan, and get a way better collective deal by bringing back public ownership of this key infrastructure.

    At a minimum distribution and retail of electricity should be publically owned and operated. Obviously.

    It worked just fine in the past.

    Privatisation hasn't worked.

  • GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?

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  • I'm so sick of this stupid subsidy model.

    Make our public healthcare actually public ffs.

    Medical staff should be very well paid employees, and we won't have to pay excess profits to practice owners.

    Those not willing to work in the public system should get ZERO Medicare dollars, and private health should be required to cover 100% of all costs for their members. i.e. if you're covered by private health, you should no longer be covered by public health. Why? Because it'll make private health terribly uncompetitive, which it is, it's a ripoff.

    The public employees can unionise like everyone else. And we would do well to keep them happy, so we don't lose them to overseas competition.

    End the bulk billing model so we're not having to do this every couple of years... Just employ medical staff and make the service free.

    I'm sick of this

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • Voting on party policy only within your parliamentary party is really dumb, for this reason.

  • Revealed: Secret plans to introduce media censorship in Australia

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  • Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

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  • It's absolutely wild we don't have a government run job website.

    Companies ought to play by our rules, not bribe a rent seeker.

  • Australia's spy chief warns anti-immigration rallies are being exploited by neo-Nazi groups and "Russian operatives" to sow discord, spread disinformation

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  • Immigration should be managed appropriately, but "they took 'er jerbs" is less possible when worker protections are expanded and entrenched for all including newcomers.

    There's no war but the class war, and I do hope to meet some of the M4A people so I can talk them off a ledge.

    Our enemy is the same, they're just misguided about who that is. Some racists are capable of change.

    Not the full-blown Nazis though, they can die in a hole.

  • NSW Police Approval Of Neo-Nazi Parliament Rally Outrages Community

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  • They should receive a criminal charge, if it can be proven that they should have reasonably known that it was for a nazi event.

    We do not have un-checked freedom of speech in this country.

    Nazi speech is illegal.

  • Sunday update from the Prime Radiant

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  • -dun-

  • BYD excluded from Australian Defence Forces (ADF) white fleet amid China fears

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  • Time to bring back our state run building and manufacturing. It was in fact a thing

  • Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?

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  • I likely would not be an engineer today if it weren't for welfare, and my position was already fairly good.

    I don't enjoy people lamenting taxes, I don't ever lament my taxes, and I especially don't lament my taxes going to people who need it to give them a fair go in life (I try not to think about all the ways we're wasting our taxes on corporate welfare and tax loopholes when I'm paying my taxes haha)

    The solutions to me are simple, hire enough people to work in the department so they can actually handle their case load without absolutely hating their jobs due to burnout, iron out stupid requirements by making feedback easier to give (and give workers in the department the ability to fix them), make the automated systems actually work and not require you to call or turn up in person to get anything bloody done (when I was in the system, it felt like they were allergic to providing customer service in writing. I wasted so much of my and the worker's time in what could have been an email and supporting evidence...), and raise the amounts you receive in line with cost of living (and in particular average cost of housing).

    1. Something makes me doubt it would cost all that much more money in the grand scheme of things
    2. Stop legislating tax cuts for Christ's sake
    3. Implement wealth taxes for people with more than $10 m in assets, in a progressive nature (or some other number)
    4. (Unpopular) bring back inheritance taxes above a certain amount, like, ffs people, do we really like intergenerational wealth?
    5. Tax companies more in creative ways
    6. Mining tax that we should have implemented like 50 years ago, it's our resources
    7. Brainstorming for fun: give a regulator or the central bank independent control over taxation rates in line with legislated guidelines so that inflation and unemployment can be managed in line with countercyclical fiscal policy, perhaps. (Could be a dumb idea)

    So often you hear "what's the solution to xyz?" and it so often is "maybe pay more". It's not always the solution and not usually the only problem, but these days, more often than not it is...

  • CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia

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  • Just a little more privatisation bro, that'll fix infrastructure bro. Trust me bro, sell off Aus Post and it'll be so efficient!!

    I really hope we undo the madness of neoliberalism soon!

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • (it's satire)

  • Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout

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  • These settlements are always peanuts.

    $50 million? For Facebook?

    In German they'd say: "it doesn't even give them an itch".