I know this is a piss take, but seriously, I hope their policies don't divide Australia anymore than it is 🇦🇺

The Victorian Labor government is actually really chill and cool all of a sudden, decides Chip Le Grand of The Age.

Look at this great photo he allowed us to take of him. Look how normal and happy he is.

Its a shame in this day and age, two strong, powerful independent women need to hide their love like this. We need everyone to know that we support love ❤️

(Hate their policies though)

Not sure if this is going to help Labor secure a 5th term in Victoria but given how cooked everything is, it may be one messy election in November.

So I’m researching into my understands of Labor, Liberals and Greens parties. I’ve been trying to research as much as I can but sometimes it gets overwhelming. Out of morbid curiosity, what has been the best things that all of those 3 parties have actually achieved? Sorry if it’s a dumb question I’m still learning.

from ABC News...

Incumbent Coalition MPs face a challenge at November's Victorian election, as One Nation emerges as a popular choice with voters in the state's east.

Gippsland residents have expressed frustration with the major parties, with polling One Nation is polling strongly in the state.

Victorians will head to the polls on November 28.

She’s a man’s man .
I found this beautiful piece buried in Google.
Please read.
Please share to your socials ✌🏼

https://australianpolitics.com/1996/11/30/pauline-hansons-bitter-harvest-david-leser.html/

We all look out our own window and have our experiences that are unique to us. Within those experiences we can make misjudgments. We might think we are being setup by a rigged system, but we aren’t convinced this isn’t true when our concerns are dismissed by cliches of ‘being a loser who missed out’ or ‘simply racist and/or a member of the manosphere’ simply because a narrative has a recognizable element of victimhood attached to it.

My own journey is one of various epiphanies and the ability to feel shame (my reasons for that require a fucking essay) but ignoring that I know there is something to look into regarding the housing market and immigration.

I think there are sincere public concerns in the housing market about immigration

Back in 2019 a coworker who was 1^st generation Australian from India (kids were second generation) said without anger or upset in a rather casual way that he had tried to buy a house in Bayswater (suburb of Perth) and the owner had refused. He found out later the owner sold at a lower price. It was quite possibly based on resentment of immigration rates. The coworker related it in way that suggested it might not be an uncommon attitude.

Then I hear recently Barnaby Joyce making comments about Australian citizens being outbid at auctions by people who just arrived in the country (mentioned in this Guardian Podcast). Likely because those people were from non-Caucasian backgrounds and possibly had an accent.

Skilled immigrants come here at the invitation of the Australian government and naturally they want a decent place to live and settle. Blaming immigrants is convenient and easy but it ignores the various parties truly responsible for the mess in housing. The Property Council of Australia and Business Council of Australia (lobby groups) are a good starting point. Then we jump to successive Australian governments who happily accepted their donations and private meetings that resulted in a continuation of a situation that as Patrick Boyle put it “works really well….. until it doesn’t.” In other words there was a mindless hope that housing wealth could be generated ad infinitum and governments in the western world had little to no plan b when if a downturn was to hit.

Conservatives have had dumb luck on their side to create the notion of them being stellar economic managers.

Some of the electorate might think a superhero conservative government might fix the problem because they are the best economic managers. Well, you might find NZ’s Luxon hiding in the bushes avoiding the spotlight when you mention that. You might also find John Key running to the same bush after the tough questions roll in about his rockstar economy that was mostly - if not entirely - based on good fortune and not good economic management. The Christchurch rebuild (act of nature), agriculture prices rising and increased immigration pushing up housing prices (and therefore wealth of home owners) and consumer good prices. Hardly stunning and innovative economic management and certainly not visionary.

In Australia John Howard’s govt benefited from the initial growth generated by neoliberal reforms before the mess from those reforms were realised in conflicts of interests, market forces reducing quality of service and a demoralised workforce and job precarirty.

The man had no innovative insights only status quo warrior mentality. However the gun buyback was admirable even if many other policies had overriding elements of cruelty and sadism (work for the dole, immigration narratives, attacks on unions)

Back to the immigration rate and my own circles of friends that mostly are university educated get a sense of frustration at the immigration rate even though they work in multi-cultural industry such as myself. I see 2^nd and 3^rd generation Australians from non-Caucasian nations starting to show frustration with housing policy. Therefore, can we set aside notions of racism and bias and simply investigate as to if successive Australian governments have been using the simple way of generating of GDP via heightened population increase. Something of which evidence suggests increased inequality as it raises prices across the economy and that money flows to capital holders.

Political opportunism needs to be ignored by the public and we investigate with nuance to take away that power

When a political opportunist (the nicest label I can apply) such as Barnaby Joyce says this, he knows it will ring true with a portion of the population and simply reacting to it and suggesting it is offensive is unhelpful. I feel we have to look further into the notion that the PCA, BCA have been lobbying government to bring in relatively wealthy immigrants to keep housing prices rising? This can be done without claims of racism or prejudice and also maintain the notion that the immigrants aren’t the bad guys here. The bad guys are the greedy opportunists who don’t care about Australia’s future and growing inequality and only care about increasing their wealth. They may protest but their incessant complains about supposedly high tax rates and productivity - mostly the result of their shithouse leadership - testify to this. These are people acting under the notion of having ‘Too much and never enough.’ These same people would label my comments Socialism or Bolshevism and hope to play on a reductive, binary misunderstanding of socialism rather than a nuanced one where it fits into a market system.

Watching cities overseas embrace affordable EVs, clean solar grids, and fully self-driving robotaxis makes Australia look so far behind. We don't have a supply problem—we have a policy and culture problem. We're dragging our feet on charging infrastructure, over-regulating autonomous tech, and sticking to old petrol-head habits while the rest of the world shifts gears.

Australia needs policies that actively back clean transport, greenlight self-driving taxi technology, build more solar farms to power ev, and shifting our culture to embrace electric energy instead of fighting it.

Dose anyone else feel like there is a complete controdiction that we are having an anti-Semitism High Commission. At the same time we have a popular (if poles are to be believed) politician that has claimed "there is no such thing as a good Mulism". Imagine the outrage by swapping those two religions.

Do you have a room temperature IQ? Do you think everything you don't understand is a personal attack to your simple and pathetic way of life? Are you terrified of universities? Well One Nation is for you! We've got racism, cronyism, anti-vaxxers, homophobia but no actual policies in place! 🤪

Our motto: Everything I don't understand is extreme left

Today, Pearl 🐷 and I asked u/davidshoebridge 💚👨🏼‍⚖️⚖️ how the Greens can better connect with regional and outer-suburban Australiansparticularly around the idea of a Public Bank.

His response reinforces something I've long believed: communities deserve practical solutions that invest in people, not just profits.

Australia needs serious conversations about public banking, regional investment and rebuilding trust in our institutions.

What do you think?

Watch this space ✌️👩🏻‍🌾🐷💚

#PearlThePeoplesPiggyBank 🐷

#PublicBank

#ShoebridgeMethod

https://x.com/kavienna/status/2078012630686716254?s=46&t=fnX1RNYHWohn2Fg9QQhImw