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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #6840 on: December 25, 2024, 10:53:10 PM »
Vic Libs shooting themselves in the foot once again. What a rabble! :lol

Only you and possibly 65 could find humour in Victoria’s current situation.

You do realise the state is stuffed don’t you?

Completely stuffed. On the credit watch list and the laughing stock of the country.

You must be so proud of the job being done.
Talk about parroting media-fed over-dramatics and hysterics :facepalm.

Victoria was the second highest state in terms of growth in business investment of the past 12 months.
A growth rate up 12% since 2021 compared to NSW’s 8.1% growth and the 9.4% growth of Australia’s GDP.
Low unemployment and high participation rate albeit that's happening nationally.
A likely return to budget surplus by 2026.
CommSec regularly has Victoria in the top 4 of the 8 states & territories in its quarterly reports on each state's economy.
Credit rating agencies most recent outlook has Victoria as stable.

NSW is also going to hit $200b in gross state debt by 2028 but because most of that is due to the previous NSW LNP govt you haven't heard boo from the media about it. Yes, debt is a significant issue for both states and both have had cost overruns on major projects due to supply chain shortage driven inflation, but they are both funding necessary massive infrastructure and urban re-shaping programs. The main difference is that in NSW both sides of politics are pro-rail so there's mostly continuity in terms of planning and construction even when governments change. Not like here in Victoria where the Vic LNP rabble are anti-rail and still live in a 1950-60s time-warp. If the Vic LNP had started building the Metro Tunnel like they had promised to in 2010 then not only would it have been finished but they would not have lost the 2014 state election.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #6841 on: Yesterday at 04:00:06 AM »
The difference between the ALP & the LNP is that since Hawke (or Wran at state level) the ALP can turn to the right and become "Liberal-Lite" and win and in fact probably win by more, where as the LNP can't turn to the left and become "Labor(sic)-Lite"and win. Pesutto clearly doesn't understand this. :shh
This is a very good and insightful post, Dio.


No doubt Pesutto wanted Deeming gone as she was/is an unnecessary distraction. Even Morrison got the party to dump her as a preselection candidate in 2022 as she was seen as too much of an electoral liability. The problem for Pesutto is these days the Victorian Liberal party at branch level has been hijacked from within by the religious conservative & cooker fringe. Their views pretty much costed him his seat in 2018 and now it looks like they will oust him as leader despite him making the LNP competitive once again in the polls. It shows how much the Liberal party base has changed at branch level that Deeming is championed over say a Jess Wilson who comes from a more traditional Liberal background.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #6842 on: Yesterday at 10:49:31 AM »
Just on Deeming, I didn't realise this but I heard and read she was a supporter of The Voice to Parliament and after her exhale was quite vocal about it

Not trying to start another go round re The Voice just bought it up as many commentators have suggested she's a "traditional" liberal one very right leaning... so to hear her views on the Voice to Parliament generally surprised me
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #6843 on: Yesterday at 11:30:58 AM »
Just on Deeming, I didn't realise this but I heard and read she was a supporter of The Voice to Parliament and after her exhale was quite vocal about it

Not trying to start another go round re The Voice just bought it up as many commentators have suggested she's a "traditional" liberal one very right leaning... so to hear her views on the Voice to Parliament generally surprised me

She’s a nutcase

Fits in well with the Meltonites