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mmm baby... murdoch horny.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/daniel-andrews/its-time-to-help-first-home-buyers-rather-than-cashed-up-invest/
victorian state government trying to prop up the bubble more?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-01/will-australia-s-property-boom-fizzle-or-froth-quicktake-q-a
Manus refugees class action lawsuit against commonwealth govt and contractors in Supreme Court of Victoria, hearings start 15 May and will be livestreamed
“Preventing access to Weetabix is in no way going to make me buy Weet-Bix, it’s revolting,” posted Lin Holt, also on Facebook.
Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:*bump* so this lee rhiannon thing... greens moving rightwards? ive not been keeping up to date with the whole thing.
been on the cards since the di natale takeover innit. anyway theyve always been bougie fucks for the most part
long story short, the greens is a federation of state-level parties and di natale is trying to consolidate his power, to do so he is exploiting some old and deep tensions between the NSW greens (which has commie roots) and the rest of the party (which has non-commie greenie roots) to try and pressure the NSW party into ceding decision making powers to the federal leadership. the NSW greens are unhappy about all this and are threatening to withhold $$$, they provide about 30% of the federal party's funding so something's gotta give. di natale will for sure win this battle and go on to continue shifting the party inexorably toward a centre-right position (aka 'the mainstream' of australian politics)
Petrol posted:there's some inside baseball here: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/07/01/inside-the-bitter-greens-civil-war/14988312004862
long story short, the greens is a federation of state-level parties and di natale is trying to consolidate his power, to do so he is exploiting some old and deep tensions between the NSW greens (which has commie roots) and the rest of the party (which has non-commie greenie roots) to try and pressure the NSW party into ceding decision making powers to the federal leadership. the NSW greens are unhappy about all this and are threatening to withhold $$$, they provide about 30% of the federal party's funding so something's gotta give. di natale will for sure win this battle and go on to continue shifting the party inexorably toward a centre-right position (aka 'the mainstream' of australian politics)
cheers for the article. if greens continue down this path i think their base consists solely of middle class inner city types who have a few pet causes but no connection to class struggle. that's probably 5% of the vote or so at best (?). Labor Party is crap, but at least they still have connections to the union movement to moor them somewhat. not seeing much of that within the greens. wonder if theyll make some colossal fuckup like the Australian Democrats did
Brown says he believes the Greens are following the path of their counterparts in Germany, who faced a crisis in the 1990s involving their fundamentalist and realist wings. The split led to the party losing all of its seats in the German Bundestag but the party rebuilt itself – and the realists prevailed.
line from the article that struck me when re-reading. in the 1990s "realists" "pragmaticists" etc were ascendant. we all know what thats code for. not sure if itll be so clear-cut in 2017, especially if australia heads towards recession.
Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:wonder if theyll make some colossal fuckup like the Australian Democrats did
i keep thinking of the democrats too haha. they're already running around making as many deals as possible with the libs so yeah either they make one deal too many, on something like a piece of legislation stripping environmental regulations, or (more likely) it'll just be death by a thousand cuts
CONFIRMED @larissawaters is resigning today after citizenship emerged @SkyNewsAust second Greens senator to resign in less than a week
— Samantha Maiden (@samanthamaiden) July 18, 2017
Petrol posted:Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:wonder if theyll make some colossal fuckup like the Australian Democrats did
i keep thinking of the democrats too haha.
Dutton now in charge of:
- ASIO
- AFP
- Australian Border Force
- Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
- Office of Transport Authority
tldr already worthless corruption investigations into e.g. immigration & customs officials working with organised crime will now be even more worthless as they'll be investigated by colleagues within the same ministry