Who cares about four-year terms really? The main impediments to our democracy is concentrated media ownership, corporate campaign donors, and unregulated social media. Of course there's no interest in tackling any of those problems is there.

Indigenous recognition is an interesting one. The LNP undermined the ALPs referendum on recognition. If the LNP floated their own then ALP would be under a lot of pressure to support it, but of course the LNPs "recognition" would be tepid and I'm almost certain would limit equality in the future rather than promote it.

It's a bit weird that Dutton doesn't seem to have much of a plan for the campaign. They've had forever to plan and nothing has happened yet.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a bit weird that Dutton doesn’t seem to have much of a plan for the campaign.

That's what most struck me about this story. Is Dutton really just ad-libbing without a plan? Could it be some kind of Trumpian ploy to suck up attention?

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

Trump's strategy is to "flood the zone" (as Steve Bannon puts it) so that all the oxygen for reporting on anything is sucked up. This was also more or less Scott Morrisons strategy when he won, they hired a pair of dweebs from NZ whose job is basically to flood social media with bad memes so that it's all you see. So it wouldn't surprise me if what Dutton is doing is a similar strategy.

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