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There's often this revisionist history about things as well. Labor wouldn't negotiate with the Greens over the original ETS, and the Greens get blamed for it not passing. Only a few years later they work together and make a better policy (the carbon price). Abbott comes in and tears it up. Current Labor supporters either conveniently forget this ever happened, or they somehow argue that Abbott would have teared up the carbon price but not the ETS.

The false dichotomy rhetoric of “they’re better than the other party” is just insufferable, and the US has shown us how the two-party duopoly plays out.

Just make sure you preference Labor ahead of the Coalition. That's the risk of "both sides" rhetoric, although I would hope that most people here understand this.

Investigate your candidates.

Agreed. The guardian have a short summary on the minor parties although it could stand to take slightly more of an opinion on some of the parties.

You may have found their new slogan:

Vote Liberal, the biggest cunts on Earth.

Dickson is held on a margin of only 1.7% but opposition leaders tend to get a bump from being more notable at least, so who knows.

If something helps the working class, you can be certain that the Coalition will oppose it.

Honestly, we need to reform our economic system and not continually rely on fertility to solve all of our problems.

I'll add that even those incentives probably won't help, as fertility declines are strongly associated with education levels and money (and women's liberation in particular). Give women options and unsurprisingly, some will choose not to have children.

Here's a link to the systematic review referenced in the article, although more about testing than the infection increase.

I'm laughing at that photo of Matt Canavan. It looks like he smeared coal all over his face for his working class cosplay. Truly, a man of the people.

It's mainly Linux Unplugged where that stuff leaks into it. I haven't heard it on "self hosted" very much.

I wash muh-self with a rag on a stick.

Conservatives think crop rotation is a woke, DEI, inner-city hoax.

One of the vanishingly few benefits of not being a democracy, is that the people just can't just vote in an idiot. Of course, there are other avenues for an idiot to take over an authoritarian government (historically, usually by war or inheritance).