Wow at the results. Even more of a blowout than I could have expected. What a disaster.
Natâs never steered me wrong but I see little hope anywhere.
Its interesting that SA went so heavy no, partly we have an older population and partly I think the implementation of the state Voice here being delayed wouldnt have helped.
I feel like this result was predictable from the beginning.
New Zealand shifts solidly to the right in the election
wait what?
It sounds like itâs being painted as a negative reaction to very strict COVID protocols.
Nah. The big issue there is cost of living. Inflation issues, food prices through the roof and a housing market crisis.
I think a lot of people do feel that excessive stimulus during COVID drove inflation which, maybe. I have no idea.
When going over my companyâs PPP forgiveness application with my accountant she said âI canât believe theyâre going this, the inflation is going to be nuts.â So I have to assume this was at least somewhat predictable?
I feel like inflation has more or less flattened in the USA now. Although our money is significantly worth less than Pre-covid.
Not sure what they think the right will do about itâŚ
The more I think about this referendum the more pissed I am that it was ever a thing. Referenda are known to be hard to pass in Australia. Why the fuck would you try to do this on hard mode when you could just do it legislatively and maybe try to enshrine it in the constitution it after youâve demonstrated it works? âOh well the conservatives would just get rid of it next time they were inâ. Yeah, well, instead of which now itâs completely dead and buried as an issue and you pissed around $285 million USD and a bunch of political capital up against the wall. Great job.
Itâs not even true that the conservatives would not have been able to get rid of the constitutional version, I mean technically they couldnât, but they could have completely ignored and marginalised it and reduced it to some bloke working out of a broom closet in Parliament House. They would pay a political price for doing that if the Voice remained popular (assuming it had passed) but the reality is if the Voice didnât put out controversial stuff it wouldnât be doing its job, and the second it said something the public didnât like, that would be the poltiical excuse to knock it on the head with an axe.
So what was the fucking point? Just idiotic strategy from both a political and a getting-stuff-done point of view as far as I can see.
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Where did the $285m come out of?
It costs a lot to hold national votes.
Maybe it should be the other way around, eh?
Sounds like good news for the CIAâs preferred candidate
Holy shit. Maybe Iâve been living under the rock and was the last person in Australia to know who the âHigh profile defendantâ in the Queensland rape trial was.
For non Aussies. Last few years the news has been gripped with the case of a woman who was raped in parliament house by a colleague after a night out.
How the government, police and media handled it has been an absolute fucking travesty from beginning to end.
The guy who raped her got off after! I think, a second mistrial?
Now it turns out heâs been on trial for a completely different rape about the same time.
His name couldnât be published due to specific laws in the state which were recently changed. Hence the article and my WTF moment.
Wowee. Was certain itâd be a league player
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They had sex once that night and twice in the morning, but the woman alleges the last two times were not consensual because he allegedly wasnât wearing a condom.
Failing to wear a condom without a partnerâs permission is considered sexual assault under Queensland law.
Police will allege the woman told Mr Lehrmann she needed a morning-after pill and they drove to a chemist in a farm ute.
Afterwards, she allegedly asked Mr Lehrmann to take her home and he stopped at McDonaldâs on the way.
I mean he did take her for a morning after pill and a spot of Mickey Dâs in his ute in the morning, qualifies as quite romantic for Queensland.
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This seems to suggest it went further than stealthing. I.e. she was passed out drunk.
This was the same MO as the original case. Where the victim got so drunk she passed out and woke up to him having sex with her.