Captain Nemo wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2022 at 2:13pm:



How long have the libs been in govt? how many scorecards did you keep?

I hope the Australian Greens do well at the next election.  The Greens have had the balance of power in the senate before, and this could happen again.  If one looks at some of the things greens want to do, they do have some very good ideas.   

John Smith wrote on Feb 4^th, 2022 at 8:17pm:



Well John Smith ...

I joined this board in October 2018.

Morrison was already PM (Since Aug 2018)

I did reference the former PM (Turnbull) in this thread:

Fizza and the giant whinge
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1587091282


I started one on Shorten assuming he would win last time, but he blew himself up with a very badly devised policy on Franking Credits - he thus became history... 

Shorten Goverment Scorecard
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1558166735


Rather than start a thread specifically on the Morrison Government Scorecard, (which to me is basically following the opinion poll trends and discussing major implosions) I was contributing to this thread instead:

ScoMo v Albaneasy
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1599692642

Now, I have started a thread on the Albo Government Scorecard assuming that Albo will indeed win in May.
Having no shockingly badly devised policies this time, he is IMHO a shoo-in.

Albo government scorecard
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1643775238


So, in summary, I have been tracking the scorecard of every possible Government since joining this board in October 2018. 

(I'm a bit of an amateur psephologist)

That's why I have come to the conclusion that Albo is going to win in May. The only factor that was a roadblock for him was his low score as Preferred PM. He needed to get to 40% + and now he has got there.  He got there months out from the election and he is a bit more popular than Shorten was.

That, coupled with the jettisoning of policies that cost Labor votes last time all bode well for a Labor win in May. 

Mind you, the Coalition is really losing the election rather than Labor winning it - but that is a common thing in Australian politics.

You should be happy John, you and your fellow Labor Luvvies have this one in the bag.

 






p.s.

I find it pretty difficult to search this forum for threads started by a particular member. On the other boards I frequent (BTW on those boards I have threads on many government scorecards : Howard; Rudd; Gillard; Abbott; Turnbull; Morrison) it is easy to find threads started by member name.

Bam wrote on Feb 5^th, 2022 at 4:27pm:



That is bad but it is better to have overstayers than illegal entrants because with the former you at least know who they are.

A big problem is with asylum claims because once you utter the magic word ' asylum' you go straight onto a bridging visa while your claims and appeals are heard on the taxpayer's expense. The bridging visa allows you to work unlimited hours, which your tourist or student visa does not.
And assessment, appeals and more appeals take years. Deportation requires your home country to accept you back. Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea do not. We should not give ANY visas to citizens of countries who do not take back failed asylum seekers.

'Refugees' from non-neighbouring countries entering on a visa should be rejected automatically unless circumstances changed in their countries AFTER they entered Australia.  Illegal entrants from non-neighbouring countries should be continued to be detained and rejected automatically.

Frank wrote on Feb 5^th, 2022 at 4:46pm:





don't pretend you give a crap about taxpayer expense. The libs are spending FAR FAR more than labor ever did

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https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/cost-australias-asylum-policy

Signs Treaty with Indigenous First Australians ... rioting and marches of Indigenous escalate along with demands for huge tracts of the best land, and that White people should give their homes to Indigenous and get out.  Police are on the lookout for massive retaliation and payback, but are incapable of stopping the civil war developing.

Mandates that women receive the same pay as men every week ... the current woman's premium from being slotted into the well paid easy jobs escalates to 25% per hour over what men earn for the exact same work.  Women working at Woolies earn the same as a top male surgeon.

Gives massive influx of cash to Race Commission .. White people immediately pilloried daily as racists and treated with contempt by all other groups, who demand that they go back to where they came from.

Signs into law Rights for Gays etc to prosecute others on the basis of feelings .... explosions of violence on all sides in the streets... near civil war begins.

Perverts law so as to permit guilt by accusation and instant incarceration in any allegation made by a woman of sexual misconduct .. massive escalation in open conflict between men and women and rising death toll, primarily of the physically weaker ones .... revenge attacks increase to the point of being unstoppable, a true tsunami.

Legislates the Right of younger people to possess what the older generations have worked to own ... Old White People are assaulted and robbed and their homes stolen by tricks, and most are forced into gulag style nursing homes or tenant houses, where they share with countless others.  Courts stand by and allow this to happen.

John Smith wrote on Feb 5^th, 2022 at 8:07pm:

Thank you, moron - let's just let them all in and save!!!!

You have garlic flavoured concrete for brains, gino.