Baronvonrort wrote on May 15
th, 2026 at 12:06am:
Daves2017 wrote on May 14
th, 2026 at 11:21pm:
I predict that parties will need to join.
I mean the LNP and labor will need merge to have any chance of beating One Nation.
This is serious mum!
All the Liberal voters i know say Liberals have joined with Labor to become a Uniparty.
This is why they have moved to ON.
Trust is gone with Labor AnAl hasn't delivered on $275 cheaper electricity he promised 94 times before being elected and he broke promises with Negative Gearing and CGT.
Sussan wasn't acting like opposition by agreeing with Labor the damage has been done unlikely Angus can undo that damage.
Reform smashed labour in UK council elections the same thing will happen with ON in next election.
My Asian friends are going ON despite being lifelong Labor supporters they fled communism in China and see labor acting the same way here.
Politics has drifted too far to the left it's almost Newtonian in the reaction to bring it back to normal.
Housing is a huge issue for those with kids average house price in Sydney is over $1.6 million couples need combined income over $300K to qualify for a loan.
5% deposit and all the other crap doesn't make up for many not earning enough to even get a loan.
Homes have become too expensive neither side is offering any real solutions.
Reasonable analysis, except for conflating Labor with "communism".
eg, Labor abandoned public housing - "communism" - when Thatcherite Neoliberalism conquered the global economy, demanding low taxes and balanced govt. budgets.
Hence people are flocking to ON who are promsing low taxes, reduced govt. debt, while also promising higher gas reservation, and other anti-freemarket policies.
ON can get away with claims that Labor is "communist" - inferring the despised Lib-Lab "uni party' is also "communist", because people think govt. budgets are like household budgets.
Until this budget mythology is exposed, governments - forced to reduce taxes and debt -will remain incapable of governing for all.
In the meantime, a triumphant ON will result in the mother of all instances of "buyer's remorse"...(if they indeed win the next election)
Note on the modern globilized economy: communities no longer make the things they require to prosper, since China has become the world's factory via WTO freetrade rules.
Hence government debt, (AI-related) unemployment, and inablity to fund housing and welfare, will be severe problems for governments around the world.
Interesting to see Pauline considering whether she has the capacity to be PM; she knows promoting a widely-supported policy of restricted immigration is only one of many issues needing attention, to create an economy which works for all.