What say you?

I think it is inevitable. And that they should do it now, to kick the liberals while they are down.

Policies are simple - basically a copy of liberal party policies, except on climate and nuclear power.

They will have to have policies regardless, because they will eventually hold the balance of power or form minority government.

Teals seem to be popular with rich virtue signallers .

These are the sort of yuppies that scream for nett zero but also scream they don't want their petrol rationed.

These are the sort of yuppies who scream about home affordability but don't want to personally pay any increase in CGT.

These are the sort of yuppies who march across the harbour bridge to say sorry for the stolen generation and wail about what happened to " baby" in Alice springs.

These are the sort of yuppies who support " river to the sea" but also want security services to explain how they stuffed up at bondi.


Low quality spineless selfish electorate voting for politicians who have to match these low quality individuals with 2 faced policies 

freediver wrote Yesterday at 3:31pm:



Im an essential service, both my farm and my business , so they will probably give me an exemption. My wife is an RN so she probably gets one as well.. I am also very happy to commute via motorcycle and have no financial need to make a profit from the farm.   Urban yuppies in love with the renewables are going to reveal their woeful hypocrisy  when they have to catch public transport 

aquascoot wrote Yesterday at 3:55pm:


An exemption from what?

This is sounding like the sort of mindless liberal party gibberish that is the reason for the Teal's popularity.

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 4:59pm:



you mean like the  CCP and the rest of the population?

aquascoot wrote Yesterday at 3:18pm:


Yes, but also with ordinary (not-rich) people who think climate change is a threat, and hence vote for Teals rather than the Coal-ition, in former Coal-ition seats.   

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Nobody wants their petrol rationed - or too expensive. Interestingly, people who own a house and can afford roof solar+battery+EV can have free electricity and no need of petrol. 

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Nobody wants to pay higher taxes; but houses ARE unaffordable for average wage earners now, after 3 decades of erroneous CGT discount and NG policies which encouraged investment in housing as a wealth creation vehicle.   

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Yes - because no-one understands the responsibility of mainstream economists for maintaining poverty,  and the resulting social dysfunction,  among disdavantaged groups.

Eg,  you tried to argue the case that government spending hurts the poor (in the MMT thread), when in fact it's only government funding for necessary resources which can eliminate poverty.  [Currency-issuing governments don't need to tax or borrow, to fund essential services/poverty aleviation - the MMT insight].

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Yes, well our liberal democracies supported the confiscation of Muslim land via UN policies in 1947, ie, via UN res 181 - which was never implemented while Israel has progressively annexed the West Bank. Hence 'Islamic terrorism'.   

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Rather, ordinary confused voters forced to vote for equally confused (by mainstream economists) or malovent politicians.