lee wrote on Aug 17^th, 2026 at 4:19pm:


Who would?   

Core Features of Populism

The People vs. The Elite: Divides society into a pure, forgotten populace and a dishonest ruling establishment.

Anti-Establishment: Opposes existing political norms, mainstream parties, and traditional institutions.

Charismatic Leadership: Relies on leaders who claim they alone embody the true desires of the nation.

Crisis Framing: Highlights a constant sense of threat or breakdown to rally public urgency.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 17^th, 2026 at 5:23pm:



Ah, the widows tax?

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 17^th, 2026 at 5:23pm:


Albo tries and fails, as do Blackout Bowen and Burke.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 17^th, 2026 at 5:23pm:


Focusses on Pauline etc.

edit: source AI: "Prime Minister Albanese has referred to the climate situation as a crisis, emphasizing the urgent need for stronger action to address climate change and its impacts on Australia."

whiteknight wrote on Aug 17^th, 2026 at 7:57am:


Actually the Labor Party hasn't fully protected weekend or public holiday penalty rates.....

they have been reduced & allowed to be bargained away for higher ordinary hour pay rates in EBAs.

Working people’s super can’t be trusted under a Hanson and Bragg partnership
August 17, 2026 ACTU.
Over the weekend, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called for an end to universal superannuation, a move which would put millions of workers at risk of poverty in retirement.

Hanson’s call for an end to security in retirement comes off the back of Andrew Bragg calling Australia’s world-leading superannuation system a policy failure.

Dangerously and again out-of-step with many of his colleagues, in July, Senator Bragg left the door open to a Coalition arrangement with One Nation, saying the Liberals would “definitely work out whoever would be interested in being in a coalition with us, if that’s what the numbers were.”

Australian workers collectively hold more than $4 trillion in retirement savings. Every dollar of it is a benefit that will support working people maintain their standard of living from work and into retirement.

One Nation voted with the Coalition to freeze a legislated increase to the Superannuation Guarantee under the previous Coalition Government, and supported workers raiding their super to get by during COVID. Angus Taylor as Shadow Treasurer campaigned to force working people to drain their super just to get a house.

Workers can’t trust the Liberals nor One Nation with their retirement.

Quotes attributable to ACTU Assistant Secretary Joseph Mitchell:

“Angus Taylor failed to keep Bragg on a leash when he compared young people to dogs and now Hanson is spouting rabid anti-super policies.

“Superannuation is a great Australian success story. Because of superannuation ordinary working people are able to retire and maintain their standard of living into retirement.

“Working people love their super and want to see a successful super system that provides a great retirement income. Rather than support this effort, Andrew Bragg and Pauline Hanson are looking to collaborate and tear it all down.

“Super is not their ideological plaything, it’s hard-earned money for retirement. Unions won’t let One Nation or the Liberals take it away.”

Just a little Super story.
Back in the day when compulsory super was being discussed I was at a Union meeting where it was put to the vote, a pay rise or compulsory super, with a few others I voted against as I was already looking after my retirement.
Some months later Management came round with individual papers to be signed accepting the new superannuation.
A mate and I refused to sign, ‘’But it’s compulsory’’
Us, ‘’It’s compulsory for you to pay but it’s not compulsory for us to accept.’’
Result, the company had to rewrite part of the computer programme to exclude those who didn’t want to accept.

Gnads wrote on Aug 18^th, 2026 at 10:13am:


I am very capable of working at least 50 hours a week until I am into my 70s. But it won't be for jobs where I am outdoors in 35°C temperatures working on laying new roads or even working as a traffic controller.

Mum and Dad are going to be dead inside the next 10 years. Why you think I would be reliant on them or even the government to survive is beyond my understanding.

I see the silly tart wants to reduce excise on Cigarette products by something like 75%.   I mean - who is advising this twat - must be Barnaby - because no one in their right mind would even think of that as an acceptable to the public option.      We have finally got smoking rates falling and young people not taking it up.   Surgeons and Hospitals are seeing drops in smoking related illness and disease.   Medicare money that was earmarked for smoking related treatment is most probably reassigned - and now this moron proposes scrapping it all?

As for Compulsory super, I recall when we for went a 3% payrise in 1987 (?) to start the super ball rolling Keating stated that it was to set us all up for retirement and not to rely on the pension.    All the Libs and Labor have done since then is fiddled with it, changed it, flipped it and f@cked it.  Might as well give it back to everyone and shut the super business down as it is nowhere near what was envisaged.

Shes was  a sMaLl bUsInEsZ owner ao loathes super as all business owners do