http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?board=politicians Federal Politics - Australian Politics Forum en-us Australian Politics Forum Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:20:35 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss YaBB 2.5.2 Revision: 1.0 30 http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1662100846 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1662100846 <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1662100846/2606#2606">Frank wrote</a> <b>Yesterday</b> at 11:41am:<br /><div><span>Australia’s teal independents have responded to the Liberal Party’s new migration policy by declaring their support for mass immigration and open borders.<br /></span><br />Opposition leader Angus Taylor announced the policy, which includes a legally binding “Australian values test”, in Canberra on Tuesday, but was criticised by anti-immigration voters for refusing to set a migration target.<br /><br />Related:<br /><br />Victoria Police recently admitted there are dozens of warring gangs with hundreds of members across Melbourne, many of them made up of African teenagers, after claiming for years that the didn’t exist, and hiding the nationality of criminal offenders from the public in official statistics beginning in 2018.<br /> </div><br /><br />Zali Steggall and the rest of the Teals have come out in support of mass immigration! They obviously want more of this!!   <img src="http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/brown/angry.gif" border="0" alt="Angry" title="Angry" /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.noticer.news/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/teals-praying-muslims-768x480.jpg" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="..."><img src="https://www.noticer.news/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/teals-praying-muslims-768x480.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />So it's no surprise One Nation is surging in popularity on Sydney’s Northern Beaches as young people flock to Pauline Hanson’s party amid growing concerns about mass immigration, a new poll shows.<br /><br />The poll, conducted by uComms for The Australia Institute in the federal seat of Mackellar last week, found One Nation is by far the most popular party among those aged 18 to 34 with 26.9% of the primary vote, followed by the Liberal Party on 18.8%.<br /><br />The local MP, “teal” independent Dr Sophie Scamps, is still in front overall on 30.7%, followed by the Liberals on 22.2%, and One Nation on 20.6%. There is also a large gender gap, with men preferring One Nation 24.3% to 17.2%, and women favouring Dr Scamps 35.3% to 25.7%.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.noticer.news/woke-teal-mps-mass-immigration/" target="_blank">https://www.noticer.news/woke-teal-mps-mass-immigration/</a><br /><br />House prices have risen so much that young people cannot afford to live in this area.  In my suburb the median house price is $4.6 million.  Who can pay that these days?  Unfortunately the oldies over here are more concerned about climate change and what it might do to the beach and their waterfront blocks rather than their grandkids being able to afford a house! <br /><br /><br /> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776473320 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776473320 <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776473320/2#2">whiteknight wrote</a> <b>Yesterday</b> at 10:53am:<br /><div>Where's the money coning from?.   <img src="http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/brown/sad.gif" border="0" alt="Sad" title="Sad" />  </div><br /><br /><br />From the RBA printing money and causing inflation.<br /><br /><br />You'll need one of these to buy a loaf of bread:<br /><br /><a href="https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/103/689/342/original/0185558217960b9b.jpg" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="..."><img src="https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/103/689/342/original/0185558217960b9b.jpg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></a> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1643775238 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1643775238 Albo is Starmer. Same same. <br /><br /><br /><br />The Peter Mandelson scandal is big enough to rock any government. But this is not any government. <span>Led by a man who has no ideology beyond a reflexive deference to polite-society opinion, and who is so inept he would struggle to deliver a pizza let alone a policy,</span> Starmer’s Labour stands particularly exposed, with nothing else going for it and cratering public support. <span>We’ve ended up with a prime minister who believes in nothing, can’t really do anything, and who will say almost anything he thinks might stagger him through another bruising news cycle.</span> <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/04/17/the-real-keir-starmer-scandal/" target="_blank">What did we ever do to deserve this?</a> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1700183998 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1700183998 <a href="https://i.imgur.com/3U5ppTX.jpeg" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="..."><img src="https://i.imgur.com/3U5ppTX.jpeg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></a> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776377271 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776377271 Pay bigger monkeys more peanuts you get more monkey sh1t.<br /><br />My issue is with appointments arbitrary by government of the day - meaning the head of any department etc is in the pocket of the government of the day... a clear breach of the division of powers in our form of democracy, and a clear precursor of total governance by the government of the day through its chosen Gauleiters and Kommissars.<br /><br />History shows us more than clearly where that leads...  if I have to tell you you are already beyond help.<br /><br />Hands up those who want direct control over every individual by this government or its opposition.<br /><br />What this has become, in reality - in El Grande Republica Da San Austrador - that petty banana republic dictatorshipin the South Seas ruled by two parties - is the exact same as handing out of all the best jobs with artificially bloated perks and salaries to all the old mates of the Presidente and his cohorts ... the transfer of public moneys into the hands of the select few AGAIN, just like public service, NDIS and quite a few other blatant rorts to suit some and not ALL equally as demanded b y our form of culture and society and government.<br /><br />THAT is how this country has always worked - by preference and nepotism... and they even made it public policy when they brought in affirmative action for the sheilas, the Abos, and those who couldn't even speak-a da lingo - after which all of hell followed for the majority subsisting at the bottom.<br /><br />There is no place in a true democracy of equals for quotas.<br /><br />Look at the state of the nation right now.<br /><br /> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1772605622 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1772605622 <a href="https://i.imgur.com/bazvhcC.jpeg" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="..."><img src="https://i.imgur.com/bazvhcC.jpeg" name="post_img_resize" alt="..." title="..." border="0" /></a> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1775991783 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1775991783 <br /><br />Multimedia File Viewing is not available on RSS Feeds!!  You need to <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1775991783"><img src="http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Buttons/English/login.png" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /></a> or <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Buttons/English/register.png" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /></a> !!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Feb 17, 2026<br /><br />The Albanese government is pushing through a bill that will put Australia under a permanent police state regime.<br /><br />Sign Petition here: https://info.citizensparty.org.au/rep...<br /><br />In 2003 the law that originally gave the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) secret police powers was so controversial it took 15 months of fierce debate to pass Parliament.<br /><br />The law gave ASIO coercive questioning powers to interrogate anybody, including children as young as 14, without a warrant from a judge and without the right to silence.<br /><br />The government insisted such powers were absolutely necessary in the life-or-death situation of ASIO needing information to avert a mass casualty terrorist attack.<br /><br />The Labor Opposition leader Simon Crean called it a “police state”; a young Anthony Albanese gave one of the strongest speeches against the law, likening it to Nazi Germany.<br /><br />The Labor Party only let it pass the Senate eventually when the Howard government agreed to put a sunset clause on the powers to make them temporary.<br /><br />Now, it’s the Albanese Labor government which is legislating to expand the scope of ASIO’s interrogation powers from terrorism to include everything ASIO does, most of which is not of life-or-death urgency.<br /><br />And the government’s bill, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill No. 2 2025, will repeal the sunset clause, so that these secret police powers are permanent—Australia will have an authoritarian police state regime permanently. http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776326168 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776326168 <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776326168/0#0">whiteknight wrote</a> on Apr 16^th, 2026 at 5:56pm:<br /><div>“Real human security means investment in defensive capacity plus investment in renewable energy, housing, health and education. The things that actually keep Australians safe.”  </div><br /><br /><br />Ah the renewables tanks are on the list again. <img src="http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/brown/rolleyes.gif" border="0" alt="Roll Eyes" title="Roll Eyes" /> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776236329 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776236329 <a href="http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1776236329/21#21">Daves2017 wrote</a> on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 10:16pm:<br /><div> That’s why I need a third option in the poll ( that lacks any imagination and is best coloured “ bland”).<br /><br />I believe in equality.<br /><br />If I can buy a property in their country I think it perfectly reasonable that they can purchase in my country ( of birth).<br /><br />However if I cannot purchase in the (sic ) overseas country concerned not only should they not be allowed purchase in Australia but their land/ property confiscated.<br /><br />Same goes for Indonesia and their leases.<br /><br />As well as Fiji.<br /><br />What rules they apply to Australians should automatically apply equally to them!<br /><br />What possible argument can they make against that logic?<br /> </div><br /><br />Best comment. http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1775959291 Australian Politics Forum/Federal Politics http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1775959291 If they were serious about getting the pathetic information they wanted to share  out there why not put a billboard board in every service station?<br /><br />Direct message to the target audience and a lot cheaper than wasting 20 million dollars during a cost of living crisis.<br /><br />Plus the ad that they produced is a total dud.<br /><br />Like seriously, how many consultants did it take to miss the target by miles at maximum cost?