Which single topic is of most importance to you in the upcoming federal election?
Which Will Determine Your Vote in The 2025 Federal Election?
squeeze on 24/02/2025 - 23:16
Last edited 25/02/2025 - 08:09 by 1 other user
Last edited 25/02/2025 - 08:09 by 1 other user
Poll Options
- 62Cost of Living
- 13Climate Change & Environmental
- 8Housing Affordability
- 8Medicare
- 15Social Policies
- 13Other (Mention in comments)
Comments
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Juice "takes money from Russia Today" Media?
Whoever you vote for, just remember YOU control your preferences.
For federal elections YOU decide where to allocate your voting preferences, not your number 1 pick. There's a lot of people out there who are stuck in the past and think that you just put a number 1 and done (your vote won't be counted at all), or think they have to follow the numbering on their number 1 pick's "how-to-vote" card. YOU can decide for yourself.
My suggestion: put Labor and LNP both as your last two preferences (if your seat has a sitting Labor member, put them dead last, if it's a LNP member then put them dead last).
Labor and Liberal both have 95% the same policies, and we keep flipping and flopping between them we will just get more of the same (which is declining relative living standards).
Anyone that isn't Gina's finger puppet.
The LNP have just become the "no" party. They oppose shit just for the sake of opposing it. Aus politics isn't about trying to find a middle ground and something workable, it's all about just being as argumentative and divisive as they can be for no reason other than to be divisive.
I'll just vote for the least fascist party that isn't out licking the boots of oligarchs.
Unfortunately, my local MP is Labor but is awesome and does so much for the community and is one of the most in touch and accessable MPs I have ever had the opportunity to meet. I don't like that he is part of the Labor party, but I'm going to vote for him because of what he does already. Irrespective of what party he is a part of, if he jumped camps, I would still vote for him.
Anyway, I voted "other" because we need to start looking after workers and the less fortunate. We need to put a stop on companies making billion dollar profits and shafting their workers and customers. Big corps need to start paying taxes. We need to get away from this culture war they have us fighting and start looking at this as a class war. Licking the boots of the LNP is not going to make you a billionaire and it's not going to make billionaires like you more.
This next election is going to be great. If Labor wins, we may just get some things turned around. If we vote the LNP back in, it's going to be me telling people who lost their house and lost their welfare and lost their Medicare and lost their penalty rates and lost all this other shit just so Temu Voldemort could appease his overlords, "well, you voted for this…"
But you know, lose your house, your car, your job, your Medicare, your rights, your family, any respect you ever had… But so long as Barry from marketing isn't allowed to wear a skirt, you'll be all good. Just so long as you get to "own the libs"…
Dutton is just a One Nation member masquerading as LNP
He's about the only person I have not heard condemn the rise in neo Nazism in Australia. I guess they do behave like young Libs, so maybe he's hedging his bets, or keeping onside so if he gets the job he can slide them all into the AFP.
Here's Duttons big opportunity to open his pseudo-cricket mouth>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/seven-charged-over-ge…
@Protractor: He’s too busy playing with his share portfolio. One man who doesn't need to worry about Cost of Living. No wonder he doesn’t have any policies to combat it and wants to throw fuel on the flames with using Super money for houses.
@try2bhelpful: The same obsequious ,pusillanimous dick who constantly attacked Albanese on being a greedy fkr over one house investment. There is more than enough smoke to indicate fire on the timing of those shares in banks. I hope it sinks Dutton. Someone should refer it to the federal corruption watchdog for proper scrutiny. I mean Dutton would want that. After all he went after the unions with a flame thrower.
If Labor wins, we may just get some things turned around.
You do know Labor won the last election, right? They're "in power" now. Why aren't things turned around already?
Clue: neither of the two major parties are going to turn anything around. They both sold out this country for cheap to wealthy interests and neither care a jot about working people or what they want or need.
sold out this country for cheap to wealthy interests
and our sovereignty. To the USA. WE are now a permanent hostage,nuclear waste dump and a target for all of Americas growing list of enemies. Of course I do accept the USA and Russia are now business partners, so that goes without saying.
Neither party asked the public before we were sold out. That in itself should be a high court challenge.It is certainly unconstitutional to sell our security,soil,safety and billions of dollars of debt without it ever being endorsed lawfully.wHy ArEn'T tHiNgZ tUrNeD aRoUnD aLrEaDy?
You've given them 3 years to unwind ALL the (fropanity) up shit that the LNP has done over the last decade or so while they were in power? You think that Labor should only be given 3 years to fix years and years of LNP mismanagement?
It takes a lot more than 3 years to "fix" the mess they were left with after a decade of LNP stooges in power. So yeah, I still think there is A LOT of un-f#$king that Labor has yet to get done.
And yes, I think Labor AND independents (not LNP shills dressed up as independents) have a lot of work left to do to un-shitify this LNP mess and I put my trust in them to do a much better job of at least appearing to giving a shit about voters than what that balded headed Trump wannabe arse-clown would ever do.
Is Labor going to undo selling out the electricity network that was built and paid for with taxpayers dollars, or undo selling Telstra, or Commbank (all for cheap) or giving control of interest rates and the issuance of currency to an independent body controlled by a private consortium of big banking brown-nosers?
lAbOr iZ diFFeReNt to LnP tHeY JuSt nEeD mOrE tIMe gUYz
@tenpercent: Oh I see, the 'independents' will. LOL Nobody will, that's a given.
Look around. Trump is egging Europe on while sucking Putins wand.We have to stop the ideologically bleeding, not keep stabbing ourselves in the back. That's exactly what the Trumpwits just did to themselves.
I see lots of comments along the lines of:
I live in a <one of the two major parties> stronghold electorate. It doesn't matter who i vote for.
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When the two Mafia, I mean, political parties are the same then what difference does it make?
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95% of LNP and ALP policies are the same
This is all true. The two major parties are just two cheeks of the same bum. And their policies are the shared poo that comes out between them. It's just pepsi v coke every 3 years on repeat.
So what can you do?
- Know that there's a sh*t load of people who are thinking the same way as you.
- Know that if you just vote for one of the two major parties again or don't vote at all you will just get the same outcomes again AND you can (at least in part) blame yourself.
- Accept that things aren't going to change drastically in just one election cycle. We need to consistently vote differently to get different outcomes. We need to be active civic minded members of our community even beyond election time, that may include joining a political party and contributing to changing it from the inside. Talk politics with your friends and family. The notion that talking politics is taboo simply contributes to the lacklustre choices between the two major parties. Really wealthy people and lobbyists aren't not talking politics.
- Understand that if we all just vote for someone else (a different currently smaller party, or independent) then maybe we can get a hung parliament this time where some of the smaller parties and independents can make things change. Next time we can get a few more voices and soon we might have something that more closely resembles a democracy. Beware of bought and paid for fake "independents".
- Don't just vote differently, volunteer for that smaller party or independent candidate to get their message out there to the rest of your electorate. A lot of people are also feeling despondant and don't see much point voting for the two major parties or like it will make any difference. Show them an alternative. Talk politics with your friends and family.
- Vote for independents and smaller parties for the Senate. This is where we can have the biggest impact by far. There are a sh*t load of despondant voters who realise there are alternative choices, but we are spread out across different lower house electorates. Combined throughout our respective States we can easily get several non- two party Senators for each State and then have a diversity of thought holding the balance of power in the Senate.
On 6, I’m one to vote below the line and vote for the individual rather than person
Do you mean vote for individual rather than party?
Yes. Whoops
Give me a humane and kinder kind of govt any day.Whatever form it lands in. Why anyone would want a controlling,bullying,angry white man,dog whistling,hate generating,xenophobic,divisive,patronising, patriarchal shit fest, like the LNP is the stuff of bad acid.
Not buying they are both the same.
What NRL team they support?
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So voting for the smaller parties to get a hung parliament is the wisest option; that way, we might get people who listen and maybe they can reverse the electoral reform act that got rammed through: https://youtu.be/1kYIojG707w?si=Kvi03k2ywVskZzhn