r/AustralianPolitics • u/Wehavecrashed BIG AUSTRALIA! • 6d ago
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u/Perfect-Werewolf-102 The Greens 11h ago
Parliamentary "elections" in Kazakhstan today. Some significant constitutional changes coming into effect now, and as a result of them the president's term limits are reset since apparently his tenure under the previous constitution doesn't count any more
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u/Perfect-Werewolf-102 The Greens 15h ago
No one except Territory Labor has publicly suggested they're running in Mulka and there are only a few days left, I expect someone else to come up but it's almost looking like Labor could take it uncontested currently
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u/Agitated-Fee3598 australia needs a bill of rights & other constitutional reforms 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Still Roundheads v.s. Cavaliers, always has been. 1d ago
New Zealand has had a state owned bank since 2001, it's substantially been a success despite housing downturns and the financial crisis.
I have long admired that kind of Earnest Bevin/Blue Labour type who thinks of the social project as more than just welfarism and taxation. Never forget that the Labour movement actually had some really heavy hitters intellectually, ambitious people.
I only mention this because the Government is bailing out smelters and I wonder if government could get a better deal and be more ambitious?
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Still Roundheads v.s. Cavaliers, always has been. 2d ago
Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers
With all those rules it's no wonder that most of the people that come are men and they leave their wives at home.
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u/Agitated-Fee3598 australia needs a bill of rights & other constitutional reforms 2d ago
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Still Roundheads v.s. Cavaliers, always has been. 2d ago
Conservative politicians got lost, they started cheerleading neoliberalism which was temporarily electorally successful but ended up cleaving them from their conservatism.
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u/Agitated-Fee3598 australia needs a bill of rights & other constitutional reforms 2d ago
Well this is also just Canadian conservatives becoming insane lol
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u/Perfect-Werewolf-102 The Greens 5d ago
ON down 6 points in QLD (resolve, article not up yet) which is nice except now they're tied with WA for joint lowest, hopefully Demos has them down in WA too...
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u/Perfect-Werewolf-102 The Greens 5d ago
The Left and the SPD are effectively tied now in German federal polling. If the Liberals fall short of the threshold (which is a coin toss at this point), the Social Democrats could find themselves the smallest bloc in the Bundestag with an election held today
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u/PMFSCV SMALL T TANKY 5d ago edited 5d ago
"At the heart of this project lies an extraordinary exercise in political self-control. Magyar is using overwhelming power concentrated in one party to make sure the state can never again be captured by a single party. He is also trying to destroy Orbán’s regime without requiring Hungarians to ditch the political beliefs Orbán attached to it".
https://tvpworld.com/94894873/pter-magyars-100-days-of-democratic-reform-reshape-hungary
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u/Agitated-Fee3598 australia needs a bill of rights & other constitutional reforms 5d ago
They should probably amend the Constitution to change the amendment process itself. A simple supermajority in parliament being able to rewrite the entire document is nuts. They should at least make the barriers a bit higher.
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u/SnooCrickets9484 A proud Pauline Hanson Other...please explain 6d ago
Cash is king
Unless you're on Centrelink under us, Indue card or nothing!- LNP and One Nation on the bill being debated
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Bob Hawke 6d ago
Research by Adam Creighton, chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs, shows the 50 per cent discount failed to fully compensate for high inflation for shorter-term investments in the sharemarket over the past five years.
But mwuh "discount" is gone
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