Anidav posted:

News Ltd is blaming The Greens NSW victories in weed

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targeted cannabis crops in New England, Richmond, Coffs Clarence and Tweed Byron Local Area Commands.

Police destroyed 12,000 plants, with over 4,800 plants found in New England alone, a substantial increase on recent years

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Harper Review calls for an overhaul of Australia's competition laws

Wednesday 1 April 2015 7:37AM

The long-awaited final report of the Harper Competition Review was handed to the Federal Government yesterday, urging a new wave of national economic reform.

The report is the first comprehensive assessment of Australia's competition policies, laws and institutions in more than two decades.

Its 56 recommendations call for an overhaul of laws covering everything from who can own a pharmacy and where, to who can drive a taxi and what hours shops can open.

But the proposal that's got big business worried is the call for a new 'effects test' to be introduced into competition law, that would make it easier for small businesses to bring a complaint about misuse of power in the market.

Birb Katter posted:

Endman posted:

Pictured: Greens branch meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkBYSbMYA8

Freudian Slip posted:

If you actually read the article, they are laughing at the fact that the Greens may lose Lismore because the weed smoking hippies there had a high rate of non-registered voters. These people would have been more likely to have voted Greens.

Anidav posted:

Imagine if there are people out there who smoke weed and vote National.

Anidav posted:

Imagine if there are people out there who smoke weed and vote National.

ScreamingLlama posted:

They compounded the fuckup by using the wrong logo. That's RebootD's design: the official logo is still the old dark green and gold one.

katlington posted:

Sink or swim as far as I'm concerned mate.

*powerade bottle bong rip*

ScreamingLlama posted:

I hereby register my strenuous objection to this part of the OP on the grounds that you are going too loving far. We (yes, we, there's still plenty of Dems) are still a party as far as the AEC is concerned, and until remain so until such time as the party is actually deregistered. Also stop being a bunch of shitlords carrying on about something that happened twenty years ago that half of today's party membership had no loving control over (due to, you know, being children at the time).


Gods preserve me.

Tokamak posted:

I love that this is the stale corpse of a political party which you are desperately clinging on to.

Gough Suppressant posted:

You know what else happened when you were children: literally anything the australian democrats ever did.

Anidav posted:

I like Llama being here, it's kinda neat.

Anidav posted:

Zero Youtube Subscriptions.

Anidav posted:

I like Llama being here, it's kinda neat.

Anidav posted:

I like Llama being here, it's kinda neat.

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NSW state election 2015: Key union leader Tim Ayres blasts the 'crisis of policy' in Labor campaign
April 1, 2015 - 10:11AM
On the attack: Tim Ayres.
On the attack: Tim Ayres.Photo: Jonathan Carroll
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By SEAN NICHOLLS
A senior Labor Party official has blasted Labor's state election campaign as too responsive and declared the party is suffering from a "crisis of policy" following the loss of key inner city seats of Newtown and Balmain to the Greens.

Tim Ayres, the NSW secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, told a Fabian Society event on Tuesday night that the campaign had left Labor portrayed as "a party of protest" when it needed to be also "a party of reform and progress".

While he said it was the correct policy to oppose the Coalition's proposal to partially privatise the NSW electricity network, Labor also needed "a forward looking economic, environmental and social policy agenda".

"We were the party opposed to privatisation of electricity," Mr Ayres said.

"We were the party whose environmental credentials were built on announcements about National Parks, opposing coal seam gas mines where we had granted the licenses, and creating koala parks to win seats on the North Coast."

But he noted that "right now, our suburbs are being trashed by development that destroys amenity and doesn't have infrastructure to cope".

"We fought an entire election on electricity but we had nothing to say about renewable energy," Mr Ayres said.

'We argued for a different WestConnex [motorway] but had very little to say about public transport."

Two Labor stars – former education minister Verity Firth and former transport spokeswoman Penny Sharpe – were beaten by Greens candidates in the inner-Sydney seats of Balmain and Newtown on Saturday.

Mr Ayres – who leads the largest left-wing union affiliated with the ALP and is on the party's national executive and state administrative committee – described the seats as "a demographic time bomb" that "exploded on Saturday night".

"New, young, affluent, and well-educated people have moved in," Mr Ayres said.

"The seat is now made up of large number of voters who have known nothing other than voting Greens in their short adult life. It's a crisis that needs response."

Mr Ayres said Luke Foley was never going to overcome the policy deficit in the three months he has been Labor leader.

But Labor needed to respond by developing a policy platform and political strategy "capable of appealing to those that aspire for a better and fairer state and those that want to be inspired to become active in a campaign to change things, not just to wear the T-shirt that says they are for change".

He called for a "radical recasting of the role of state governments in delivering economic prosperity and equity" focused on delivering the jobs of the future.

Policies were needed to promote investment in quality private sector jobs and address investment in skills and capability.

"These are all areas that NSW Labor should concern itself with, that could be the heart of a new economic agenda," he said.

Zenithe posted:

Why is everyone relentlessly making fun of a party that has far better policies than most parties?

Lid posted:

We can safely say this will be roundly ignored.

Zenithe posted:

Why is everyone relentlessly making fun of a party that has far better policies than most parties?

Zenithe posted:

Why is everyone relentlessly making fun of a party that has far better policies than most parties?

Lid posted:

Because bitter and spiteful runs in the veins of those who can't see themselves as oppressors but the oppressed. The perfect don't like their enemies but they hate the merely good.