Tommofork posted:

Yeah I've never found out why Nats are ok.

screaden posted:

High five!

When I moved here three months ago I was told "You gotta vote the Nationals now because that's how it's done up here!". I don't think they even know why they vote Nats now

hooman posted:

Better propose to your cousin too in that case.

The Narrator posted:

Just did my early vote. Candidate order, not my voting order:

code:

1	QUINN, John Lawrence	        Democratic Labour Party (DLP)
2	TODD, David	                Family First
3	HEGEDUS, Stephen	        Australian Labor Party
4	PRENTICE, Jane	                Liberal National Party of Queensland
5	BAYLEY, Sandra	                The Greens
6	GRYPHON, S	                Liberal Democrats

Labor candidate is a knockoff Jon Hamm

Tommofork posted:

The Greens are Soviet-style communists, Libs/Labs are both dickheads, Nats are ok because...

Yeah I've never found out why Nats are ok.

hooman posted:

Better propose to your cousin too in that case.

The Narrator posted:

Just did my early vote. Candidate order, not my voting order:

code:

1	QUINN, John Lawrence	        Democratic Labour Party (DLP)
2	TODD, David	                Family First
3	HEGEDUS, Stephen	        Australian Labor Party
4	PRENTICE, Jane	                Liberal National Party of Queensland
5	BAYLEY, Sandra	                The Greens
6	GRYPHON, S	                Liberal Democrats

Labor candidate is a knockoff Jon Hamm

screaden posted:

I don't think they even know why they vote Nats now

Birdstrike posted:

Hey Cartoon

GOT HIM YES

quote:

https://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2016/06/28/coalitions-plan-better-management-social-welfare-system
Better management of Australia’s social services will support continued record investment in social welfare and other assistance.

We are committed to supporting those who are most at risk in our in our community and we have delivered on significant commitments to strengthen Australia’s social welfare system.

We are rolling out the National Disability Insurance Scheme across Australia on time and on budget and ensuring that it is fully funded.

We are implementing a $100 million Women’s Safety Package to protect women and children at high risk of experiencing domestic and family violence.

The Coalition is also providing almost $40 billion over the next four years to help Australian families with the cost of child care and early learning, targeting low income working families.

Australia currently spends around $160 billion a year on social services and welfare, which represent more than 80 per cent of all the personal income tax collected in Australia.

At any one time, there is around $3.5 billion of debt to the Commonwealth due to fraud, non-compliance or misreporting in the welfare system.

Welfare spending is currently projected to increase to over $190 billion by 2019-20 and to over $270 billion by 2025-26.

Through the smarter use of technology, we can better manage our social welfare system to ensure that every dollar goes to those who need it most.

Our existing integrity measures are successfully identifying and recovering fraud and overpayments, and we will build on these.

A re-elected Coalition Government will:

• enhance the integrity and compliance of social welfare payments through improved employment income and non-employment income data matching;
  
• improve engagement with welfare recipients to better ensure they meet their obligations before problems arise;
  
• ensure welfare recipients accurately disclose assets and investments; and
  
• improve the capability for the identification and recovery of debt owed to taxpayers.
  

The vast majority of Australian welfare recipients do the right thing.

Some welfare recipients make genuine mistakes in the information they supply to the government, which can result in reduced or cancelled payments.

Better management will make it simpler and less time consuming for welfare recipients to meet their obligations.

These reforms will cut red tape and ensure that mistakes are minimised so that recipients who are doing the right thing are not adversely affected or inconvenienced.

These measures will also better target fraud in our social welfare system. We will better manage the welfare system to ensure we prevent, detect and deter fraud and non-compliance.

No one who genuinely needs social welfare support and who is honestly disclosing their employment income and non-employment income will be worse-off under our commitment.

Together these better management reforms will improve the Budget by $2 billion.

open24hours posted:

Birdstrike posted:

Hey Cartoon

GOT HIM YES

Snod. posted:

Speaking of mistakes I accidentally said to Centrelink I stopped studying in 2013 and now I can't change it and need to get down to see them before they decide I owe them 30 grand

Scylo posted:

too late I already told a current affair

Today at pre-polling we had a woman playing a ukulele and singing. Armidale pre-poll is the place to be.

Scylo posted:

too late I already told a current affair

Today at pre-polling we had a woman playing a ukulele and singing. Armidale pre-poll is the place to be.

bee posted:

I'm volunteering for the Greens at the polling booth on Saturday. Has anyone got any tips for me, as I've never done this before? It's not actually my own electorate, they're just short on members out that way. It's a pretty low income area with a lot of crime, or at least it was the last time I used to work out that way.

bee posted:

I'm volunteering for the Greens at the polling booth on Saturday. Has anyone got any tips for me, as I've never done this before? It's not actually my own electorate, they're just short on members out that way. It's a pretty low income area with a lot of crime, or at least it was the last time I used to work out that way.

quote:

How's this for a final pitch?

Back to the Coalition and costings, just so we are clear: the final pitch from the government is welfare recipients (and pensioners, even though we don’t mention that explicitly in our documents) will pay (if they don’t come up well after a data matching exercise) for the election goodies we’ve rolled out over the past seven and a half weeks.

I could say grannies for dunny blocks but that might be rude.

Tommofork posted:

The Greens are Soviet-style communists

ZealousQ posted:

It's going to be so satisfying when Jane Prentice loses her seat and Ryan FINALLY becomes a marginal.

The only time I've ever seen Prentice in the electorate in the five years I've lived here is when she turns up to my LNP donor boss' office.

A Saucy Bratwurst posted:

so I havent been following the election too hard but I have a friend who I might be able to convince to vote alp, but hes complaining that they dont have any policy other than "turnbull sucks". apart from the gay marriage vote, what are they actually doing. telling my friend the lnp are gutting medicare to fund tax breaks and stuff isnt enough

ZealousQ posted:

It's going to be so satisfying when Jane Prentice loses her seat and Ryan FINALLY becomes a marginal.

The only time I've ever seen Prentice in the electorate in the five years I've lived here is when she turns up to my LNP donor boss' office.

nockturne posted:

Is death really that certain?

quote:

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the Health Australia Party is against Water fluoridation in Australia, and its manifesto "reveals a preoccupation with homeopathy, home birth and conspiracy theories about medical research", and the party supports chiropractic treatment of infants with colic.[8] The party describes this as support for informed consent for immunisation.[9] Health Australia Party's National Party President Professor Kerry Bone stated in an article titled "Why is there a need for the Health Australia Party?" that "True freedom of choice in health care, facilitated by a supportive and empathetic government and informed by balanced media representation, is what we seek."[10]

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners deputy chair Dr Sue Page has criticised the policies of the Health Australia Party. Professor John Dwyer, from the Australian Health Reform Alliance[7] ("a coalition of peak health groups working towards a better health system for Australia’s future"[11]) stated that he was "concerned" that the Australia Health Party could be elected based on its polling position in NSW, stating: "Even allowing that they're well-intentioned, the policies that they're putting forward are dangerous and frankly ignorant."[7]

quote:

The #1 Victorian Candidate Dr Isaac Golden stated in his article titled 'Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Why the Health Australia Party is needed' that "the Health Australia Party was created in 2015 largely in an attempt to expose and counter the damaging effects of this insidious influence on Australian healthcare systems.[14] and "to respond to the well funded, sustained and coordinated attacks on natural medicine in Australia which have placed our homeopathic profession at risk, as well as all natural therapists".[15]

Solemn Sloth posted:

Snow in Queensland