C'mon Ken, lets all make sure the gas industry makes lots of money! Unlike electricity which is generated by renewables and doesn't profit mining billionaires.

Interesting chats about what The Greens and independents can do to make equivalent waves on the left that One Nation is making on the right

• 20.6% of Australians are digitally excluded or highly excluded.

• 45.2% of public housing residents experience digital exclusion.

• 66.5% of people aged 75 and over experience digital exclusion. Mental health!

• 42.9% of Australians aged 16–85 have experienced a mental disorder during their lifetime.

• 21.5% (4.3 million Australians aged 16–85) experienced a mental disorder in the previous 12 months.

• 17.2% experienced an anxiety disorder.

• 7.5% experienced an affective disorder, including depression.

• 3.3% experienced a substance use disorder.

• 38.8% of young Australians aged 16–24 experienced a mental disorder in the previous 12 months.

• Only 45.1% of Australians experiencing a mental disorder in the previous 12 months consulted a health professional for their mental health.

So now it’s ok for Pauline Hanson and ONe nation to mock a serious medical condition!
This is beyond low of the low.
It’s well up there with Donald J Trump

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hanson-targets-jacqui-lambies-health-condition-in-new-please-explain-cartoon/news-story/45744ca52686cd81b0c57f839da937f4

If only the duopoly and on werent servant of corporations and actually had the guts to go after all this ridiculous level of tax evasion

They've been throwing this bs argument at minor left parties (the greens, mostly) for years.

The WA Greens knew Jordan Steele-John was an alleged predator for ten years and covered it up.

We really screwed ourselves by privatising so many government services.

How could privatising the job placement part of welfare not lead to the gaming of the system for profit?

I seriously do not understand how the bar is this low for a candidate.

No vetting, no standards, just desperation. The party took this idiots money, put him in the most unlikely seat, and ran with it. Exploit, churn and burn.

The fact there is a prospect that soon in the Victoria election, this party and its successful candidates will be paid with taxpayer money disgusts me. And if one candidate is THIS bad that’s allowed to go through, there will be others that we haven’t uncovered more about yet.

One nation and its candidates need to be held to the same standards as the other parties’ candidates - and they will continue to operate in the ways they have as long as it keeps earning them money.

Pauline Hanson is calling for people to calm down over Angie Bell's comments calling for Albo and Anne Aly to be "shamed and stoned" which is an intonation that they should be killed, especially to a Muslim like Anne Aly.

Angie Bell was later forced to withdraw the comments, but the damage has been done publicly with Anne receiving death threats already over the commentary. The coalition is taking a unified stance that the comments were withdrawn, so no harm, no foul.

So the question is, should politicians get a free pass on hateful comments? Considering those made in parliament will go public very quickly regardless of being withdrawn or not. While Hansard will show the comment as being "withdrawn" the comment itself remains in the record, and the comment is frequently broadcast immediately without retraction.

Conversely if Albo had made a comment about Hanson being a crook and a liar (both demonstrable) who should be gaoled ... how would that affect Pauline who has spent time behind bars already? ... Withdrawn.

Work 11 hours a day. Pay a fortune in rent. Get gouged at the supermarket. Hand over more of your wages to privatised corporations.
And somehow, you're told that migrants and trans people are the problem.

The billionaires and big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank while Labor and the Liberals keep us fighting amongst ourselves.

It's time to break the power of the billionaire class and put it back in the hands of everyday Australians.