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Nobody important but interested in what’s going on. Conservative & Catholic, so you can probably guess 80% of my views. Anti-Anomie.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined October 2022
Unless you are a public figure or want to build a profile I don't see much point using your real name on this platform. Who I am shapes my views but doesn't really impact whether or not they are valid. Looking forward to seeing a wider range of views here. Will try to be civil.
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This "argument" is now proliferating. His professed belief in indigenous sovereignty is transparently self-serving. He claims that the nation built by the ancestors of Australians does not belong to Australians because he wants his own people to colonise it.
@jordanhknight_ Oh well, there are millions of Europeans in Australia. Indians didn't come in a boat, they all entered Australia legally. In this hate mongering, lets be clear that Australia truly belongs to the First Nations people. No other ethnicity has any right to comment on migration.
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Also: - receptions at Government House in each state for all citizen couples who had a 4th child in the previous year - a big navy fleet review - National Beach Cricket Championship, with people entering a lottery to participate - mining & farming appreciation days
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Australia Month in January is a great idea. Start off with Federation Day, have days recognising indigenous, settlers & migrants, hold patriotic parades & concerts & other events, & then finish with Australia Day before sending the kids back to school. Reflect & celebrate.
Today, hundreds of thousands marched for Australia nationwide in a powerful stand for our future. Now, we move to Phase 2: Raise the Flag. Fly our flags everywhere and make January officially Australia Month. This is the beginning. #MarchForAustralia #RaiseTheFlag #AustraliaMonth
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All across the West, our legal systems fail to protect the community. Politicians & voters deserve a lot of the blame for that, but our judges have substantial influence & discretion. They fail miserably to exercise that influence & discretion in the interests of the community.
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I understand the case for judicial independence & the need to keep our legal system free of political interference. But that can only sustain public confidence if the legal profession do a MUCH better job at self-regulation & demand accountability for their peers. I’m with Con.
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Judicial immunity does my head in. If a football coach loses fourteen games in a row, there's a good chance he will lose his job. We demand more accountability from our football teams than we do of our legal system.
So let me get this straight… A bartender can go to prison for serving drinks to a drunk person if they drive and murder someone— …but judges aren’t accountable after letting a 14 TIME REPEAT OFFENDER murder a young woman?
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Unless & until the Ley-led lame-ass Labor-lite Liberal Party commits to ending mass immigration & dropping its support for net zero, everything its leaders say about living standards is just empty words. Nobody cares what the loser-wing of the Australian Uniparty has to say.
Labor has presided over the biggest collapse in living standards in the developed world. It's time the Prime Minister set out a plan to fix this mess.
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@grok explain how the geographical concentration of foreign-born voters in Sydney & Melbourne effectively creates a gerrymander problem for them in the lower house & dilutes their electoral power compared with a situation where they were evenly dispersed across all electorates.
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What this implies is that the foreign-born vote is certainly important in Australian elections but not as important as their raw numbers would suggest. And, of course, the foreign-born vote is not 100% ALP. The LNP does not need to pander to foreign-born voters to win elections
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It would be great to have actual data showing exactly how many foreign-born voters there are, where they are located & how they vote. But we can be reasonably confident that b/c they are concentrated in our 2 biggest cities, that does lessen their overall electoral influence.
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This analysis applies to the lower-house, but similar considerations apply to the Senate. All states elect 12 senators but because so many foreign-born voters are in just NSW & Victoria, they have less impact than they would if they were spread more evenly.
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As I said, this is just a stylised model that makes many simplifying assumption, but I think the logic holds. Because foreign-born voters are concentrated in a relatively small number of seats, this reduces their electoral influence to a significant degree.
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In effect, when FBV are concentrated, they are gerrymandering themselves. They win seats with surplus votes that could have been used to swing outcomes in other seats. That means the influence of FBV is less than proprotional to their numbers.
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In effect, when FBV are concentrated, they are gerrymandering themselves. They win seats with surplus votes that could have been used to swing outcomes in other seats. That means the influence of FBV is less than proprotional to their numbers.
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In contrast, when FBV are concentrated, half of their votes are "wasted". In this scenario, the LNP only needs to win 50% of NBV - & just 40% of the total vote! - to get a majority in six seats & win the election.
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What this implies is that the foreign-born vote is certainly important in Australian elections but not AS important as their raw numbers would suggest. And, of course, the foreign-born vote is not 100% ALP. The LNP does not have to pander to foreign-born voters to win elections.
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It would be great to get actual data showing how many foreign-born voters there actually are, where they are located & how they vote. But I think it's very reasonable to suppose that they are relatively concentrated & that many of their votes are "wasted" in very safe ALP seats.
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This analysis applies to the lower house, but similar considerations apply to the Senate. Each state has 12 senators, but a disproportionate amount of foreign-born voters are in NSW and Victoria. Again, a lot of foreign-born votes are wasted b/c these voters are so concentrated.
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As I said, I'm spit-balling with a VERY stylised model here that makes a lot of simplifying assumptions. But I think the basic logic holds. Foreign-born voters are relatively concentrated. That reduces their electoral influence to a considerable extent.
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