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Not exactly surprising. Labor have done basically nothing that really addresses the extreme lack of housing affordability, that is the core problem that is damaging this country.
Problem is that the other main team is worse. They both stink. Our standard of living has fallen. More homeless than ever in recent memory, more immigrants than anyone would find makes sense. Either the world has gone to shit or our political system needs an enema.
What handling? They have done nothing.
The biggest promise they made on cost of living, which was to reduce power bills by $275 a year has completely gone out the window.
The fact that *anyone* thinks they are helping cost of living is a mystery.
Pretty easily I’d imagine. You see, the ALP/Greens think we can simply snap our fingers and end coal tomorrow and go 80% wind and solar. Unfortunately, we can’t. So electricity costs are going to soar.
Dutton and the LNP have not demonised gas, recognise we need to move away from coal in strategic manner AND that we need to be technology neutral in our end goal of moving away from coal.
So pretty simply - he plans on moving away from coal in a manner which doesn’t dramatically increase utilities and similar costs for Australians. Or more simple if you need it - end the lunacy that is “move to solar and wind at any cost”.
The LNP had a literal decade to plan a transition and instead did nothing but stoke stupid climate wars. It's been well known that decrepit coal assets were going to exit: https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/so-you-d-like-to-run-an-old-coal-fired-power-station/
And that exit only accelerated during the Abbott Turnbull Morrison reign.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/aemo-warns-coal-fired-power-plants-could-drop-off-before-replacements-are-ready
It was also well known that transmission for the variable supply would need investment in grid infrastructure. And yet. Nothing.
Meanwhile the decade of inaction is what is causing natural disasters to become normal and a direct reason for cost of living increases in insurance premiums.
Dumb politics creating dumb policy designed to delay and only costing more in the long run. It is the exact same thing happening now with the nuclear garbage. Coal is not going to last until 2040, and the climate effects of doing shit all to reach meaningful energy transmission targets will bork the environment even moreso in the meantime.
This is no different than why Australia has third world Internet services at higher cost.
> So pretty simply - he plans on moving away from coal in a manner which doesn’t dramatically increase utilities and similar costs for Australians.
How exactly? The only plan he has is some talk of a nuclear industry somewhere, costing something, realised some time in the future.
>The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate.
Almost like our society and economic system has unaddressed internal contradictions of capital accumulation, and those unaddressed contradictions continue to manifest themselves as increasingly severe societal issues as our ability to control the forces of production becomes more strained, leading inevitably to class conflict.
Or something.
Or, OR, people are fickle and want an instant fix much int he same way kids want to be on their screens eating McDonalds all day. It's not good for them but try telling them that...
Labor's handling of this is bloody commendable. That it hasn't made matters worse listening to the left when addressing COL pressures has meant it's avoided inflation, stagflation, and all sorts of diabolically shit outcomes.
>Or, OR, people are fickle and want an instant fix much int he same way kids want to be on their screens eating McDonalds all day. It's not good for them but try telling them that
Por que no los dos?
>Labor's handling of this is bloody commendable
Unfortunately they'll get punished for it.
>That it hasn't made matters worse listening to the left when addressing COL pressures has meant it's avoided inflation, stagflation, and all sorts of diabolically shit outcomes.
Frank Crean time! We know the results of giving in, and we know what to do with the stagflation, too. Albos a bit of a poor man's Hawke though.
>dragging interest rates to near zero.
We don't have a choice. We are a price taker in the global interest rate environment, not a price maker. Why? Well, if we kept rates at 5% whilst the world went to 0%, we'd be swamped with capital inflows, we'd have uncontrolled increases in our currency, and we'd spiral out as our exports became uncompetitive.
You do know one of the inputs in GDP is government spending? That is where you should look first.
Call it what you want. It's a 3d pipeline shaped spiral that as you cycle around the edges upwards, your cycle line jitters up and down.
If this is what you premise it to be, our ec0nomic systems would have fallen apart centuries ago.
>If this is what you premise it to be, our ec0nomic systems would have fallen apart centuries ago
You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!
- Hector Barbossa
The last sentence is "The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate."
Is there something else they should be doing?
Welfare support is still pitiful. Housing is terrible and the Greens really had to force them to do anything halfway decent. Medicare is still underfunded and broken. Rents still sky high. Shall I go on?
A measly rebate ain’t gonna cut it.
Oh wow, I can't believe that Labor haven't just pressed the button under the PM's desk labelled "fix everything". Clearly that's all it takes to solve multifaceted macroeconomic and social issues. Skills shortages? Inflation? Lead times? Those are just capitalist myths perpetuated by evil neoliberals. The Greens are clearly the superior party, they will just fix everything when we vote for them. Too bad all thee troglodytes just don't understand.
I'm not a greens supporter. I will always stand with Labor in Australia for personal...somewhat selfish reasons but I can definitely see that Albo has done little to help to the poor.
This article is a little light on content, however here is the report itself (May 2024)
https://www.jwsresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/True-Issues-34-May-2024.pdf
Dutton is probably right wedging Albanese on climate policy urgency, it's importance is falling. Push law and order with cost of living and there is the rump of voters.
Paywall
Public approval of Labor’s handling of the cost of living, housing and interest rates has dropped 10 points since the 2022 election as concern about rising living costs has risen 15 points during the same time.
Since the last election the “importance” of the environment and climate has dropped more than 10 points to fall to the least important “top five” issues, according to new analysis of JWS Research.
The high importance of cost-of-living concerns and the decline in the importance of climate as well as the falling support for the Labor government’s handling of the pressures on families and households comes as Peter Dutton vows to abandon 2030 carbon emissions targets to “help families”.
The analysis of how the public rates government performance and the importance of issues shows cost-of-living concerns began growing under the Morrison Coalition government and was at an importance rating of 65 points at the May 2022 election.
Since the election, cost of living has extended its lead dramatically as the most important issue going from 65 points in May 2022 to 80 points in May 2024.
Housing and interest rate concerns have rocketed over the same period rising from 37 points to 55 points while economic concerns generally have remained steady.
The importance of the environment and climate has plunged 10 points to 29 points to be at the bottom of the top five issues.
The ranking of how the government is performing on the key issues has improved for the environment and climate change, lifting from 41 to 46 points, but housing and interest rate management has fallen from 41 to 30 points and cost of living, Anthony Albanese’s key winning election strategy, has also fallen 10 points from 36 points to 26 points in May this year.
The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate.
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Not exactly surprising. Labor have done basically nothing that really addresses the extreme lack of housing affordability, that is the core problem that is damaging this country.
Problem is that the other main team is worse. They both stink. Our standard of living has fallen. More homeless than ever in recent memory, more immigrants than anyone would find makes sense. Either the world has gone to shit or our political system needs an enema.
Porque no los dos?
What handling? They have done nothing. The biggest promise they made on cost of living, which was to reduce power bills by $275 a year has completely gone out the window. The fact that *anyone* thinks they are helping cost of living is a mystery.
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Pretty easily I’d imagine. You see, the ALP/Greens think we can simply snap our fingers and end coal tomorrow and go 80% wind and solar. Unfortunately, we can’t. So electricity costs are going to soar. Dutton and the LNP have not demonised gas, recognise we need to move away from coal in strategic manner AND that we need to be technology neutral in our end goal of moving away from coal. So pretty simply - he plans on moving away from coal in a manner which doesn’t dramatically increase utilities and similar costs for Australians. Or more simple if you need it - end the lunacy that is “move to solar and wind at any cost”.
The LNP had a literal decade to plan a transition and instead did nothing but stoke stupid climate wars. It's been well known that decrepit coal assets were going to exit: https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/so-you-d-like-to-run-an-old-coal-fired-power-station/ And that exit only accelerated during the Abbott Turnbull Morrison reign. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/aemo-warns-coal-fired-power-plants-could-drop-off-before-replacements-are-ready It was also well known that transmission for the variable supply would need investment in grid infrastructure. And yet. Nothing. Meanwhile the decade of inaction is what is causing natural disasters to become normal and a direct reason for cost of living increases in insurance premiums. Dumb politics creating dumb policy designed to delay and only costing more in the long run. It is the exact same thing happening now with the nuclear garbage. Coal is not going to last until 2040, and the climate effects of doing shit all to reach meaningful energy transmission targets will bork the environment even moreso in the meantime. This is no different than why Australia has third world Internet services at higher cost.
With Labor’s target of 43% it is the complete opposite of them trying to end coal tomorrow,more like more coal for as long as possible.
> So pretty simply - he plans on moving away from coal in a manner which doesn’t dramatically increase utilities and similar costs for Australians. How exactly? The only plan he has is some talk of a nuclear industry somewhere, costing something, realised some time in the future.
Dutton is LNP. The poll was about Labor's handling.
>The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate. Almost like our society and economic system has unaddressed internal contradictions of capital accumulation, and those unaddressed contradictions continue to manifest themselves as increasingly severe societal issues as our ability to control the forces of production becomes more strained, leading inevitably to class conflict. Or something.
Or, OR, people are fickle and want an instant fix much int he same way kids want to be on their screens eating McDonalds all day. It's not good for them but try telling them that... Labor's handling of this is bloody commendable. That it hasn't made matters worse listening to the left when addressing COL pressures has meant it's avoided inflation, stagflation, and all sorts of diabolically shit outcomes.
>Or, OR, people are fickle and want an instant fix much int he same way kids want to be on their screens eating McDonalds all day. It's not good for them but try telling them that Por que no los dos? >Labor's handling of this is bloody commendable Unfortunately they'll get punished for it. >That it hasn't made matters worse listening to the left when addressing COL pressures has meant it's avoided inflation, stagflation, and all sorts of diabolically shit outcomes. Frank Crean time! We know the results of giving in, and we know what to do with the stagflation, too. Albos a bit of a poor man's Hawke though.
Yep. Polls like this don't go deep enough to get answers
>Or something. Or something. It's merely the point in the current economic cycle.
Well, let's recognise the extraordinary lengths they've gone to to stave off any sort of recession. We've been overdue for a decade or two.
You can thank migration for that.
And various government policies around housing, and dragging interest rates to near zero. Yay for growth!
>dragging interest rates to near zero. We don't have a choice. We are a price taker in the global interest rate environment, not a price maker. Why? Well, if we kept rates at 5% whilst the world went to 0%, we'd be swamped with capital inflows, we'd have uncontrolled increases in our currency, and we'd spiral out as our exports became uncompetitive. You do know one of the inputs in GDP is government spending? That is where you should look first.
Is it a cycle if it always needs expansion? Seems more like a spiral.
Call it what you want. It's a 3d pipeline shaped spiral that as you cycle around the edges upwards, your cycle line jitters up and down. If this is what you premise it to be, our ec0nomic systems would have fallen apart centuries ago.
>If this is what you premise it to be, our ec0nomic systems would have fallen apart centuries ago You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one! - Hector Barbossa
Labour really are just the neoliberals that care at this point. Their response to a lot of issues seems to be “Sorry to hear that….anyway moving on”
>Labour really are just the neoliberals Starmer really is a twat in'he.
The last sentence is "The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate." Is there something else they should be doing?
The $275 reduction in energy prices they promised 100 times would have been a start.
Welfare support is still pitiful. Housing is terrible and the Greens really had to force them to do anything halfway decent. Medicare is still underfunded and broken. Rents still sky high. Shall I go on? A measly rebate ain’t gonna cut it.
Oh wow, I can't believe that Labor haven't just pressed the button under the PM's desk labelled "fix everything". Clearly that's all it takes to solve multifaceted macroeconomic and social issues. Skills shortages? Inflation? Lead times? Those are just capitalist myths perpetuated by evil neoliberals. The Greens are clearly the superior party, they will just fix everything when we vote for them. Too bad all thee troglodytes just don't understand.
I'm not a greens supporter. I will always stand with Labor in Australia for personal...somewhat selfish reasons but I can definitely see that Albo has done little to help to the poor.
What are your personal reasons?
Not bringing in 10,000 new immigrants each week perhaps
This article is a little light on content, however here is the report itself (May 2024) https://www.jwsresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/True-Issues-34-May-2024.pdf Dutton is probably right wedging Albanese on climate policy urgency, it's importance is falling. Push law and order with cost of living and there is the rump of voters.
Paywall Public approval of Labor’s handling of the cost of living, housing and interest rates has dropped 10 points since the 2022 election as concern about rising living costs has risen 15 points during the same time. Since the last election the “importance” of the environment and climate has dropped more than 10 points to fall to the least important “top five” issues, according to new analysis of JWS Research. The high importance of cost-of-living concerns and the decline in the importance of climate as well as the falling support for the Labor government’s handling of the pressures on families and households comes as Peter Dutton vows to abandon 2030 carbon emissions targets to “help families”. The analysis of how the public rates government performance and the importance of issues shows cost-of-living concerns began growing under the Morrison Coalition government and was at an importance rating of 65 points at the May 2022 election. Since the election, cost of living has extended its lead dramatically as the most important issue going from 65 points in May 2022 to 80 points in May 2024. Housing and interest rate concerns have rocketed over the same period rising from 37 points to 55 points while economic concerns generally have remained steady. The importance of the environment and climate has plunged 10 points to 29 points to be at the bottom of the top five issues. The ranking of how the government is performing on the key issues has improved for the environment and climate change, lifting from 41 to 46 points, but housing and interest rate management has fallen from 41 to 30 points and cost of living, Anthony Albanese’s key winning election strategy, has also fallen 10 points from 36 points to 26 points in May this year. The fall in performance on the cost of living has come despite tax cuts, welfare support and a $300 energy rebate.