Australia General Discussion 3.0

[Annatar]

Further votes counted now, labor primary vote nationally down to 33.34% now, below 2013 level of 33.38% which was lowest since 1931. In QLD labor has slipped below 27% to 26.8% in the primary vote which is the lowest on record in QLD. National 2 party vote now 51.8-48.2. Have to say Coalition did pretty poorly in vote vs seat spread. 1.4% gain in 2 party vote from 50.4 to 51.8 and only going from 76 seats to 77. Most of that is due to Victoria though which is lesson in limitation of 2 party vote to indicate seat change. In Victoria, 2 party vote same as 2016 but labor up 3 seats, coalition down 2.

[GoTfan]

This is getting out of hand. Two journalists' offices raided in as many days.

[CumbrianLefty]

This is getting out of hand. Two journalists' offices raided in as many days.

Why?

[GoTfan]

This is getting out of hand. Two journalists' offices raided in as many days.

Why?

Annika Smethurst reported on some . . . Well, I think Orwellian surveillance measured are the proper terms. As far as the raid on the ABC, it was done because they had the gall to report on war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Israel Folau, a world famous Rugby Union player was recently sacked for making homophobic comments on his Instagram page.

He then promised Rugby Australia who would take them to the Supreme Court for Unfair Dismissal. After raising $750,000 in 4 days, GoFundMe stopped his page, and disabled it.

Now he is up to $1.5M on his new religious Funding site:

https://www.acl.org.au/donate_izzy

That took him 1 day.

Religious Freedom vs Corporate Correctness

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-25/israel-folau-crowdfunding-free-speech-simon-longstaff-analysis/11245082

[Meclazine for Israel]

Mark Latham comes out in defence of Israel Folau.

https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/1143407825399369728?s=20

And Pauline Hanson loves him:

https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1143393516040572931?s=20

[Meclazine for Israel]

Israel has hit the $2M mark.

The Messiah has walked on the Earth again.