Australia, Explained

Most people aren’t disengaged because they don’t care. They’re disengaged because the system is badly explained. I break down how Australian politics actually works from local councils, to state governments, to Canberra. Follow if you want Australian politics explained clearly.

@StevePence7726 Exactly. You carry a knife or some other defensive device with you and you are constantly at risk of being arrested for it - despite the fact you ONLY carry it for self defence.

@AusExplained Fight back or defend yourself - get arrested.

Living in Melbourne = Go for a walk in Port Melbourne, get stabbed. Ride up an escalator as you head to work, get stabbed. Walk to work on busy streets of CBD, get stabbed. Tell off kids throwing rocks at your house, get stabbed. Robbers breaking into your home, get stabbed.

@Rexdinasaur @JennyTa22393082 You wouldn't be wrong. A recent attempted car jacking at a red stop light (not the first we've had). My mum lived in South Africa a long time ago & said they did not stop at red lights for fear of exactly what we are now dealing with in Melbourne. It's crazy.

@JennyTa22393082 I’ve been calling Melbourne Johannesburg for some time?

Melbourne is the new New York..we’ve imported the criminal elements, then they wonder why we’ve had an increase in crime.

@historyinmemes The video poses a Question. Fear is still used to maintain order, in fact even more so now. Most Western countries don't have the death penalty. But there are more murderers & rapist then ever, & vastly more of the community scared of them, than they of the guillotine .

In 1939, France carried out its last public guillotine execution.

Hate on Pauline as much as you like - but answer me; how many disinterested voters can name their State Senators? Now, how many of them know the name Pauline Hanson? That's the difference. She is respected in QLD, but known Australia-wide as blunt,unfiltered& not owned by the 2PP

When it's Labor women raising the issue of sexual assault (think Tame & Higgins), Labor will move mountains to ensure their voices are heard & stories taken seriously. But when it's a women in jail being assaulted BECAUSE of Labor's policies...they don't want to hear it. Shame.

Wrong Minister. As an ex Vicpol member & crime analyst, we reported on this issue to Victoria Police Command in about 2015 (around same time as the 3D gun printing risk was identified) It wasn't seen as a big risk, because we didn't have a big youth crime gang stealing cars!

@123eduz Very much so

@AusExplained This is what happens when you have a weak justice system driven by a woke government.

When Labor & Liberal start talking about you, you know you are a real threat. Labor's way is generally to ignore the minors. Note both major parties are concerned by the rise of the new wave of politics & right now, that's One Nation. Bring on the collapse of the 2PP system!

@JosephMBelcher Unfortunately the only people that have guns on their persons in Australia are the criminals. The rest of are "not allowed" personal carry.

@AusExplained I don't worry about that in my state in America. All those situations would end in some dumb ass with a knife getting shot.

@Cribbertarian I think you are right...for a period of time. Peaceful political revolutions don't happen overnight. I was hoping a futures strategy between ON, Nats & the likes of Lib outliers of Rennick/Antic would come together, but I realise that's naive & big personalities get in the way.

Unfortunately I think a lot of people in Australia don't entirely understand what a coalition is in this context or at least don't really think it through. It's not just a warm and fuzzy way for like-minded parties to work together that's more than preferences and less than a merger. It's an agreement made to get the numbers together win to form government or at least opposition, based on the seats you have. Too often I've heard suggestions for parties with no lower house seats like the Libertarians or People First to enter a coalition. I'm sure we might if we found ourselves with enough lower house seats for that to feasible, but with both of us on zero seats other arrangements like joint tickets and preference deals make more sense. Now to a potential One Nation / Nationals coalition... Currently the Nats have 14 lower house seats and One Nation have one. 15 is well short of a working coalition to form government or opposition, but the polls for One Nation have shifted dramatically, so theoretically a coalition agreement could be entered into now to prepare for the next election. The big problem is what this agreement would look like. Coalition agreements deal with things like which Bills and policies can be voted on separately and which have to go to a joint party room, which party gets assigned ministries or shadow ministries, what the order of the joint Senate tickets will be and so on. But they also contain provisions for a party not running against sitting elected members of another (in most circumstances). The reason the Liberal/National coalition worked well and held together for decades was the fact that the parties are popular in *different areas*. They weren't competing much anyway, and could then use their numbers to form government. The challenge for a National / One Nation coalition is that they're currently popular in the same areas. One Nation's polling surge has come primarily in regional Australia where the Nats are strong, even if ironically mostly as a reaction to Liberal Party leadership (hence the frustrated fall out from the Nats). If One Nation surges it'll be previously safe Nats seats that fall first, and then maybe even some socially conservative Labor seats next. The Liberals are causing the bleed but their seats are the most immune from the impact, and these incentives partly explain their actions. One Nation might end up just replacing the Nats as the Liberal coalition partner instead.

@angijones @nyaraVT I had a well respected colleague Trans M2F, & my sister dated a post op M2F in the early 2000's! TRAs obsessed with invading female only spaces & policing language via threats, firing people & taking people to court made me a TERF. 👍🙂

@nyaraVT I shared a house with two transsexuals and my ex father in law is an AGP. My “education” made me a TERF.

Transphobia is a refusal of educating yourself on trans topics because it makes you feel strong when you can weaponise your ignorance to harm the powerless. It is also extremely profitable.

@jenny42935229 We need strong leadership, and a clear direction out of this mess, with a no nonsense approach to crime and punishment. Labor is not the Party for Victoria's healthy future.

@AusExplained Jacinta doesn't think there is any problem as she had her machete bins we paid for. Bring on November.

@Disciple4Lif @SamanthaTaghoy Ex cop here 👍 If my country was run by murderous tyrannical leaders and used the local police force (who then willingly) killed and shot protestors against the regime, I would expect those protestors to kill back.

@SamanthaTaghoy He killed two cops. 👮

19 year old Iranian wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi was just publicly executed for protesting against the Islamic Regime. So, to all liberal Westerners: Watch and learn. This is what it’s like to ACTUALLY live in a nation with no free speech.

@SonyaDouglas Anyone who thinks human beings - including pregnant women, are not capable of the most repugnant of acts, is a very naive & sheltered person. Laws exist to protect the vulnerable. This law exists to kill the most vulnerable. It's deplorable.

Anyone who thinks women will be lining up to abort late-term embryos risking their lives, health and wellbeing never to draw a guilt-free breath, ever more to wonder, always to remember knows very little and cares even less about women’s lives and knows nothing about abortion

When the government tells you: “We’re in the same boat”

@RongSpeller @JacintaAllanMP I don't disagree we need more housing, but you need to bring people along on the journey - govern by consent - not arrogance & political back door deals that suit your Party more than it suits the Community. Allowing people to sub-divide, build 2nd or 3rd stories is a better.

@AusExplained @JacintaAllanMP Melbourne needs more houses. It’s better to redesign low-rise suburbs than to eat up green spaces and farmland on the outskirts of the city and force people to commute for hours.

Liberals "guarantee" to block homes for young people near transport and jobs. That's a guarantee to make the housing crisis worse and slam the door on the next generation. Only Labor fights to get young people into a home of their own, near the services they need and the people they love.

@MickamiousG People from countries that have demonstrated on mass that they are unable to assimilate to our way of life. & Those who hold views that women are second class citizens/property and the "I didn't know I wasn't allowed to have sex with a minor" cohort.

You can soon block regions, entire countries, Who you blocking first?!

@JaneCaro Unfortunately Grace has really ashamed herself with her ignorance, and distasteful, hurtful and incredibly insensitive comments, about people's suffering - that was 10 million times worse than her experience.

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