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  1. Bin Chicken @[email protected] ·

    $90 million per year gift to Transurban if self-interested car drivers think they can sell their vote for $3000 under Coalition plan to buy votes for $0
    smh.com.au/politics/victoria/r

    Fixed the headline for you.

    Let's have a realistic look at this shonky election-promise:
    - That $3000 isn't a discount offered by tollway companies. The money will come from the government, using taxes collected from citizens. We'll be paying for it.
    - It's a handout to Transurban as a thankyou for political donations to the Liberal Party.
    - If they start this scam, they won't stop after two years. It will continue forever.
    - Tollway companies will jack-up their prices by the same amount as the "saving" so customers won't see any difference.

    This brainfart was brought to you by the same neocon tools that gave a bunch of public highways (that had been built with money paid for by tax-payers) to rent-extracting tollway companies.

    #AusPol #VicPol #Transurban #TollRoads

    #auspol #vicpol #transurban #tollroads
  2. kaffando @[email protected] ·

    Just caught the start of channel 9 news. The RWNJ Dave Hughes giving what amounted to a party political broadcast for the Libs.

    So, who are they having on for equal time?

    #VicPol #auspol

    #vicpol #auspol
  3. LovesTha🥧 @[email protected] ·

    I don't think that wage rise would be healthy.

    I would rather see enough apartments* built within 300m of Toorak and Hawksburn stations that some were available at prices a barista could afford.

    And at all the other stations around Melbourne.

    The component not mentioned in @moz 's list of reasons (at least not directly) is that 50% of those should be government owned

    #AusPol #VicPol

    *Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
    @timrichards

    #auspol #vicpol
  4. TonyR @[email protected] ·

    @msdropbear
    Oh fuck... if I knew that earlier I would be there to heckle the dipshit (DH). He seriously lost the plot during Covid lock downs. Instead, I will be down at the Otways for the day...

    #auspol
    #vicpol

    #auspol #vicpol
  5. Chis-R 🐟 @[email protected] ·

    Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.

    #protest #Naarm #Melbourne #VicPol #AusPol

    #protest #naarm #melbourne #vicpol #auspol
  6. John :af: :60: :05: :12: :GP: :FTS: @[email protected] ·

    More cars forced off major Victorian highway with damaged tyres due to potholes.

    Up to 7 cars have been forced off the road with damaged tyres after hitting potholes on the #CalderFreeway near #Gisborne.

    The cars were lined up on the side of the freeway waiting for roadside assistance.

    #VicPol

    #calderfreeway #gisborne #vicpol
  7. John Quiggin @[email protected] ·

    Moving steadily west, Rosheena Campbell was Lib candidate for Aston (outer eastern suburbs), then deputy mayor of Melbourne, now running to represent Footscray and Werribee. Next stop Port Fairy? #vicpol

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/lib

    #vicpol