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$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
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.htmlFixed 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.
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$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
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.htmlFixed 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.
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$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
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.htmlFixed 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.
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$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
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.htmlFixed 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.
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$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
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.htmlFixed 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.
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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
*Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
@timrichards -
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
*Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
@timrichards -
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
*Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
@timrichards -
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
*Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
@timrichards -
@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... -
@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... -
Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.
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Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.
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Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.
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Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.
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Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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You are gonna lose your shit when you hear about what business lobby groups do every day.
To see how borked the coverage of this issue is, delete 'Union boss' and insert 'lobbyist'. Could be the gas industry, Israel lobby, gambling lobby, banking sector, etc etc
The process is identical. Meetings with Ministers, senior bureaucrats coopted to implement politically 'necessary' policy, the public misled or kept in the dark .... and a favourable outcome for the lobbyists.
The difference on this occasion however, is the beneficiaries of the lobbying are members of a union fighting for a better deal for workers, in this case Firefighters.
Now all of a sudden, the world is ending.
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RE: https://aus.social/@luciedigitalni/117034200372184628
Just as an aside, this is not just about corrosive social influence of gambling, there's substantial cultural corrosion too
Melbourne had the most generative, vibrant music scene in Aus through the eighties. Kennett arrived in the nineties and changed the gambling laws and all the little pubs that'd resorted to live music to get new punters in the door when all their established clientele were dying off and moving into care homes bought into pokies. the scene died almost immediately
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#Hanson #VicPol #MediaBan #IPA
ABC News, Guardian, and Age not welcome at #OneNation pressers.
can Whine Nation turn Victoria into the Deep South? According to them, Victoria is both financially AND morally bankrupt
perish the thought 🙄
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/one-nation-victoria-candiates-revealed/106989410
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Answer in 10 seconds or lose your fleet: The e-bike row dividing Yarra
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/answer-in-10-seconds-or-lose-your-fleet-the-e-bike-row-dividing-yarra-20260730-p60k3i.htmlPreviously: https://theblower.au/@BinChicken/116920668524405133
Streets Alive Yarra president, Jeremy Lawrence, campaigns for safety, usability, and efficiency of streets and transport. I applaud his work and usually agree with him. In this case I think his observations are good but his conclusions miss the mark.
The conditions the council stated are reasonable requirements. Eg: removing dumped hire-bikes in 60 minutes, and any "dangerously placed" in 30 minutes.
Jeremy Lawrence said: "In my view, it was so onerous [that] no share bike operator, even if it was Lime … could make it work in a financially viable manner."
He's correct. But, it doesn't mean we should give a free pass to hire-bike companies, cut safety standards, or give public land to a company to use as parking-space. I think it's time we accept that the hire-bike business-model does not work.
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great Serious Danger episode about Victoria politics, upcoming election, our very own homegrown cheetoh fash, data centres, voice to parliament, voting system reform, housing rights... with Campbell Gome (Northcote) and Brittney Henderson (Western Metro).
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This guy's the most Liberal party looking Labor member I think I've ever seen
'Carroll is very much a man of the right—a member of the conservative SDA union and a protégé of Labor right...He’s also a staunch supporter of Israel, although on that score he’s no different to his two nominally left predecessors, Dan Andrews and Allan'
https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/victorian-labor-lurches-further-right-under-carroll/
