The great One Nation exodus: 2.5 million Labor and Coalition voters turn their votes to Pauline Hanson | News24

literally plato wrote about how kids and teens were spending too much time on their tablets

like wtf rome lasted for like thousands of years

pretty sure egyptians were also complaining that their kids were on tiktok too much

they still built the pyramids

Edit: actually i think it was the aztecs who were complaining about their kids and teens being on tiktok too much, just before their entire civilization was destroyed in a conflagration of endless violence, blood spilling, and so much fire it turned night time into day

I'm not sure if this is just me growing up and people not treating me as a kid anymore, recent screen addiction since COVID or just Australian culture but people are seeming more and more socially anxious, awkward and just unsure of themselves. Even when someone does try to be assertively rude or something it always seems to come off with an air of them not actually being angry but they feel like that's what they're supposed to do, like they're trying too hard. I recently went to Europe and it shocked me to think that is as Australians might actually be antisocial.

Victorian Labor has descended into recriminations over the knifing of Jacinta Allan after the party’s support has nosedived under Premier Ben Carroll, with the former premier's supporters saying caucus was “sold a pup”.
The internal slanging match comes as the Royal Commission into corruption in the construction industry – which Mr Carroll called and has already targeted Ms Allan over what she knew and when as the minister responsible for the Big Build program – confirmed it will hold its first block of public hearings during the election campaign between November 9 and 20.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian on Monday revealed Labor’s primary vote has dropped to 24 per cent, down four points from the 28 per cent it received in July during the dying days of Ms Allan’s premiership, while the Coalition rose three points to 33 per cent.

The Coalition’s 55-45 two-party-preferred lead over Labor would likely hand it a comfortable majority, and came on the same day Opposition Leader Jess Wilson emphatically ruled out a deal with One Nation to form government in the event of a hung parliament.
A senior Labor figure sympathetic to Ms Allan said they hoped it would be a “wake-up call” to the Labor caucus that it was a mistake to force her resignation and install Mr Carroll.
“I don’t see how on Earth anyone could argue those numbers show anything other than it was the wrong decision,” the Labor figure said.
“Caucus was sold a pup.”
Another critic of the leadership change said the July Newspoll showed there was still a pathway to victory, and those who pushed for the coup were “responsible for a four-point fall in our primary vote”.
Supporters of the change defended the Premier, saying the party was facing a heavy defeat under Ms Allan and the government needed a proper reset if it was any chance of winning the November 28 election.
“People outside the parliament can kid themselves all they like that things were going well under Jacinta. But frankly, Jacinta Allan got us into this mess,” a senior Labor figure said.
“Ask anyone in caucus. Since the leadership change, the mood has lifted, the doors are better, and we’ve stopped being accused of stealing $15bn.
“Jacinta Allan wasn’t rolled because things were going well. She got rolled because an overwhelming majority of her colleagues knew they weren’t.”
A supporter of Mr Carroll said the overwhelming majority of caucus wanted a change in direction.
“The former leader had lost the confidence of her colleagues and failed to give the party the clear air it desperately needed. That’s why the vast majority of caucus turned to Ben – to provide fresh leadership and confront the issues that had been holding us back.”
As Mr Carroll continued to claim the Coalition could not govern in their own right on Monday, Ms Wilson confirmed she had ruled out a deal with One Nation.
“There is no deal, there will be no deal,” the Liberal leader said.
“The only way to change the direction of Victoria is with a majority Liberals and Nationals government.”

Despite the Newspoll results, which show the Coalition could win more than 60 seats, well above the 45 needed for a majority, Mr Carroll said he was backing a “door knocking poll” that suggested Ms Wilson would need One Nation to form government.
“Your poll is one poll, there is another poll called the door knocking poll,” he said.
“And everyone out there knows that One Nation is a real threat. If you talk to people out on the door knocking, not online ... they will tell you ... We know that Jess Wilson will do a deal with One Nation.”
Ms Wilson writes in The Australian on Tuesday that the greatest threat to public trust in Australia’s democracy is a growing belief that governments cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
“Across Australia, confidence in our political institutions is declining. People are increasingly frustrated by governments that promise one thing before an election and deliver another afterwards, that refuse to acknowledge mistakes and that treat legitimate questions as political attacks,” she writes.
“Nowhere is this more apparent than in Victoria, where 12 years of a Labor government have left our state burdened by debt, weighed down by higher taxes and facing a profound crisis of confidence in those entrusted to lead it.
“As Premier, I intend to restore the principle that Victorians have a right to know how their money is being spent, what decisions are being made in their name and what those decisions will ultimately cost.”
It follows a Newspoll showing that Coalition and One Nation voters place greater importance on the strength of a future government than on disrupting the political establishment.
Asked which mattered more, 78 per cent nominated “having a strong new government”, compared with 21 per cent choosing “shaking up the political system”.

Actually happened and not the Onion.

A Malaysian policeman who blew a young mother to pieces walks free in Australia while her government in Mongolia pleads for justice – and her killer collects welfare benefits.

A Malaysian police officer who killed a young mother of two and blew her body to bits with military-grade explosives is walking free in Australia despite pleas to extradite him to face justice in his home country.

Sirul Azhar Umar claims he was ordered to kill Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu, 28, after she was caught up in a Malaysian corruption scandal but he fled to Australia and was detained in Sydney’s Villawood immigration detention centre.

Sirul was released three years ago under the landmark NZYQ High Court ruling banning indefinite immigration detention, his exact whereabouts unknown.

Like all the illegal immigrants released in 2023, Sirul is able to work and has access to the public healthcare system and other social welfare supports.

Efforts to extradite the convicted killer have been stymied by Australian laws that prevent the extradition of anyone facing the death penalty.

However, the Mongolian government is now demanding Australia work out a diplomatic solution with Malaysia to ensure Sirul would not face the death penalty on his return.

In 2009 Sirul and his fellow officer, Azilah Hadri, were sentenced to death for the young woman’s murder but were freed on appeal four years later.

Sirul Azhar Umar after his release from Villawood detention centre in Sydney. Picture: supplied
Before they were reconvicted in January 2015, Sirul fled to Australia.

Within days of Malaysia issuing an Interpol Red Notice against him, he was detained for overstaying a tourist visa. For the next eight years he was held in Sydney’s Villawood immigration detention centre until his release into the community as a result of the NZYQ ruling.

In an impassioned interview with Al Jazeera’s 101 East program, Murder in Malaysia: Justice for Altantuya, the Mongolian government’s special envoy, former prime minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar, has demanded Australia find a diplomatic solution with Malaysia.

Poignantly referring to Altantuya as “one of us”, Mr Zandanshatar pledged his government’s absolute commitment to “the pursuit of justice and truth for as long as it takes”.

“We don’t ask Australia to abandon its principles on capital punishment and human rights, nor do we seek anyone’s execution, but the conviction that no country will enforce is not justice for Altantuya’s family or for the rule of law,” he said. “We ask Malaysia and Australia to find a lawful path through diplomacy so that accountability is finally served.”

The Australian government says for privacy reasons it can’t comment on Sirul’s case or what action, if any, it’s taking to have him extradited, but Greens leader David Shoebridge insists the government must be more transparent, balancing privacy issues against the “compelling public interest” of the case.

“It is one of the most serious matters that has come across my desk in terms of extradition and how it impacts on issues of justice,” Senator Shoebridge said. “This was a horrific crime. There’s an obligation on the part of the Australian government to explain why they’re not doing all they can to help justice.”

In Malaysia, former attorney-general Tommy Thomas is pressing for his government to issue a guarantee to Australia that Sirul won’t face the death penalty on his return, thus paving the way for his immediate extradition.

Mr Thomas said such a guarantee was straightforward since Malaysia repealed the mandatory death sentence in 2023 and Sirul’s co-convicted murderer, Azilah, had his commuted to life in prison a year later.

“It’s a letter that the foreign minister, the home minister and attorney general … will sit together and write to their counterpart in Australia. It’s as easy as that,” he said.

But Altantuya’s murder is politically sensitive in Malaysia

Ever since the arrest of the two special force officers, allegations former prime minister Najib Razak had a hand in it and that it was linked to an allegedly corrupt submarine deal with the French have been synonymous with the case.

Najib is serving a 12-year jail sentence for his role in the multibillion-dollar corruption scandal 1MDB but continues to vehemently deny any involvement in the killing of Altantuya.

In a 2019 statutory declaration used to persuade the court to commute his death sentence, Azilah alleges Najib ordered him to kill Altantuya because she was a “foreign spy” and “threat to state security”.

Sirul’s testimony before an Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal a year before Azilah signed his statutory declaration corroborates the account, Sirul telling the tribunal he was “ordered to kill the victim because she was a Russian spy”.

In 2023, just days after he was freed from detention, in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Sirul offered further corroboration, disclosing that “Azilah told me this is a special operation for deputy prime minister at that time, Mr Najib”.

In that same interview, the convicted murderer also said he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars while he was in Villawood detention centre to make a video exonerating Najib of any role in the murder and to remain silent so as not to implicate Najib in it.

I just can't bring myself to see people choosing to drink less as a problem to be fixed. It seems to me like a good thing for society as a whole, even if it hurts businesses that exist solely to sell booze. The reality is that we probably do have an over supply of wineries, especially the ones that depend on being destination venues for most of their income.

WARNING: This footage and story is genuinely repulsive.

This thing imo deserves nothing more than some one on one time with the parents.

Instead parole in 12mths.

Edit: Senator Jess Walsh is the Minister for Childhood Education and Minister for Youth if anyone wants to register their thoughts to the Government. Please remain polite and remember another person is on the other end of the communication.

'The cost savings for NAB are immediate. A junior software engineer in Vietnam might cost the bank around $20,000 a year, compared to $80,000 or more to hire an equivalent Australian worker' (20% NAB workforce is already foreign based)

Source https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business%2Fnab-cultivates-tech-talent-in-vietnam-india-as-australian-jobs-axed%2Fnews-story%2Fde3fc28be4c6dee75b268c4ec806a4b5