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Talking Politics
- Thread starter Legends of 2017
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Election advertising options
1) None allowed, town hall meetings only
2) Publicly funded (probably based on votes at last election. Greens would benefit. Would A Willkie? Entrenches status quo, how do independents get a go?)
3) Capped (per party, candidate, state, electorate .... set up yet another taxpayer watchdog full of failed lawyers to monitor it)
4) No rich people allowed to pay for poltical advertising (pensioner donations allowed to bematched by rich people option)
5) Unions to levy their1.5 million members a mere$40 every three years to match Clive's 60. Fight fire with fire. ALP MHRs to divert their personal franking credits and negative gearing interest deductions to the fund also.
6) Advertising aimed at achieving a nefarious purpose like the election of ANOTHER candidate banned (assessment by tax payer funded panel of over paid bureaucrats)
7) No each way bets by donors. Donors to come clean on their real preferences (I had a look at the official register, many many ASX 200 companies give the same amount to the two major parties. Seems a waste of money when it is a fact that ALP policy is not influenced by donors whereas the Liberal party do anything their donors want.)
On Gladys, ALP wasted no time once shops opened Saturday to get out and spruik their new candidate for Chisholm. At least third generation Aussie but pushing her "Italian heritage" to appeal to an electorate with a huge migrant base. Bringing a fresh perspective to the caucus by being a senior Union official. Diversity plus.
Last time it was two Chinese origin candidates. This time it isn't. Some will vote for Lliu because of her Chinese ethnicity, some will vote against her because she is. Are both decisions rascist?
I was talking about misleading how to vote signs, not anyones background or race.
But i understand your point. Political parties will do what they do it's pretty transparent.
You threw down the gauntlet. Some are tongue in cheek but all could be argued as ways to limit advertising influencing elections. The Unions have to step up with cash not just run a racket to get their mates into safe seats. I assume the advertising palmer spent most of his money on was traditional print and broadcast? As far as I understand new media channels are exploited more productively these days. Do you limit spending / resources in these channels too?Can't tell if this is satire or serious, some good proposals there however
Dude,you failed to actually respond to what happened in the election and what Palmer said after the election - instead making a whole lot of waffle about what might happen maybe.
If you really want to respond to the challenge respond to it, don't deflect.
Or not, up to you.
P
I take much of what is said by politicians with scepticism as well btw
which is totally your prerogative, but doesn’t make it fact.
I take much of what is said by politicians with scepticism as well btw
You don’t think ALP policy is influenced by what their biggest donors the Trade unions want?
Morrison returns from Glasgow a significantly reduced figure on the domestic and international stage
Somewhere along the way, the idea that Scott Morrison and his government should be judged on how they are protecting the national interest rather than playing the political game seems to have been well and truly lost, writes Laura Tingle.
www.abc.net.au
About time someone wrote this article. I've been bagging journalists for twenty years for writing about politics as if it were a sport.
Morrison returns from Glasgow a significantly reduced figure on the domestic and international stage
Somewhere along the way, the idea that Scott Morrison and his government should be judged on how they are protecting the national interest rather than playing the political game seems to have been well and truly lost, writes Laura Tingle.
Maybe, he said some was tongue in cheek so I thought I would check.
I don't like any donating for political influence and that includes Trade unions and clearly that money has a massive effect on ALP policy. One example was the merger of the CFA and the MFB in Victoria.
Laura Tingle is great. Super smart and to the point.Morrison returns from Glasgow a significantly reduced figure on the domestic and international stage
Somewhere along the way, the idea that Scott Morrison and his government should be judged on how they are protecting the national interest rather than playing the political game seems to have been well and truly lost, writes Laura Tingle.
Agreed, donations to political parties should be far more restricted and advertising as well.
If you purchase anything from a company some of that money is going towards political donations if that company pursues that. If you work for a company then some of the profits generated from your work is going towards political donations.
The problem with political donations is that you can stop donations to recognised political parties, but how do you stop other organisations and their advertising? You could end up with lots of front organisations raising millions and saying whatever in ads. Very hard to stop organisations advertising and saying whatever they want, even harder if they are buying advertising on social media sites which are not located in Australia.
Not sure what we can do but going down the road of the massive cost of elections in the USA is not a good option.
DS
Not sure what we can do but going down the road of the massive cost of elections in the USA is not a good option.
DS