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Lord Mayor spreading some blatant lies, alongside misleading FUD. Maybe I should take back my previous claim that the LNP wouldn’t make a blatant provable lie. In an effort to portray the idea of a Labor/Greens alliance in Council as a terrible idea, he claims that there are Greens in cabinet in the federal Parliament.
He says this as part of making a point that Labor has been supportive of pokies in the past, while the Greens are against. If they were in a coalition, he claims, it would be shambles and the Greens would force the lease to not go ahead. This is, of course, simply not how democracy works. If there were a Labor/Greens coalition council after the next election, any issue where Labor and the LNP are in agreement and the Greens disagree (including, assuming the Lord Mayor’s supposition about the Labor stance is correct, on pokies) would still be able to pass.
Cr Owen also makes some bizarre claims about profits from gambling. She seems to think that having received donations from someone who is a “professional gambler” is remotely similar to receiving funding from actual gambling organisations.
I would suggest that it is precisely the opposite. Profiting from some of the small number of people able to actually make money from gambling is the opposite of profiting from the organisation ripping millions of dollars off of average people every year.
Lord Mayor spreading some blatant lies, alongside misleading FUD. Maybe I should take back my previous claim that the LNP wouldn’t make a blatant provable lie. In an effort to portray the idea of a Labor/Greens alliance in Council as a terrible idea, he claims that there are Greens in cabinet in the federal Parliament.
He says this as part of making a point that Labor has been supportive of pokies in the past, while the Greens are against. If they were in a coalition, he claims, it would be shambles and the Greens would force the lease to not go ahead. This is, of course, simply not how democracy works. If there were a Labor/Greens coalition council after the next election, any issue where Labor and the LNP are in agreement and the Greens disagree (including, assuming the Lord Mayor’s supposition about the Labor stance is correct, on pokies) would still be able to pass.
Cr Owen also makes some bizarre claims about profits from gambling. She seems to think that having received donations from someone who is a “professional gambler” is remotely similar to receiving funding from actual gambling organisations.
I would suggest that it is precisely the opposite. Profiting from some of the small number of people able to actually make money from gambling is the opposite of profiting from the organisation ripping millions of dollars off of average people every year.