You’re right the bill does not do that. The point I’m making is that the way in which you remove money from politics is important, not just the removal of it. If the bill essentially removed the ability for any other group to run other than the two major parties then it’s not a good bill.

Do you think that donations are the only way of biasing a party or candidate? How many have gone to work for consultants afterwards?

The guardian had a few articles on the bills also:

Labor and Liberals could each get $19m more from the public under electoral law reform. What else would it do?

Labor and Coalition accused of cooking up ‘secret deal’ on electoral rules as Clive Palmer signals court challenge

Would it be a good bill if donations were banned but only the two major parties get public funding?

I think the YouTuber Professor Dave just did some videos about her encouraging science denialism. The podcast Decoding the Gurus has also done an episode on her with similar commentary, “good science communicator but also encourages denialism” is the tldr.

/j on swimming. Realistically you can get away with any skills, though I always liked pistols since you can scope/laser sight the standard pistol and run around headshotting everything.

GEP gunning everything is also hilarious.

The secret is to level the swimming skill exclusively.

Advance has already said they will be targeting the Greens this election, and given both parties opposed the “truth in political advertising” bill you can bet it’s going to be a shitshow of misinfo.

Borderline corrupt behavior by the corruption commissioner okay because he didn’t mean it. Ok.

Isn’t this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?

Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.

It’s not massively surprising that Greens would be replaced with independents. They had the smaller primary vote share afaik, and Thomas Emmerson having Pococks support probably makes a difference.

It’s not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

If they’re “permitted to year shorts” why not just skip the skirt and let them wear shorts?

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university’s poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn’t probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I’m about to graduate from ANU and I’m glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can’t be excused.

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

It really can’t be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.

Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they’ll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there’s none left in the region

You’re assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn’t cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

The headline reads like an onion article.