I made a post on Bluesky the day it happened saying they’d almost certainly use this as an excuse to crack down on protest rights. Hate being right about this.
Australia is also overwhelmingly against affordable housing. Being in the majority doesn’t make it right
Gun regulations. Not protest regulations. As mind numbingly stupid we are as a nation. I don’t think most people really think the Akram’s were protestors.
I will ask though where are the unions? You know the reason the Labor party exists in the first place. Surely their rights to protest are sacrosanct . If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.
If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.
A lot of aged Qld ALP members were dismayed when Qld cracked down on protests under the previous state ALP government, saying the legislation nearly exacrly mirrored the Bjelke-Petersen Governments Union anti protest laws. Didn’t help though… (mostly climaye protests becase protesting the destruction of the enviorment and the likely collapse of civilisation is apparently not on)
I notice the Greens supported the revised gun laws but were against more protest crack downs, so voters do have a choice.
If we’re not going to listen to what the majority Australians think about gunrcontrol, what’s your alternative?
Recognise the mass shooting for the tragic but extremely rare occurrence that it is, address the intelligence failures that led to the shooters not being discovered earlier, and leave protestors and lawful gun owners alone
This is the most rational path forward.
Unfortunately, the LNP will use the excuse to crack down on immigration, the ALP will use the excuse to crack down on protesters and the Greens will use the excuse to crack down on legitimate gun owners.
Say what?
What do you need me to clarify?
Maybe a source or two for your leading statement. FYI, any downvotes are not mine.
This country has spent the last 25 years voting for policy designed to supercharge housing prices and sell out future generations. Even with our current crisis we still vote to drive prices up. No government with a plan to even stagnate housing costs has a hope in hell of being elected. Australians won’t have it. Besides younger and poorer demographics who walk through life knowing they’ll never own a house and that their peers want to keep it that way.
Yeah… Every measure to make houses more affordable has just been, we’ll give young home buyers more money. Which only increases house prices by whatever amount they decide on. Oh and how could I forget that it’s actually the fault of immigrants because Australia has never been able to affordably house an immigrant population.
