@Jeremy are you aware of Telstra?

and NBNco

Thats the big issue, most Aussies don't pay attention.

Phasing out coal for Nuclear, cutting down on pollution by phasing out plastics and such as well as drastically reducing our population to be more in balance with nature is about as good as Australia can do

I can't say I'm familiar with them, no, @Greasy.

Telstra is utter trash

Did your government fuck you over with a cartel?

@Ethreen42, mmm, genocide!

That's a campaign winner right there!

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not genocide, deportation

How else does one drastically reduce their population?

Australia's population is about 25 Million, around 6-8 Million of those people should never of been here in the first place

We got a politician using a picture of a guillotine as her campaign symbol for senate in Maine.

again, through deportation @Jeremy

Lovely.

Again, your aging population, @Ethreen42.

@Jeremy telecom company nationwide, was privatised but the entire physical network went to the one supplier - so we got fucked with a telecom monopoly. When the gov mandated broadband installation, they had to give the contract to Telstra (who massively overran cost of course) and so we've had Telstra just fucking everyone for my entire life. Internet and phone is about $80-120 per month, on copper wires to a node however far away

I'm not going to support importing millions of people just to prevent our country from aging @Jeremy

you can use various other means to slowly increase out fertility rate

our*

we could reach a fertility rate of 2.1 in 20 years if we tried

private competition has seen two other companies reach some similar coverage in about half the country, after 20 years of waiting. telecom industry relies on Telstra networks so the industry is effectively price-floored

which would be enough for a stable popualtion

The greatest scam in the history of nations is GDP

it means nothing. Literally has no intelligent meaning. Wage in real terms is the only measure of economic success I will accept

pretty much

fuck nbn is pure garbage

and for those purposes, population decline is no problem. If there's a population age bubble, let it burst. We'll reach a stable replacement rate when we heal our culture.

I'll never understand conservatives who obese over GDP, there are far more important things to worry about

obsess*

they aren't conservative, they're free-marketeer and mostly libertarian, not conservative. If they're advocating immigration as a solution, they're anti-national

I mostly saw Conservatives talking about the debt more than anything else.

And high taxes.

Like Corey Bernardi.

fuck Bernardi

the Australians Conservatives were such a fucking terrible party, they were basically just the UK torries, or a cheap copy of the Liberals

bernardi is at least socially conservative on some issues. far from a saviour though

^

see, if they're career politicians, then they know that the majority of voters vote with their wallets

so of course he's talking the lines which people have been conditioned to believe