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South Australia - Oh_hunnihunni - 05-07-2025
...has just made donating to political parties or political people against the law.
Now that is a truly wonderful thing.
RE: South Australia - king1 - 05-07-2025
now that just seems like a good idea
RE: South Australia - Oh_hunnihunni - 05-07-2025
(05-07-2025, 07:40 PM)king1 Wrote: now that just seems like a good ideaI am hoping it is contagious.
RE: South Australia - harm_less - 05-07-2025
It's almost worth considering a move across the ditch, and I am partial to a drop of Barossa Shiraz
Though last time I was in that area it was 42C plus so maybe not.
RE: South Australia - Oh_hunnihunni - 05-07-2025
My daughter in Perth has just sent me a photo of a Highland cow. And tells me she is getting one for their place, to join the sheep, and chooks, and cats, and dogs, and kids... "If he can have a digger, I get a cow!" she tells me... He may regret letting her talk him into a country place, lol...
RE: South Australia - Lilith7 - 06-07-2025
(05-07-2025, 05:27 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: ...has just made donating to political parties or political people against the law.
Now that is a truly wonderful thing.
Well done the Aussies!
Excellent move. I hope they've made it watertight so no devious b'stards can get around it.
How soon can we expect our delightful govt to follow suit....?
(05-07-2025, 09:29 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: My daughter in Perth has just sent me a photo of a Highland cow. And tells me she is getting one for their place, to join the sheep, and chooks, and cats, and dogs, and kids... "If he can have a digger, I get a cow!" she tells me... He may regret letting her talk him into a country place, lol...
Fair enough, I'm quite partial to Highland cows. Must be due to the highlander ancestry...but they look so gorgeous who could resist them.
Perhaps she may need two, in case one gets lonely...
RE: South Australia - Oh_hunnihunni - 06-07-2025
Oz does have a great deal to recommend it.
But for me, this land is in my bones.
RE: South Australia - Lilith7 - 06-07-2025
(06-07-2025, 01:34 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Oz does have a great deal to recommend it.
But for me, this land is in my bones.
Youngest grandson & his partner moved to Brisbane earlier this year, they love it.
I'm waiting for their summer to kick in - apparently it gets extremely hot there. With humidity, too....
RE: South Australia - Lilith7 - 07-07-2025
Surely we can also do this.
https://www.agd.sa.gov.au/news/sas-world-leading-political-donations-ban-now-in-force#:~:text=South%20Australia's%20world%2Dleading%20political,candidate%20or%20group%20of%20candidates.
RE: South Australia - dken31 - 09-07-2025
It seems like a great idea until you consider the fact that donations are being "replaced" by public funding to be dished out in proportion to the results of the last election. So it entrenches the status quo in terms of who has a political voice, and ensures that it is only the big boys that have any chance of getting useful levels of funding. And it pretty much makes any new grassroots movement completely impossible.
RE: South Australia - king1 - 09-07-2025
it will be interesting to see how that plays out over time...
RE: South Australia - Lilith7 - 09-07-2025
(09-07-2025, 09:52 AM)dken31 Wrote: It seems like a great idea until you consider the fact that donations are being "replaced" by public funding to be dished out in proportion to the results of the last election. So it entrenches the status quo in terms of who has a political voice, and ensures that it is only the big boys that have any chance of getting useful levels of funding. And it pretty much makes any new grassroots movement completely impossible.
Then that would be something they'd have to fix,surely.
We'll see how it goes; I suspect people may be fairly pithed off if they don't change that. And vote accordingly.
What the hell is wrong with our species that we can't or won't, come up with a way which is as fair as possibe to all of us...