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Advance Generations, to allow “generous donors and supporters the chance to leave a gift to Advance in their will”. ... Abbott, a longtime supporter and board member for Advance, also offered his own testimonial in the report: “Supporting Advance Generations is a very good way to protect the values and country that we cherish for the next generation

Yeah? Let's see your will then Tones, I bet you'll be leaving heaps ay.

Since 3 May, Advance’s primary campaigns have centred around stopping immigration and ending welcome to country ceremonies.

In an email to supporters on Wednesday, the rightwing group encouraged followers to “speak up and take on” the ceremonies, criticising them as a “tool to indoctrinate” children.

JFC they're still going on about this. Surely if they don't find new keys to dangle in front of their supporters soon they're going to fall off.

Wow what a shock. Guess running a uni like a for profit business works like shit. Maybe the real problem not cited in this article is that the upper management are all worthless.

Good thing Labor used the loss of the referendum to do sweet FA about indigenous issues.

I think the perception that the greens are arrogant is mostly a media thing to be honest, and I'm not sure how much they can do to fight that. Imo there is a general perception of any activist or left wing group that they're all arrogant/holier than thou types.

They ended up backing Labor's housing policies despite the analysis from think tanks like the Australia Institute saying they would do nothing. This all seems like a double standard anyway to me, did Labor change any policy on housing? It took months to extract some direct cash on top of the HAFF then they refused to negotiate, the greens at least tried to, yet the greens are arrogant.

I think this was the original proposal in 2007 when Rudd was pm. We've been flip flopping on subs for almost 20 years

the only public self-reflection they've done regarding the last term is that "Labor ran an effective campaign on us blocking the HAAF for a year" IIRC.

Basically no political party is going to have an open public discussion on this. There's clearly two "factions" of the Greens, one more pragmatic and the other more 'activist'. I think the observation that Labor ran an effective smear campaign on their own unwillingness to negotiate is pretty obvious (not to say that there isn't also some need for a discussion about how much blocking is the right amount). But everyone seems to think the Greens are "this must be perfect" type people despite the fact that they showed in the last term they were willing to reduce demands or vote for things they didn't like so I guess it isn't.

...Max Chandler-Mather's comments about other politicians being mean

Other MPs complained about how he was treated so... (See here).

If they're not careful we'll also send them a strongly worded letter

As a previous Greens' member (I live overseas now) I can say that my experience is that Greens' members are generally pretty sensitive to causing offence and are more than willing to apologise if they are told they're causing it, at least by other members. This is of course anecdotal though.

Also maybe changing your vote because you thought an individual action by someone was stupid is a childish way of thinking about politics?

Missabotti resident Spencer Parry said he, too, was given wrong information about how to vote, but decided to follow the instructions on the ballot paper to number every candidate.

Well at least one person did.

100%, saying fish and chips is easy mode for chip context.

Somehow there's never been any confusion.

But Labor has a mandate to be shit, albo said so.