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Re: International Politics

Postby am Bays » Sun Jan 22, 2023 3:27 pm

Inflation 7.5 %, interest rates 4.25 %, imports CAD 2.2 NZ Billion

Still think NZ Labor would win but greater reliance on coalition partners.

In western democracies major parties have struggled to get 33% of the primary vote, which makes winning majorities extremely difficult.
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Re: International Politics

Postby Dinglinga75 » Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:07 pm

He cheats at the highest level’: Trump claims golf tournament win despite not playing half of it

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Re: International Politics

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:09 pm

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Re: International Politics

Postby Booney » Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:04 am

I'll over throw Putin.

Or maybe I won't.
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:06 am

Watched a documentary on Alexei Navalny yesterday, produced by him and his supporters, from the time he was poisoned to his later return to Russia and arrest at the airport.

It cannot be underestimated what this one brave man did, and continues to do after his death, to shine a light on the brutality of Putin and his enablers.

He knew what his fate would be, but ploughed ahead regardless.

We can only hope that Putin is overthrown and Russian society freed of all this, but their history says otherwise.
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Re: International Politics

Postby Jimmy_041 » Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:57 pm

dedja wrote:Watched a documentary on Alexei Navalny yesterday, produced by him and his supporters, from the time he was poisoned to his later return to Russia and arrest at the airport.

It cannot be underestimated what this one brave man did, and continues to do after his death, to shine a light on the brutality of Putin and his enablers.

He knew what his fate would be, but ploughed ahead regardless.

We can only hope that Putin is overthrown and Russian society freed of all this, but their history says otherwise.


Russian history lives on - nothings changed in centuries

How anyone could think Stalin was better than Hitler defies logic
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:13 pm

Quiz.

1. Identify the Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels and the Trump propagandist, Stephen Miller from the photos below.

2. Identify the differences in their policies.

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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Thu Jul 04, 2024 12:04 pm

UK General Election tomorrow, looks like the Tories will be swamped by the Labour Party.

Good to see the Poms know how to spell Labour.
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Re: International Politics

Postby am Bays » Thu Jul 04, 2024 3:34 pm

Not even Hindmarsh Pest control would be able to get all the bugs out of this building.....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-04/vanuatu-new-presidential-palace-china-aid/104053342
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Re: International Politics

Postby Jimmy_041 » Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:25 pm

am Bays wrote:Not even Hindmarsh Pest control would be able to get all the bugs out of this building.....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-04/vanuatu-new-presidential-palace-china-aid/104053342


Construction or surveilance?

Hindmarsh Pest Control are very good - if they cant fix it - nobody can
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:40 am

Labour win in a massive landslide, the Tories on track to have the lowest no. of seats in their history.
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Re: International Politics

Postby am Bays » Fri Jul 05, 2024 10:11 am

dedja wrote:Labour win in a massive landslide, the Tories on track to have the lowest no. of seats in their history.


Someone on the Tory side will try and claim a moral victory, it's the English way!
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Fri Jul 05, 2024 10:14 am

Torexit
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Re: International Politics

Postby Booney » Fri Jul 05, 2024 12:07 pm

Rees-Mogg to lose his seat after 14 years and Farrage and his right wing nutters with Holly Valance win more seats than first thought.
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Fri Jul 05, 2024 12:21 pm

Reform Party forecast to win maybe 1-1.5% of the 650 seats, more of a minor irritant than anything else.

Looks so bad for the Tories that they’ll have to wait until they see who has kept their seats before thinking about electing a new leader.

Love the way they announce the winner of a seat by lining up the candidates and reading out their votes and announcing the elected candidate.
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Re: International Politics

Postby Jim05 » Fri Jul 05, 2024 1:05 pm

dedja wrote:Reform Party forecast to win maybe 1-1.5% of the 650 seats, more of a minor irritant than anything else.

Looks so bad for the Tories that they’ll have to wait until they see who has kept their seats before thinking about electing a new leader.

Love the way they announce the winner of a seat by lining up the candidates and reading out their votes and announcing the elected candidate.
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Fri Jul 05, 2024 1:11 pm

Yep, and everyone seems to embrace it.

Never thought I’d ever be saying this about the Poms, but we can learn from them on the way they go about it, including counting through the night.

We still have an Electoral Commission that effectively works 9-5. :roll:

Now projecting that the Reform Party will only win 4 seats, that's 0.6% of total seats. :D
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Re: International Politics

Postby RB » Fri Jul 05, 2024 5:48 pm

dedja wrote:Never thought I’d ever be saying this about the Poms, but we can learn from them on the way they go about it, including counting through the night.

We still have an Electoral Commission that effectively works 9-5. :roll:


No thanks.

Totally different electoral systems and geography make for an inapt comparison.

But that aside, our system enables us to reduce errors, allow greater scrutiny particularly of declaration votes, enable postal votes to be returned (maximising turnout), have a far more rigorous and secure chain of custody over ballot papers, report the results in far greater detail, and generally ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

I'm not sure if you've been involved in counting votes before, but the AEC do an incredible job.
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Re: International Politics

Postby am Bays » Fri Jul 05, 2024 5:59 pm

RB wrote:
dedja wrote:Never thought I’d ever be saying this about the Poms, but we can learn from them on the way they go about it, including counting through the night.

We still have an Electoral Commission that effectively works 9-5. :roll:


No thanks.

Totally different electoral systems and geography make for an inapt comparison.

But that aside, our system enables us to reduce errors, allow greater scrutiny particularly of declaration votes, enable postal votes to be returned (maximising turnout), have a far more rigorous and secure chain of custody over ballot papers, report the results in far greater detail, and generally ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

I'm not sure if you've been involved in counting votes before, but the AEC do an incredible job.


Agreed much prefer our system than there's.

With a voter turnout of less than 55% and first past the post electoral people are getting elected to parliament with less than 20% of the constituency actually voting for them.

Interestingly, Labour has won with the same vote over there as Labor here (33%) in 2022.
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Re: International Politics

Postby dedja » Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:00 pm

Yep, we have preferential voting which massively complicates everything and takes longer to process, but my point was the process of counting votes throughout the night, not packing up at midnight on Sat, then starting again on Monday.

Everyone over there just kept going throughout the night until results were declared.

Polls closed at 10pm, and as of now, namely 8:30am, 644 constituencies out of 650 have been declared.

There are many opportunities for the AEC to improve, noting that I’m sure the people who are involved do the best they can with the hand they’re dealt with.
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