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What this demonstrates is that you've accepted the card you've been pushed when it comes to Howard and gun laws.
He was dragged to action, kicking and screaming, literally terrified, because public pressure gave him no other choice.

...if you're tackling problems that aren't really problems, because of the zeitgeist common in educated circles, then you're not really helping advance anything.

The drop in female homicide victimisation in Australia - Walter Forrest, 2022 Despite widespread community concern about the incidence of lethal violence against women in Australia, the numbers and rates of women murdered each year have b...

I'd like a lot more facts, and a lot less emotion.
For example, yes, women are killed in Australia, just as they are in any other country.
But the rate of femicide has dropped steadily in the last 30 years, making us one of the safest countries in the world.

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Spelling mistake in link. Spelling mistake in passage cited.
(The link is the one that really needs fixing).

Huge red ticker tape on Al Jazeera news "Israel Murders Journalists".

Michaelia Cash is so outraged by the government's decision to recognise Palestine that she's sent me an email.
It's not even one asking for money.
So the Liberals are assuming that theirs is a popular position....
#auspol

...I thought I'd made it clear I was referring to previous responses to this article, not this particular conversation.
If not, my bad.

Well, I did e.g. I said the kitchen between the bedroom and the exit is an obvious trap.

I don't think taking at least some measures to try and prevent deaths by fire is unreasonable...we thus have fewer people die in fires in regular homes as result.

As I've said elsewhere, part of the problem is that banks won't finance houses which don't have at least two bedrooms.
They also like ensuites.
Some developers are experimenting with 'no parking space' and 'no laundry' options, which significantly reduce the price of a house.

That wasn't the focus of your previous comment.
If you're living with friends/family then going through a little red tape is a minor inconvenience.

The crossover between those living on the streets and those who would occupy these small homes is so insignificant that I don't think small homes are the answer for that cohort.
(Most homeless are not roofless).

Ironically, the ABS stats for homelessness includes people living in caravans.

And I would have thought that the risk of being burnt alive in a caravan/small home was one worth mitigating via a little bit of red tape.

A little bit of an over the top reaction to what I was saying, which was simply pointing out that the issues are more complex than 'crooked developers' or 'council red tape'.
Of course, if you don't want to understand an issue but simply want to emote about it, that's your choice.

Incorrect.

...I did (very reluctantly) live in an onsite caravan for a year while we built our house, so I do know the problems first hand.
Taking the portable loo to be emptied was scarcely pleasant!

Not mentioned here, but again, a major impediment - banks don't like giving loans for anything less than two bedrooms, because they want to be able to resell if the mortgage falls through.

Health: the ones described in the article are on wheels, so they're not designed to be plumbed in. So the toilets need to be pumped out (difficult if the house is permanently parked) or major plumbing needs to be happening.
You'd also want to know what's happening with wastewater.

No evidence of this from the article.
As a former councillor, I'd be more concerned about health and safety risks - e.g I've seen tiny homes/caravans which were death traps if a fire were to break out (often the kitchen is located between the bedroom and the exit).

Labor has already done more than the US (let alone Israel) would like.

Payman worries former colleagues see her as a “one-trick pony” who only talks about the Middle East conflict.
So what's her agenda?
To make it easier for people to unsubscribe from apps, get crossbenchers more staff, and speak at a pro-Palestine protest.
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#auspol

'If a significant portion of Labor votes were cast because they seemed more likely to win...'

I wasn't referring to this election. Labor was never portrayed as 'seeming more likely to win'.

There's been a lot of psephological analysis of these kinds of claims.
The system used does change voter behaviour.

Not what I said.

Basing this on years of standing outside polling booths and talking to people about who they voted for and why.

Again, assumptions.
Many, many Green voters (as an example) are protest votes - voters who want Labor to be the government but want to send a message.
Quite common to hear wte of "I'd vote for [this minor party] normally, but this election I don't want my vote to be wasted."

The assumption with this kind of analysis is that parties and voters would behave the same way with a different system.
They wouldn't.

All of which would be weak as dishwater responses.

I've had two responses to this. One showed empathy for a little boy, another didn't.

I remember once reading that Charles knew from an early age he couldn't ever be a fireman.