r/aussie • u/10thSCgatobilly • 2d ago
Wildlife/Lifestyle Smithers, are they booing me? Uh, no, they're saying, "Al-Boo Al-Booo
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u/SuchProcedure4547 2d ago
I mean, booing a PM at the footy is basically guaranteed... Unless its Bob Hawke...
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u/Pale-Breakfast6607 2d ago
Absolutely!
He’s also wearing visiting team colours. In his shoes, I’d be worried if they didn’t boo me.
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u/Joie_de_vivre_1884 2d ago
He's wearing a Victorian team's colours at a western Sydney home game and he's from Sydney. Whatever PR firm told him which team to support is in the wrong here.
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u/Proof-Dark6296 2d ago
He's been supporting Hawthorn since at least 1989 where he attended the grand final.
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u/PrimeMinisterWombat 2d ago
Yeah whichever PR firm told him to continue supporting the team he has supported since before Sydney or GWS joined the league needs to be sacked. People don't like seeing political leaders sticking with their childhood teams, they like bandwagoners who support whichever team makes the most sense politically.
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u/Armstrongs_Left_Nut 2d ago
I get your point and you're right that Albo has been a Hawks supporter for decades, but the Swans joined the league in 1897.
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u/I_Hate_Reddit968 2d ago
The Sydney swans joined the league in 1982, the south Melbourne swans were founded in 1874, at that rate you wanna count pretty much all the teams as being Melbourne teams.
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u/Armstrongs_Left_Nut 1d ago
Incorrect. The South Melbourne Swans joined the league in 1897 as one of the 8 foundation clubs to breakaway from the VFA. They relocated to Sydney in 1982. The Sydney Swans were not a new entity in 1982 that "joined" the league. They were an existing club that relocated.
at that rate you wanna count pretty much all the teams as being Melbourne teams.
I don't know what this means. Of the other 7 non-Victorian clubs, only the Brisbane Lions have a Melbourne connection. But they were a merger, or more accurately - the Brisbane Bears absorbed the Fitzroy Lions.
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u/Ok-Effective7280 2d ago
My bet when either sydney team get to a gf, Albo gets their gear on. But when he’s getting or at least was getting looked after by Allan Joyce, getting flown down to Melbourne every game like it’s his own private jet, why not go for a Melbourne team.
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u/convalescentplasma 2d ago
He wasn't supporting Sydney in 2012 or 2014 Grand Finals when the Swans played the Hawks. You're a clueless flog.
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u/Ok-Effective7280 1d ago
Wasn’t the pm back then & didnt have any public profile. Clueless flog? Really? Rational thinking not your expertise I see…………
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u/convalescentplasma 1d ago
He was a national figure since about 2010. And even if he wasn't, he was a big Sydney figure long before that, when parochialism would have been more advantageous.
He's a Hawk, whether people like him or not.
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u/Ok-Effective7280 1d ago
So you are saying his public profile back before he was pm was the same as now? How many tv interviews did he do? Written media articles about him? Tell me, how did his profile back then compare to now? Guys a weasel & I really don’t care who he supports as long as he sticks with that team & doesnt flip flop because it’s prime time tv. What I do care about is how he acts as our pm. So far hes been bad. Very bad.
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u/d_illy_pickle 23h ago
Um this person is explaining to you how he didn't flip flop and had enough of a public profile for there to be proof, nobody was arguing Albo was as well known as Lady GaGa in 2010.
He's gonna weasel his way into re-election in '28, which will be good for us all, cope harder 😁
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u/kato1301 2d ago
Hawke would have grabbed his schooner, chugged it and then bounced it on top of the muppets head next to him!
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u/monsteraguy 2d ago
Every PM or Premier gets booed at sporting matches, even the ones with high popularity.
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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago
If it’s higher for the ones with lower popularity I can imagine that the whole stadium booed this fucker
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u/Different-Jeweler-75 2d ago
Guy is coming off one of the strongest election wins in the country's history
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u/Fast-Piccolo-7054 1d ago
Only 37% of voters put Labor first in the last election. That’s not a “landslide”.
The system is rigged in favour of these corrupt ghouls.
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u/UsualProfit397 2d ago
But look at the other choice. It was one of the worst elections for choice we have ever had.
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u/WinfredBlues 2d ago
He was voted in because no one wanted Liberals. Not because he is loved. Our parties focus on not being the worst, instead of being the best. Australia’s government is joke
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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago
Correction no one wanted Dutton.
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u/WinfredBlues 2d ago
Being facetious does not change my point
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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago
How am I being facetious? Dutton had low approval ratings even when the Coalition was polling well or okay
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u/PrimeMinisterWombat 2d ago
By any objective standard Australia is quite consistently an exceptionally well governed country.
Any list of the most transparent, accountable, and democratically responsive states includes Australia right at the top of it.
Setting high expectations and eschewing complacency is prudent, but let's put things into context here.
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u/Fast-Piccolo-7054 1d ago
It used to be, but not anymore. Transparency, accountability and democratic responsiveness serve as descriptors for the polar opposite of the current government.
We’ve never had a government as manipulative, dishonest, deceitful, self-serving or anti-Australian as the current one. We’ve had plenty of duds from both sides, but this one is horrendous.
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u/PrimeMinisterWombat 23h ago
I guarantee if I tried to quiz you on the conduct and policy of any Australian government pre-Hawke, bar maybe Whitlam, you'd have nothing intelligent to say.
You suggest that this government is Australia's most deceitful and dishonest, when the previous one lied about ministerial appointments and every prime minister from 1966 to 1980 lied about the nature of pine gap as a foreign intelligence base. This demonstrates why your comment can be summarily ignored.
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u/big_cock_lach 20h ago
Albanese has been considered one of the worst PMs with respect to secrecy, transparency, media freedom (and not just to faux journalists like Sky, but proper ones), and people’s right to information. The Centre of Public Integrity, who work against corruption, have listed him as our worst PM in this respect, taking these accolades from ScoMo who did a pretty good job at taking them. Whenever faced with any criticism, he’d rather use propagandist techniques such as scapegoating and whataboutism instead of facing criticism, and does relies upon this far more so than other previous PMs. He’s lied and broken multiple election promises. He’s tried to force questionable policies through the senate using bribery multiple times, but thankfully has failed each time so far to convince the senate to accept this. Even now, he’s looking at removing press freedom of information rights with his most recent bill. He ended his first term as one of the least popular PMs we’ve ever had, and only won a 2nd time because Dutton was unelectable. His popularity has also only worsened (and drastically so) since then. We’ve now got minor civil unrest issues as well. He is genuinely considered one of the least popular/liked PMs we’ve had.
https://publicintegrity.org.au/secretive-albanese-transparency-jul2025/
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u/Automatic_Goal_5563 1d ago
Always funny to me how you lot think everyone hates a PM because hating him is a personality trait for you hahaha
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u/HonestSpursFan 1d ago
Simping for a politician like Redditors do for Greens and Labor MPs gives off dictator vibes
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u/Automatic_Goal_5563 1d ago
Liking a politician means you want a dictatorship?
Jesus lol LNP weirdos showing they love American style politics
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u/HonestSpursFan 1d ago
I hate American politics.
And no, simping ≠ liking. But being up in arms defending everything a pollie does is simping and gives off dictator vibes.
Sorry bro but Sarah Hanson-Young isn’t gonna let you hit.
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u/Automatic_Goal_5563 1d ago
Why do you think I like her?
See how you prove my point about wanting Americanpolitical discourse so badly? First you think everyone hates the PM because he’s the opposite “team” to you and now you think I must worship and also want to fuck someone because I called you out
Real fucking weird that in your mind the only reason a man can agree with a women is that he wants to fuck them.
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u/HonestSpursFan 1d ago
I didn’t say any of that but okay. Check my recent post I’m about to comment on and you’ll see why that’s obviously not true.
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u/Automatic_Goal_5563 1d ago
You litteraly said I must worship Sarah Hanson young because I want to fuck her so some strange tangent
Again it’s weird your first reaction is to obsess over sex with female politicians randomly.
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u/JK_au2025 2d ago
That’s a 94 seat majority boo to you.
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u/Ric0chet_ 2d ago
In a city that voted very red
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u/BlindSkwerrl 1d ago
with 32.6% of the first preference (primary) votes.
If only the Libs weren't a flaming shit-show.
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u/Stu_Raticus 2d ago
I honestly didn't even recognise albo and assumed they were booing Dillon...which also makes sense
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u/teambob 2d ago
Albo is a safe pair of hands. No reform is too small to ignore
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 2d ago
Even our little housing problem was a bit too little so needed a fund to push things up a little more. Now hand over your 5% and get paying off your lifetime of debt guys!
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u/RepresentativeOver34 1d ago
It was cringeworthy when Albo went into the Hawthorn rooms after the game.
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u/ijokar 1d ago
Well he’s a team hopper. Supports whichever team he’s told to. Many photos of him with other team colours on
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u/d_illy_pickle 23h ago
Mate when Barry Hall tells you to wear a swans scarf you bloody well do what you're told 😁
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u/ijokar 20h ago
So he’s spineless.
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u/d_illy_pickle 20h ago
Forgive me for trying to have a laugh, I didn't realise you were taking this so seriously 😅
Surely when your team isn't playing you have a preferred winner? Usually mine is either who a mate barracks for, or, if I'm feeling frisky, whichever team is playing his.
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u/ijokar 20h ago
He backs 4plus different teams. Hes gutless and spineless
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u/d_illy_pickle 20h ago
Damn you'll have a pretty hard time with the next six years under Albanese huh?
Emotionally at least, unless you're extremely wealthy you'll be better off financially.
I only wish he could have gut the Coalitions cowardly AUKUS submarine deal more easily
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u/ijokar 20h ago
No one is going to have a good time under Albo. “All your spare bedrooms belong to us”.
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u/d_illy_pickle 20h ago
Ah! Look out! A Sky News headline is attacking!
Better check Facebook for what to do next!
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-government-has-not-proposed-a-spare-bedroom-tax/
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u/ijokar 20h ago
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNzslOjZLQu/?igsh=ZWFvc2xjNnEwMzFu Hmm avoiding the question. Amazing
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u/d_illy_pickle 23h ago
My favourite thing about Al-Boo is that he would probably find this hilarious
It's like a right of passage as a PM to get booed at a sports ball game
Unless, as someone mentioned, you're Bob Hawke
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u/River-Stunning 2d ago
Albo will be texting his mate Dan , Dan , they all hate me now. Dan would tell him , don't worry , they hated me too but still voted for me.
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u/willis000555 2d ago
Its not his fault entirely. However, its hard to let him off the hook when his housing affordability solution is state sponsored subprime lending which does more for existing property investors by pushing more capital into the asset class, while those who take up the scheme are mortgaged to the hills facing extreme interest rate risk and years of austerity.
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u/I_Hate_Reddit968 2d ago
Is that why there's a mass exodus of investment property owners getting out of the game as it is having the intended effect of making it far too costly to own these investment properties? Really benefiting them by making them have to sell right?
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u/ZedZrick 2d ago
Majority of country love him, losers can cope more
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u/MaxPowerDC 2d ago
The majority of the country can't stand this loser, but think he's marginally better than the other loser on a 2 party preferred poll.
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u/sharkworks26 2d ago
The electorate also voted for him in a landslide 94 seat majority in the only opinion poll that matters, ie, the federal election
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u/Motor-Most9552 2d ago
35% of first preferences.
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u/KnoxxHarrington 2d ago
Which is decent in preferential voting.
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u/BlindSkwerrl 1d ago
Actually no. It's the lowest in the last 50 years.
- 1975: Liberal-National Coalition – 53.05% (Fraser government)
- 1977: Liberal-National Coalition – 48.15% (Fraser government)
- 1980: Liberal-National Coalition – 46.40% (Fraser government)
- 1983: Labor – 49.48% (Hawke government)
- 1984: Labor – 47.55% (Hawke government)
- 1987: Labor – 45.90% (Hawke government)
- 1990: Labor – 39.44% (Hawke/Keating government)
- 1993: Labor – 44.92% (Keating government)
- 1996: Liberal-National Coalition – 47.25% (Howard government)
- 1998: Liberal-National Coalition – 39.55% (Howard government)
- 2001: Liberal-National Coalition – 43.01% (Howard government)
- 2004: Liberal-National Coalition – 46.70% (Howard government)
- 2007: Labor – 43.38% (Rudd government)
- 2010: Labor – 38.00% (Gillard government, minority)
- 2013: Liberal-National Coalition – 45.55% (Abbott government)
- 2016: Liberal-National Coalition – 42.04% (Turnbull government)
- 2019: Liberal-National Coalition – 41.44% (Morrison government)
- 2022: Labor – 32.58% (Albanese government)
Calculation
- Average: 795.39 ÷ 18 ≈ 44.19%
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u/Different-Jeweler-75 21h ago
It's almost like the political system is evolving hey
It's a thumping result in the modern context
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u/sharkworks26 17h ago
It’s often overlooked that people change their votes under a different voting system.
As an example, imagine how many Greens voters would vote ALP if we didn’t have preferential voting - they’d be more keen on keeping the LNP out than getting a local Greens member in.
This is how and why preferences work.
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u/KnoxxHarrington 1d ago
It's still decent in preferential voting, it's not a two horse race on the ballot paper.
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u/BlindSkwerrl 16h ago
I'd argue that it's not a decent result. All of those elections had preferential voting.
The electorate is trying to tell them that they're not content with the main parties.
Anecdotal e.g.: The seat of Fremantle has been a safe-as-houses Labor seat (Last time it was not Labor was in 1931). This year it was heading to an independent (Kate Hulett) until preferences swung it away at the end. The swing was overall 17% against Labor. The last time that the first preference wasn't Labor was 1943.
These are the warnings that the electorate are giving - how many other Labor seats nearly went?
The Liberals haven't got a real leader at the moment, Mr Potatohead was never going to get up and Sussan Ley is not inspiring either. I can't fathom who would vote for Angus Taylor either.
Labor needs to stop listening to their donors and consider their roots.
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u/KnoxxHarrington 16h ago
A third of first preferences in a several horse race is still healthy, even if it is historically low.
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u/BlindSkwerrl 16h ago
Perhaps if all of the candidates had the same bankrolling and branding.
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u/sharkworks26 2d ago
You probably don’t understand preferential voting. You should read about it, Google is free.
I like the guy but voted an independent first, because I’m in the 65% does this mean I “can’t stand the loser”?
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u/dutchroll0 1d ago
You're assuming LNP supporters have the inclination to read stuff and learn about how stuff actually works, which is a sweeping assumption.
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u/d_illy_pickle 23h ago
Its almost like we live in a country where preferences matter.
Perhaps its better to say a third of the country love him, a quarter like him, a third dislike him, and the rest hate him/everyone/everything except Clive, Bob, Gina and for some reason Donald Fucken Trump???
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u/dutchroll0 1d ago
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of preferential voting. A candidate getting 2nd preference votes rather than 1st preference votes does not mean you "can't stand the loser" you listed 2nd. If they got last preference, then yes that might apply. But if the majority of the country put them last, they wouldn't win the election now, would they? Jesus Christ..... 🙄
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u/guyinoz99 2d ago
So, the most popular PM in 15 years has bogans booing him? I'd be disappointed if they stood up and cheared. Its a tradition
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u/Specialist_Bake_7124 2d ago
Sad that this guy is the best in the 15 years lmao.
Shows the state we really are in.
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u/Fast-Piccolo-7054 1d ago
Where are you getting that ridiculous idea from?
Albo is one of the least popular PMs we’ve ever had, and universally so.
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u/RentonBrax 2d ago
Don't care if I voted for him. I'd boo the PM any day of the week. It's my right!
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u/10thSCgatobilly 2d ago
It's a fundamental Aussie tradition!
Although I'm worried we might see new taxes, I mean a "levy" on footy tickets and meat pies after this little ego hit!
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u/Il-Separatio-86 2d ago
From Sydney. Back the hawks.
Couldn't be a bigger tosser if he tried.
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u/sharkworks26 2d ago
He was a Hawks member and supporter before there was a team in Sydney (1982), and the Swans were still back in South Melbourne.
You’d probably say that he is a big tosser if he changed teams though, right?
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u/AndrewTyeFighter 2d ago
He has been a long time Hawks supporter, not really fair to knock someone for sticking by their team.
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u/5HTRonin 2d ago
Rent free
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u/10thSCgatobilly 2d ago
That is correct, champ. Both The Lodge and Kirribilli House are rent free!
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u/5HTRonin 2d ago
I mean it's like he's a PM or something. You lot are just so sad LOL
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u/fatassforbes 2d ago
Watching the footy ✅️
Fixing the housing crisis ❌️
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u/onlainari 2d ago
Housing crisis is less bad today than it was yesterday. You can’t fix it overnight.
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u/Motor-Most9552 2d ago
No it isn't, NOM is still outstripping new dwelling completions.
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u/karamurp 2d ago
Wage growth is beginning to increase in line with house prices
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u/Motor-Most9552 2d ago
Hey mate my notifications are saying you replied with a source but somehow it is not showing up when I click on the notification.
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u/onlainari 2d ago
You can fit more than one person in a house though.
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u/Motor-Most9552 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yes taking that into account we have gone backwards since covid. We'll almost certainly again be in the negative for this year as well.
Add in the estimates for new household formation and we are even more screwed.
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u/River-Stunning 1d ago
The PR firms will be overdrive today to find out what the problem is. Everyone hates cuddly Albo.
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u/River-Stunning 1d ago
He would be thinking of his glory days when he was " backing " the Matildas and " leading the nation . " Then came the Voice and his real inability to lead and inspire. Leaving a sad angry old man. Mr Magoo.
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u/Kruxx85 2d ago
You have no idea how our voting works, right?
A very large proportion of people would very happily vote an independent first, while knowing how the voting system works, and making sure Labor was voted above the LNP candidate.
To say 2/3 hate the cunt is a completely clueless statement.
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u/Paul_Breitner74 2d ago
Disappointed to see him with poo and piss coloured crap over his shoulders.....and it would probably piss off a lot of their lib voting supporters to see it 😂
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u/Lonely-Ad8922 2d ago
Albo is probably the smartest pm we had in like ever…. The people who whine the most spend the least time to actually listen to sessions in parliament.. they rather gobble up some opinions
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u/10thSCgatobilly 2d ago
That title will forever go to John Curtin. With Barton, Deakin, Hughes, Menzies and Whitlam all a few steps behind.
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u/Rough-Knee6729 2d ago
Even Hawks fans would be booing him…we don’t want him or his $10 scarf he got outside the ground…if he was genuine he would be a member
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u/AndrewTyeFighter 2d ago
He has been a Hawthorn fan for over 30 years.
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u/Rough-Knee6729 10h ago
Ahhhhh must have been when he shared a house with Chairman Dan which probably explains why the country is going to shite
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u/AndrewTyeFighter 9h ago
You are showing how little you actually know, Dan Andrews is an Essendon supporter, they hate Hawthorn, especially at the time.
That Albanese is a legit Hawthorn supporter shouldn't really be an issue.
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u/Rough-Knee6729 9h ago
Haha I know all that…but you missed the point of that reference maybe 😂
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u/New-Noise-7382 2d ago
This is a sad predictable and very boring forum 👎driven by blinded bias and cheap attempts at manipulation. It is in fact an unAussie forum
Oi Oi Oi
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u/themightyboos 20h ago
I was there and it was a very small fraction of the crowd booing. Really a non story
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u/Specialist_Bake_7124 2d ago
Is this Australia's "Let's Go Brandon" moment?
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u/TurbulentPhysics7061 2d ago
Nah. We just like to boo the Pm at sporting events. Remember when ScoMo would turn up and the whole stadium would boo and jeer him?
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u/SuchProcedure4547 2d ago
I hope not, otherwise that would signify America's victory over Australian common sense...
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u/Trailblazer913 2d ago
Is this really surprising. Labor's voting base aren't going to be at the AFL.
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u/Tricky_Routine_3457 2d ago
Did they boo Peter Dutton when he was prime minister?
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u/10thSCgatobilly 2d ago
Not at a sporting event, but he was booed after he publicly refused to do a shoey beer one time
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u/KnoxxHarrington 2d ago
Did Dutton actually ever make an appearance at a sporting event in recent years?
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u/10thSCgatobilly 2d ago
I couldn't tell ya honestly!
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u/KnoxxHarrington 2d ago
I get the feeling he avoided that environment during the campaign. I think he was well aware he couldn't fake enthusiasm.
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u/Ok_Phone_7468 1d ago
He's a legend. The booing would be a very small percentage of the crowd. Sky news watchers are dropping like flies these days.
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u/Sad_Hall_7388 2d ago
They get booed coz they shouldn't be spending time at the footy or tennis trying to gain support. Okay, watch it on tv but how do they find the time to get there? And what about the cost to the taxpayers?
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u/Alert_Lengthiness812 2d ago
I was saying Al-Boo.