Qld LNP is not much better. Crestafulli has no name recognition and te spectre of newman will haunt them for a long time.
i am going to assume given you have an internet connection and some device to post here you are at least upper lower class, if not middle class.
this voter ID law will primarily affect lower class where the $73 charged by the Qld govt for a proof of age card (for example) could be the difference between having food or not, and that is assuming they have all the documents required. Not everyone has a birth even registered, let alone another $51 for a birth certificate.
in the 2016 federal election, 18,000 people were registered to vote twice. thats about 120 per seat on average, but when investigated the majority were found to be AEC error (names marked off twice)
NT News reports Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson sent a letter to more than 40 of Australia’s most influential politicians last night, in a desperate plea for help take back control of the spiralling rates of crime facing the town. The recipients included Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt, Education Minister Alan Tudge, the four NT Senators and NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner.
The idea is that POC and disadvantaged communities are less likely to have government-issued ID, which prevents them from voting even though they’re citizens or permanent residents.
In theory, voter ID laws are not racist or classist. But if you know your electorate has a sizeable chunk of people who are less likely to have ID and don’t vote for you, you can rig the results in your favour by purposefully excluding said voters.
Also, how do you think voter fraud is discovered already? Voter registers already get checked in some jurisdictions, making voter ID unnecessary.
Without opening a huge can of worms I agree combining the flags is the best way forward, although they will also need to incorporate something from the Torres Strait Island flag too.
The newest flags of the Northern Territory and the ACT, they both have the Southern Cross on the left and then a State emblem on the right. Maybe a new Australian flag could combine the Southern Cross And Aboriginal flag in the same way.
