After the last election the government needed to form a coalition with libertarian and right-wing populist parties.
I don't think we should give the nutters the balance of power in both the upper and lower house. Just look at New Zealand.
Chinese rare earth minerals are super cheap. Nobody would buy them if we charge more unless China cuts off supply, and that's a military anxiety rather than anything the market sees opportunity in.
We'd need to mine the rare earth metals at a loss. Nobody's getting anything back from mining them.
We'd need to mine the rare earth metals at a loss. Nobody's getting rich off them.
Rare earth metals aren't profitable. If the world wants ours, they should become shareholders.
Source? Not that I really care. It barely matters.
No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying "everything is fine, better than you think even, you don't need to worry".
Though doom scrolling does help keep people's minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.
EDIT: Actually, there's probably a contingent of Guardian readers that do want to be outraged. They want to blame someone else for their uselessness.
They don't want to be outraged, they just feel anything that outrages them is important whereas anything that doesn't is not. So any news that's positive about Labor is unimportant to the audience and suppressed by the media, even if it's true.
Perhaps these kinds of degrees should require work experience (or a disability) as a prerequisite. If they're using taxpayer dollars to get a degree they don't need, they should prove they would have the social and adulting skills to be employable in the fields in question.
I think people on the hard left or hard racist are more likely to specifically feel angry when criticized because the specific association of "makes me uncomfortable = evil" is much more likely. In the left's case, they're in the child prodigy "I'm too smart to be emotional" camp. In the hard right's case it's because the possibility that their gut instinct should maybe be interrogated is unfathomable to them.
In other words I think both One Nation and the Greens are made up of people with low EQ.
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Compulsory voting means elections are actually won by winning over the center. UK and US centrist politicians like to believe their countries work that way, but in Austraila it actually does.
As for preferential voting ... the main reason Reform is on track for a majority is because of vote splitting between all the other parties. It's unlikely reform could win in a 1:1 contest against a half-way competent opposition. In the case of the US the Republicans rose to power because people hated both options and with preferential voting the normal people could've been persuaded to turn up.