This has been the case of a while in Victoria already. Makes sense to me, and hardly much of an imposition since you have to renew your driver's licence from any country eventually anyway.
And yeah, if you're just visiting or on a temporary visa, no probs
Aluminium used for drink cans is dubious because, once again, plastic (liners to prevent the drink from corroding the cans)
The Juice Media are forever questionable to me for recommending the teals as a blanket "not shit candidates", despite some of them, not unsurprisingly, being against workers rights.
How people can vote for these idiots beggars belief
Next thing you're gonna be telling us is to bring back public servant building surveyors as the only building surveyors, to stop the conflict of interest that the builder paying the inspector directly causes.
Bloody madness, clearly the private market is more efficient /s
Our housing regs are a joke since they're not even well supervised
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they're not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
Even under our current capitalist model, I think there are practically no benefits for privatisation of necessities. (Management of each being equal, that is. People pointing to "government inefficiency" are naive to think there aren't just as many private orgs who run very inefficiently.)
What's the point of having energy transmission private? I can't well plug in a different network. I'm stuck with one, and then have to do a stupid dance with the retailers who "compete".
What's the point of having the airport be privately owned? It's not like we have much of a choice of which airport to fly out of.
What's the point of paying private schools with government money? That's just money that could have been spent on public schools.
All of which we have to pay cost + profit. Instead of just cost.
The list goes on.
Privatisation is stupid.
While a large part of the population is mislead about capitalism or benefitting from the system themselves, I think you'll find your sentiments are shared by many. Especially here on Lemmy.
This system sucks.
But yeah, our media is so fully captured by corporate interests that any proposal tooooo socialist is promptly demonised.
Oh those profits from our minerals? Nahhhh the foreign companies deserve that. Can't have a mining tax.
Breaking up monopolies? Nahhhh that's practically communism (despite competition being part of capitalism's rhetoric)
Big sad :(
At least Trump will likely secure us another term without an LNP majority government hehe
Aldi is a nice way to save, but, their fresh food selection is pretty meh, and often not great quality (as in, going mouldy fast, I don't care about how they look).
I usually pair going to Aldi and an Asian supermarket
This is shockingly low. I would have thought more like 60%
40??
My lordy we're so screwed haha
Edit: turns out you've accidentally swapped the numbers
The lower house single-member electorate voting system does still favour larger parties, it's just way, way, better than FPTP.
https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politics-policy/chapter/electoral-systems/
Relevant part starts at "Majoritarian (or ‘winner takes all’) systems" about a third of the way down.