Solar panels, my last electricity bill for a quarter was literally $0 :)

I never sleep without a blanket at home. If it’s too hot I will put the AC on just do I can have my blanket.

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Yes but I’m also Australian so that’s normal

I only tag people being dickheads, doesn’t happen often, I have like 3 people tagged

Some apps let you put a tag on someone’s name so anytime you see them, you also see the tag next to their name.

I could get a mortgage in like 3 years if I felt like it (I really really don’t, fuck interest).

They are pushing policies to fix it, as opposed to the liberal party who literally won’t fix anything because they only make shit worse.

One party is trying to spend billions on housing, one isn’t. One party is trying to get more cheaper electricity, one isn’t. One party is increasing pay for the poorest in society, one isn’t. One party wants to help the environment, one doesn’t consider the environment to be an issue. One party is happy for LGBT people to exist, one isn’t. One party is known for introducing major things that help Australians like Medicare, NDIS and super, one isn’t. One party has managed a surplus in my adult life, one hasn’t.

I’m not saying issues don’t exist, I’m saying the party that is in power most of the time isn’t fixing it, and the Labor party has a long history of being for workers and is actually trying to do something about it. its mostly competent and well meaning vs greedy and/or incompetent, and it’s real clear with all the corruption and shady shit the coalition does which party is which.

My primary cost increase was I spent too much money on a car and it’s not good on fuel and takes premium. That’s more than every other expense going up combined and it’s a very self inflicted problem.

Idk about you but most people have decades of mortgages, so a couple decades is normal.

I live rural so my prices on most things are different. No 700k average house price like in Adelaide. The electricity is the full house cost, we have solar but no battery because dropping all of my savings on a battery to save money on electricity that isn’t costing a whole lot for us seems pretty wasteful. Seems like a thing for people with bigger electricity bills.

Almost 30, have seen throughout my life the liberal party doing consistent damage, and every time the Labor party shows up they pull us out of the shit and do a great job.

Currently I am the most economically comfortable I’ve ever been, including all parts of childhood. I haven’t walked around a store doing math to figure out what I can actually afford in a couple years and I no longer have to think, well, if I run out of money I can live on oats for $30/w. Spent a lot of time pretty much exclusively eating oats. Not sure how well I’d go back to that given I spend that much in a day or 2 now on much nicer food.

Abbot started in 2013 and the debt doubled before COVID started. It’s almost doubled again now but it went down for a year which is something the liberal party can’t do, apparently.

They aren’t making it harder, my pay has gone up over $1/h because of my award and being casual, I have more money than ever and am pretty confident that I’ll be able to buy a house where I live without a big deal in a couple decades. My electricity hasn’t changed a whole lot, it’s still under 300 a quarter for the household and less during autumn/spring, the only thing that made it that high at all was getting AC installed.

Sorry but Labor is consistently a decent party.

You keep managing shit takes to bring me back. Liberal party didn’t start in 2019. The debt was drastically rising before that.

I’m born into such wealth that the majority of my life has been drastically below the poverty line, enjoy your delusions.

Liberal party saving money? Are you delusional? I was going to ignore you entirely but my god that’s stupid. The government debt more than doubled under the liberal party, because they spend the most on shit that helps their own pockets and nothing else.

The Labor party however turned back to back surpluses which the liberal government can’t even get 1 of, at least in the last lot of repeated liberal governments.

The liberal party removed the debt ceiling for fucks sake, what has gone wrong in your life where you think one of the worst economic managers possible is better than Labor? Don’t answer that, I don’t actually care.

I’m gonna keep enjoying having a party in power that wants better for people and actually has the ability to do it as opposed to the liberal party who doesn’t give two shits about anyone who isn’t a mining boss.

I’m gonna enjoy not having Medicare cut, not having education cut, not having fire management cut, not having NDIS cut and basically everything else the liberal party does.

I’m dismissing your arguments because you either have no idea about what the parties do, or you are actively being misleading. I don’t actually care which one, but it’s objective fact that one of the major parties tends to work to help people and actually run the country and the other one has the economic management skills of a dead, half rotten mouse while generally making life worse for almost everyone.

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Is the answer not both? Depending on what part of the stem?

Min wage went, billions in affordable housing investments, GP visits being bulk billed all seem pretty nice. Theres plenty more but I don’t remember them off the top of my head.

I can finally have a couple months off from stressing over our politics because we reelected the competent side.

I’m on a piracy instance and I dont pirate.

Well, anymore. Should really update my music library instead of streaming it.

Ngl right now id rather travel to China. If I dont do anything particularly dumb it looks good for them right now to have normal tourism working, particularly when the US is being this shit.

Conservatives don’t follow that one, and repeatedly vote for people who cannot manage an economy at all.

If I tell you one of my core principles is that all life is sacred, and then I go out hunting, start a couple wars and in general kill a ton of people and animals, me telling you about my core principles is just lying.

Conservatives reliably cannot manage an economy, in fact the US has voted someone in who can’t even run a fucking casino. Conservatives are not the side of good economics, no matter how often they lie saying they are.

Idk what you’re smoking to think conservatives are against financial risk, given conservative governments reliably fuck up the economy.