Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition
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This guy is a complete dick. He also falsified travel expenses (verifiable via save history) in a Word document so he could complain about an independent local Mayor.
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(Essentially, it's a politician who sockpuppeted his own social media posts to pat himself on the back, inevitably forgetting to change accounts and outting his efforts.)
I understand that New Zealand a country next to Australia, is a lot more welcoming and more hospitable to tourists.
The people in question in the article are not our current government but the coalition.
Perhaps its not time to shun Australia given that the people (under a mandatory requirement) voted against this type of thing.
I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to conserve
That said, New Zealand rules, everyone should visit.
It's not a new plan either, much of it's origins were purposed when Trump got a lot of butt hurt a few years ago in regard to social media, the opposition were in power and they were very much sycophantic in regard of Trump and intended to bring into law where its citizens having a social media account, details would be vetted for age and real identity.
The Liberal party is run by an incompetent economist who rorted NSW water rights in his family farm company, and who misunderstood social media enough to post boosters to his socials as himself "well done angus" is now meme-ified, while the Agrarian Socialists are run by a competent Economist (who worked for the productivity commission and actually understands how money works) who is as mad as a cut snake for Nuclear, and opposed to solar and wind because his pay cheque makes it necessary.
The Liberal leader wants to promote highly illiberal policy, the Agrarian socialist leader wants to let mining companies destroy the farming base.
The even more right wing "Pauline Hanson's one nation" party is the actual Trumpian party, noting a mining magnate runs "the Trumpet of Patriots" party which is in turn, definitionally Trumpet-oriented.
It's certainly been weird to see their silly childish push-back against renewables like solar power. As for wind power though, locally I've heard via some National Party faithful(s) that some wind project are being put in boneheaded areas bundled with very lax governmental permissions, enabling clearing tracks (dirt roads) up to the top of various mountain ridges that no other industry would ever get away with. Boneheaded as there's just as much or more wind on the coast where existing transmission lines already exist.
Popularism is a problem here in Australia as well - who would have thought decreasing / cutting funding (starting around the 1990s) from basic tertiary education and further adult skill education would come back to bite - in particular considering recent state voting, especially the liberals on the bum.