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Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 21 Sep 2023

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Please be forewarned that the cooker rally is occurring this Saturday (as usual) but on the theme of "NO TO THE VOICE" (not usual).
It is possible that the rally will be bigger than the tiny handful of folks it had dwindled to, particularly because this weekend will be seen as a response to the Walk for Yes. It will interrupt various tram lines in the city from late morning through to late afternoon. Plan accordingly.
- I really hope that they won't be around during PAX, though I imagine they will because I think the next weekend is the vote.
  
  Sometimes I wish these sovereign citizens would go form their own country. On an island.
  
  Same. It's just tiring. Especially since they're screaming about ... lockdowns? Even though we haven't had one in like what? Two years! Give it a break.
  
  Yeah. They’ve milked that and are now looking for other things :( I’m really hoping they don’t get sucked in to the nazi and/or anti trans protests
  
  They might be near PAX if there happens to be early voting taking place at the MCEC. But it would be illegal for them to interfere with the voting process... so in theory any shenanigans would be shut down quickly.
  
  Oh yeah there might be early voting. I can't seem to find if there is going to be voting at the MCEC, but we might find out soonish. I may as well kill two birds with one stone if there is an early voting area.
  
  AEC website says early voting doesn't start until October - 2nd at the earliest. So won't be happening this weekend. Expect the anti-Yes vote to ramp up as soon as the GF is over.
  
  Yeah that's what I'm expecting. I just, ugh. I know that like obviously I have a bias, and if it isn't obvious by now well... But like can these cookers just fuck off? It's so tiring. No one is listening.
  The fact that their parties and leaders of all those looney parties got fuck all votes really shows.
- I'm still confused as to how the referendum got turned into a party politics issue. Over here, it had bi-partisan support until the LNP bosses told the local LNP people (there are about 5 of them) they had to be "No" supporters.
  Meanwhile, Julie Bishop (Who is probably still WA's most popular LNP figure) is able to be visibly supporting the "yes" campaign, because she is not bound by LNP rules any more. It boggles the brain.
  Edit: I should mention that The Local Nationals have Mia Davis. She was leader of the Opposition here (yes, there are more Nationals Members than Liberals. The Nationals are currently the senior coalition partner) when they were told to back "No". Then this and she has since resigned as leader of the opposotion and won't contest her seat in 2025. I like her.

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