Alpha1Nine  

#TheGreens agenda #auspol #ausvotes

Make #housing #affordable for #renters, first home buyers and stressed mortgage holders.

#Dental and #mental #health into #Medicare for everyone.

Real action on the #climatecrisis, with no more coal and gas.

Bring down the cost of living and make #supermarket #pricegouging illegal.

End #nativeforest #logging and protect our #environment.

Make #TAFE and #university #free, and wipe all #studentdebt.

Introduce 50-cent #publictransport fares nationwide.

Provide free #publicschools and #childcare

Deliver truth, #treaty, and justice for #FirstNations people.

Make big corporations and fossil fuel giants pay their fair share.

May 1 at 9:55pmWeb
Show threadjedMay 1

@Alpha1Nine I'd rather see a focus on making PT better than a focus on the price. Mostly people complain about poor access/reliability, price is definitely a less.important concern. And there's a direct correlation between good PT infra and $$$ housing, so making it free/cheap advantages people living in established areas or that can at least afford.to move to where the PT is.

#PublicTransport

Show threadStephen CollinsMay 1

@jedsetter @Alpha1Nine sure, but a federal party has no direct influence on public transport quality; it's mostly a local government issue, with a little bit of state thrown in for good measure, and heavily influenced by whether the local government contracts a provider or pays for its own PT provision.

I'm even dubious about how a federal government, or influencing party, would drive change to fares at a local level? Do they shovel earmarked money at local councils? Reading the policy, it's about influencing.

I'm a Greens member, and heavily involved (even running a booth tomorrow), and I think this policy is more noise than anything else.

All that said, PT should be free at point of use. It's a huge socioeconomic lift when it is and opens up access to work in places people who have to live in exurbs might not otherwise be able to get to (see also housing, 15 minute cities, and the fact that people shouldn't have to commute vast time/distance to get to work).

Show threadjedMay 1
@trib @Alpha1Nine 100% it's out of scope really for federal politics. but what a party chooses to say or have as policies tells us who they are and what they stand for. I'd prefer the greens stand for better PT than cheaper PT. and yes it could be a por que no Los dos but I keep seeing reference to this free fare thing and not much around service or infra.
Show threadStephen CollinsMay 2
@jedsetter @Alpha1Nine definitely both. And you’re right about a party drawing lines in the sand about what they stand for. At least with the Greens we know they mean it.
Show threadRaymondPierreL3May 1

@Alpha1Nine
If truth be told, it can all be done where it not for our govt lack of electoral will, fear of lacklustre economic performance and the backlash from the big end of town.

#AusPol #AusElection25