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1. Yes I am very aware of the upcoming state election. I am extremely anxious about the outcome as I believe continuation of the current state government will be disastrous for our state.

2. As a Registered Nurse, the state of the healthcare system. Under funded and under resourced. The wage cap on healthcare workers, and the abysmal annual pay increase that is less than half the current rate of inflation.

As a vocational educator, the state of our public and vocational education. Under funded and under resourced. The abysmal salary of our educators, and the over-reliance on casual teaching staff with no views to convert to permanent employment.

Our roads and infrastructure. Our local Labor candidate has recently fought for and won state and council funding for a bypass project that was aimed at servicing two major housing development projects where six thousand new residents have moved in, to connect these developments directly to the freeway and ease traffic congestion through the town centre. The plan was originally scrapped by the local “independent” (ex-liberal and convicted sex offender) state member and state Liberal government.

Child care affordability (I don’t have kids yet but the cost of raising kids and affording child care so I can work is a major factor in why I remain childless).

Mental health care accessibility and affordability. This impacts myself personally as well as many young people like me and the services are inaccessible with blown out wait lists and excessively expensive making it impractical for the majority of Australians.

The GP Medicare rebates. What the hell happened to our world-class health care system where every Australian could access a bulk-billed GP within a reasonable time frame? Over 2 weeks wait for a GP appointment that will cost you minimum $60 out of pocket? That’s BEFORE the cost of any additional procedures, testing, or treatments. I’m also pissed off the ADHD medication is not subsidised on the PBS for those of us diagnosed in adulthood. Absolutely atrocious and frankly discriminatory.

I’m on my soap box now so I’ll stop there. But the current state Liberal government have fucked the average Australian from every conceivable angle and I, for one, and absolutely fucking sick of it.

Please for the love of God research your local state candidates and make an informed choice. Independent does not always equal “left-leaning”, there are so many Liberal-in-disguise independents running. Check out theyvoteforyou.org.au to see how your local candidates have voted historically.

If you’re unhappy with your local Labor candidate, find out who your local Greens and Independent candidates are preferencing so that at least if your vote won’t go to Labor directly, it won’t go to the Liberals indirectly. Make an informed voting choice. Vote for the person that represents what matters to YOU.

Feel free to DM me with any further questions.

1. Yes

2. As someone else said, I’d like the state election to focus on state issues. Health/hospitals, education, roads, rural/regional equity and access to services, land use planning etc. Any candidate who stands up and says “I want to do fix the aged care system or the NDIS” can get fucked, as far as I’m concerned. You’ve just demonstrated that you don’t even understand the services provided by level of government you’re aspiring to be elected to. Go away.

Google doc? SurveyMonkey? Or just on Reddit??

1. Yes, I'm aware.

2. State issues like: education, healthcare, roads and infrastructure, long term plans for a better NSW, preferential spending on sustainable projects (not just greenwashing the fossils of industry), etc.

Let's keep the bastards honest!

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1.yes

2. bulk billing is all but disappeared and health care across the board is getting too expensive. Workers in at least health and education are loosing out against the cost of living (along with almost everyone). Whole sectors will suffer if money isnt pumped into it asap. We are loosing workers, teachers, nurses and doctors, specialists and getting less new people because why would you come into that mess. quality requires an incentive to study for that field, sector to begin with.

If you want our water system sold off to a foreign country then vote liberal.

1. Yes

2. Getting rid of the corrupt Liberal government

1. No didnt realise the date was upcoming, havent really seen promotions.

2. Heard the premier hasn’t even been to newcastle in the 500 days since taking the seat. This guy cant even visit the 2nd largest city and powerhouse of the economy of the state. This helped convince me more his time is up

1. Yes

2. Gambling reform, not just lip service .

Bulk billing

Tolls

1. Nope, didn’t realise.

2. Inflation, wage stagnation, housing crisis.

1. Nope. First I’ve heard of it.

2. Housing crisis, wage stagnation & inflation issues, and healthcare (Medicare not covering enough, keeping away from privatisation models)

1/ I knew one was coming up, wasn’t sure when.

2/ I believe in a three party government, looking for a solid third party to put my vote behind.

Yes,

Housing cost/stability/rent gouging, healthcare (Hospitals and bulk billing), cost of living, privatisation, corruption.

Also: Here is a photo of two liberal members publicly voting IN FAVOUR of privatising Sydney water at a public forum event.

https://i.imgur.com/RRwdQrZ.png

1. Yes aware

2. Education for public schools, poker machine reforms, environmental protection

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1. Yes

2. Infrastructure and transport predominantly.

1. Yes

2. Poverty. The number of NSWelshpersons living in it is into the hundreds of thousands if not yet topping one million, and it's been years since I heard anyone in politics or even in policy mention the word

1. Yes

2. Cost of living. Most people are getting second jobs and being forced out of the rental market. Rentals do come under NSW govt control. So does ludicrous stamp duty

1.yes

2. Which government is going to use AI to give the arguments for and against policy changes & spending removing the distrust layer between public & politicians. Public feedback via blockchain voting in a DAO would better serve the people on certain sector spending. I see numerous applications for new technology in politics that would benefit the people.

1. Yes

2. Flood mitigation, cost of tolls, healthcare, dwindling education standards, problem gambling

Haha sure you are.

1. Yes

2. No more high speed train from Newcastle to Sydney.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/03/nsw-government-slams-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-plans-after-spending-100m-on-studies

Yes.

If the candidate or sends his children to private school. (then he is out of touch with the working stiffs and is too rich to care.)

Yes. Very aware of NSW election. I am influenced by the problems in the Liberal Party so will Not be voting for them.

> The GP Medicare rebates.

This is one of my big worries. I am quite disappointed labor is not signaling a rise in the rebate. My local GP has stopped bulk billing because of it.

I know its a federal issue, but albanese should be jumping on it.

Yours is an excellent soap box. I second all of the important points you made, especially about our health care system.

Whilst the federal government 'holds the purse strings' and writes the policy on Medicare, it was pleasing to see premiers from both major parties calling for change.

Meanwhile, I very much agree that state governments need to look after and pay health workers and professionals better. You folks are still carrying us through the pandemic.

A smorgasbord of excellent points!

Yes, please more pay for teachers and education staff.

And let's not keep NSW known globally for our widespread deforestation (comparable to that in the Amazon).

> Getting rid of the corrupt Liberal government

Interesting. NSW Labor claim to have rid themselves of the massive corruption which had infected them in the Thistlewaite/Dastyari/Keneally eras, but it remains to seen, IMO. What do you think?

The Rum Corp is still in power in Liberals

He probably won't show now that he's killed the fast train project from Newcastle to Sydney.

NSW Labor claim to have rid themselves of the massive corruption which had infected them in the Thistlewaite/Dastyari/Keneally eras, but it remains to be seen, IMO

High speed trains from these regional cities only benefits the working class who are forced to live so far away from the central business district to actually be able to afford a house to live in. Why would a Liberal government do anything that won’t directly benefit their mates in the eastern suburbs and north Sydney? They don’t need a high speed rail network. They already have sufficient public transport to/from their workplaces. 0% surprise, 100% disappointment. More Liberal lies.

Get rid of the current cancer and see what grows in it's place.

Continuing to let a cancer grow just because another might replace it is an absurd proposition.

We will continue to get corrupt politians in NSW. The best thing to do is vote them out. Proposing not doing that is an absurdity.

I suspect you are an LNP Shill. This appears to be the sum total of their agenda ATM.

And the inclusion of keneally in there is pure dog whistling.

Vote Greens, preference Labor ahead of Liberals.

Echo, echo, echo much.

Meanwhile you ignore the continual LNP corruption over their terms.

> I suspect you are an LNP Shill. This appears to be the sum total of their agenda ATM.

I was only curious on your thoughts about LNP vs Labor corruption, but if you think in terms of the 2-party fallacy, then forget it. I've never put LNP #1 for upper house, actually.

Keneally was our Premiere when a few MPs (Penrith and another seat, IIRC) were being investigated/prosecuted by ICAC, so it's noteworthy IMO. That whole period of time, government was largely directed by Labor. Had to google 'dog whistling' (lol!), and not sure why you think I'm trying to garner support, I literally just asked what you think.

I work in the energy sector, and Labor/LNP's policies are crazy enough. Possibly the only policies where I align with Greens is ending the Drug War and forcing transportation/logistics companies to pay their fair share of road dev/maintenance.

Labor got turfed 12 years ago because of an inability to exorcise their bad apples. Murnain got cash in a bag 8 years ago. Dastyari's bills got paid 6 years ago. At the same time, Ernest Wong was identified as a target by Chinese spies. Shaoquette Moselman's house was raided because he likely employed a Chinese spy. The current generation of Labor were all connected to those people and are still their close associates. I think we are describing two distinctly different kinds of problems here.

Who was Gertrude's boyfriend? etc, etc, etc,

sounds like someone wants to get some meth

No clue but interested to hear about this as well.

I've recently found out that my car has hill start assist, meaning I don't have to use the handbrake or the foot brake for hill starts. So I was wondering if I would get failed on my driving test for using that instead of the handbrake/foot brake?

It's probably a feature that's always on, so the instructor may not notice.

I'd hit them with the "oh. I didn't know it did that".

Followed by "sorry, I don't know how to turn it off".

The point of the test is to test YOUR driving ability, not your cars ability to handhold you...

What if you have to drive a different car that DOESN'T have this feature? You need to demonstrate you at least know how to do it safely because your license allows you to drive any vehicle.

I took the NSW driving test after driving for more than a decade on a foreign license.

During the test, I turned my head around when reverse parking even though my car sensors are much more accurate than myself turning around.