SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLITICAL SIGNS CENSORSHIP

For people outside of Australia, and South Australia, specifically this is going to take a bit of explaining.Show more

First it needs to be understood that Australia has a "two party preferred" voting system. I won't bore you with the full details, instead I will attempt to give as broad and quick an explanation as possible. When Australians vote we do not vote for one candidate, we number the candidates from most appealing to least. The Australian electoral commission tabulates the votes to produce two results, the winning candidate or party, and the runner up candidate or party. All elections are designed to produce a winner and runner up.

What this has meant in practice is that the two major parties in Australia alternate between holding office, and opposition. The system is essentially designed to keep out other parties.

Unfortunately for the two major parties voter dissatisfaction with both of them has been steadily growing. There is a slim, but increasing, possibility that the two party preferred system may at some stage rather than ensure one of them is always in power could result in locking one or both of them out.

I believe this idiotic attempt at a ban could be a response to the a fore mentioned change in voting patterns.

The Australian media is as corrupt and incompetent as all other media in the world, so voters will never hear of new parties there. New parties are incapable of affording paid advertising on the media. The current two major parties seem to have a mysterious never ending supply of funds for advertising in the media. So, that leaves signage as the best, and sometimes only, means of informing voters of alternative parties.

My opinion is that the ban on corflute political advertising is primarily intend to censor minor parties, and to keep voters from learning about alternatives to the two major parties.

Something else for people outside of Australia to be aware of is we have no bill of rights. None whatsoever. What we do have is a high court ruling that Australians have an implied right to political discussion.

From the video it appeared that the ban would only apply to political corflute signs. If that is correct you can still use corflute signs to sell real-estate, sell your car, or advertise your garage sale. I have no legal qualifications, but in my opinion a legal challenge to this new censorship law stands a very good chance of winning.

It is unsurprising that Mussolini Malinauskas would support censorship, he has displayed a dictatorial manner since his first day as Premier.

The opposition leader David Spiers, or as he is better known Groundskeeper Davy, should know better, he studied law at university. Of course his double major of Environmental studies could partially explain how he could be stupid enough to expect that political censorship would be acceptable. Anyone gullible enough to believe the climate hoax will believe anything.

Groundskeeper Davy has essentially handed Mussolini Malinauskas an early Christmas present by helping him censor politics in this state. I really don't see the point to him, he is the opposition leader, but he never opposes anything. As a member of the climate cult I really don't understand why he is in the Coalition party. It is baffling as to why he doesn't join the Greens and be amongst other members of his brain-dead climate cult.

For those of us living in South Australia unless, and until, there is a High Court challenge to this ridiculous political censorship I think we can expect to find our letter boxes filled to overflowing with political advertising. Sigh.