Exactly, but I reject 'temperature' as a useful construct here. It's about morality. Basic decency. We do not want to stop anyone arguing passionately or even angrily for a cause. Or speaking truth to power. What *is* wrong is seeking to silence opponents and the tactic of dehumanisation. #auspol

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Another headline pyro metaphor from memory. "They found the smoking gun, but who will it shoot?"

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When metaphors degrade into cliche it provides an opportunity for rebirth into very strange metaphor

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The Commonwealth was never envisaged to levy income taxes and it has only done so since the states made a temporary agreement to allow the Commonwealth to do so during WW2. Let the states levy their own taxes again so they don’t have to do bullshit like stamp duty to scrounge for revenue.

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Would this mean the two largest states had the most revenue? Absolutely. They would dwarf the others. And that would be fitting as they have the most people.

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